Best Japanese Restaurants in Spring Branch

We love it everything, the food, the dessert the ambient everything

I took my mother here for her birthday Jan 5th, 2025 and we had an outstanding dinner experience. We went on a Sunday at 5:30pm and there wasn’t many other tables there, and throughout the entire night even when the restaurant filled up, the noise level was still low, very intimate vibe. Throughout the dinner, we had the manager constantly checking up on us to make sure everything was good, very friendly and receptive to any feedbacks we gave her. We ordered 2 drinks, 5 order of nigiris (each nigiri order comes in 2), 2 maki roll dishes, and two main dishes, and 1 dessert (got a bonus dessert because it was mom’s birthday), total came out to be $273 (without tip) and I think that’s pretty reasonable. I HIGHLY recommend the Nigiris, very fresh and delicious. For our main dishes, I ordered a Miso Black Cod and found bones in it, so be careful while consuming this dish, but overall, great seasoning and flavor. My mother main dish was the Surf Turf Saltado, sadly her tenderloin were burnt, the lobster piece was okay and seasoning was underwhelming, she didn’t like it much (they did not charge us for this, which was very kind of them). but overall, all the other dishes were great, you can see our rating below: - Komorebi (drink N/A) - 2/5 - Hanayome (drink) - 3.5/5 - Seaweed Salad - 4/5 - Maki - Flaming King Crab Roll - 4/5 - Surf & Turf Roll - 4.5/5* - Nigiri - Madai (Japanese snapper) - 4.5/5* - Hamachi (yellowtail) - 4.5/5 - Hotate (scallop) - 3/5 - A5 Wagyu (Miyazaki Prefecture) - 4/5 - Unagi (eel) - 5/5* - Miso Black Cod - 4/5 - Surf Turf Saltado - 1/5 (tenderloin was burnt) - Matchamisu - 3/5 - Special Strawberry Dessert - 4/5

This was my first time at Uchiko. It exceeded expectations. My guest & I dined Omakase style and the selections were Ahhmazing. There were only a couple that we didn’t like. When we didn’t fully enjoy our server offered replacements-OUTSTANDING service! We did a weekend happy hour which pretty quiet. Parking was easy complimentary valet or self-park. Ummm, yes of course I recommend.

We love this place and come on most date nights. Fresh food!

The exterior leading to the entrance door is stunning. With all the wood detail, you can see the build was thoughtfully planned out. Upon entering you're surrounded by wood detail and live beautiful plants and palms. Our favorite appetizers were the coconut shrimp and fried oysters. Both had so much flavor. We shared the el pescador grouper sandwich with wonderfully crispy fries and tasty sauces to accompany them. We finished with a dessert, the quattro leches, absolutely amazing! And we were given a free dessert, for our wait on the entree, of chocolate pie. This slice of pie was heaven! It was so creamy and included the flavor (and smell) of espresso! A must have! The bar area was nice and next time we will sit at the bar and view sports on the TV.