Makoto Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Eugene

Tasteful decor with nice lighting and gorgeous, live edge wood tables, excellent service, tasty food with nice presentation, and an extensive selection of drinks, including non-alcoholic options like cremosas, iced and hot teas, beers, sakes, and more. Perfect for both dates and large groups.

We really enjoyed almost everything we ordered: agedashi tofu, crispy rice with salmon (even a seafood hater loved this so much they had seconds), chicken karaage, lion king roll, shiro roll, spicy chicken fried rice (another favorite of our group), veggie yakisoba (tasty sauce, fresh veggies, and al dente noodles), beef rib-eye teriyaki.

We also liked the chicken wings (tender and flavorful, although we prefer dry wings to saucy, and they were too spicy for the teens in our group), crazy monkey roll, beef yakiudon, and tonkotsu with cheese.

The only item we didn’t like was the mochi ice cream. The mochi part was a little crumbly instead of being smooth and slightly chewy.

Shout out to Oliver for providing good recommendations, and being friendly and extremely patient with our...

We must have arrived at an unusual time for dinner. It was a Friday evening about 7pm. Only about 20% of the seats were occupied, so it was not busy but it took about 20 minutes before the server took our order. We waited for our drinks for about 10 minutes. One out of two draft beers arrived, and it was flat. The server delivered place mats for our main dishes by gently tossing them on the table for us to unfold. One of the mats had sticky tonkatsu-like sauce on it and the wrapped up paper of a straw stuck in its netting. We did get manage to receive some really tasty appetizers: natto maki and kaki-fry. We waited another 50 minutes for our main dishes, during which time another party arrived at the next table. They quickly received their orders (which oddly enough seemed to resemble the dishes we had ordered). We never did get our food, nor did the server ask if we wanted a second beer. So, what food we actually did manage to receive was really good but the service was bizarre. I don't think we'll be back, which is a pity as I was looking for places to bring our...

I was the ONLY person at the sushi bar and neither of the two chefs greeted me or gave me any eye contact the duration of the meal even though we faced each other. Soft shell crab was just okay. Heavy breading, mayo and siracha eyes took away from the flavor of the crab. Oysters even more heavily breaded to mask the small pieces of oyster portions inside (not a whole oyster) which came with no dipping sauce. Breading shaped like an oyster to fool you. Grilled Salmon belly with skin left on the length of each of three slices and bones on the inside of each one. Scallop hand roll with barely any scallop (LESS than one small scallop). YukNoHana roll is ridiculously small with the slices being the size of a quarter! Very disappointing to say the least. The restaurant was practically empty on a Thursday night. I don't know how they rank among the top...