Hello Tokyo

My favorite place every Sunday with my Brother. This place is the best. The best service with Don DoñA and Itsel. All you can eat and the Teriyaki chicken the shrimp tacos the Miso soup for as is the lebanta muertos.

My boyfriend and I stopped by to try this restaurant out because we received a coupon. Overall the location is dead. We were the only two people there. The chef was really friendly and the sushi was decent. Some of my fish was warm. I ended up feeling really sick afterwards. I really didn’t like the rude waitress. She said the AYCE was not able to be used with our coupon and the chef later told us we could have used it. Really disappointed about that. Needless to say we won’t be back here again.

Ordered sushi from here on grubhub, they offered a free roll if you spend $ 20 or more which isn’t hard to do. Ordered about 12 pm and came shortly before 1. Sushi was fresh and well put together. I recommend ordering from here if you are too lazy to go to a sushi bar.

One of our favorite sushi places. Some of the reviews on here are really snobby. I eat here because the food is amazing, not because of «ambiance.» The crew is friendly and the delivery is a huge convenience.

OMG! How have I not reviewed this place yet, when I come here several times per month? My bad.
I absolutely love this place. The Yellowtail Special is my go-​to roll for happiness. The gentleman who runs the place is absolutely masterful. His fish selection is top-​notch, his menu is creative, and the work he does to make them exquisite.
Love this place.

In short: the food is fine, but service and ambiance are nonexistent. Go in knowing that and you should be just fine. Arm yourself with a Groupon for a discount and you really won’t mind.
Walked in to staff watching TV in the dining room. I walked in and they abruptly shut it off and dispersed. I sat at the sushi bar and ordered two rolls and a miso soup. I got my water, but no soup. Chef made my rolls and made small talk. He was friendly. Server who took my order and rang me up said but two words to me, never checked on me, refilled my drink, or brought the soup.
Menu has standard Americanized rolls– in addition to the usual Philly-​Cali-​Dragon stuff, there are a few house rolls, each around $ 10. Menu also offers AYCE, kitchen items included in addition to the sushi. There are some interesting options to make any roll into a low-​carb cucumber roll (riceless) for a flat rate, or to make a sushi burrito, with iceberg lettuce? Didn’t opt to try those items.
The Julio Jr roll (Chopped albacore, green onions, cucumber topped with halibut, cilantro, jalapeño and ponzu sauce) was fresh but didn’t have much of the ponzu sauce, which probably would have kicked up the flavors a bit. The Salmon Lemon roll (Salmon tempura, garlic aioli, masago, avocado, asparagus, topped with salmon, lemon, ikura and ponzu sauce) was decent, even if the combination of tempura salmon and fresh salmon was a new (and odd) one for me. Neither the asparagus nor the ikura had much flavor.
Can’t say I’m likely to come back. It wasn’t even so much the lack of service from the server that was an turn off, so much as their overall careless attitude. No thanks.

FOOD POISONING!
TIP: the sushi at smiths is better!
So I came in to eat on ¹⁰⁄₂₇ the restaurant was empty so I sat at the bar. The hostess came over dropped off menus and walked away didn’t take my drink order. I did the all you can eat for 19.99. I got their house salad that was so good. That is the only reason why I’m giving a star. The rolls were so bad. No flavor, and they rice was dry and crusty like the lid was left open. So when I would try to pick it up it would literally all fall apart. Cream cheese baked roll. Horrible. Same thing rice would fall apart and the cream cheese would just cause a huge mess. I got a mochi green tea and that was the only thing that put me in a decent mood. Well that night at work my stomach was feeling up set. Well the next day guess who had their head in the toilet! I was puking all day. I’ll never go back.

Not a bad little sushi place.
$ 19.99 for «all you can eat», and the menu was actually pretty expansive in terms of selection.
The staff were friendly, and quick to provide orders. The place wasn’t crowded. At one point, it was just my little group, and they were very nice, and didn’t rush us even as we stayed right up to closing.
They had a little TV, but I could decide if it was for sports games or potential karaōke. I never had these questions answered during my visit, and didn’t think to ask. I was too busy eating all the sushis to go full deep investigative reporter on the subject.
It’s in the little shopping center where Smith’s and Cosmic Comics are, so it’s a little off to the side and semi-​hidden, but there’s enough parking.
I’d come back. The selection was good, and the people were nice. That goes a long way when you need to eat all the sushis.

