Yatai Sushi - Honolulu

Was referred to Yatai Sushi by a friend of mines that uses Yatai Sushi every year for his annual christimas party. I called and emailed and Todd responded within a day or so. I had questions a couple weeks prior to our even, emailed him and he got back with an answer right away! The day of our event our Sushi Chef came on time, set up his workstation and was ready to go on right before we were ready to start. We were super impressed of how quickly he made the sushi. The Sushi was fresh and was very tasty! Perfect with our crab boil that we also had at our party. Sushi ran out becuase it tasted so good! We had some king crab and the chef started making crab rolls for us! So awesome! The service was great! Chef cleaned up and left! Only wish he couldve joined us for our main dinner and drinks! Thank you very much Yatai Sushi! We will be calling you for our next event! Domo Arigato Gozaimasu!

Had them for our college graduation party and the food was great but they ran out of food after an hour and a half even though it says all you can eat for 2 hours. However, we rehired them for our wedding and had no complaints!

I was lucky enough to get thrown a surprise birthday party this past weekend and my husband is so thoughtful and awesome that he hired Yatai Sushi to cater the event. It was amazing! Our sushi chef was great and a trooper because it was an outdoor party and the day was super hot! But he was very funny, explained what all his ingredients were, and just an all around stand up guy! The fish and shrimp was super fresh, I especially loved the ahi and salmon, two of my favorites, put together with just a touch of wasabi, crab meat and ikura. Everybody also enjoyed the spicy poke. My family are big sushi, nigiri eaters so they couldn't get enough of it. His setup was great, it reminded me of almost being at a restaurant and it was like the sushi was endless! What was even more cool was that he ended up giving us all the leftovers, but he prepared chirashi bowls with the extras, and I absolutely LOVE these little bowls of fishy goodness! My husband earned major points with having this vendor, and we can't wait to hire Yatai to join us at another special occasion. Who knows, we may not even need a reason to hire them!

Had a party this Saturday and the guys did a great job. We ordered the sushi and the tempura combo. The tempura was delicious fresh, hot and crispy. Sushi was decent (we're sushi snobs). Rice could have used a little more vinegar and sugar. Fish was pretty fresh and tasted good. Set up was pretty cute. The guys were on time and cleaned up after themselves. The price was reasonable. About $30 per person once you add in the extra charges for travel, tax (and added on selections) and 20% tip. If we had just ordered the sushi without the extra sushi selections it would have been about half the price. Main pros: economical reliable decent sushi, excellent tempura nice guys Couple of negatives: sushi line started to build up so maybe they should make the little nigiri rice balls ahead of time. we added on unagi, tamago and uni and for the amount charged, seems like a bad deal for the amount that they brought for those add ons.

Sushi was delicious and top grade, but unfortunately the Brandon guy was pretty cold and hard to talk to. The minimal eye contact, annoyed terse replies, and zero smiles in the 90 minutes definitely negatively affected the atmosphere especially since we hired him for a very small dinner in our kitchen with some other family members. I cringed when I heard my mom trying to talk him up and ask him about himself. She was only trying to fill the weirdly tense void as he made rolls but ended up having to just kind of awkwardly stand there when he stopped replying to her. Brandon also came late meaning he also got set up late and wasn't apologetic at all. He came in jeans and didn't have the set-up like I see in other people's Yelp pics so I was a little let down because they looked really cool and we saved up a lot to afford this night. Anyway, I don't know if that guy had a bad day or something, but the undeniably negative attitude also made enjoying sushi (and even holding conversations with each other) that night very difficult. Sorry to say, but as someone who values customer service and expects at least cordial-level people skills (especially when big bucks like this are shelled out) I would definitely not recommend. Wish it could've been better and I hope it was a fluke night.