Sakura Hibachi Steakhouse & Sushi Bar — Restaurant in South Salt Lake

Took the kids to try this place out and was not disappointed! All you can eat for a reasonable price. Kids under ten years old were $12 I think. Mine was $25. This was at 3:30 pm so I don't know if that's lunch prices or dinner. You get to choose appetizers,entree and 🍣 sushi options. We got pot stickers,miso soup and spring rolls for apps. The pot stickers were good,they came in a bowl of 4 with some sauce in the bottom of the bowl. My 10 & 12 year olds really liked them. The 🍄 soup was good and the miso was pretty standard. I had steak and shrimp with fried rice and noodles and the kids had chicken and shrimp 🦐. The sushi chef was good,the usual flames and onion volcano fun.some fork & spatula wizardry and egg cracking fare. Fun for kids and adults. My kids really liked the fried rice and the noodles were pretty good. Steak and shrimp was pretty tasty. I would ask them to go easy on the teriyaki sauce for the chicken, it was a little more than I prefer. Good veggies too. Overall you get a ton of good food for a good price. The staff is nice and it's it clean and quiet. It reminds me of Bonsai in Midvale but a bit cheaper. It's like bargain Benihana. I will definitely take my kids back here. If your looking for the hibachi experience at a way better price than Benihana this is your spot. There were only like 6 sushi rolls to choose from on the all you can eat menu. We got a Cali roll and a shrimp tempura. They were just ok. The hibachi dinner fare is definitely their strong suit. You also get Pepsi products to drink. And remember it is all you can eat after your initial order and food made at the hibachi grill everything else you order comes from the kitchen. Also you can upgrade lobster and scallops to your meal for a few extra bucks. Also you cannot take food home unless you pay a to go fee of like $10. Like I said for the price I think it's a great way to go if you don't want to go drop 100 plus dollars at the other hibachi places. Our bill for the three of us was like 55 bucks. I would have spent that for myself at Benihana's. I would definitely recommend this place if you're looking for a solid hibachi experience for a...

We attended the all you can eat lunch at this restaurant. The service was very slow though the one gentleman that was helping us was running around frantically. Perhaps they are understaffed.

The chefs performed well. For 12 bucks I guess the food quality was in alignment relative to the price of other similar restaurants. Once we ordered the initial round of food, it seriously felt as though we were being avoided after that, and our server even brought us the check and whisked by quickly so that we couldn't order more food. Again, we went there because this was an all-you-can-eat offer.

After striving for about 15 minutes to get his attention he finally said he'll be right there as he walked past. Then came back about five minutes later. We ordered a couple of more things each and he seemed a bit put out that we were ordering more. I ordered steak and they didn't ask me how I wanted it, though they did ask on our first round, and I ordered the orange chicken.

The food was brought out after about seven minutes and the orange chicken was so dry and hard I could barely stab some pieces with a fork. It was as if it had sat out in a buffet line two days prior.

The steak was okay but way over cooked for my taste. We just left the restaurant feeling as though they really didn't want us to utilize the all-you-can-eat that they offered. We left feeling like they said through their actions"Hey for 12 bucks what do you expect?"

I won't...

Chef Carter didn’t just cook dinner—he hosted the best show in town. From the moment he rolled up to our table, he treated us like old friends, even recognizing someone in our group from a visit months ago (“You came back! This still your girlfriend? What’s taking so long?”). Every minute was packed with playful banter, like when he pointed at one friend and said, “You look like trouble,” then immediately made them the designated sake target. That sake stream? Deadly accurate. Olympic-level. Straight into the mouths of three people in a row, no spillage, just cheers.

The man made a beating heart out of fried rice. Like, something out of an art museum. We were losing it. He had that perfect line of mischief: never mean, always funny, and somehow totally personal.

The food was excellent—the steak cooked perfectly medium rare, the vegetables still crisp, the fried rice somehow fluffy and rich at the same time—but honestly, it was hard to focus on eating because we didn’t want the show to end. After we finished, we lingered awkwardly, just hovering near the next table to catch more of Carter’s antics like moths to a flaming onion volcano (my friends talked me out standing behind some random family to see the performance). If you told me I could pay $40 just to stand near one of his stages with no food, I’d do it in a...