Ichiban Japanese Cuisine Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to Ichiban Japanese Cuisine, where culinary artistry meets authentic Japanese flavors! Located in Cincinnati, this lively spot offers a warm and inviting atmosphere perfect for casual dining or hearty gatherings.
Ichiban's menu is a delightful journey through Japanese cuisine, showcasing an array of dishes that cater to all palates. From vibrant sushi rolls and savory ramen to extensive vegan and vegetarian options, there's something for everyone. The restaurant’s commitment to quality ingredients ensures freshness in every bite.
Highlights include:
- Happy Hour Specials featuring unique drink pairings
- Wheelchair accessibility and kid-friendly dining options
- Outdoor seating for a relaxed al fresco experience
- A full bar with expertly crafted cocktails
Whether you dine in or opt for delivery, Ichiban promises an unforgettable culinary experience!
All Night Happy Hour
Japanese Tea
Green Jasmine, Oolong
Fountain Drinks
Coke, Diet Coke Sprite
Japanese Soda Bottle
Ginger Ale
Perrier
Ice Tea
Juice
Pineapple Orange, Cranberry
Milk Tea
Taro Strawberry Original, Match, Thai tea
Fruit Tea
Pineapple Strawberry, Lychee
Aves Del Sur Merlot
Monte Oton Grenache
Stump Jump Shiraz
Butterfield Station Chardonnay
Avanti Pinot Grigio
Zonin Moscato
Ozeki Hot
Ozeki Dry
Ozeki Nigori
Fuji Apple
Lychee Sake
Tozai Snow Maiden
Asahi
Miller Ultra
Bud Light
Miller Lite
Budweiser
Rhinegeist
Coors Light
Sam Adams
Corona
Sapporo Light
Great Lakes
Sapporo Can
High Noon
Blue Moon
White Claw
Seasonal Beer
Heineken
Stella Artois
Kirin
Tsingtao
Kirin Light
Yuengling
Modelo
Fat Tire
Madtree
Plantform IPA
Sapporo
Truth
Lychee Martini
Saketini
Cosmopolitan
Apple Martini
Bahama Mama
French Martini
Chocolate Martini
Mai Tai
Mussels Vegetable Soup
Fresh mussels with Asian greens in shitake mushroom broth.
House Salad
With tomato ginger dressing.
Miso Soup
Seaweed, scallions and diced silky tofu.
Seafood Soup
Mussels, shrimp, crab meat and seasonal vegetables.
Seaweed Salad
Four varieties of seaweed with sesame seeds.
Dragon Ball
Spicy tuna and crunch, rolled in avocado, masago crunch.
Kani Salad
Spicy or regular crab meat with cucumber and masago crunch.
Octopus Salad
Salmon Tartare
Marinated fresh salmon with avocado.
Squid Salad
Tuna Tataki
Seared tuna marinated in sweet and sour served with ponzu sauce.
Yellowtail Jalapeno
Yellowtail and jalapeno with ponzu sauce.
Age Tofu
Lightly fried bean curd with brown sauce.
Baby Octopus
Beef Asparagus Roll
Beef Negimaki
Scallion cream cheese wrapped in sliced beef with teriyaki sauce.
Chicken TatsutaAge
Japanesestyle deepfried chicken.
Crab Puff
Edamame
Fried Calamari
Breaded, deepfried squid served with Asian vegetables and wasabi aioli.
Fried Octopus Dumplings
Green Bean Fries
Fried Oyster
Hotategai
Scallop in a ginger sauce.
GomaAe
Steamed mixed vegetables with sesame sauce.
HamachiKama
Grilled yellowtail collar with ponzu sauce.
Ikamara
Grilled squid with ginger sauce.
Lettuce Wraps
Sauteed chicken and vegetables wrapped with lettuce.
Pork Gyoza
Panfried pork dumplings.
Sake Mussels
Mussels with Spanish onions, mushroom and parsley in sake garlic butter.
Mix Tempura
Lightly fried shrimp and vegetables with tempura sauce.
