Saito Japanese Steakhouse — Restaurant in Hopkinsville

Took my parents here for their 38th anniversary, and I gotta say it was 110% worth it.

In a town that seems to pile on the amount of fast food restaurants, it's nice to finally get another classic sit down restaurant, and this one with the hibachi experience.

Hopkinsville has needed something like this for a while. While local buffets and the like are fine, getting a nice Japanese hibachi steakhouse is a huge plus.

Enough of me rambling, the overall experience was excellent. Our hibachi chef was incredible, super nice and attentive, and even with only having been doing this a short time put on a great show.

The food was excellent, especially for the price. My mother and I had the hibachi steak, and my dad had the hibachi chicken. Choice of rice or noodles.

The noodles, my lord, were FANTASTIC. You don't see many places putting noodles on the hibachi. Dad had rice, of course, which also looked amazing. Everything was cooked to perfection and tasty as all get-out. It was very good.

I was the only on getting a sushi roll, the Kentucky Roll. Blend of fried chicken, avocado, cream cheese, and topped with a honey sauce. Ended up taking my leftovers him but man it was good, and the chicken was good and crunchy.

Overall, A++++++ experience, definitely coming back. Gonna bring some friends too, get at that massive sushi menu.

The Sanders Family...

I am so disappointed people think this is good sushi. I didn’t even finish my rolls, the eel tasted horrible, the shrimp were like, hollow shells. POOR, poor quality food. No sauces offered to dip, would have asked waiter but he was hard to track down. NEVER ONCE DID HE FILL OUR DRINKS, I was sitting with an empty glass for 90% of the time I was there. We ordered shrimp low mein, it was just oily noodles with a couple freezer burnt shrimp on top, and I literally promise you they were ice cold in some parts, we sent it back and they “heated it up”, check the picture… it was $14, for a single helping of noodles, no veggies, complete RIP OFF, could not have been more than $1-$2 of product. The crab Rangoons were so stale and poor quality, didn’t finish. I WILL NEVER TRY THIS PLACE AGAIN and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU NEVER DO. Those booths are garbage and I have never seen that, it is like they took the cushioned backs off and left the wood that goes straight up, no angle not even kidding, it was so uncomfortable, my back ached after a few minutes. Music they had was whack, and the stereo was awful. I recommend they just play nothing. Which they did to my delight for a little until they blasted us with a loud speaker and immediately turned it down, people jumped it was so startling, plus the kid music was weird, horrible atmosphere 0/10, DO...

Saito was an, overall, good experience. I had gotten take-out before, but I wanted to eat in before I did a review. I saw a lot of mixed reviews so I wanted to try it for myself. When I ordered take-out, I got the beef katsu and it was really good!! They also have takoyaki for appetizers and I love that. The issue with that, however, is that the menu says you get 6. When I got the first take-out order of them, there were only 5. I said something next time I ordered them and they told me that the menu was wrong and there were only 5. When I ate there and ordered them, I got 6! So I feel cheated. Eating in was a different experience. I got the hibachi chicken. I don't recommend it. It was dry and had no flavor. The other stuff was good. The soup was good. The salad was a standard Japanese house salad. Their sushi is really good! The service was good. The people were nice and the waiter was very attentive. I will go back, but I'll stay away from...