Yamatani

First time to Yamatani tonight and it was awesome! Driven by a million times and always want to stop. We stayed in Bishop for this ski trip instead of Mammoth, and it was my birthday so decided to try. We sat at the sushi bar and Robbie was wonderful and made the best sushi. Can’t wait for the next ski trip to come back.

A Bishop favorite. Great food. Great service. Nice dining area. Three of us had delicious fresh Sushi & Sashimi. Excellent Hamachi, like on the coast. Oyster shooter was not like anything ever tasted.

Great family-owned & operated place in a convenient location. Fast, friendly service and very tasty sushi. We come back every time we’re in town! If the tables are booked, try the sushi bar or cocktail bar to get in faster.

Surprisingly excellent fish quality all the way in the eastern Sierra! I also happened to be there on noodle night and the sambal noodles were quite tasty. The owners are very friendly, being the host and the sushi chef, and the atmosphere is classic and casual. The prices are as expected for this quality of food in a remote city. Highly recommend. My favorite place in Bishop.

So amazing to find such fresh raw fish and ikura in this area in Sierra valley. All dishes were really tasty. The price is also very reasonable.

They were amazing! Loved the restaurant and food and atmosphere. Our server Bree was also wonderful! She did an amazing job! Was so fun!

My wife and I have been dining at this fantastic Japanese restaurant for 10+ years. The ambiance is inviting, and the menu offered is delightful. It’s family owned and Roxanne is the best. Must try when in bishop.

Wow wow wow!!! Who Would've Thought Bishop would have such an awesome Japanese restaurant! It was a pleasant surprise to come in and try their food here. The salmon bellies, $3 chicken wings, tempura, and katsu were quite delicious. More than what I would have expected in a small town like Bishop. But the place was packed! I think the locals know this is a really good place for Japanese food. There can be quite a wait, so be prepared if you're coming on the weekend or busy travel day. They have a full bar too, in case you need to warm up with some alcohol. They have a good selection of Japanese beers as well! Shaelee took great care of us!

Julie D-P

Great family-owned & operated place in a convenient location. Fast, friendly service and very tasty sushi. We come back every time we’re in town! If the tables are booked, try the sushi bar or cocktail bar to get in faster.

James QP

Surprisingly excellent fish quality all the way in the eastern Sierra! I also happened to be there on noodle night and the sambal noodles were quite tasty. The owners are very friendly, being the host and the sushi chef, and the atmosphere is classic and casual. The prices are as expected for this quality of food in a remote city. Highly recommend. My favorite place in Bishop.

Ton Apinyapanich

So amazing to find such fresh raw fish and ikura in this area in Sierra valley. All dishes were really tasty. The price is also very reasonable.

Garret Garlinger

They were amazing! Loved the restaurant and food and atmosphere. Our server Bree was also wonderful! She did an amazing job! Was so fun!

Ali Amiri

My wife and I have been dining at this fantastic Japanese restaurant for 10+ years. The ambiance is inviting, and the menu offered is delightful. It’s family owned and Roxanne is the best. Must try when in bishop.

Abe S

Wow wow wow!!! Who Would've Thought Bishop would have such an awesome Japanese restaurant! It was a pleasant surprise to come in and try their food here. The salmon bellies, $3 chicken wings, tempura, and katsu were quite delicious. More than what I would have expected in a small town like Bishop. But the place was packed! I think the locals know this is a really good place for Japanese food. There can be quite a wait, so be prepared if you're coming on the weekend or busy travel day. They have a full bar too, in case you need to warm up with some alcohol. They have a good selection of Japanese beers as well! Shaelee took great care of us!

scott taggart

Great authentic food in an unlikely town. Very high quality food, a great setting an good service.

An excellent meal. I recommend the combo meal which came with a large breaded pork cutlet, a large chicken breast in teriyaki sauce, a salad, a soup, and a bowl of rice! For the price it filled me up , and probably could of been enough for two normal sized people to share. I also got the unagi nigiri, but feel like $12 for two pieces was alot to ask. They are closed Sunday/Monday or I would have taken my crew there.

We went for St. Valentine dinner. Absolutely delicious, every time we have been there, we have never been disappointed. Roxanne the is a wonderful Lady. Service is great and the staff are very friendly. Thank you all.

