Uchi Scottsdale

Reviews

• DW

  Daniel Wright

  3 days ago
  5.0
  Eating here was practically a religious experience. We opted for the Omakaze, and the selection was equal parts unexpected, exquisite and delightful. Each bite was like being touched by the divine and glimpsing heaven through the tongue. I could not recommend Uchi more highly.
• DC

  Denise Castaneda

  Oct 10, 2025
  5.0
  Celebrated our birthday at Uchi and we had a delicious dinner. Service was 10/10 by Justin and the food was absolutely phenomenal we plan to have dinner here once a month from now on. The flavors of every dish were truly out of this world. I highly recommend trying the Hama dish with the Zero dish and using hama chili dish sauce on the Zero Sen roll YUM! Chefs kiss!! 😘
• TC

  Tess Challis

  Oct 9, 2025
  5.0
  I don't know if I've ever given a restaurant five stars EACH for food, service, and ambiance, but Uchi absolutely deserves them! Our favorite server (Daren) is phenomenal, but honestly everyone there is so nice and professional and helpful. I also very much appreciate the level of care and respect for vegan dishes. Cannot recommend enough!
• RE

  Roderick Eguilos

  Oct 6, 2025
  5.0
  Exceptional dining experience at Uchi Scottsdale! From start to finish, everything was outstanding. I highly recommend the Omakase — every course was beautifully presented, fresh, and bursting with unique, balanced flavors. The staff were incredibly attentive and went above and beyond to make the experience special. A thoughtful touch — guests are offered tasting samples while waiting for their table, which set the tone for the evening. The atmosphere was cozy yet lively, energetic enough to feel fun but not so loud that you couldn’t hold a conversation. Overall, Uchi delivers an elevated yet approachable dining experience. Perfect for a date night, celebration, or anyone looking to enjoy creative Japanese cuisine done right.
• JW

  Joe W

  Sep 28, 2025
  1.0
  This place sucks. I don't blame the staff, but the poor rating is because of the food for AZ restaurant week. If this is supposed to entice me to come back well it failed miserably. The restaurant was busy, but it took 2 hours for us to be fully served and the courses didn't come out in the correct order. There was a period where for about 40 minutes no one checked on us and no food was served after we finished the uchi salad and they bussed it off of the table. I feel like most people are ranting and raving due to the fact it's expensive or is a status symbol to come here instead of actually wanting to eat good Japanese food. Maybe the normal menu is better. I attached the menu from AZ restaurant week website since I didn't take any photos of anything. You can't really see in the restaurant anyways since it's pretty dark. The uchi salad was okay, but it's butter lettuce with a salad dressing. Nothing special. The hama chili was actually swapped out for a salmon roll for the in person menu, which was a slice of salmon with some cucumber and sesame seeds on the rice outside. No soy sauce unless you ask and I didn't ask for wasabi since I was tired of waiting and was really hungry. It comes with a "white chili aioli", which basically is a flavorless white sauce. The aioli was bad. Kewpie mayo tastes WAY better. You can get better salmon rolls at like any generic sushi restaurant in the valley. Nigiri was the only thing that was good. I couldn't hear anything the busser said to me about the fish though since it was loud in the restaurant. I only recognized the albacore tuna since it's one of the only white fish. I wish they would've let me upgrade it to bluefin or something though. Pork belly was okay, but it basically was a tiny cube of meat with maybe 5 pieces of japanese potato. There was more mint garnish than pork belly. The "jasamine" cream (which is actually supposed to be spelled jasmine) and coconut tapioca are two of the worst desserts I've ever been served in a restaurant. They are both sour cream slop parfaits with flavorless crunchy stuff at the bottom. The coconut tapicoa one was inedible in my opinion since it basically tasted like vomit with a side of foot sweat. The jasmine cream wasn't much better and was also very sour. The reason we tried both is because the waiter saw us grimacing and frowning as my girlfriend and I were both trying our tapioca. He quickly swapped it out for us to try the jasmine cream when we told him it was terrible. I appreciated that, but it doesn't make the bad food taste any better. I guess I should've known what to expect when the menu hasn't even been proofread since the jasamine spelling error was still there, even though they swapped out the hama chilli for the salmon roll. I should've taken a picture of it.