Kawa's Hibachi Grill And Lounge - Tyler

Would give zero stars if it were an option. Stopped by here on 3/20/22 at about 7 pm. Seated immediately waitress was not attentive at all. ?Chef? came, put rice on then went thru 3 or 4 order slips trying to figure out which one was ours. Subsequently the rice started to burn, as did the eggs. He finally found the right order then proceeded to finish cooking the rice and served it burnt. The rest of the meal wasn?t much better loads of garlic, same sauces used on everything (and way too much of it) so everything tasted the same. Waitress barely checked on the table one of our party found her in the bathroom standing there playing on her phone chef had to go hunt down missing shrimp and a lobster tail with food cooking on the table. ?Chef? answered his phone twice while cooking for us. When he left, he didn?t even bother to clean up the cooktop left a mess. No sauces, we had to ask for it once all our food was finished. None of us could eat our rice at all. Oh, and they say a total of 12 people at 1 table! 10 adults and 2 toddlers. I?ve eaten at many hibachi restaurants, never had this poor of an experience at such a premium price. Stay away from this place. We were traveling and thought we had stopped somewhere good, we were wrong. Oh, and everyone of us wound up booted and gassy. ETA: this was the response from the restaurant: ?Response from the owner 16 hours ago Hi , Thomas , I apologize for your bad dining experience with us last night . This is not a kawas standard . I had personally addressed your issues to our chef team and management team, they decided to end the contract with your chef and retrain your server. Thank you for your review , we are always striving to improve and I assure you this won?t happen again. Have a nice day !? Curiously I never identified the chef or waitress so I?m not sure how they identified them and since were not from the area, we will doubtfully ever be back.

Dinner at Kawa's 3/20/2022. I had nigori sake, green tea, a Fiery Cajun Roll, a Spiderman roll, and an Ocean Garden Roll. They were super busy for dinner and hibachi, but no one was sitting at the sushi bar, so I was able to get seated right away. But lots of tables were ordering sushi, because they were cranking it out back there. There were a couple of hispanic guys sushi-chefing behind the bar. I mention this not to be disparaging, and only mention it because it's unusual. Because these guys were *crushing* it. They were knocking out plate after plate of sushi rolls super fast, while maintaining beautiful presentation. The tip jar was barren, so I threw a $20 in there on top of the tip I wrote for the waiter. Everything was well presented, fresh, and delicious. I'll be back.

We decided to give this a try without checking the reviews and I?m glad we did! We chose lounge seating and had the sesame chicken and veggie fried rice. We had onion soup and house salad for starters. The Food was HOT and delicious. I was very pleased with the rice and the variety of veggies. Service was outstanding. Kayleigh was awesome. The plates are quite generous. We?ll be back and hope to try the hibachi side next.

Food was super delicious and fresh! Sushi tasted fantastic too! Prices are also fair. Definitely worth coming back more than once.

Atmosphere was nice. Set up for Hibachi or just dining areas and a bar with bar stools. Restrooms were trying to be trendy but the ceiling lighting consisted of two lights that rotated through different colors and you couldn't see anything in there so I can't comment on how clean was. The service was friendly we were seated by a post our server attended to our table quickly. We ordered a Hibachi meal and 2 sushi rolls to share, we asked for side plates but didn't get them so our food set for a bit before we got to eat. Eventually we did get our side plates. One of the sushi rolls was delicious the other one didn't even meet at fast food standard of sushi roll. The wasabi was dry and must have been sitting for awhile you can see in the picture. The salad that came with the hibachi was swimming and salad dressing. We asked for medium-rare steak but it came medium well to well done. The onion soup was delicious.