Tokyo Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Pierre

Clean restaurant from sushi bar to the bathrooms. Wait service was good, but not excellent. We started with the Squid Yakitori, two skewers of tiny bits of squid alternating with asparagus, covered in a brown sauce. The squid was almost impossible to get off the little wooden sticks without a fight. No amount of wrestling with chop sticks or a fork worked, one needed to bit it off and get messy. The sauce was good, I later used it for my sushi. The restaurant has an interesting menu gimmick of buy two sushi rolls and get a third free from the “Chef’s Special Menu”. With four+ pages of sushi rolls to choose from, know the menu before you go in, we didn’t. I felt a bit rushed to make my choice, husband on the hand found what he wanted. The waiter took his order, I still didn’t know what I wanted, he got his order served way before me. I made a couple mistakes when I ordered my buy two get one free choice. I accidentally ordered a roll with tempura coated shrimp and, a roll with soy paper wrappers. I gave the tempura shrimp to my husband, per him; it was just okay. One of my two rolls had crunchy rice things in it. The crunch and flavor really took away from the roll and masked the more delicate flavor of the fish. It just wasn’t pleasant and I couldn’t focus away from the crunchy stuff. There may or may not have been any fish with this roll, that’s how bad an eating experience it was for me. Importantly, it really should be illegal to wrap a sushi roll in anything pink especially a thin film pink soy paper wrapper. But that’s how the other two rolls came. The soy paper wrappers were limp, flavorless, sticky and tough to chew. The sushi roll mostly fell apart as I tried to remove the pink paper stuff. The pink paper was very off-putting for me. The sauce, more pink stuff, was on the sharp vinegar side and didn’t bring anything to the party. I have eaten sushi from London, UK to Seattle, WA and places in-between, this was some of the worst I’ve had and ranks up there with grocery store sushi only worse with the pink soy paper wrapper. If you know what good sushi should be, you may be disappointed. However, the restaurant was busy on a Wednesday night with both dine-in and...

Maybe this is the best Japanese food gets in South Dakota, but it was just barely acceptable sushi. The wait service is very friendly and attentive, but the sushi quality is the worst I've seen. The restaurant seems clean. The salmon was tiny and had several wholes ripped through it. The salmon roe was also a tiny portion and had many busted eggs in an asymmetrical mess of a seaweed wrap. The "seafood" fried rice was good, but it was imitation crab, a few tiny shrimp and a few tiny scallops. It's hard to mess up fried rice anyways. The restaurant seems to focus on a million different rolls they cover up with a concoction of sauces to hide it. If you are in the middle of South Dakota and need a sushi fix bad, then this may have to be your only option, but if you are from out of town and can wait until you get back for good sushi then...

The manager sucks and is rude. I got my bill last night and they would not take a drink off that I sent back to the kitchen after one sip. They should have let me know that I still would have to pay for it before she took it off my table, that is common sense. I would have drank it if that was the case.

I actually love coming here but I felt quite mistreated and dismissed last night and it’s a shame because your employees (the servers) do a lot to make us feel at home.

You jeopardize your business and leave costumers unsatisfied and upset over one drink that you could have removed and I that is a really stupid move as a manager. I hope you read this and consider changing that management style in order to actually make your costumers happy. Ps, managers are supposed to be dressed a bit more...