The Izakaya

5651 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento - 95822
208 reviews
Japanese Sushi Bar Ramen
(916) 391-1378

Excellent selection of quality Japanese dishes, so reasonably priced. Excellent, fast and friendly service, very clean. Gets crowded on weekend evenings, no wonder!

Been eating here for the last 5 years. Fantastic place for lunch or dinner. Awesome happy hour drink specials starting at 2:30pm.

Great service and the food was delicious, fresh, and plenty.

This Japanese restaurant has sushi, ramen and bento boxes at reasonable prices without sacrificing the quality. They probably could add more deserts in their menu though. It's one of those authentic Japanese restaurants that is the local's favorite. They close early during weekdays so be there before 7:30 PM.

Food is good but we had to wait a longer than normal time for someone to initially come to our table. And the place isn’t big and we were sat by the staff, so they knew we were there and new. But overall a fine experience. Good prices and good food.

Great cozy ramen place. Service was quick and friendly. Plenty of choices in the menu, all reasonably priced. Love their lunch and dinner bento choices.???

Food, environment and service is good. I usually call and order ahead but nowadays they seem busy and understaffed so now I must physically come in and wait because no one will answer the phone. Hopefully the issue gets resolved soon or I may have to order from the places further down the road ?

My first experience was amazing here and loved the food. Kitchen was accommodating with making adjustments as I was allergic to a few ingredients. Great service and atmosphere. This was when they first opened.Second time around, not sure if kitchens fault or waitress fault but on two rolls we ordered without avocado due to allergy reason but they served it to us with avocado. We're not ones to complain much so we were able to push out the avocado on our California roll easily then ate it. The deep fry sushi roll, not so much, impossible and it spread around.This is where it gets interesting. I tried complaining to our waiter that the sushi roll had avocado in it and if we could get a replacement and without looking at the sushi roll, she looks straight at me and says "no it doesn't" then marched off. It was little busy there that day during lunch and again, we weren't ones to continuously complain at a restaurant, so we put the dish to the side and did not eat it.Of course, when the check came around, we did not pay for that exact sushi roll and when trying to explain to the waitress that we will not be paying for something we did not eat including not being able to eat it due to allergy reasons (reason for the request to not put it into there) she still insisted that it didn't have avocado in it even though we just tore it apart in front of her and she claimed it was a cucumber. Two different textures and looks, we were not dumb.Then she had the audacity to chase me and my family out the restaurant claiming that we needed to pay for the rest of the food or she was calling the cops. I let her do her thing and I'm not too sure if cops were called but I left a few dollars on the ground in the parking lot for her time while what looked like the manager followed behind her.Never been back since but the deep fried sushi rolls the first time around were hella good though.

Best beef ramen I’ve had in Sacramento! This place does a great job and the staff is always very friendly. I’ve had a few orders that have taken a lot longer than expected on the pickup time but other than that it’s worth the wait as the food is that good.

Good food, fast service. Still doing masks and they have you take your temperature.