Sapporo Teppanyaki Manchester Review: April 2017
With over 15 year’s experience serving Japanese cuisine in the UK, Sapporo teppanyaki Manchester which opened in 2005 and is situated just around the corner from the Museum of Science and Industry is a city centre hot spot that is worth a visit. Excited to enter this Japanese paradise, the doors opened, where a warm welcome awaited. The relaxed waiting area, lit with subdued lighting, decorated with traditional Japanese designed Asian panel Shoji screens and a wooden spinning wheel from the Kyoto region circa 1890, gave me the feeling that I had been transported into the very heart of Japan. With a clear view of the circular bar, we watched our cocktails being mixed up, while watching the bustling bar action that would be synonymous with any Japanese city bar venue.
Delivered to the table was the striking green Japanese Slipper mixed with Midori, Cointreau and lemon juice was lush and refreshing. The Kohii Martini shaken with Sake, Kahlua and strong expresso gives you a Japanese themed caffeine boost. Now our time to enter the main dining area, our cocktails were kindly taken to our place at the Teppanyaki table, by our super server Saied.
This is an exciting high energy interactive experience, where your food is cooked right there in front of you, with enthusiasm, expertise and great skill. Our master chef Tanin was a legend, had great knife skills and the ultimate confidence to perform in a pressured environment, yet delivered on both skill and entertainment levels. Tanin mixed things up and showed off his egg juggling skills and as you can see things got flaming hot, as he turned the heat up a notch or two. Ooo and you get to join in too, keep your eyes open, get ready to catch a potato slice or two, as they will be coming your way! Third time lucky, I caught one of the legendary Sapporo potatoes and felt that great sense of pride and victory moment!
The food options are plentiful and there is something on the menu for everyone’s taste. The set menus are great, where all the hard work of choosing food options had been done for you, if like me you were simply wanting to soak up the exciting energetic atmosphere. The set ‘Shogun’ menu featured BBQ ribs to start, and a main of Chicken fillet with grilled peppers, onion, chilli and soya sauce. The ‘Shojin Ryori’ which was a vegetarian offering provided a starter of vegetable spring roll, Vegetable tempura and vegetable maki sushi. For main, stuffed roasted peppers. Both mains are served alongside egg fried rice, grilled vegetables and the legendary Sapporo potatoes. Desserts included the delicious Oreo Cheesecake and the refreshing fruit salad. All the food was fresh, tasty and completely yummy.
Great service from our server Saied, skilful entertainment delivered from our Master chef Tanin and a fab evening thanks to the whole Manchester team. A unique, exciting, an interactive fun dining experience for family, friends and colleagues alike that offers Japanese food with a western twist. Pop along and get involved and immerse yourself into a Japanese cultural experience.
Thank you for reading 😊
Melanie xx
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What a lovely looking place sounds great that they have plenty of options and u get to experience seeing it all cooked in front of u.
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It was amazing and like you say a fab experience hun 🙂 x
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Yay I veggie option, I like the sound of the vegetable maki sushi especially. Glad that you had a good time 🙂 x
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Haha, yayyy indeedy Ana 🙂 Thanks lovely 🙂 x
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Sapporo Teppanyaki Manchester sounds like a fab place, especially for those who enjoy the interactive teppanyaki experience. The food seems to be delicious and there are plenty of options to choose from, which is always great x
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I could not have summed it up better myself, completely agree Sarah 🙂 x
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What a fab place! I love Japanese food so would love to try this restaurant x
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Fab place, ab food and fab staff – Loved it such a fun experience 🙂 x
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I love that the chef makes the food right in front of you, that definitely gives the evening a better entertainment. The food looks delicious as well, I love exciting menus that give you a chance to taste other culture’s cuisine (and not just sushi).
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I agree Joanna, it was so fun to watch and get involved. Yes, the menu had so much choice which was fab 🙂 x
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I love it when restaurants have the chef cooking in front of you! I find it so interesting to watch and then you know the food is fresh. Sounds like a great dining option!
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It was amazing Lottie and I would deffo go back 🙂 x
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This sounds so nice! I love seeing the food being cooked.
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Hi Hayley, yes it was nice and such a high energy kind of place 🙂 x
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The food here looks absolutely delicious and I love the live cooking stations!
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It was yummy and so much fun 🙂 x
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This looks like an awesome place! Those cocktails sound delish 🙂
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Hi Megan, awesome x20 loved the place and the cocktails were lush 🙂 x
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I love going to restaurants where you can see the food being prepared, it looks lovely!
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It was scrummy Shannon, loved it 🙂 x
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I am actually in this neck of the woods soon, will have to take the hubby for a date night! Totally my kinda place!
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Deffo you will boh hav a fab ime 🙂 x
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Haha, I love the chef’s pose! All the food looks great, it makes me want tempura now…
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Me too Emily he was fab:) Haha you will deffo hve to pop along 🙂 x
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Oh it sounds amazing – love that there are veggie options. I’m not a veggie but I find it annoying that other people should have to miss out.
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I total agree 🙂 alot of variety is key so everyone is included 🙂 x
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Those stuffed peppers look incredible! Not Manchester based, but will look at trying this if i ever visit.
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Deffo do Ashleigh. They have Sapporo in other locations too such as Liverool 🙂 x
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What a great review, the ambence, the decor and food all look phenomenal! To boot, you have now made me hungry, thanks lol! x
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Aww thankyou for the fab feedback Lindsey 🙂 x
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