Shumai
Shrimp vegetable steamed dumplings.
Vegetable Spring Roll
Fried, crispy rolls stuffed with cabbage, green bean, onions, mushrooms, carrots, tofu vermicelli.
Vegetable Tempura
Fried vegetables with tempura sauce.
Chirashi
Assorted fish over sushi rice.
Love Boat
12 pieces sushi, 15 pieces sashimi and 3 rolls.
Sashimi Dinner
12 pieces sashimi and 1 tuna roll.
Sashimi Sampler
12 pieces sashimi.
Sushi Dinner
6 pieces sushi 1 dragon roll.
Sushi Sampler
10 pieces sushi.
Sushi Sashimi Combo
3 pieces sushi, 9 pieces sashimi 1 California roll.
Yummy Boat
12 pieces sashimi, 9 pieces sushi and 2 rolls.
Cherry Blossom Roll
A flowershaped roll with a salmon avocado filled center a colorful outer layer of tuna, garnished with flying fish roe wrapped in pink soy paper.
Cincinnati Roll
Shrimp tempura cucumber, topped with spicy tuna crunch.
Crunch Munch
Crab stick avocado inside, topped with shrimp, crunch spicy mayo.
Godzilla Roll
Tuna, salmon, white fish avocado deep fried, topped with spicy mayo, eel sauce, smelt roe scallion.
Harvest Pumpkin
Cucumber avocado inside, then deepfried topped with tempura pumpkin spicy mayo.
Hurricane Roll
Tuna, cream cheese jalapeno, deepfried, topped with spicy crab, spicy mayo eel sauce.
Laughing Buddha Roll
Shrimp tempura, asparagus avocado topped with tuna, crab stick, spicy mayo, eel sauce, finished with tempura flakes, masago and scallions.
Tempura Lobster Roll
Tempura lobster, mixed greens, cucumber avocado wrapped in soy paper with mayo.
Lion King
Avocado, cucumber crab stick inside, topped with baked spicy salmon, masago eel sauce fish, glazed with honey mayo.
Million Dollar Roll
Tuna, salmon avocado inside, topped with spicy yellowtail crunch.
Phoenix Roll
Lobster, spicy crab stick asparagus inside, topped with avocado, spicy mayo, chili sauce eel sauce.
Pink Lady
Shrimp tempura, cream cheese, avocado spicy tuna rolled with pink soy paper.
Red Double
Shrimp tempura avocado inside, topped with crab stick, crunch, spicy mayo.
Pink Panther
Spicy crab, cream cheese, avocado, shrimp wrapped in soy paper, deepfried and topped with spicy mayo and eel sauce.
Seared Scallop
Avocado crab stick, topped with seared scallop, masago, scallion eel sauce.
Sea Treasure
Shrimp tempura, crab stick, cucumber avocado inside, topped with tempura salmon, spicy mayo, masago scallions.
Spicy Girl
Spicy salmon, avocado crunch, topped with salmon, avocado spicy mayo.
Tuna Lover
Spicy tuna topped with tuna avocado.
Honey Bee
King crab crunch topped with salmon, tuna, shrimp, white fish, glazed with honey mayo.
Beef Filet Robatayaki
Chicken Breast Robatayaki
Duck Breast Robatayaki
Scallop Robatayaki
Shrimp Robatayaki
Kamo Udon
Roast duck, wheat noodles, mushrooms and Asian vegetables in vegetable broth.
Spicy Pad Thai
Chicken, Vegetable or Tofu Beef or Shrimp 1.00 Rice noodles, egg, bean sprouts, scallions with peanuts.
Ramen
Roast pork, egg noodles, scallions, bean sprouts, green vegetables and egg in a pork broth or miso broth.
Sukiyaki
Thinly sliced beef, vermicelli noodles, silky tofu, scallions, shitake mushrooms and napa cabbage in a sweet soy broth.
Tempura Soba Or Udon
2 pcs shrimp and 3 pcs vegetable tempura in vegetable broth.
