Lively counter-serve eatery turning out Japanese hibachi fare & lunch specials in a compact space.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 153 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Phone: (919) 903-8428
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Reviews
It’s actually my dad’s favorite restaurant — and he lives three hours away. I even brought some home to him before his first cancer surgery, and it made him so happy. That meant a lot to both of us.
I also love the punch card rewards and the consistently friendly staff. It’s a place we’ll keep coming back to!
I also asked for a soda bottle sprite but never did he mention they were out of soda so many problems no communication food was disgusting I couldn’t eat it but I can smell it and look at it anyway I have my receipt I called the store told them I had the food my proof I would like to be refunded because my instructions about my health were ignored and this is a food contamination problem I payed $40 and some lady who ain’t the manager told me I could only get food remade I can’t get my money back worse place ever dont eat her especially if you have allergy concern because they ignore your situation and give you what they want not what you asked for
I stopped into this place yesterday to pick up some dinner. My partner and I are in the process of moving to Winston-Salem and wanted to grab one last meal down Franklin Street. I was greeted by a young, white guy and woman at the front counter. I inquired about the difference between their hibachi and teriyaki chicken, and the woman told me that the teriyaki chicken is cooked in and comes covered in a “thick, sweet sauce”. I ordered the teriyaki chicken with double the meat and extra zucchini.
After receiving my order, I went home to eat. When I opened the to-go container, I was very surprised to see plain, white, fatty chunks of chicken with no sauce on them. I tasted the food and the chicken tasted just like it had been boiled with no seasoning whatsoever added. On top of that, the vegetables also tasted boiled and bland with no sign of sear on them. The rice was mushy and overcooked.
I decided to go back to the restaurant, explain what happened, and politely ask for my meal to be re-made, because I did not receive what I paid for. Let me add that hibachi-style Japanese food is my favorite genre of food and this restaurant was a place that I frequented often during my time at UNC.
When I got to the restaurant, I explained what happened to the young, white guy at the counter who seemed apologetic and told me to speak to the young woman I had spoken to before and she could help me. I assumed she held some sort of managerial position in the restaurant.
I explained what happened again to the young woman and described to her how my food was not only unseasoned, but also tasted mushy and overall unappetizing. She just stood there, looked at me like I was stupid, and said, “Okay?”. Taken aback by her obvious lack of care, I asked her if I could just have my food remade or have the cook add teriyaki sauce since what I had received was obviously NOT teriyaki chicken. She replied nonchalantly and told me that the food was most likely mushy because I had left it in the to-go container too long (which I had NOT) and that they would be unable to remake the food because it was prepared correctly the first time. I tried reasoning with her and I reminded her that she told me earlier that the chicken would be in a “thick, sweet sauce”. She refuted this statement and insisted that the chicken, in fact was, cooked in the thick, sweet sauce. I told her that I can show her what my chicken looked like and it was obvious there was no sauce present on the chicken. She, once again, ignored this and told me that there was nothing she could do and that she knows my chicken was cooked correctly in the teriyaki sauce. I tried explaining to her that this was impossible, because the chicken tasted boiled with no trace of seasoning or sauce at all. She basically looked at me like I was stupid AGAIN, shrugged her shoulders, and said, “Yeah, I know the chicken was cooked correctly so there’s nothing I can do.” I asked her, at the very least, for a container of the teriyaki sauce to put on my food myself and she handed me a small container of extremely cold, coagulated brown sauce. This sauce was thick and dark brown and there was NO WAY my chicken had been cooked in this.
I left, tried eating my meal with the cold teriyaki sauce, and couldn’t finish eating it because it was simply disgusting. I had to throw the whole meal away, as my partner Victor wouldn’t touch it either.
Overall, I am extremely disappointed in the food I wasted my money on and highly disgusted and disturbed with the POOR customer service I received from the young, brown-haired, white woman at the counter. Very disappointed that a restaurant I once loved would employ such a rude and dismissive employee.