Tokyo Season is the best quality and best value sushi restaurant in Manchester. It also does other delicious authentic Japanese dishes, but lets talk about sushi... Their menu is extensive, with over 100 variations, and they also have a half price sushi menu, available anytime until 10pm. This consists of about 20 dishes, including some of the best sushi I have ever tasted. You need to have the salmon and tuna sushi, which is £1.60 for two pieces! Also good is the sweet shrimp and king prawn, for only £2. The salmon roe is more expensive, but still cheaper than anywhere else. The fish is the freshest possible and comes served on an authentic Japanese platter with a compartment for soy sauce, wasabi and ginger. You can afford to keep ordering, which is exactly what I do on every visit. The restaurant is smart, and feels much posher than most of the places in the oriental area of Manchester, which it is on the border of. The prices though are unaffected as its one of the cheapest around. It's a very professional place and would be suitable for anything from business lunches to parties. You will be served by very pretty waitresses in beautiful oriental dress and treated to some Japanese pop music videos on their DVD player. Japanese art lines the walls. This place is really worth a visit, and deserves my third 5 star rating, its one of my favourite places ever, let alone in Manchester. read more

Tokyo Season - http://www.tokyoseason.com/index.html - Japanese Near Me - Manchester, XGM

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I've been here so many times in one week that I've exhausted the menu! The atmosphere is great. .there are even private quarters where you can slide some paper doors to segregate yourself off from the main dining area.. As for the food..they offer a very good cheap and cheerful sushi menu with high quality tuna sashimi..and some really good ramen dishes... The plum wine (which we drank the restaurant dry on) is tasty but pricey starting from £22 a bottle. .but to be fair it probably costs them a lot just too import it. The sake is a cheaper option from half flasks from £5 . I would recommend this place for someone who wants a change from cheap sushi places such as wasabi..oh and the sushi is half price if you pay by cash! read more

Average food and a little bit pricy... The atmosphere is ok but there aren't many kinds of food on the menu. read more

Well hello little hidden away joy of Japanese food delight! Seriously, you wouldn't really notice this place on Portland Street with every other restaurant competing with their own signs plastered all over the buildings next to their own. As a big fan of sushi and Japanese food, I was so excited when my brother and his girlfriend suggested going here for my Mum's birthday. The venue is small but not quaint. It welcomes you with decor from a Japanese home; bamboo, wooden wall dividers (to seperate you from other guests if you wish!), lanterns and dark wooden beams and light painted walls. The tables and chairs are modern and chic and the waitress we had was dressed in a kimono! The menu is multi-lingual and the price of the sushi sharing platter is quite fair! Did I mention it's also deliciously fresh with decorative wasabi and ginger? YUM! We ordered this with some miso soup to start. Our waitress was new and when she brought over the soup to place it on the table, her tray slipped! If it wasn't for my 63 year old Dad's lightning bolt reflexes, he would have had a very scolded lap at this point! Even so, the waitress and manager could not have been more apologetic. We were given complementary side dishes and melon slices at the end of our meal alongwith taking off the 10% charge for having a table with more than 5 people. Their customer service is A* and they made sure we were happy with every course throughout our meal and the food was delicious and clearly fresh. Looking forward to returning to this place! read more

Not authentic in the least. Sushi platter came with only nigri, not a single slice of sashimi. Nor was their any tuna included either as nigri or sashimi. Most if not all pieces had been sitting refrigerated for sometime. Nori was limp and difficult to bite through. Green tea was poor and from powder not leaf. Not even hot. (Goodness sake even Wagamama can get green tea right). Miso soup was acceptable. Staff was very friendly but Chinese music videos were very annoying. There are better choices in Manchester. read more

