Sakura Japanese Restaurant - East Memphis — Restaurant in Memphis

So this place is fanastic. We went here after the cherry blossom festival at the botanical garden's food trucks ran out of food (lame).

We started of with spirits, we had the hana awaka sake, it was sweet, smooth, and chilled. It didn't taste like alcohol at all (7%). I also had the Santory whisky, it had a powerful whisky flavor with a much smoother sensations and only a bit of warmth when it gets to the stomach.

Next we had appetizers, tempura chicken meal came with a house salad and soup, i paid additional for the seafood soup and it did not disappoint. I highly recommend the salad with the ginger dressing its sweet and not overpowering. We also had gyoza and yakitori both were very good but the yakitori won out.

Our main courses arrived and had wonderful presentation. My tempura chicken with fried veggies was a little underwhelming but it isn't something I normally order in the first place. My wife's ramen was delicious and was more food than she could handle.

For dessert the waitress brought us the menu where we picked strawberry icecream with lychee jelly. It was more or less like boba. The flavor was spot on though it was like concentrated lychee.

All in all i give it...

I went with my family for a birthday event. As we was there, we was greeted by a waitress who didn’t tell her name. It seemed like she was rushing us to order our drinks and food. During our time there, everytime we asked a question, the waitress had an attitude (it was all our first time there). She also barely checked up on us during our time there. Our food came at the different delayed times as well. It was unpleasant and not hospitality place.

As I searched the menu, the dinner box is what’s I choose. I didn’t like the dinner box because you can’t choose which sushi items etc you want in your box. It’s basically a soup and salad (which is made up of soup (watered down) and salad (store bought salad mix) with dressing. The food didn’t taste very well. Not only did that disappoint, but the chicken I ate the meal with was basically a grilled chicken. A drizzle of sauce with sesame seeds on top. There was no love from the meal.

We was only allowed to have a certain amount of refills on drinks as well. I would not choose this place again due to service and food items presented. Such a bummer for a birthday dinner. I would...

I've been here before and since it's been a while, I wanted to try it again. I ordered 2 rolls. Mother if all rolls, and mardis gras. When the rolls came out. I forgot how large the rolls are compared other sushi restaurants. That was a definite plus. The rolls tasted fresh, but really didn't have any flavor. Even with the soy sauce, it did not make a huge difference. Overall the sushi was decent but not memorable. Then I saw a picture of shaved ice. Something I've looked for in the big cities. I wa so excited. I first ordered mango, then the waitress comes back and tells me no mango. Then the waitress listed some other flavors, so I chose lychee. Then the waitress came back out and told me there was no lychee. So then i chose strawberry. When the shaved ice came out, it came in a bowl with 0 toppings. Super disappointed, not what i expected. The picture is not what i got. I was hoping to very comped for it, but i did not. Probably will not...