Ijji 2 Sushi & Japanese Steakhouse

Ambiance
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The place is under remodeling on the exterior. The inside is still open for business. It is casual for inside which is nice to wear stretchy pants and eat until food coma.
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Service
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There was good service. The server came back and check all the time. We had our water refilled.
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Food
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Nigiri is great and we all loved it. The rice is small portion which is great. The fish was fresh. The highlights of nigiri was below.
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Scallop
Tobiko
Squid
Salmon
Smoked salmon
Seared tuna
Tuna
Unagi
Ikura
Shooter - quail egg with tobiko
Upside down shrimp
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Rolls - there were too many that were similar and drenched with sauces. What I mean by similar is different topping, but most roll had fried shrimp, crab meat inside the middle. Too much sauce on most rolls.
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I really liked the veggie garden roll which consist of tomatoe, cucumber, avocado. No sauce
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Handroll - the seaweed was tough and hard to digest so mostly spit it back out and place it on the side of the plate.
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Sides
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- Potstickers was a favorite.
- Fried tempura was no for the veggie option.
- Edamame was really good.
- Seaweed salad was refreshing.
- Chicken skewers was a no, the chicken was fried and over cooked like jerky. Sauce tasted spicy. But good.
- Baked mussels they loved it.
- Fried calamari - meaty and tender
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Overall we the family liked it. I liked it too. It's a solid good sushi spot for buffet. We had a good experience and will be back. Hope this review helps. Thanks for reading. Have a yelptastic day.

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FOOD POISONING!!!
My wife and her daughter visited on Sunday, March 24, 2024 for lunch. They both had sushi and both got severe diarrhea afterwards. They called the restaurant later in the day to let them know and their response, "We'll look into it but nobody else has complained." How many people does it take to get sick before you kill someone???

I've dined at this location in the past and the lackluster service and now bad experience from my wife will make me never go back.

I've been here for two dinners in the last year. As a celiac, there are ways to enjoy a hibachi dinner with your friends. Ijji has taken some swings but the experience is generally a miss. Most recently, we were celebrating a birthday. We had waited about 20 minutes for our reservation and then were taken to a table. Our party of 7 took up most of the table, and the waitress had already brought our waters and started to take our orders when they rushed in another small party to be seated with us. This created a significant delay in getting things started for the table.

During the ordering process, I explained that I was gluten free. They said that my food would be made in the back and brought to me during the meal, which was totally fine. They brought out salads and miso soup to everyone at the table, including me. When I asked if they were gluten free they said that they didn't know so I just shouldn't eat them. Next, they brought out my entire meal while the rest of the table was still eating salads and the chef had not even shown up yet. So, here I was eating by my lonesome (we all know that these meals are best when they are still hot), waiting for the chef to come cook for everyone else. The timing was really terrible.

Once the show got rolling, our large party announced that we had a birthday. We were mostly adults with just two teens....however, there was a very small child in the other party and the entire show was focused on this child with very little attention paid to the rest of us. When they did go around and offer everyone the spray of sake to the mouth, the chef offered it to the teens as well and seemed confused when we told them that the kids weren't going to be drinking at dinner. The show was lackluster (particularly given that a member of a party used to be a Teppanyaki chef himself) and felt very rushed - probably because we started late due to their seating snafu.

At the end of the night, they did sing happy birthday and offer everyone dessert. They told me they had a special dessert for me. Instead of checking if any of the ice cream or mochi options were gluten free (mochi generally is), they brought me orange slices and doubled down on the disappointment.

Unfortunately, my first experience was very similar. Short of someone else requesting dinner here for their birthday, I don't see myself coming back for hibachi at this location. I did give it 3 stars because the food tastes good, but without the fun of the show, it wasn't worth the cost.

Fast service great ambiance , staff is great food was delicious! I've been going for years and they never disappoint.

Food was amazing. The ambiance was good. The service was just ok. Our waitress wasn't doing much. The manger was doing more work. She was sitting at the bar next to some guy most of the time while we were here. So only 3 stars.

Ijji 2 is a solid 4 star experience rounded up for the novelty and fun you can enjoy here with the right group.

I took my son for his very first hibachi experience and it was a blast. He absolutely loved watching the live show right before his eyes. Our chef was particularly engaging with him and provided lots of extra attention to make sure he had fun. He loved the fire tricks and the "Baby sake" the most. The whole experience took about 30 minutes from the start of cooking, and it worked out well for us.

On the food, it's what you'd expect. You choose your protein(s) and your meal comes with soup, salad with ginger carrot dressing, shrimp or squid appetizer (3 shrimp or a few pieces of squid), hibachi veggies, steamed rice, which you can upgrade to fried rice (+$5), and dessert. I ordered the chicken with shrimp app and my son had the kids steak ($20) with squid app, and we both added the fried rice. The veggies were great, nicely seasoned and not overcooked, with a fresh crunch. After a dip or dressing in the ginger sauce, they were fantastic. The chicken and steak were both tasty but a little tough. That said, the portion sizes are nice and plenty to fill you up, and the service is friendly and attentive.

