Osaka Hibachi & Sushi — Restaurant in Thomaston

I absolutely love eating the food from here. Osaka is a small restaurant located in a strip mall, there isn’t much to the outside nor inside but it is clean and has plenty of seating for the amount of people that choose to dine-in. Don’t be fooled by its lackluster appearance.

Most orders are takeout, and I’d say that’s what they do best. Even if you order-in, you’ll still receive your food in a to-go bag and boxes. I’ve dined-in, gotten takeout, and gotten delivery. Every time regardless of method the food has been hot, fresh, and delicious. My go-to orders are the teriyaki chicken and rice, and any of the special or sushi rolls (to list a few suggestions: godzilla, double crab roll, volcano roll, snow crab roll, pink lady). Though it can get pricey, you get a pretty great deal of food for your money. It definitely does not disappoint, especially for the area. The staff are friendly and grateful for tips. This is definitely on my list of my favorite restaurants...

Food was ok but would not recommend. Service was lacking. You order at a counter as if you're at the mall. I told them I was dining in, but 5 minutes later they brought my order to thr table to me in a to-go bag. The staff at the front seemed occupied with leaving to a side table for a phone charger or to the back of the kitchen. The atmosphere is lacking as well. It is located in a stip mall that needs renovation. On arrival, I thought the restaurant was vacated from the outside, like out of business. I was surprised when the door opened! The air is smoke filled from the hibachi grill cooking, you're going to smell like it when you leave. The interior is clean but vacant. I think they are geared towards the to-go crowd and take outs. In fact, while I was there for 15 minutes, they had 6 delivery orders. The food was ok, not good. I'm not going back. If I had to eat the food from there, I would order it delivered or take out, but would not...

First time there and I'm impressed. This is not a place for fancy ambience or 5 star wait staff. It's self serve and the staff was busy but friendly and helpful. We had both hibachi and sushi of which both were tasty and generous in portion size.

My only complaint was the sewer smell being drawn from the dry traps in the floor drains. Strongly recommend filling the floor drain traps with vegetable oil to prevent the trap from dehydrating. When the water in the trap dehydrates, the grill hood vents pull the sewer gas thru the trap and into the restaurant. Yuk. No charge for this...