I hate to give this place one star because the people there were really nice but they have a lot of improvement they can do. The udon soup I ordered was $ 12.50 and it was the smallest portion size for an udon noodle I ever got from any restaurant. There were barely any noodles in it. The chicken in it was over cooked and dry. It was just noodles chicken and cabbage. The broth was fine. Then I ordered the sushi and it was bite size. It was really small and the sushi didn’t seem fresh at all. The seat was hard and uncomfortable. The decorations in the restaurant seem tacky. This place wasn’t for me.

Just meh. Sorry, but I can’t recommend it. Blaring TV on a dining table, hmmmm.
Sushi just wan’t that good. Other plates we had were ok. Hello Tokyo just missed the mark for me.

I was very leery at first, space was not at all Japanese or anything like any sushi restaurant I have been to before. The menu was handed to us, we sat in these hard booth seats and opened up the menu. Now I’m not at all a sushi eater unless it’s pumpkin, or some kind of cooked beef or chicken or veg. They suggested the Chicken Teriyaki and I was explicitly asking if it was dark meat, as I am repulsed by dark meat chicken. Yuk!
Got our bowl, simple, carrots, broccoli, rice, and chicken. Chicken was lightly breaded with lite sauce and it was so delicious.
Looks are not everything, location is not everything, food is and well, they win on the chicken teriyaki. I’ll be back!!! For sure!

My fiancé and I absolutely love this place! Excellent service and delicious food.
Every time we come in we are greeted with smiles and a warm hello. We are regulars now so they know our order. Our server greets us quickly and grabs our order without using a pen and pad. We start with two Creamy Shrimp appetizers that are so amazing with a creamy Sriracha sauce and plump tempura shrimp. The rolls are always perfectly executed by the awesome chef and taste amazing. Master Payo Roll is a must try; we order three of them right through the door. It has a delicious warm kani baked salmon and yummy tabayaki sauce to die for. My second favorite is the Crunchy Dynamite Roll with crunchy shrimp baked in creamy masago sauce and my favorite part is the baby scallops all warm and creamy on top!
It’s always a pleasure to come to our favorite spot where the prices are reasonable and the food is divine.

This sushi restaurant is different. It’s ran and managed by hispanics instead of typical Japanese and Koreans in sushi restaurants. The interior of the place is a bit outdated and it smelled like cleaning solutions. I just didn’t get a good vibe from the place. However, the food was decent. The rolls were made well and the presentation of the dishes were cute. The Dragon Roll actually looked like a dragon! Their rolls had a little bit too much rice though and the rice that they use isn’t sushi rice. The Nigiri is fresh and the cut was a good size. Their Miso Soup was good, but a bit too watered down. I recommend the Sashimi Salad because their dressing is tasty and they don’t drown the salad in too much dressing. I give this place 4 stars considering that they are not ran by asians. Got to say I’m impressed at the talent the Hispanics have in running an authentic Asian restaurant;)
*Note: They do offer All You Can Eat for $ 19.99 but it is not open to the whole menu. They allow 1 appetizer, 1 piece per nigiri, and rolls (no dessert).

The service is really really super friendly and prompt.
That makes the rest of my review really disappointing, I guess. I finally found another place with great service, but I was so not into my food that I likely wont return.
I was just having a solo lunch before going grocery shopping next door. I popped in, was seated right away and given water. I was given time to check out the menu and was then checked on in a fair amount of time (like I said, service was good!).
I ordered the miso soup and a dragon roll. Pretty easy, right?
The miso soup was BLAND. Seriously, barely any flavor and had a weird texture to it. I could barely even drink the broth.
The dragon roll. Oh, the dragon roll. To start, the roll was done so loosely it was falling apart with every piece I picked up. Annoying, but not the worst thing ever. After that… the taste. Again, not as much flavor as other places — maybe not enough sauce on top? It could also have been because the cut of eel seemed really really cheap. It was mostly soggy slimy skin and fat and no actual eel meat. The texture was so gross I actually gagged a couple of times.
Return customer? Unfortunately not. If it was just one item and not both, I might have been willing to return based on the service as well — but not with both food items striking out. Plus, the dragon roll is my all time favorite, why would I return for less than great taste when I can go elsewhere for great taste at the same price?
Prices are reasonable/​average for sushi. It just didn’t stand out compared to the many other sushi joints.

