Tony's Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Eldersburg

I've had two dinner experiences at Tony's Japanese Restaurant, both large group celebrations. The first was better than this recent experience.

First, the restaurant is definitely in need of a makeover. Upon entering there is an odor of dirty carpeting and probably embedded residue in the interior walls and fixtures from years of cooking. It needs serious refreshing and upgrading.

Although the service was great from the hostess, servers, and chef, my food option fell short. I ordered the Shrimp entree that was prepared Hibachi style.

The onion soup was tasty. A few more mushroom and fried onion slices would have been nice. The salad was fresh, but it was way over dressed for the portion size.

The hibachi prepared meal although plentiful was disappointing. The fried rice was flavored well, but only had egg. Although there was a side of vegetables, perhaps this compensated for no veggies in the rice. The rice is served well in advance of the other sides in the entree so you're eating just rice with egg for a while. When the vegetable was served, they were delicious and prepared well. Now the shrimp! The portion size was plentiful!!! I was AMAZED! BUT... the shrimp tasted off, VERY earthy. Not sweet, not shrimpy! I ate only a few because there was an aftertaste in my mouth. Another diner in my group who had the same entree felt the same.

I don't know what was going on with the shrimp, but the Head or Executive chef and owners should look into it to ensure the quality of the shrimp is beyond expectation. I'm not saying this protein wasn't; however, shrimp that is not properly deveined can have an earthy taste. As a foodie, currently, I wouldn't recommend the shrimp entree or any dish that is prepared with the same brand of shrimp.

I love Asian cuisine and I'm particular where I dine. I will most likely not...

If I could give it 10 stars I would!!!! First of all I just want to say thank you to the chef staff management for making my birthday dinner WONDERFUL with all the welcoming respectful attitude, positive energy and vibes!!!!!!!! If you're thinking of going here just do it✔️. Had an appointment for 7 called to push it back to 8 and came after 8🤦🏾(my apologies to the staff ❤️) they weren't rude about it or had an attitude. They were super accommodating!! I was able to bring in my birthday cake with no charge and they also gave us little takeaway boxes to put it in free!!! Food was excellent (Thank you to our Chef)!! Drinks were wonderful too!! If we wanted it strong they made it that way. They catered to our needs, asked what we liked and tried to match us to the type of drinks we would prefer (the plum wine was😍😍😍😍) if you have a sweet tooth you'll love it!! When my sister's and I got there at about past 8 there was only 2 families there by the time we really settled in they were gone so it was just my sister's and I SO as far as I am concerned I had a Private dinning for my birthday and I can't be told otherwise!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🧢🧢🧢I had such a good time that my lashes came off🤣🤣🤣had to take it off to do the needful, eat and have fun!!🤣Once again a huge Thank you to all the staff that was present on the 28th of July you guys are AWESOME and WONDERFUL!!! Thank you for all that you did. You are highly...

Not a bad place to stop for an hour and get some Habachi style food, if you have the money for it. Having been to many Habachi grills over my life I've got to say this place was not the best ive been to by a longshot. Everything is overpriced, with maybe an exception for their combo dinners. The drinks I got were either watered down, or were mixed wrong at the bar. The worst that I experienced was their noodle policy. You cannot replace the rice with noodles according to our server and it costs an extra 4 dollars for some simple soba noodles. Not to mention, they give you the smallest amount of noodles I have ever seen from any western Asian style restaurant To Date. I maybe got half a pound of noodles for 4 dollars. At least the chefs seemed good at their job. Ours quickly came to understand that we were going to entertain ourselves and focused on cooking our food right. Tony's gets points for that, since alot of H.Grills I go to overcook your food, it was a nice change of pallet to have well made Habachi food. All in all: Good Food, Good Chefs, everything else, including pricing policy and its alcohol menu is a...