Richard-Patrick Cromwell

An excellent meal. I recommend the combo meal which came with a large breaded pork cutlet, a large chicken breast in teriyaki sauce, a salad, a soup, and a bowl of rice! For the price it filled me up , and probably could of been enough for two normal sized people to share. I also got the unagi nigiri, but feel like $12 for two pieces was alot to ask. They are closed Sunday/Monday or I would have taken my crew there.

Daniel Riggs

I have eaten here several times, and it is always good quality and decent size cuts. The service is always good.... you really can't go wrong eating here, price point is on par for what you get. Don't get scared when you walk in, and it looks empty... it is good, sushi and the other options are very good as well, the kid loves it.

Pretty good sushi and not super expensive, but not cheap either. The staff seemed nice, but everything was still to go when I was there.

Food was good but not amazing. The service however was great. The gentleman that served us ( I forget his name unfortunately) was top notch. He was clearly a skilled server and our entire party was happy with his service.

Just wish the teriyaki chicken wasn't so dry (thigh meat would have been so much better). Also, it should have been cut into bite sized pieces since they don't give you a knife.

The restaurant is conveniently located on Main Street with plenty of parking on the side and in the back. The host staff was friendly and the server was patient, efficient and very nice. We had many questions about the menu and he answered them and took his time with us. The prices were on the high side for what you get, but food was flavorful.

Great service and a nice feel to the place! Sushi rice wasn't quite right, perhaps the wrong grain. Still tasted good but just not like sushi I've had anywhere else. Sambal beef noodles were also OK. Maybe certain ingredients weren't available?

The food and sushi is sooo fresh and delicious 😋❤️ i am just sad that they are closed on sun and mon 👎 but other than that , the owners are soo sweet and helpful , the server's are very efficient and its always clean in there ❤️

Cool place with pretty good food. I didn't expect to find a sushi joint in Bishop, but we did and this place has some tip tier cuts. I recommend you come here to get your sushi fix while in Bishop.

Great Japanese restaurant. A bit of wait even when you are seated. The food is pretty good given that you are deep into the mountains.

Sushi is 5 star the combo meals are OK. The place can get a little loud. Good bar, no kids menu, still I see a lot of kids in there. Prices are good.

Harold Lee

Great service and a nice feel to the place! Sushi rice wasn't quite right, perhaps the wrong grain. Still tasted good but just not like sushi I've had anywhere else. Sambal beef noodles were also OK. Maybe certain ingredients weren't available?

Misty

The food and sushi is sooo fresh and delicious 😋❤️ i am just sad that they are closed on sun and mon 👎 but other than that , the owners are soo sweet and helpful , the server's are very efficient and its always clean in there ❤️

Roderick B

Cool place with pretty good food. I didn't expect to find a sushi joint in Bishop, but we did and this place has some tip tier cuts. I recommend you come here to get your sushi fix while in Bishop.

Kailiang Huang

Great Japanese restaurant. A bit of wait even when you are seated. The food is pretty good given that you are deep into the mountains.

Richard Williams

Sushi is 5 star the combo meals are OK. The place can get a little loud. Good bar, no kids menu, still I see a lot of kids in there. Prices are good.

Waiter was great and attentive. Sushi roll fell apart and didn’t taste that good. Salmon Collar was very good. Hiyayakko was tasteless. Hardly any sauce, ginger, or bonito. Atmosphere feels like a Dennys which is weird for a Japanese restaurant.

We eat here often and really enjoy it. The food is fresh and delicious. The vibe is welcoming. Definitely recommend it!

Arwin Levinson

Waiter was great and attentive. Sushi roll fell apart and didn’t taste that good. Salmon Collar was very good. Hiyayakko was tasteless. Hardly any sauce, ginger, or bonito. Atmosphere feels like a Dennys which is weird for a Japanese restaurant.

This afternoon at 6 PM, I passed by Bishop with my daughter and ordered takeout from Yamatani—a Tomato Sushi for $5 and an Eel Cut Roll for $14. When we opened them, this is what they looked like. The eel roll only had five pieces; I’m not sure if it’s the same when dining in. However, they didn’t look appetizing at all.

Not as good as Shogun in Mammoth but unfortunately that has closed. Slow service and sushi comes out last after other food which is weird.