I was there just after 11AM, there were no other customer until 11:15.
I ordered three items to go, while I was waiting, servers were chatting personal conversation, I felt I was not there. I asked that how long does it take, they said 15 – 20 min and gave me a glass of water.
A guy wearing white T-​shirts started cooking at sushi bar he was not wearing chef coat nor hat. Then all staff were start talking with fire inspector, it seems they forgot about that I was there for to go order.
I finally left there at 11:40. I was the first customer for the day, there were no other customer until 11:15, I didn’t understand why I had to wait so long. I don’t know it was same reasons with me or not, but the send customers for dining party of three, they left the store before they made order.
Sashimi bowl — Sashimi salad with steamed rice, not Chirashi.
Bendo box — They didn’t have black cod I ordered. I got deep fried fish with no sauce. Menu said it come with miso soup, but they said NO.
Sashimi sampler — No wasabi. They use bunch of carrot on bottom not daikon.
I couldn’t use Unilocal deal, because of TO GO order.
I felt that I should share my experience here.

With so many solid reviews and ratings after new management and improvement, I really wish I could give 3.5 stars but as much as I hate to give 3 stars, for me it was a solid 3 star establishment and experience.
So a Unilocal buddy of mine, Eddie had seen reviews on this place and had been mentioning let’s give this place a try. Now I live totally on the opposite side of town, but after pictures and reviews I thought, hey let’s give it a shot.
I’m not the type that’s turned off depending on location or plaza, but it’s all about how it looks inside and the food. But for $ 20.00. For AYCE sushi I was interested in how this place would turn out. I walk in surprised at the limited seating, lack off decoration, and non matching tables and chairs, and booth seatings that you could feel the springs underneath.
Being an avid Unilocaler, I had did my Unilocal research on the place before coming, so I knew the place was not owned or managed by Japanese, or Asians by that matter, so I wasn’t startled when the servers and chefs were Hispanic. It did also seem this was more of a family owned run and operated establishment. So that was impressive.
I was a bit confused in the beginning because the hand written signs outside said AYCE sushi was $ 19.99, but there was nothing stating if there was limitations to the AYCE menu or if certain items were only one time order (which some were) so the chef and server had to verbally let us know the AYCE specific limitations.
I started with sashimi orders, ordering the sashimi salad, the sashimi platter, unagi nigiri, nabeyiki tempura udon and soft shell crab. The platter I thought was really good and the light in house onion sauce was a different twist than the reg soy or ponzu sauce. The sashimi salad was very good! I loved the mango and light citrus dressing on the salad! It was a nice change up from the sesame ginger dressing. The salad was a spring mix compilation but there was definitely more greens that sashimi. The unagi nigiri was pretty standard in regards to rice to fish ratio. The nabeyiki udon wasn’t all that great. I was disappointed. The chicken in the udon was seasoned in a way that did not compliment the tempura udon broth. I pretty much only ate the noodles, the aged egg, and shrimp tempura. And the soft shell crab on the menu says it’s laid on a bed of greens, but when we got the order we were extremely surprised that it was more like another spring mix salad with two very small soft shell crab pieces… Lots of salad and green fillers which in the beginning I liked the salad but now I was already over it.
Next round, I ordered the sashimi rice bowl, and again it was topped and piled with the spring mix greens few sashimi and rice buried underneath. Again I was like salad again?! We had also ordered their shabu shabu steak roll, the popcorn shrimp spicy tuna roll, and yellowtail Kama. We ordered yellow tail special roll but they forgot to even bring it out.
The shabu shabu was bland and meat that topped the roll was more chewy than tender. The popcorn shrimp roll had a nice kick to it and I enjoyed that roll but at this point I was starting to tap out, so it wasn’t a big deal that they had forgotten our yellowtail special roll. What was most disappointing was that the yellowtail Kama was asked to be cooked well done, and after devouring the crispy outsides, once we made it more inside of the collar bone, the fish was pink and not cooked. Luckily we noticed it before either my friend and I had taken another bite.
The chef came by to apologize and we were treated to dessert on the house, strawberry and mango mochi (dessert is not included in AYCE) and those we of course yummy as any other mochi.
I’m a huge supporter of local business and being a loyal customer, but I try to be as objective and honest as I can be on Unilocal to give the audience a full understand of the experience in its entirety. I think they will do will for the demographics they may be targeting, but the place lacks in presentation and comfortability to me. The AYCE menu is a little too limited for my liking, when I know I can pay $ 3 more for a better quality experience. I’m truly happy to see there are other solid reviews from loyal customers and it was bad food at all, just not the AYCE sushi place of choice for me. I do not see myself driving out of my way across town to make it here, when there is better quality elsewhere. So terms of all the AYCE sushi places I have been to in the valley, for me this places stands as a solid 3.

