Sogo | Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Slidell

We had an AMAZING lunch at SOGO Japanese Restaurant today!!! We went around noon today and there was not a single person at the hibachi table, so my wife and I enjoyed every second together! The chef was interactive with us, and made us laugh pretty frequently. The lunch filet mignon hibachi special was SOOO much more affordable than the same meal you would order for dinner, and the serving sizes are exactly the same!

The lunch hibachi hot plates are very affordable though. They serve you a ginger dressed salad with clear rice noodle soup as the appetizer and filet mignon, friend rice with scrambled eggs and garlic and vegetables. The zucchini and onions were cooked perfectly. I even ate the carrots and the broccoli because of how well they were cooked and seasoned even though I usually can’t stand the taste of them! Throughout lunch, our chef was serving us “Japanese water”, four sauce trays each to the dome, and then a fifth shot of sake after we tipped our server.

The staff was exceptionally courteous and helpful. The food was outstanding! Our cook made our fried rice with 4 scrambled eggs and plenty of garlic. Whatever spices and seasonings he used to prepare or meal is what made it so phenomenal!

Thank you SOGO JAPANESE RESTAURANT!!!

Much thanks,

Bobby...

You couldn’t pay me to eat here again. The prices on the menu are much less than what they ring up to be on your bill. There were so many discrepancies, including trying to charge me $15 for my child’s shrimp hibachi lunch which on the menu was nine dollars. He literally had four shrimp on it. And the woman ran my card for $20 more than what my original bill said and almost had me waiting 45 minutes for her manager to come back from break to fix it. Also, the menu will say it has snow crab in a roll but it but really it’s imitation krab. Everyone knows that if you say snow crab with a C you are obviously talking about real crab and not imitation Krab. The atmosphere was so dingy, the bathrooms were like a terrible ran down gas station with graffiti carved into all the stalls. I almost slipped and busted my butt a million times on the slippery floor. I let someone know how dangerous it was and she said its always that way because the grease from hibachi. They know the floor clearly needs cleaning. For terrible service, mid sushi and a horrible atmosphere, that was the worst hundred dollars...

I had high hopes for this place. It was basically empty and you have to have three people to eat at the teppanyaki table, and two other people showed up. The noodles they cooked were hit, but the meat was overcooked all around. We ordered chicken, shrimp and steak. The lady across from me ordered hers medium rare, and I ordered my medium, as did my husband. It was all delivered well done. The chicken was as dry as it could get. I couldn't even believe it. And they put the shrimp on as soon as they put the chicken steak on. To say that the shrimp was overcooked as an understatement. That was shrimp jerky. So let's just suffice it to say that the noodles are divine and the rest of it no not at all. The rice was odd tasting as well. I don't know what kind of seasoning they put on it, but it didn't have time to melt I guess... Because it was also crunchy on the rice once it was served to us. I won't be going back here. I really wanted to like this place. I love a good Japanese restaurant and a teppanyaki table is so often entertaining. There was no entertainment at this one, pretty much...