Katana in South Kesteven

The food was absolutely lovely, the staff were so well mannered and respectful. Our chef Yam has executed perfect customer service and put smiles on everyone's faces. It was a lovely birthday treat for myself and I will be visiting again.

Great Atmosphere for the second you walk in the door and the staff make you feel welcome. The food is honestly some of the best food I have had since moving to Grantham and the fact that the do take away is amazing. Keep up the great work guys

Had a wonderful time and meal for my grandsons 10th birthday . Chef V was amazing and fun , made it a great night and everyone was so attentive, would definitely visit again

It was exceptional meal - beautifully prepared teppanyaki right in front of us by Yam. All of the staff were professional and friendly.

I recently dined at Katana after weeks of anticipation for their teppanyaki cuisine. I went with a group of four, and for the three others, it was their first experience at a hibachi grill. I made a reservation online but received a prompt email informing me that my requested time wasn’t available. However, they were able to accommodate us just 30 minutes later, which I appreciated. Upon arrival, we were welcomed by friendly staff and seated at the teppanyaki grill within just two minutes. We ordered a selection of teppanyaki steak, lamb, and chicken. Our chef, who introduced himself as "V," was fantastic! He made the experience not only entertaining but also expertly cooked our meals. The servers were attentive throughout the evening, frequently checking in to ensure we had everything we needed. Overall, we had a great time with the teppanyaki grill experience, although we all found the food to be a bit greasier than expected. I was so captivated by the cooking show and all the flames that I forgot to take pictures, but I did remember to snap one when our teppanyaki ice cream dessert was served. While I enjoyed my time at the restaurant, I think that if I return, I might opt for a regular table instead. With four grills in operation, the atmosphere was lively, but each grill follows a similar routine and shares the same jokes. Once you’ve seen one show, it feels like you’ve seen them all. Overall, it was a memorable experience!

Our family of six adults had a very enjoyable experience at Katana Restaurant while visiting Grantham for Christmas. The restaurant provided a warm and welcoming atmosphere, which made our holiday outing feel even more special. Chef Yam was an excellent host and went above and beyond to ensure our meal was memorable. He cooked our food to suit our individual preferences, which added a personal touch that we really appreciated. The food itself was flavorful and well-prepared, with a good variety of options to choose from. The portion sizes were generous, and we felt the price was very reasonable considering the quality and amount of food provided. Overall, it was a positive experience, and we’d recommend Katana to anyone looking for a good meal in Grantham. If we’re ever back in the area, we’d be happy to visit again.

We had an excellent evening yesterday in the restaurant. The service and food are great, along with the atmosphere and the talented chef!!

Beautiful place, staff and food Thank you!

Brilliant staff, excellent food. Will be back again.

Chef Yam was very entertaining and he put on an excellent show! The kids gave him 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ However, we (the adults) were a little frustrated by the waitress who wasn’t particularly welcoming when almost telling us off for what we’d ordered (a mix of teppanyaki dishes and sushi). Drinks service was also a little slow.

Amazing food and great service.

A great restaurant with friendly staff and delicious food. Chef Ymn is very professional, with exceptional cooking skills. He creates a wonderful atmosphere, giving our family a delightful and memorable experience. Highly recommended!

Amazing experience every time. Thank you to V for going above and beyond for my son's birthday

My mum had a fantastic birthday, you were all amazing. Especially our server V, great atmosphere

Absolutely wonderful food and service to match. Thank you Katana.

Attended for our works Christmas party great food and the live cooking was fantastic Ham our chef really entertained us , the food was tasty and fresh. Thank you hope we werito loud

Absolutely fantastic food, the sushi platter was lovely and the cheesecake was to die for. The staff were very friendly and overall a wonderful time. I will absolutely be back!

Santos was a great host and entertaining . Great food and would reccomend

V is a good cook and entertainer. Lilly says v is also funny.

Absolutely fantastic dining experience, with super affordable prices. Santos, our chef, was wonderful. We will be back!

Great Japanese restaurant cooking in front of you on big hot plate the chef was great fun. The food was fantastic 😋 👌

We've had a takeaway a couple times here now and both times have been faultless. Really pleasant service, short wait times and really tasty, fresh food. Would highly recommend.

