Matsuri Restaurant

The sushi bowls (as this is basically the only thing on the menu) are with average taste and quality. Hence, the price felt expensive, also taking into account the rather “poor” restaurant

A small authentic place in the middle of Frankfurt. Loved the atmosphere. If you get jokes and dark humor, it's the place to go since the chef is quite a character. Food was really authentic. A real japanese experience. No Philadelphia cheese or mayo ingredients. Raw fish only. Great quality raw tuna. Loved it! Would definitely come back and recommend to others. If you want to experience something different than "western japanese restaurants" it's the place to go.

Love this fish restaurant, made us feel like in Japan.
Very clean, cozy Japanese music and good quality of fish.
The chief made me think of the Japanese cooking TV show, who is full of passion for his job.

You have to have some humor yourself to appreciate the swagger of the chef.
It is someone who respects and loves the food he prepares and hope whoever eats it feel the same way. He spends time ‘teaching’ every table that wasabi and soy sauce should not be mixed together for a better experience. I personally enjoyed him doing so as it created some more communication between the chef and customer.
Not to mention the million hand drawn posters emphasizing that he sells only raw fish, no avocado no vegetarian etc. which cracked me up so badly ( if you look close enough there are tiny spelling mistakes everywhere🤣)
One last thing, very nice nostalgic music!

A small restaurant in Frankfurt that deserves more recognition. There seems to be only one chef who cares great care of the quality and taste of the food. As there is one chef only, a long time is required for the food to come out, yet the quality of food made us forget the waiting. He has great humour, and explains to us how to best enjoy the food in an authentic Japanese style. This is the BEST Japanese restaurant in Frankfurt!

Authentic sushi restaurant serving top quality raw fish. Casual atmosphere run by an eccentric chef from Japan who will tell you that they do not serve 'avocado rolls' and that you should not put your wasabi in soy sauce. If you can't deal with that, don't go here and ruin it for the people who appreciate Japanese food done the proper way!

Returned there for the first time since the lockdowns, and still hands down the best Chirashi in town. Chef is always a delight to hang around and will gladly share his masterful knowledge of sushi etiquette.
Hidden gem !

Very authentic - too authentic for some, it seems. Expect a Japanese izakaya and real sushi/sashimi. No vegetarian options, no noodles, etc. And no Western-style sushi (e.g. california rolls) either. As the chef will tell you on the phone, and at least half a dozen signs outside and inside the restaurant will tell you (rather rudely): raw fish only (plus appetizers, sides and desserts).

The outside of the restaurant isn't very inviting, and only fans of traditional izakayas will enjoy the inside.

The restaurant is run by the chef and his wife only, and the chef is rather slow at preparing sushi (not just because of he's carefully preparing high quality dishes), so expect long waiting times (as indicated in the menu). The place wasn't even half full and the dishes took a long time to arrive.

They're both friendly, but it seems a lot of people expect dishes that they don't offer, and they're seriously fed up with it, it seems. Expect to be lectured in many ways, if you can't convince the chef that you know proper Japanese sushi/sashimi and how to eat it. I told him in Japanese that I used to live in Japan, and that was the end of that for me.

The food is prepared with a lot of love, and the fish is of high quality. And as I said, very authentically prepared. But also rather pricey.

Just the sushi rice confused me a bit, it had a rather strong sweet-sour flavor (instead of being just lightly vinegared), which was very weird and not authentic at all, at least not in my experience in the years I spent in Japan. Others wondered about the sweetness of the rice as well. It was also colder than I ever received my rice, even though I arrived at opening time.

Honestly, I think he's a hobby cook but surely not a sushi chef trained in Japan.

All in all, I'm not sure I'd recommend a visit here to anyone who hasn't been in Japan several times. But those who have, and don't mind the lecturing (in a rather rude voice - probably due to the language barrier), and have no other source of authentic sushi/sashimi, it's definitely worth a visit.

Last minute add: the chef can get very angry if you have atypical requests (as per Japanese customs) - not at me, but a couple that obviously hasn't been in Japan ever, made a request (I think for soy sauce even though the dish was already flavored) that made him quite loud. Not pleasant for the other guests either. Thus I'll remove another star.

Aaand I saw the chef put some food into his mouth while preparing sushi, with the same bare hands. So hygiene isn't up to standard as well, neither in Japan nor Germany. There goes another star and the small chance of my return here.