I love Sushi. Love it, love it, and love it. I am not even a sushi snob; I'll happily munch down those pathetic little packets you get for a quid in Tesco. But obviously I much prefer fresh sushi, it's just so tasty. So when you find a place that does great, fresh, tasty sushi for a bloody good price, it INSTANTLY becomes my new favorite place. For this reason, Tokyo Season is my new favorite place. Small, usually fairly quiet and within a good walking distance from the town centre, Tokyo Season has got it all. It feels undiscovered so you feel like you're really getting a good deal, it also feels authentically Japanese. The waitress in dressed in traditional Japanese clothing and you can watch the sushi chefs delicately cutting pieces of fish with oversized knives. It is almost like a show, you feel satisfied with the experience before you have even tasted any food. Having said this, your (my) excitement levels reach a new high when the food arrives, beautifully presented on quaint half tray half bowl-like platters. In addition this place not only has a fantastic set meal menu, starting from £6, but it also has a half-price sushi menu. That is right half-price sushi. They put a time limit on this deal, however the time limit includes pretty much all day every day which just sounds too good to be true, but it isn't. It's real! I've been there! AND I LOVE IT! read more

Wandering down Portland Street on the way to lunch at the (in?)famous Tai Wu, me and my girlfriend spied a sign outside Tokyo Season that said "50% off Sushi!". "Yes"! We thought, coming from the Sushi wastelands of York, "cheap Sushi in Chinatown"! We wandered down the stairs into the basement restaurant to be met by a thoroughly enthusiastic young woman wearing a kimono. We enquired about the 50% off sushi and were told that it was indeed on (Noon-9pm, Mon-Fri). We were seated in a wonderfully authentic(? probably, I've never been to Japan) booth where we had to take our shoes off and sit on a sub floor table. Very nice touch. Now, as you can tell by my four star score, not everything was perfect. Service took longer than most sushi places, around twenty minutes, and it was bloomin' freezing. Also, after ordering, and waiting for fifteen minutes, we were told by the very enthusiastic waitress that on bank holidays (which it was) that it was not in fact 50% off, but 40% off with cash and 30% with card. This was annoying as we'd specifically asked if it was 50% off and went here on this basis, but it was too late to change at this point and we were hungry. The sushi arrived in a very decorative platter, and my girlfriend and I, rather bemused and cold, were completely blown away by it's quality. I was already writing a two star review in my head before it came but it was just that good. All bad was forgotten, and even though it was pricey, it was still worth the £17 for two drinks and about 10 pieces of sushi. Loo: It was a little wonky, but seemed fine Overall: You should go, especially with cash, not on a bank holiday. The tuna sushi is great too. read more

Tokyo Season - Japanese Near Me - Manchester, XGM

Yuzu is certainly the best Japanese restaurant in town. Unfortunately, they are expensive, their menu is very limited, and the atmosphere is not... convivial? I find myself taking three trips to Tokyo Season for every one trip to Yuzu, especially for lunch. Jpop music videos on the flat screen, half price sushi specials, and *piles* of good, honest Japanese food, executed well with no fuss. Every bite is wonderful and I'm never disappointed when I see the bill. Get the yakisoba, it's satisfying and smoky, and more than big enough for two. read more

The food here is mediocre. They have discounted sushi but I wouldnt pay full price for the quality offered. The salmon was a strange colour. There are much better japanese restaurants around. read more

Not sure of yelp in the UK is not efficient or that I'm just having bad luck. First of all, after having the experienced this place, I re-read all the reviews which were posted about this place (all of which has at least 5 stars) and it looked like the same person wrote all of them. With that being said, it's not the worst sushi but definitely not worth 4 or 5 stars. For the price and ambiance, I would say its worth 3.0. read more

First of all, a place where the sign is falling off from the first impression does not give a good vibe!! As I walked in, the staff was not attentative. Had to pay extra 10% for sitting in the closed areas. so the experience starts...my friend orders a so called bibimba! When it came out, it was just chilly hot, no taste, no flavour, just hot and spicy. We ordered some sushi, to my annoyance, the soy sauce that came in the Kikoman bottle was not authentic. This is false advertising and should not be done. My food was tasteless too! I don't think I will be going back again. We mentioned about my friend food and they took it back and added more rice! The staff could barely speak the lingo and was not very friendly at all. Add to this we could not pay by card if its under £15.00! What kind of restaurant does not take card payment for less than £15.00? Greggs even takes card for 3!! Its a joke. read more