Absolutely brilliant evening. The food was so good, the service superb and our chef AM was amazing a truly 5 star experience

Miso on arrival. Provided high chair which is just at finger pinch height to meet the table, so be careful of that. Drinks n food quick and second order of food too

Good sushi and they put a lot of effort into providing good service. I wish the fried chicken starter was crispier, although my partner enjoyed it a lot. 2nd visit: the unlimited sushi night on Tuesdays is excellent value for money. The only critical feedback I have is that I’d recommend playing some music to add to the restaurant ambiance. I also would have preferred if our finished plates were cleared from the table instead of piling up as we ordered more food. Otherwise I find they make a great effort with their customer service and I look forward to coming back.

This place is amazing the staff are super friendly and attentive. We went for my daughter’s 9th birthday and they made it such a special night for her highly recommended. Santos our chef really went out of his way to make it a very special evening! The whole staff awesome please support these guys

Absolutely amazing beautiful and tasteful food the service was excellent and the décor was breath taking very authentic experience will be visiting again

Had the most lovely evening here and santoss (sorry for spelling wrong or incorrect) our chef was fantastic! Thank you so much will definitely be back with friends! 😁

Our first visit was fantastic. Such lovely, attentive staff, and very good food and drink. Highly recommended.

Our Tappen-yaki chef, Aym, was amazingly talented and patient with us! The place was alive with cooking action! Food was great with the staff making sure all allergies are attended to. Staff so polite and made the birthday girl feel extra special with singing, cake, candle and rainbow shot! Brilliant evening thanks Katana!

Went to Katana this evening to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We opted for the Teppanyaki and wow it did not disappoint. Our chef was Santos who was amazing and the food he cooked was out of this world. The service was amazing too. Highly recommend this restaurant.

Amazing food and service. Yam is a great cook

Amazing service, food was delicious and the staff are very accommodating. V was amazing!

Staff here are incredibly friendly and always on hand to help, very efficient service and the food is always amazing. Very talented chefs and a great atmosphere all round

Santos was our teppanyaki chef and was absolutely awesome! We really enjoyed our food: as a party of four we all had something different-steak, prawns, sea bass and chicken. All cooked to perfection and full of flavour. Brilliant service by all staff (but especially santos, our chef)-we were never short of a drink or short of something to eat. The green tea and black sesame ice cream was divine to finish with. Thank you Katana for a great evening!

Had a wonderful birthday celebration here. Our teppanyaki chef Im (hopefully that's right) was wonderful, he was fun and cooked the food amazingly. Will be back.

Mr V our chef cooked live food and provided excellent entertainment and delicious food Thanks Mr V

We came for their Teppanyaki special which they have Wednesdays and Thursday! It was great value for money, 4 courses and all of decent size, I had enough to take home for the next day. What stood out most for me was the amazing service, staff were lovely and very attentive all evening. The restaurant was quiet which affected the atmosphere but that can’t be helped mid week. I would definitely visit again and try their main menu this time.

Me and partner visited here on a Thursday for dinner. The food was delicious, the chef Yam was amazing and friendly which made our evening even more special. Great value for money as we got 4 courses for £20 pp.

Dropped in for a quiet birthday meal. Absolutely fantastic food! Started with Gyozas and Tempura Veg and had the Yakisoba Noddles with vegetables and Crispy Noodles with Prawns. Lovely bottle of pinot noir to also. All elements of the meal were fantastic and the service was flawless.

I enjoyed the evening thoroughly. The food was brilliant and the teppanyaki was the highlight of the night, Santos was an excellent chef!

The food was amazing and Ash put up an amazing show in the teppanayaki table!

Thank you for a great meal and time, Chef V was fantastic!

We had just dropped our daughter off at the train station and fancied a bite to eat before our 1 hour journey back home. 17th August 24, we stumbled upon Katana. It looked nice and we could see they catered for people with allergies and food intolerance issues. Great we thought. Unfortuneatly the vegetarian options have either oyster sauce in them or meat stock. Not sure why 😳 We ended up with just the vegetarian starters and were given some vegan sushi on the house. A very disappointing and some what concerning experience 😞 if a menu is marked up as being vegetarian, then why oh why put meat stock in it ? Unfortunately there was no explanation as to why, just a, that's how it's done.

I've been longing to try Teppanyaki and and Katana did not disappoint me. It's our first time, Chef Santos made my experienced on Teppanyaki so memorable. He was so kind and very funny. Food was so delicious. We love fried rice and the meat are so tender. we will definitely come back and Katana is one of our favorite restaurants. Aside from Chef Santos all the staff are very nice and accommodating. Lovely environment too.

