Mizu Japanese Steakhouse

The food and the time spent with the chef was fantastic. Super entertaining and did a great job on our meals. The waiter, was just the worst. We sat down at 7:56, got our drinks at 8:44. He also completely forgot our appetizers and never checked on us to see if we needed more drinks or water refills. This person is in serious need of some training, as is the management for allowing this to happen. If I owned this restaurant I would be really frustrated to have gotten so many things right and had it all fall apart part over someone who just doesn’t seem to care about doing their job well. This is one of the many problems with robbing wait staff of their tips so you can charge a mandatory 18% gratuity (service charge). When you have a real tipping system, waiters make less when they preform poorly, and more when they perform well. This encourages them to do a better job. It’s more important to this restaurant to avoid actually paying the required minimum wage by folding in the gratuity to the waiters’ pay. This is ultimately a leadership issue.

Really disappointed. Very rude waiter. Rice and steak was flavorless. Came in with 3 people (myself and kids) as we waited for 2 more (mom/kid). There were two checks as we are two different families. We were both charged gratuity….. Very scammy and deceitful location. Stay away from Renton location.

Ordered special fried rice for $11.00. Got about 8oz of dry, tasteless rice. Only a scant grating of carrot and maybe two small pieces of chopped onion. Absolutely flavorless and absolutely NOT special at all. Shame on you for this rip-off.

Food was great! Service was quick and friendly and our chef (Randy) was amazing. He kept the kids entertained, joked, and cooked a great meal. We will be back next time we are in town.

It was good. These places are all pretty similar with the same dishes. Had the steak shrimp and lobster and enjoyed eating it. The presentation started off strong then the guy just kind of stopped engaging with us. Still a new restaurant so maybe working out the kinks.