So I’ve been here three times now and found a few things I’d like to share. As some of the reviews here say, Hello Tokyo has been under new management since early April. They kept the name but little else. Please pay attention at the dates on the reviews you read here to see which are still applicable.
This place is currently the best sushi deal in town. AYCE price for lunch is at $ 15, while dinner is $ 20. Don’t let the low price fool you, the fish here is definitely fresh and the food very good. I also know that they’re still making improvements. They took note of my prior review and last time I ate here, they had octopus! It’s not yet on the printed menu so please ask your server for availability.
I’m a big nigiri fan so I tend to pay close attention. All I can say is that their nigiri making has gotten better from my 1^st visit. There’s less rice, more fish, and better cuts of fish. I’ve also had a chance to sample more of the appetizers and there are two that are super awesome. First is the yellotail with jalapeño, second is the sishito peppers. I don’t know what the authentic sishito peppers is supposed to taste like but theirs is the best I’ve ever had in my very subjective opinion :-).
Overall, I’ve basically stopped going to my usual goto sushi bars of Naka and Sakana in favor of Hello Tokyo. Does that mean that this place is better or the others worst? No. They’re all very good but this place has the best sashimi and is the best value for my hard earned bucks!

Many reasons why this place is awesome.
This is a great place for lunch before you go grocery shopping (since it is right next to the Smiths). I believe this just opened recently.
They offer some great deals since they just opened. You get a free house roll when you check in. You are going to want that! Rolls are about $ 8-​$ 12. When we went for lunch today, then also offered discounts for everything in their menu. I believe everything we had was 50% off.
We had the popcorn shrimp roll, yellowtail special roll, and the shabu shabu roll. All were excellent. I really liked this shabu shabu roll because of the certified angus beef.
The staff was very friendly. The sushi chef was very friendly as well. He let us try different sauces and actually came out to check on us to make sure we had enough sauce. Service was fast and fantastic.
The only thing I was sad about was they didn’t have the dessert I wanted. They only dessert they had available was mochi. I wanted to get the Berries de leche crêpe.
Overall, I enjoyed lunch at this place and will be returning.

I just can’t give this place more than 1 star…
So we came here because it is right down the street, noticed they opened a few months ago and decided to give it a shot. I knew it was a bad idea as soon as we walked in when we were hit with a smell of paint (?), I don’t even know. What I do know is that it wasn’t pleasant.
But, we figured they did open a few months ago, maybe they’re still getting everything in order.
The place was pretty empty (only one other couple there) so I figured we would at least have decent service. Not so much. The entire 3 people on the staff were super nice, but I have to agree with another review in saying I really don’t think any of them had any experience in serving or restaurant back ground. Waited for quite some time (10ish minutes) before the young waiter even came to get a drink order, of which he only brought half of. We both ordered hot tea and water, had to ask twice for the water. The rest of his service was consistently below par the entire time… I did mention there was only 1 other couple in there… The whole time we were there. But, again, they were super nice.
Now to the food… meh. The crunchy rice appetizers were the best thing that we ate… the rest was below average sushi. About the same quality that I get next door at Smith. The miso soup was SUPER salty. The rice on everything was dry, and the quality of the fish can again be compared to what you can buy next door. The two main rolls we ordered stated that they came with different sauces, when we got the rolls, they were dry. When we asked, the chef said that he put the sauce inside the roll, & sent over the sauces that were supposed to be «in» them in ramekins. After splitting the first roll with my hubby, I was pretty much done.
Definitely won’t be back, & unfortunately, this place seems to have a curse on it. I have lived in this neighborhood for over 5 years now, & this is the 3^rd restaurant in its place, last two were Italian food, all have been way off the mark.

Well guys, I’m a sushi chef back in LA, I just moved here. I found this sushi place driving to Smiths and decided to check it out on my way out. It was the best decision I’ve ever made!
This little place has some of the best sushi I’ve tasted so far! And I’ve worked in many sushi restaurants in LA. Their fish is very fresh and the service was amazing. I was given a sample called «crispy rice» which looked a bit weird but was absolutely delicious! I skimmed through their menu and found it to be quite an interesting combination of flavors which I can’t wait to try! It was half of at the time of my visit I’m not sure until when they’ll have this deal.
Overall, it was an amazing exerience and I can’t wait to try the rest of their menu!
(One thing though, it was a bit quiet and since they just opened, according to the sign outside, it was a bit weird sitting in silence. eating)
Thanks guys! I high recommend it!