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Top 5 Japanese food in Ithaca, New York, United States
Best Japanese restaurants nearby. Discover the best Japanese food in Ithaca. View Menus, Photos and Reviews for Japanese restaurants near you.. "Ithaca is gorges" can be read on proud t-shirts across New York State, and there is definitely truth in advertising. Sitting on the shores of Cayuga Lake, the largest of the Finger Lakes, the hilly town of Ithaca is surrounded by dense forests, towering waterfalls, and many gorges. The natural beauty has a distinctly academic feel, as local universities have filled the woods with museums and education centers like The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, which features a 220 acre wildlife sanctuary.
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1. Asia Cuisine
Overall Ratings
4 based on 72 reviews
Reviewed By JohnandJaneS
First time here although I've passed by many many times. The outside is drab and uninviting. The inside is very nice. Fast service. Good Japanese sushi rolls. The fresh seafood Korean pancake (Heamul Pajun) was outstanding! We'll be back again and again.
2. Sumo Japanese Hibachi Sushi
Overall Ratings
4 based on 102 reviews
Reviewed By clarkfourfan
Great dinner last night with my son. We started off with friend shrimp tempura sushi. It was delicious. Best eel sauce I have ever tasted. The chef who did our hibachi was really fun. I ordered shrimp and it was perfectly cooked. My son had a combination of steak and chicken. He ate it all!! We would definitely visit again. Very beautiful restaurant. Love the tile everywhere.
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3. Maru Ramen
Overall Ratings
5 based on 15 reviews
Reviewed By chris k
This is a combined Japanese and Korean cuisine owned by a Korean. Prices are reasonable and serving sizes are generous, particularly if you order one of the Ramen entrees. The servings are huge and filled with wonderful broth, noodles, and lots of fresh veggies.Service can be slow as they only seem to hire one server for the whole restaurant and parking can be difficult - street only - during the daylight.
4. Mitsuba
Overall Ratings
4 based on 26 reviews
Reviewed By 94741233
We ate at a Mitsuba restaurant in Camillus, NY several weeks ago, and they have hibachi tables where the meal is cooked in front of you as you watch. Typical of Japanese steakhouses, the cook put on a little show, including the usual onion volcano, juggling cooking utensils and tossing bits of cut off shrimp tail into his hat. This is half the fun of eating at a place like this, even if you've seen the routine before and know what's coming.At Mitsuba in Ithaca, there are no hibachi tables. If you order a hibachi meal, it is cooked in the kitchen out of sight, then brought to your table. This took some of the fun out of our visit.But the food was still quite good. Both my wife and I enjoyed our meals, which included soup, salad, meat and vegetables, and fried rice. The prices were reasonable, and the service was pleasant, too.One other thing: unlike other Japanese restaurants I've been to, this one does not serve the salad to you. Instead, they have a very small, very limited salad bar where you make your own salad. The choices were few, and included good, fresh iceberg lettuce with a scant hint of other leaves, sliced cucumber, olives, carrots, and dressings. So if you compare this with restaurants that feature good salad bars, you will feel disappointed, but if you compare the salad you make for yourself here with what would be served to you at other Japanese restaurants, you'll see it isn't much different.Not being from this area we initially had a difficult time locating the restaurant. The sign isn't brightly colored and except for the sign on the building, we didn't see any other signage around the entrances to the parking lot or driveway to the mall. You might do better to look for Applebee's sign as it will take you to Mitsuba.
5. Plum Tree Japanese Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 31 reviews
Reviewed By CTMans
This restaurant is located in Collegetown, adjacent the Cornell campus. There are numerous Asian restaurants in Collegetown and my son - a student at Cornell - likes the sushi here. Recently tried the restaurant for the first time and enjoyed it very much. The restaurant is not upscale. The food was delicious, though perhaps slightly pricey as sushi and bento boxes go. I'm also told the restaurant can also be quite noisy when a frat or sorority comes in for an event. But this day for lunch it was calm and I enjoyed it.