Our chef santos was a great chef that night not boring and he knows how to communicate to the customer 👌

Great night celebrating Colin birthday with Santos as our personal chef. Thank you. In fact all the staff were very polite and attentive. Thanks for excellent food and great service.

Amazing experience for the kids and myself. 8th time of visiting and 4th time having chef V. What a guy. Really makes the experience fantastic for all. Food and wine is amazing.

Santos was a fantastic chef - the kids and adults both had an amazing evening !

Santos our chef was amazing and the food he cooked was brilliant, he certainly kept us all entertained!

Nice teppanyaki experience. Perfect chef Santos, he is the best 🤙 cheerss mate 😅

Nice experience for teppanyaki meals. Chef Yam provides good service and food for us. Recommended!

great experience with amazing staff, had a birthday meal today and they brung out a complimentary drink and cake with a candle and sang happy birthday, great food and large portions for the money recommend. chef “V” in particular was fantastic.

We had our dinner this evening. All staff was very kind and attentive. Chef Santosh served us delicious food. Well done to the sheff and to all team!

I had a wonderful experience heading out to this restaurant, the food tasted amazing and our chef Yam was very attentive and entertaining when preparing the teppanyaki dishes. The staff were all very friendly and helpful, overall a great experience! Highly recommend.

This was my third trip to Katana and the service has been consistently high across the visits! Food is delicious, and staff are friendly and attentive. On this visit, we brought our children and decided to try the Teppanyaki table and wow! We were thoroughly entertained by Chef Yam. He was brilliant, entertaining and interactive. He made us all laugh and was the highlight of our visit. Can't recommend Katana Grantham highly enough. We'll be back. Thank you!

Chef Santos professional and the food was amazing !!!! the staff were nice. The service was sterling all round.

Excellent experience! Chef Yam was amazing with entertaining our children and the food was absolutely delicious! Highly recommend! (P.s the staff are the friendliest I’ve ever experienced at a restaurant! What a kind lovely bunch of humans! Thank you for giving our daughter a coin to make a wish at the fountain)

Excellent food theatre. Perfect for a birthday celebration Thanks to V our chef for a great evening and delicious meal

The customer service is exceptional!! We so enjoyed Chef V, he made our evening special. Well done to the Kantona team

V our Chef was extremely good, great person & great food. Thank you V!!

Decided to celebrate the start if our trip up north with a Teppanyaki dinner. Santos was iur chef. A very friendly n accommodating guy. Only 6 months on the job, his skills were impressive. Very entertaining indeed.

Absolutely loved this restaurant staff are amazing and friendly

Katana is a wonderful experience. If you book a teppanyaki table the entertaining chefs create a fantastic show in front of you. Our chef was called Santos and he was brilliant. The food was perfect in every way. A lovely meal and an unmissable venue if you are in Grantham.

Just fantastic great food and staff.

Staff friendly, food delicious, reasonably priced. I had the set menu and there was plenty to eat!

Amazing expeience, food was top quality, reasonably priced and overall a fun experience 🙂 Our chef Santoz was excellent and will definatley be visiting again

WoW WoW WoW what an excellent experience this evening was. Food, AMAZING service OUT OF THIS WORLD, atmosphere, lacked a little background music from Japan in my opinion, decor looked fresh. We was greated with smiles all night, the staff couldn't do enough and regularly checked everything was ok. 2 years we have lived in Grantham, and I'm personally gutted we haven't been here before. We will be back (probably without the kids) and we are already looking forward to trying more dishes. Thank you so much Katana

Our family’s first experience of Japanese food & they all absolutely loved the experience. 4 of us got the tepenyaki set menu & 1 got sushi, she said it was delicious. Our chef Santos was gracious & entertaining, really making the experience fun. Lovely fresh food from starters thru to dessert. Service from everyone was excellent. We will be back I am sure. Definitely worth a trip if you’re not local.

I feel this restaurant deserves 10,000 stars, I was particularly impressed with the service and the food. I've been to 'upscale' Japanese restaurants elsewhere and they were nowhere near the experience we had at Katana. The chicken yakisoba was so good it almost brought a tear to my eyes (no I'm not being sarcastic it was THAT good), and I really loved that we got a miso soup and an oshibori, giving our dinner a truly Japanese touch. Minna san otsukaresamadeshita and thanks again for the delicious food.

