I was unfortunate enough to visit Sakura for their Sunday afternoon buffet. I have visited various Japanese restaurants and have always found the cuisine to be light and tasty.
The restaurant is very nice to look at, with a beautiful large fish tank, but the main thing you come for is the food. It is not genuine Japanese, but a watered down version mingled with Cantonese favourites. The food on the hotplate was cold. When queried, they looked in and, with a shrug, replied that it was because it was near the air con vent - this was on a cold January afternoon!
When we didn’t want anything else and asked to pay for the drinks and leave, we were treated appalling, kept waiting and given a bill of £15 for tea and a small jug of sake.
If you want to try genuine Japanese food at a reasonable price, Samsi in Manchester or Wilmslow will never let you down.