Mikado Sushi & Grill — Restaurant in Orlando

Quiet and quaint this little sushi joint has carved a niche for itself. It is a not big, flamboyant, trendy, coolest, latest, hippest place to be seen, with prices that can fly one to Japan and back. There is a real cozy feel that reminds me of the little holes in Sasebo, Japan, during my United States Naval stint. Where mamasan, papasan, and their kids took care of us like we were their own country men and women. All it takes is one visit and the staff, let me rephrase that, the family takes over and extends that gracious hospitality it takes to separate a good restaurant from a great restaurant. They are not razzle, dazzle, click your heels and bow, with the efficiency of a five star professional operation. However, they extend warm, genuine, sincere, gracious hospitality in every step of service.

Inside of the restaurant presents a clean, cozy, comforting, warm space. With hanging lights, soft woods, easy colors, a fish tank, tables, sushi bar, banquets, and booths. The booths offer semi privacy while the tables create a stage to showcase the wonders of these very precise and thoughtful chefs.

Tuna Tartare--cubed tuna mixed with avocado, spicy sauce, topped with masago, black tobiko, and scallions; surrounded with a garlic ponzu sauce, and sesame oil. (description different from menu)

To enjoy this beauty, mix it all up or nibble one morsel at a time. I prefer the whole experience so I mix it all together and then drink the sauce. No I don't. But I would like to. Perfect balance of citrus, sweet, tangy, spiciness. The silky texture of the avocado adds a whole different flavor profile to the raw tuna. Excellent combination.

Duck Roll--duck strips, cucumber, scallions, wrapped in a thin pancake; served with hoisin sauce.

Nice spin on the traditional peking duck. Thin strips of duck eaten with a bun, dipped in hoisin sauce. Surprising how duck and vegetables wrapped in pancake can work so well. Great roll. Nice textures all working in harmony.

BBQ Whole Squid--grilled whole squid with chef's special sauce.

Very few, if any, restaurants in Orlando serves this dish. The squid tastes like it was just plucked from the ocean, skinned, dipped in soy sauce, grilled, cut and served. It is fresh, crunchy, chewy, and full of flavor. The dipping sauce of sweet soy and citrus adds just enough moisture to make the pieces succulent without drowning the squid flavor. The smokiness from the grill could easily invoke a feeling one gets from watching an episode of Andrew Zimmern: Bizarre Foods.

No Name Special Roll--tuna, salmon, yellow tail, mango, avocado, wrapped with soy paper; topped with escolar, tuna, salmon, masago, black tobiko; in a kimchee ponzu sauce.

No name, because this is what happens when one lets the chefs use their creative talents. Pad dow! Amazing...Fresh, clean, light flavors all combine to make a wow summer mouth party. The use of kimchee to add another dimension to ponzu sauce was brilliant.

Their maki menu is not very basic and neither over the top. It is a good combination. Far too many restaurants use California Roll as a base and just top with several different combinations to create more rolls. That is a very lazy and dull way to build a menu. Then there are those who go so over the top that the flavors just don't work and the rolls looks like a pile of crap. Sushi like everything Japanese is about the subtleness of balanced flavors. Mikado has achieved this balance on their rolls.

Trio Sashimi--5 pieces of tuna, salmon, and yellowtail sashimi. I changed up this combination to include mackerel.

The sake selection is lacking in variety and scale. There are basic wine varieties and selections that rounds out the menu. This is still a simple restaurant that focuses on the food and service.

The Orlando location has built a reputation of consistent, friendly, genuine service, and superb food quality. The feeling one gets here is like going to someone's home and being fed and treated like a family member. When a restaurant has achieved this level of humbleness it deserves to...

As much as I hate to have to do this review unfortunately this was one of our favorite restaurants, we usually go here at least once a month even though we live in Lake Nona we absolutely used to love coming here until last night 14th of February 2025. We got here at about 7:40 pm, me and my husband decided to bring my mom who is here on vacation and some friends to dine here and spend the night celebrating valentines. They told us to sign in on the iPad to hat a place on the waiting list, they told us it would be about an hour and we just went to the car and waited, I saw a couple of people going in and getting a table but never thought anything of it until the hour was over and I went in to ask how long was going to be for our table and they told me that it was going to be another half an hour and we just decided to wait another half an hour, I saw they kept taking couples in and I asked them why if you have 7 people waiting out for longer than an hour you keep sitting couples in a table of 4 a mean we have been here for almost 2 hours now and Diana and her team at the entrance just said that reservations go first ( we called that same day to make a reservation and the night before and they told us they don’t do reservations) I told her that and she didn’t even know what to say. Anyways we never got a table, and it was almost 10 at night so we never got food because at that time at night in a Valentine’s Day there was nowhere to go and we’re all left without food!!!!! My advice to the owner that never even came out to apologize or even Diana and the other girl who didn’t even had her name on her shirt never even apologized, is to completely change the people at the entrance, they have not manners or any respect at all to the customers compared to the waiters that are so nice and polite always. Very sad to have people like them at the door of your restaurant. Ruined...

I rarely take the time to write reviews however when staff LIES, over charges and then give half filled sauces that they up charged I feel the need to. Let me start by saying I have been a HUGE fan of Mikado’s for months now, my fiancé and I literally order the same order 2 sometimes 3x a week for weeks. We both dine in and place orders for pick up often but yesterday when I placed our regular order for my fiancé to pick up I asked for white sauce (same as we ALWAYS DO) the women taking our order mumbled something, since I didn’t hear her I asked what she said or if there was anything else and she stated no no the order is placed and to please make sure we arrive before 3:30 because that’s when they close. Fast forward 15 minutes later my fiancé arrives to pick up our food and we see we’ve been charged for white sauce (which has never happened in over a dozen pick up orders) when my fiancé asks about it the rep states it was stated on the call which not only is a lie, however if that is what she mumbled when I asked her to repeat herself she refused. My fiancé of course pays for the sauce (the problem is not the extra $1, but instead the quality of service, rude responses, and unprofessional manner of handling the situation). In addition to us having to pay for sauce (be aside $60 clearly Isn’t enough money for sushi) when we see the sauce we did get they barely filled the cup (literally the smallest amount we’ve ever received from a pick up order.) we’ll be finding a new favorite sushi place unfortunately. Food is great but how you treat your customers matter and disappointed is an...