Seriously excellent dinner tonight. Decided after a day at Twin Lakes to go to Katana for Teppanyaki. Great idea! Our chef Yam was the perfect host. Funny guy and cooked our food to perfection!

A very nice place to eat with friends and family. Good customer care and food was lovely.

We had a tepeniyaki table and cheff Santos was great . The presentation of peraration of the food was fenomenal . Highly recomend . The only suggestion that deserts and starters could been more authentic to much with main meal. Will be back ,

Awesome food service and ambience last night

Our first visit, definitely won’t be our last! The food was delicious, fresh, fast and left us feeling that nice kind of full. The service was the best we have experienced in a very long time, lovely people, very attentive and knowledgeable when asked for recommendations. Overall, a fabulous way to spend an evening!!!

Great food and atmosphere. We been once and definitely will return.

Great restaurant environment, personable chef and delicious fresh healthy food. Can't wait to to back!

First time that we have japanese food as a portuguese family and we loved it. Atmosphere, decoration and service was very good. However, the one who made our evening was our Chef V! Very welcoming and entertaining, he made ourselves very comfortable and cooked us food perfectly. It was a first time but it won’t be the last! 👏

Went with friends for first time and we all had so much fun. They were fantastic with the allergies on table too. Lovely staff and we had a great time with our chef Santos who did a fantastic show with the food. Highly recommended, we will def be back.

amazing service and fab food. all of the staff were super attentive and we couldn’t have been more impressed with our chef V - made our night. had the set meal and everything was cooked to perfection. thankyou for having us !

V was the chef and he was amazing, had an amazing night! Excellent food and amazing service, definitely going back.

Santos was amazing! Entertained us all and made everyone feel a part of the experience. All service staff friendly and hospitable.

Food was amazing. Hospitality was even more amazing. We went today for dinner as it was Richard’s(our elder son’s) 17th birthday.. Chef Santosh gurung made the foods for us which was of a top notch. Chef Santosh has the best hospitality that anyone who sees him will definitely go back again. Not only hospitality Santosh is one of the best chef that we can find in the town or wider community.

Everything - perfect👌 Sushi - more than perfect 🥰

Had a very entertaining evening for a birthday meal. Our host and chef was Santos and we loved him. He put on a great show for us with his tricks and cooked an amazing feast.

Fab restaurant. Staff are very friendly and helpful. Food was amazing again.

Always love visiting here. The food is always impeccable!

The food and waiters were amazing especially Prakash and Santosh. They were very accommodating with our fasting times and the food tasted delicious. 10/10 recommend

We came to celebrate a special birthday and we were not disappointed. Our chef V, made our night so special. His skills are amazing 👏. The food was so fresh and tasted absolutely awesome. Thankyou for singing 'happy birthday' with us and presenting a lovely surprise at the end of our meal. We definitely will be returning.

we had santos the chef for teppanyaki, and he was so nice and it was so fun, the food was delicious, especially the beef teppanyaki and the eggfried rice!!

It was so fun and delicious everyone is very friendly and they even gave us a bunch of free foods for birthday 1000% recommend going there if you are into the Japan culture

Had a great birthday meal here, teppanyaki style. Our chef, Santosh was brilliant and very talented! All of the staff were great and very accommodating. The birthday slice of cake and shot were also brilliant.

M was excellent, nice staff , well decorated . Would definitely visit again .

Sushi is always great quality. In here at least a few times a month!

Great meal for our son’s birthday. Brilliant service and tasty food.

Our first time there will be going again very enjoyable meal. I will get photos next time!

It was Sunday so not many people in. The two that served us were superb. Explained the food and the sake. The food was fresh and delicious. We will be going back for a big family meal. The portion sizes were also generous. Excellent atmosphere and Japanese traditions. They also didn't mind us sharing a pudding and bringing to spoons.

Very nice cooking show 😋 fun chef. Really master. Very nice and friendly staff.

We had an amazing experience with the flames and the chef cooking the food was excellent as were all of the staff could not recommend enough 🙏🙏🙏😀😀😀😀

Great evening celebrating my son’s birthday, we had teppanyaki experience , chef V was amazing, high standards, very tasty and delicious food. All restaurant staff was great, very friendly, kind and helpful. Thanks for great evening!