Ichiban Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Town of Hamburg

Excellent sushi! We drive over an hour just to come here. It has been a struggle to find a high quality sushi restaurant in the area. Ichiban is the first I've found that has a nice variety of rolls that aren't all masked with spicy tuna. They have sushi chefs and not some guy named Mark you went to trade school with that's into "fusion" ie. Adding pork or hot sauce to everything and cutting portion sizes/jacking prices. The special rolls were huge, some having 10 pieces. My only complaint was that the Wasabi Lobster roll was 80% crunch, 1%lobster, 19% everything else. I would never order that again. The Ichiban roll was fresh and very much like a Naruto Roll but with rice. I would highly recommend. The mango tango tasted great but was the size of a standard $6 roll. I also got the scallop, white tuna, and the Naruto- which were all very fresh and tasty. I love that they offer a variety of sake at very reasonable prices. Oh and the age tofu was pretty good. It was a large portion, which I like but... usually the pieces are smaller so they don't fall apart and become a hot mess. Which is what happened so it was difficult to eat. I'd still order again! I was also happy to find they offer both low and regular sodium soy sauce which is pretty rare now that most have switched to only low sodium. All the staff especially our server were so nice, efficient, and friendly and everything was very reasonably priced. I'm already planning for my...

I was pretty disappointed with my experience here. Service and atmosphere were fine but the biggest letdown was the food.

We ordered miso soup, chicken yakitori, a couple of sushi rolls, and salmon teriyaki entree. The miso soup was very oversalted. The first few spoonfuls were bearable but by the end of finishing the soup, the salty taste was overpowering. The chicken yakitori were not bad. The sushi rolls were decent. The salmon teriyaki dinner was the worst. The salmon was dry, overcooked, seemed cooked from frozen, not fresh.

Our server was very friendly. No complaints there. The food came out at a reasonable time.

The atmosphere was nice. Lowly lit and not too loud. The place seem clean as well.

Overall, the only complaint I have is the food. With that being said, no matter how good the service and atmosphere is, if the food isn't great, it doesn't matter...

Tried this place out for the second time since I wasn’t as impressed the first time around. Sushi was good but portions were smaller than what I’m used to —and that’s compared to sushi restaurants across the U.S. and even down the street at Fuji Grill. The worst was customer service. Didn’t even bother to ask us if we were done but gave us the check right away. Since the portions were so small, my 5yo requested another roll—turns out if you want the lunch special, you can’t just point to it in the menu, you have to make sure you tell them off the bat. Charged me full price cause the shrimp tempura roll was 2 pieces of shrimp and not 1 (which is what you get for the lunch menu). Took $1 off the bill for the misunderstanding. Like I said—customer service...