Being real, this is a pricey meal and I think you're largely paying for the show. The two meals with fried rice upgrade came out to $75 with a tip. The price of the fried rice really threw me off because it used to be part of the standard experience. Based on what my son eats, for the price, next time I will choose an upgraded set meal with a bit more variety and share it. That way we get better quality and will enjoy it a bit more.

All in all, a decent experience, especially with great friends or family. I never thought the upgraded meals at these types of restaurants were worth it, but it seems here they absolutely are because you'll get better quality

My son came to town from Vegas and we decided to celebrate Christmas/New Year's late. This is always the place he chooses to have dinner when we can afford it lol. Tonight we just walked in without Colleen I have an reservation. It wasn't that busy.

One thing that kind of shocked me is when my wife and my son's girlfriend ordered teriyaki/a bocce dinner. The server asked if they wanted white rice or fried rice. Both girls wanted fried rice and there was an up charge for five dollars each person. Trevor didn't tell us. I mean when you order $46 dinner, a little tiny cup of fried rice shouldn't cost five bucks. The second thing is, we were a party of six. And the server put an 18% gratuity on the check. I know this is customary with eight people I've never seen it with six people. I had to ask for the menu, and sure enough there were some small sentence stating six people had 18 percent gratuity

What we ordered:

Two x Cadillac margarita

Baked mussels
Calamari
Assorted sushi
Assorted nigiri

18 piece sashimi dinner
Chicken teriyaki dinner
Hibachi steak and chicken dinner

Included was ice cream so we had a variety of chocolate vanilla strawberry and green tea

Dinner was quite good. The fish portions are actually quite generous. I've been to two mini all you can eat sushi places where the fish is paper thin. This is not the case here.

Still a favorite for all you can eat sushi.

I love Sushi as much as I love Pizza, so forgive me if my reviews seem repetitive in variety this month.

There were a few things though that I thought would've made our experience here at Ijji 2 better this past weekend. For example, not everyone here knows their rolls.

We had a server, Zion who himself would do a remarkable job citing the rolls and offering recommendations but we figured it were maybe the bussers who we ended up asking on one occasion that weren't sure what we got when they handed our rolls to us. The one guy would say San Francisco a few times for a few of the rolls, but it was okay. They were still delightful to eat! It serves one best to keep track. Our group ordered at least 12 rolls!

I generally have a Godzilla or King Kong Roll at whatever Sushi restaurant I go to when available and while I did here, I wasn't too impressed with either having ordered both. The batter wasn't as crispy and crunchy as I hoped for. I also wasn't a fan of the baked mussels. Not recommended. The flavor was lacking, it somewhat bland and I thought it had too much of a mayo flavor on their choice sauce.

Some of my favorite rolls however ended up being the Hawaii Roll which had a unique flavor with Asparagus, Cucumber and Mango topped with Tuna, Avocado and crushed Macadamia, the Jamaica Hot Roll which one could say is a little sweet having Strawberry and Kiwi in them, but rounded out with Spicy crab. The Sugoyaki roll has a unique flavor for a roll with Beef in it and finally any roll you'd call Tahoe is a classic. Crystal Shrimp, Cream Cheese and Avocado. It's simply a decent, roll. The portions were fairly large and filling, I'm usually a fan of smaller rolls, but today totally acceptable! I was hungry! LOL

I recall the environment being pretty normal in volume, plenty of space, comfortable seating and despite construction happening outside, still fairly busy.

All in all, I'd try them again in hopes of the next experience nailing all the high notes I usually look for in eating sushi. If you're looking for some decent size rolls with unique flavors, try ijji 2 one time!

We chose to do the AYCE sushi menu, and ordered a bunch of nigiri, seared albacore, tuna, eel, salmon roe, tobaki, some hand rolls and a few regular rolls like dragon and snow. I think overall freshness was middle, not the worst in Reno but not the best, I prefer Pisces, miyabi, kuma & ohana. The seaweed wrapping was super super dry and the rice for the handrolls wasn't great, hard to eat actually it was so dry. Usually when I go to hand roll spots like kazunori the hand rolls are so buttery soft and melt in your mouth. The miso soup was too salty for my preferences. Price is super reasonable $33 per person for dinner!
Certainly the best value with AYCE is the nigiri, the rolls weren't great and are a worse crab meat and rice to actual fish ratio. Do not order any tropical type rolls, there were a few that had a weird strawberry sauce super sweet that didn't pair well with the sushi overall. Service was excellent and price is super fair! I think the quality needs a little attention and then ijji will be fantastic, especially good for bigger groups.

8/27/2023

A perfect week with a perfect ending of a delicious dinner..

Came later in the dinner hour- after the son left to go bs k over the hill..

So glad I have my list of items to order..

Efficient and fast with the plates..

I think today's visit- got the biggest hamachi Kama I've seen...

Everything was spot on especially when one skips lunch!..