Sadako Japanese Restaurant

Environment: 3 Staff: 4 Food quality + price: 4 A great college town place for cheap sushi! It’s nice to come with friends and order a variety to try since prices are relatively affordable to other places in the area. The staff are very efficient at their jobs, but will place the check on your table before you ask for it. The food is fine for the price you pay for

Service is always great at Sadako! Super kind and attentive staff. Wait time is about 10 minutes for moderately busy times. We tried the chicken katsu for the first time, and it was scrumptious. Would definitely get again, but maybe accompanied by 1 roll of sushi instead of 4 rolls for two people. Sadako never disappoints.

Truly awful food. We had high hopes for this place. But this is without a doubt the worst dining experience either of us have had in Ann Arbor. Perhaps even in southeast Michigan. The tempura soba came cold, and the noodles rubbery. Ingredients in the sushi weren’t fresh. The vegetables seem prepared well in advance and were wilted/stale. Fruit was over ripe. Assembly of the sushi was unskilled. The fish was also not fresh. Each roll fell apart when trying to pick it up. More than half of the meal we simply threw away. No restitution was offered by the restaurant. I could see similar reactions on the faces of other patrons. I do not understand how sadako is still in business. A truly terrible dining experience!

As a customer of Sadako for 10+ years I am deeply disappointed to see how downhill the service has gone. Ordering online has gotten beyond ridiculous. It's one thing to make take out customers pay for soup and salad with the meal, but making people request and pay for wasabi and ginger WITH sushi is a scam. And I would even be ok with that if they were understanding as a business, but when we called to request the ginger and wasabi (mind you we got the soy sauce from the same button) they said we were lying. When I asked them to remake our 3 hot rolls on a 16 item order for when we come pick up the ginger and wasabi the response from the Manager was to bring them back in to the restaurant and they would take them to the kitchen and reheat them for us. Not remake. Reheat. So we basically got blamed for not hitting a button we did hit, or why would we have soy sauce, and then called liars. Very argumentative and poor service. Will never return. DO NOT ORDER TAKE OUT FROM THIS RESTAURANT!!!!

Awesome spot for lunch (bento boxes are a great deal and there is a big variety to choose from). We also get takeout sushi from here -- better prices than elsewhere and the quality is still great. Gets pretty busy during regular lunch hours on weekdays, but outside those hours or on weekends it's quieter and easy to get a table.