Wabi Sabi Manteo

Fresh food, welcoming atmosphere, creative space, and definitely worth all trips! Our family enjoys participating in trivia events there.

This place is a hidden gem! I got the spicy tuna poke bowl, and California roll! It was very good and aesthetically pleasing! Highly recommend checking this place on vacation!!

Cute decor, great service and delicious food. Had the spicy tuna poke bowl and crunchy shrimp, good portion sizes and flavorful. Recommend checking this place out.

Service was slow with an attitude. Food was absolutely disgusting!!!!! I ordered the tots plain and they were old tasting and not cooked properly. Tasted like they were microwaved. Also got chicken tenders. They were cold and not properly cooked either. My daughter took it back because if you waited for the “server” you would wait for a long time. Not apology was even offered for the bad food. The sushi was beautiful and my husband liked his food. We went to pay for the sushi and drinks and the “server” got an attitude with my daughter when she tried to explain why we sent the food back and instead of apologizing for the poor quality she asked if we thought she was “being aggressive” as a response!!!!! Why would that be your response we when someone has politely refused the horrible food??? Why not at least attempt to be remorseful and admit the food was not good? We gladly paid for what was acceptable. We waited 20 minutes after the sushi was finished for a dessert order that was placed at the time of our order. We could no longer wait and when we were paying downstairs the dessert came out. So obviously the “sever” did not inform the kitchen to cancel and said the the kitchen to give it to her friends at the bar!!!! This is one of the absolute worst places ever!!!! Save yourself the aggravation and disappointment and go elsewhere!!!!!!

I dined in with my mother and father on that evening of June 3rd at roughly 6:45 pm. I ordered 2 bagel rolls. They weren't very good. Only a sliver of salmon in each roll. It just didn't taste fresh. My mother ordered tots and chicken strips. You'd think that would be hard to mess up, but you would be so very wrong. The tots arrived at the table Luke warm and stale and the chicken strips were almost frozen in the middle. It was absolutely disgusting. I took the food back and asked the older woman running the place to please remove it from our ticket. I wasn't rude or out of the way to her at all. She didn't even ask what was wrong. She just had an attitude about it. I just brushed it off though. Then the rest of the food was ready to be brought to the table. She was in her feelings so much that she had the cook bring the food up. And as you could probably guess it was disgusting. But we tried to push through because we were hungry. Well we asked for refills and condiments. Waited almost 10 minutes to get that. So we ordered dessert when we ordered our entrees. The desserts never came after almost 15 minutes of being done with our garbage meal. So I told her that we were not going to have them as we had other plans to attend and didn't have time to wait for ol girl to bring them. So this is where things got ugly. The older lady was clearly annoyed. She shouted to the people at the bar that they could just have the desserts since we didn't want them. She was being so passive aggressive. So I'm getting the bill so I can pay and she slams it on the counter and shoved it towards me. I asked if she had a problem because clearly she did feel some type of way. The got so loud with me and my mother saying she wasn't being aggressive. Which I never said she was being aggressive. She was absolutely being passive aggressive. I didn't care to indulge her tantrum so I signed my receipt and left. I didn't tip so I will check my bank statement to be sure she doesn't commit fraud. I hope she gets to reads this. I'm not sure if she is the owner or just a worker bee. But either way you need to do better and next time keep your emotions in check because I felt so much second hand embarrassment for her and the way she was acting. I sure hope your friends enjoyed your pitiful show and the god awful food. I'm not sure if she was maybe on drugs or something and that's why the service, food, and attitude was so terrible. If she isn't the owner I sure hope they replace her because she will absolutely run that place even further in the ground than it already is. I feel fairly certain she over charged me as well. She probably needs the money more than I do though. So I hope it helped. Have a day ?