Me and my boyfriend are on a constant hunt for the best Japanese restaurant we can find outside of Japan after visiting the islands last year. London has it's fairly overpriced competition but the winner for now at least, is Tokyo Season. The sushi menu is impressive, there's lots of choice here so you won't feel like you could have had the same thing in your Boots meal deal. The sushi is really good too! Warm rice and crispy seaweed, even the vegetarian ones never felt like they were lacking anything. Definitely a bargain. The place is well kept, not intimidating but definitely neat and you don't have to make the awkward compromise of sitting in a dank basement to enjoy good food. It's light and airy, it was quiet when we went at lunch but I can imagine it would be more full in the evenings. Appetisers were wonderful, fat and juicy gyoza, flavourful miso soup, pretty authentic ramen, even the drinks were good. No token nod to green tea but a full selection of teas and beers, even Calpis which was an instant winner. Couldn't have asked for more, the staff were polite and not intrusive. Service was quick without being rushed. Will definitely be back for more. read more

The sushi here is AMAZING! so fresh and tasty- the BEST bit is the half price range at lunch time :) Pig out for £6 and throw in a nice jasmine green tea with free re-fill. Can't fault it, plus the staff are very nice and proud of their restaurant- so they should be mmmmmmm sushi :) read more

Although the place pretends to be Japanese the Chinese staff are not friendly (TV Chinese music and they talk Chinese not Japanese), no quality food, pricy and not recommended. They try to cheat the bill and insisted on cash payment. read more

The foods pretty good and not too expensive but the service is really slow so don't expect to get what you want fast or in order. It's good for students who have times but for the ordinary working person they may want to go somewhere else if they have to get somewhere. Overall not bad and I would recommend the sharing platter or the pancake. read more

The food here is rubbish indeed, the flavour and quality of the ingredient have no comparison to the Japanese food I tasted before

In fairness it was early on a Monday night, but for an empty restaurant, the serving took so long and tasted far from fresh. Sparkling water from a (bad) machine. Fresh crab sushi was a nice starter. Chefs special tapinyaki plate was boring, nothing stood out or tasted like it should. Also cc machine not working. read more

Manchester is lacking in really good Japanese food options, so I was overjoyed when a friend recommended Tokyo Season, stating the food and service were top notch. Upon visiting the restaurant I would say I agree with half of that statement. Four of us visited the restaurant on a quiet Wednesday evening and the staff failed to cope with the four or five tables which needed serving. On two occasions we stated our desire to order extra dishes and the waitress never returned to take our additional orders. On top of this when we came to pay the bill we were told the supposedly half price Sushi option was only available if you paid cash, a fact that was barely advertised either on the menu or on the huge sign outside. We complained about this and a compromise was reached, but can't help feeling that there is some seriously misleading advertising going on. Despite all of this I probably be would revisit, and that is a testament to the quality of the food. The Sushi is as good as anywhere in Manchester and the satay, sashimi, katsu and vegetable tempura were all delicious. If they could sort the service out this would be a great rather than good dining experience. read more

The sashimi here tastes great!... It's the best Japanese Restaurant in Manchester. The atmosphere is very relaxed and it's a good place to come for a nice quite meal with friends. read more

my first impression of the place is not very good. Staff not very friendly. Food below aveage and tasteless. Not even proper Soy sauce used for the Sushi.. IF they can't even put the proper SOY SAUCE that is a no no in my eyes. tut tut tut.Especially when the soy sauce which is in the original Kikkoman bottle does not contain the real stuffFALSE advertising. also cannot take card payment below £15!!!!!! for a restaurantthis is a no no!! read more

Worst Japanese food I have ever had. The quality of sashimi bowl is really poor, seafood is not fresh and rice is not even sushi rice. Udon is so broken apart, none of a piece is longer than a finger, and it's very salty. It does not worth the price I paid because of the poor food quality. read more

Ive been here twice, and loved it both times. I think the idea of the booths with the sliding doors are brilliant