Konbu Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Manalapan Township

I want to share that we been eating at this place back in 2019. I would say this place has the best sushi. It was always very packed here and took awful long time for the food to arrive. The only reason we haven’t come back often is the bad attitude of the previous owner. The lady in the counter is Chinese and I am too. She never greet us or thank us for spending over $200 all the time there. She even had the audacity to ask us for outrageous tips for take out orders. Their prices were very high. The place was a dump.

So we decided to check this place out saw the sign of new management. I was not surprise that there is nothing special to this place. I am disappointed that most of the previous menu items were my favorite are not on the new menu anymore. The previous owner sourced higher quality fish. The fish the new owner gotten is the same as other Chinese Japanese sushi restaurants. The rolls were absolutely tiny compared to the value I got from the previous owner. The salmon sashimi was the most tiny cuts ever. Even though previous owner was a nasty Karen i overlooked it with their quality sushi. Their chefs deserve my tips. I have him a big tip. One big tip to any owner appreciate your customer. When customers spent a lot and give big tip say thank you to them. They will feel appreciated if they had a good meal or bad they will not have an awful taste on their mouth. If this the staff and owner don’t say thank you next time the tips will be lot less and I will call you out. It is basically common sense to thank your customers. Without them you have no business. So be nice to your...

I dislike leaving negative reviews but Konbu is not particularly good.

We went to Konbu on a Thursday evening because our go-to sushi place was full and the wait was too long. Konbu was able to accommodate us, so we gave it a try.

We ordered appetizers - clam soup, fried oysters, garlic pan seared mussels, spring rolls and a sushi platter. The mussels, oysters and spring rolls were enjoyed. The sushi platter was a mistake! With the exception of the tuna, the fresh did not seem fresh. Also, the miso soup had zero flavor and the salad dressing was very sweet.

Our entrees included a sashimi dinner, rolls (Titanic, shrimp tempura, garden vegetable and captain crunch), some kind of chicken Ramen soup, the name of which i cannot recall and tasty chicken / noodle dish. After the disastrous sushi appetizer, the member of our party who will not be named should have known better than to order the sashimi dinner but he risked it... and did not enjoy. The fish were not cut properly and the slices were quite large...

To top it all off, the person who took care of our table was not at all pleasant. She really seemed grumpy the entire time. We still left a good tip but, I have to say, she did not deserve it. The cost was okay (for a party of 5, it was around $240 before tip). We...

First time experience!! I went in first to take a look at the restaurant and the restaurant is stunning. The staff was busy and was pushy for tipping even though it was for take out! I ordered 3 items plus side sauce. Firstly, I’m an avid spicy mayo lover and this spicy mayo as seen in the picture is really strange and tasted different than regular spicy mayo’s, personally would not order it again. The Kani salad was different than how I usually eat it- I liked the texture of fresh cucumber slices but Kani texture I did not like. I ordered the Atlantic roll (all the rolls pretty expensive $9-$25). As seen in the picture, it doesn’t look very appetizing to me. All the ingredients are fresh but I don’t think the flavors blended well despite the staff saying it’s one of their most popular roll. Lastly, tuna tataki, tuna is very fresh but nothing special with flavor. Overall, I’m glad I tried this place. I will try to dine in and maybe I’ll have a better experience. It is a nice looking place but I really didn’t like that they asked for tip right away but I understand that a small business has ends to meet. Small sushi menu variation in my opinion . Maybe I’m used to Americanized sushi and Japanese foods because it seemed very authentic....