The location was conveniently right next to my hotel. The service was excellent. My server was friendly, quick, and offered solutions to problems. She didn't stop moving around the dining room all night, but always had a pleasant disposition. My only issue is with the quality of my nigiri, which I'd been looking forward to. When I walked in, there was a specials sign for a Fried Baby Octopus appetizer, but they were out of it. The were also out of Toro & Uni. I know the price & availability of both of those items is hit or miss, but I'd specifically been excited about those two. I ended up getting Yellowtail Fin(?), which was another special, as a replacement. It was dry with very small cuts of fish. I also got the Tako and Seared Albacore. The octopus was unpleasantly rubbery & impossible to chew, even for Tako. The albacore was also dry. The Yellowtail and especially, the buttery rich Mackerel were the stars of the show, and saved my plate in the end.

It was ok. We all took mom out for her birthday on the 10th. The service was excellent. But I didn't care for the noodles at all. I got the dry noodle dish. I was very disappointed. The shrimp I ordered with it was great. Nothing like imperial gourmet which is my favorite of all oriental restaurants.

Nice variety from all of the American food in the area (not to mention the what, 2 Mexican restaurants?). It's not anything special, but it's a step up from some of the strip mall joints I've been to, despite being a few hundred miles from anywhere resembling a quality source of fish. Keep reasonable expectations and you won't be disappointed. Parking lot is also slightly too small. Not enough to cause a huge headache, but something to consider if you've got a large group.

Like many restaurants after the pandemic this place has gone downhill. Only go here if you don't care about the quality or spending money. I spent $100 on this dinner boat because the charge $32 per person. They counted my 1 year old and 4 year old as a person. I spent $300 dollars in total and felt robbed. The week before I went to an all you can eat sushi buffet in Reno for $25.99 a person and kids were $5. Same food and better quality. I definitely will not be back.

Valerie Butterbredt-Barron

Like many restaurants after the pandemic this place has gone downhill. Only go here if you don't care about the quality or spending money. I spent $100 on this dinner boat because the charge $32 per person. They counted my 1 year old and 4 year old as a person. I spent $300 dollars in total and felt robbed. The week before I went to an all you can eat sushi buffet in Reno for $25.99 a person and kids were $5. Same food and better quality. I definitely will not be back.

Never had a sushi roll that came looking like it would fall apart and did fall apart upon picking up with chopsticks. Service was also shoddy. Sat at the bar but was expected to conjure up the menu myself. And water came almost 10 minutes later. Granted, the servers were at least friendly.

Jin Hang Ng

Never had a sushi roll that came looking like it would fall apart and did fall apart upon picking up with chopsticks. Service was also shoddy. Sat at the bar but was expected to conjure up the menu myself. And water came almost 10 minutes later. Granted, the servers were at least friendly.

Chicken teriyaki was dry. Salmon was way overcooked. Sushi rolls had way too much rice. The waiter was okay, but we constantly felt rushed to request things or take our order. We had questions, and he made us feel like he didn't have time to answer them and would walk away before we had finished trying to request something. But in his defense, the restaurant was busy. Still no excuse for a well trained waiter. Overall, I would not recommend this place, but I believe it's the only sushi place in that area.

I would like to give this restaurant a 5 star because the food is truly amazing. But I can not. On 7 different occasions i have called and no one answered. When the times it did get answered I was greeted by an unfriendly phone rep Roxanne. She was always rude on the phone. Not very helpful and seemed like I was a bother. I know it gets busy there but if that is the case hire some extra help and get someone on the phone that has skills in hospitality. I went in to pick up an order and again Roxane was there and was rude. I asked her if the order happened to be ready she said no. So I waited of course. The whole time my food was right there on the counter. There was only another customer there and the same thing happened to him. He and I were talking about our experience their that night. I hope things can change in future to provide better servic. Food is great

Nice restaurant, polite and fast service but we went there strictly for maki sushi, looked delicious but were not that great... Miso soup was good though ;)

Patrycja Walachowska

Nice restaurant, polite and fast service but we went there strictly for maki sushi, looked delicious but were not that great... Miso soup was good though ;)

Starting off with the good, staff was attentive (but not friendly). The atmosphere was lively. I had the Calamari & Tonkatsu combination dinner plate and the crunchy roll. Food was flavorless, with zero seasoning. Calamari was beyond rubbery. I'm not sure how they managed to make a worse crunchy roll than Vons. Paid almost $90 for 2 people for the most mediocre Japanese meal I've ever had.

