Hana Tokyo All You Can Eat — Restaurant in Peoria

Update January 2025: a new owner took over a month ago and has huge plans to renovate this place. Looking forward to the makeover and i truly hope for their success

With some TLC, this place has the ability to be great. But here are the glaring problems I saw:

This place took over the building from the old Osaka restaurant and it is very clear they didn't spend any time or money improving the parts that are in disrepair. The men's bathroom was in awful shape and smelled strongly of urine - is in dire need of renovation. There were booth seats with big tears. and overall just lack of care for the atmoshpere.

Another issue is that even though the interior is in need of renovation and in many ways feels run down, the prices are still as high as other AYCE sushi places we enjoy such as Akita and Juun. Meanwhile they have much nicer interiors - especially with Akita who has the coolest bathrooms ive ever seen.

One note I would like to leave in regards to the actual food is that although we enjoyed most of what we ate, your specialty sushi options could really use more flavor diversity. 9 of your 12 specialty rolls have spicy elements for example - it would be nice to see more creations that dont focus on spicy mayo. For one example i always enjoy rolls that have a touch of mango for a pop of flavor. Just overall is good to have many different flavor profiles for the specialty rolls. A lot of the specialty rolls seemed very similar. otherwise... food was great.

Lastly, the server, while she was very nice, forgot several items we asked for throughout the night and did not come around as much as she should (even though we were one of only 3-4 tables there so it wasn't even busy). I would expect more frequent checkins to ensure we have...

I haven't written a review in years. But that's just how much I really want people to spend their money elsewhere. Only 1 order of sashimi per person, per session. 1 order is 3 pieces. What a rip-off of AYCE. I really wish I did more research before coming here. You see AYCE in their name, and you think they would honor it. I have never seen so much fine text on anyone's AYCE menu than this place. Their rules are 3/4 of the paper. Their rolls and nigiri have tons of rice and are extremely drenched in sauce. Their baked scallop roll had 10 pieces of scallop instead of being covered in it like other places. Please, go to AKITA instead. It's like $35 for AYCE, but sashimi is actually AYCE. I easily eat about $100 worth of sashimi at Akita. We had 1 appetizer, 4 rolls, 2 orders of nigiri, and 2 orders of sashimi. At the end of it all was 1 piece of 1 roll. An absurdly huge, badly cut end piece; just 1. And they told us they were gonna charge us for the entire roll. Seriously, at Akita, they'll let you get away with half of the entire roll for free. I regret not going to my regular spot, I spent $80 here. I feel like I disrespected my asian parents bt not getting more value out of my money. No hate on any of the staff. They did their job and followed...

I ordered the salmon avocado roll and the cucumber avocado roll. The picture on the menu shows the rice in the outside for both rolls. However, the rolls I got not only had the rice inside, but the majority of the rolls were rice. There was a tiny sliver of salmon, could barely make out the avocado. And the other roll was the littlest bit of cucumber I’ve lever seen along with a tiny touch of avocado. I tried eating a piece of each. That was about all I could do. It was so much rice and had no flavor of the other foods because how small they were. I told the waitress who then took one roll off the bill but not the other. I told her I didn’t want anything else. Not going to waste my time or money. But she brought me another salmon roll anyway. Still made incorrectly but at least the salmon was a tad bit bigger. I took it home for my kids to eat. The ladies bathroom was nasty as there was an open garbage can next to one of the toilets, filled with bloody feminine products. Certainly enough to make me lose whatever appetite I might have still had. The service was slow. They said the kitchen was backed up. There was only one other table besides ours, but ok. I’m guessing only one person was back there making all the rolls. We...