The best restaurants serving Japanese food in Norwich East of England

Went here last night to celebrate mine and my partner’s anniversary. I booked a few weeks prior for 7:15pm but they changed the booking for 7pm the day before. Luckily I noticed on the email and asked if it could be changed back to which they got a bit funny about on the phone. I know it was only 15mins but I can see in other reviews this has happened before! They changed it by a few hours so please make sure you check this! The guy behind the bar wasn’t that friendly and didn’t show us to our table. We waited 15 minutes and still didn’t get a menu, saw another couple come in after us and got a menu straight away. I asked if I could have one and got snapped at a few times to wait a minute. The waiters weren’t that friendly and mixed up some orders. But the the food is absolutely amazing! If it wasn’t for that, we wouldn’t have had a nice time coming here. When we went to pay the man behind the till suddenly changed his attitude by acting very friendly (guessing for a tip) but due to the service from him we didn’t give him one. If we could of just tripped the chefs we would of. I hope the mannerism of the waiters towards their paying customers change as it wasn’t a very nice experience especially when our bill nearly came to £100.

Wonderfully cozy and intimate restaurant which serves delicious Japanese food

The sushi is really good and affordable, and for takeout sushi this would have been 5 stars! I definitely recommend this place for the food and have previously rated it 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ However, I’ve had to take out one star because of the dine-in experience. The service was good but the seating area could use a deep clean or even redecorating. Unfortunately it felt a bit dirty and worn - the table, the floors, and even the walls. I hope you can take this as constructive criticism though, because I won’t let this stop me from eating at Matane Sushi and if the cleanliness was improved it would take my review back up to 5 stars :)

If you have experience with real authentic asian food give this a miss as you will be disappointed. Duck don was soggy with standard hoisin sauce. Dumplings were well cooked but flavourless, could have done with a kicking sauce. It felt overpriced for such bland boring dishes. Better options to be had in the market.

The price seems to have risen tenfold service was poor we had to find someone to order drinks as no one asked us. With the COVID way of ordering you knew what you were spending and getting what you liked now it's a gamble and you are stuck paying for stuff you don't like. Service 1 out of 5 Food 2 out of 5 Price 1 out of 5 Atmosphere 2 out of 5

Came here recently for bubble tea with friends. Ordering and payment is done on electronic panels, and there's lots of cool choices on offer. Service is pretty fast, and the prices are okay for the size. They taste decent too. Overall, a fairly happy experience!