We waited an hour for our meal to come. Despite asking to cancel, our server insisted that the food would come within a minute. The salmon teriyaki and chicken katsu finally came out after an hour but we were then told there was no rice. We were still expected to pay full price. The salmon also has all of its pi bones…. $60 is insane for this kind of service.

It sucks that I'm giving this place a 1 star when I was so excited to finally try this restaurant. I come into for work often and have struggled to find food that fits my palate. I live off of Japanese food and was hoping this would be a new spot for my firm to have our group dinners since we all love Japanese food. I told them about this place and that I couldn't try it out last trip so I was going to go this time and report back. My report back will be they're rude and we should never use their services. I waited patiently in line with everyone else to be attended to. I was skipped over and not even acknowledged. I brushed it off the 1st and even the 2nd time when she sat 2 ppl without reservations who were behind me at the last spots at the sushi bar, which was where I planned to sit since I was solo. It was until I said hey what about me that I was even acknowledged. I thought about continuing to wait but was annoyed since I'd only be able to get takeout since she skipped me and gave away the last seats. It really sucks 😕 and kinda ruined my evening.

I have to express my disappointment with this experience. The tempura sweet potato was severely undercooked, and the sushi barely met average standards. As for the teriyaki steak.. I never had something worse than this before. Despite several open tables, we were made to wait a couple of minutes before being seated. Our party consisted of two adults and a toddler, and we were given a small corner table, positioned uncomfortably close (perhaps just an inch) to the area where dirty plates were piled up. A screen separated our chairs from this unsightly scene, but it was so close and unclean that it left a rather unpleasant feeling while dining. During our meal, my son was making some noise. I took him out of the restaurant immediately after like 1 minute. But while this happened, there was a waiter behind the screen who responded in a rather rude and sarcastic manner, saying, "Really? Really? Take him away!" Finally, when I approached the counter to settle the bill, what appeared to be the manager remarked, "Your son is quite vocal, isn't he?" In my overall experience in the United States, I've always found people to be friendly and courteous. This was the first time I encountered such rudeness and arrogance.

Upon entering Yamatani Japanese Restaurant our group of 6 were immediately scolded by the hostess/owner about our shoes being dusty and how we were going to get her carpet dirty. Still waiting close to 10 minutes in a seemingly empty restaurant we were scolded a second time for touching the pins on the world map. “That’s for customers to put where they’re from, you have to ask first” she hissed. We eventually were shown our seats. After sitting for a few minutes all 6 of us agreed the absolute rudeness was enough to up and leave. We didn’t place an order or order any drinks. Our group consists of 40 and 50 year olds from out of the county. Terrible service.

We went in when they opened at 430 on a Saturday wanting cocktails and apps, Nd possibly our whole dinner...That was the best part of our experience. I will spare everyone the rest of the story.... by saying the bartender was a d.c.k. he was angry. Slammed our waters down threw us menu's. I asked him how he was ..he said I'll be fine in 4 hours.. we walked out . So I can't tell you how the food was. We ended up at the whiskey grill.

I am a 50 year old man and I have never been told off two times before I even sit down. The owner complained about my shoes being dusty from the desert and I shouldn't be bringing the dust into her restaurant. Then my friend put a pin in the map the shows were customers are from and the owner told him off because he did not ask first to put a pin in the map. So we left after all six of us sat down...we all could not believe how we were treated in less than three minutes.

Second try. Terrible food. Limited menu. Small servings .. "rolls" look like 1/2 rolls, which would be OK because they don't taste great, but they're still priced like regular sushi rolls. Tiny bit of wasabi. Calamari dip was almost tasteless. Teriyaki beef was fatty. Overall awful - will never go back. Waitress was nice.

We had dinner here last night! The hostess was terribly rude. The ribeye teriyaki was all grizzle and it was the worst yellowtail roll I have ever had, even the soft shell crab was terrible. The bartender was working extra hard and the cocktails were good.

Peaty Gonzales

Second try. Terrible food. Limited menu. Small servings .. "rolls" look like 1/2 rolls, which would be OK because they don't taste great, but they're still priced like regular sushi rolls. Tiny bit of wasabi. Calamari dip was almost tasteless. Teriyaki beef was fatty. Overall awful - will never go back. Waitress was nice.

Jacqueline Austin

We had dinner here last night! The hostess was terribly rude. The ribeye teriyaki was all grizzle and it was the worst yellowtail roll I have ever had, even the soft shell crab was terrible. The bartender was working extra hard and the cocktails were good.