Yaki Soba Or Udon
Vegetable, Chicken or Tofu Beef or Shrimp 1.00 Japanese stirfried soba or udon noodles.
Beef Or Shrimp Fried Rice
Plain Fried Rice
Vegetable Or Chicken Fried Rice
Beef Teriyaki
Charbroiled strip loin steak with Ichiban teriyaki sauce.
Chicken Scallops
Charbroiled teriyaki chicken breast panfried ginger scallions.
Chicken Teriyaki
Charbroiled chicken with Ichiban teriyaki sauce.
Curry Katsu Don
Chicken or pork Deepfried breaded pork loin or chicken bread with Japanese curry sauce on a bed rice.
Katsu Don Chicken Or Pork
Deepfried breaded pork loin or chicken cooked with eggs and Spanish onion on a bed of rice.
Salmon Teriyaki
Charbroiled Atlantic salmon with Ichiban teriyaki sauce.
Sauteed Mixed Vegetables
Asian green vegetables with sesame sauce.
Seafood Tempura
Shrimp, fish, crab stick, scallop and vegetables.
Tempura Dinner
Tempura fried tiger shrimp and assorted vegetables, served with tempura sauce.
Unagi Don
BBQ eel over rice.
Main Menu
Sake
Mio Sparking Sake
Sparkling sake lively and delicately fruity.
Sho Chiku Bai Nigori
Unfiltered to preserve the fresh, crisp flavor of rice.
Sho Chiku Bai, Ginjo Sake
Delicate, silky smooth and dry with fruity aroma.
Peach Soju
Original Soju
Melon Soju
Soju
HalfPrice Menu
Tuna Maguro
Escolar Mutsu
Albacore Shiro Maguro
Salmon Sake
Yellowtail Hamachi
Striped Bass Suzuki
Kanpachi
Red Snapper
Smoked Salmon
Mackerel Saba
Eel Unagi
Squid Ika
Octopus Tako
Shrimp Ebi
Sweet Shrimp Amaebi
Scallop Hotategai
Alaskan King Crab Kani
Crab Stick KaniKama
Surf Clam
Egg Tamago
Smelt Roe Masago
Add Quail Egg 0.50
Salmon Roe Ikura
Add Quail Egg 0.50
Flying Fish Roe Tobiko
Add Quail Egg 0.50
Sea Urchin Roe Uni
Add Quail Egg 0.50
Avocado Roll
Asparagus Tempura
Asparagus Roll
Veggie Roll
Avocado, aspargus, cucumber, and kampyo
Inari Sushi
Sushi rice wrapped in sweetened tofu skin.
Kampyo Roll
Japanese sweet squash.
Cucumber Roll
Sweet Potato
Oshinko Roll
AAC Roll
Asparagus, avocado cucumber.
Yellowtail Scallion Roll
Spicy Yellowtail Roll
Yellowtail avocado inside, topped with spicy mayo
Tuna Roll
Salmon Roll
Eel Cucumber
Eel, cucumber, eel sauce
Spicy Tuna
ground tuna, crunch, spicy mayo
Spicy Shrimp
Shrimp, cucumber, spicy mayo
Spicy Scallop
Scallop, avocado, spicy mayo
Spicy Salmon
Salmon, avocado, spicy mayo
Shrimp Tempura Roll
California With King Crab
Snow crab, avocado, cucumber
California Roll
Crab stick, avocado, cucumber
Salmon Skin Roll
bake salmon skin, cucumber, eel sauce
Boston
Shrimp, crab stick, cucumber, mayo.
Crunch Roll
Avocado, eel, crunch on top.
Spider Roll
Avocado, soft shell crab.
Philadelphia
Smoked salmon, cream cheese.
Alaskan
Avocado, smoked salmon, king crab, smelt roe.
Baltimore Roll
Alaskan king crab, egg, cream cheese, old bay seasoning topped with scallion.
Bengals Roll
Spicy crab meat, spicy tuna and cucumber inside, top with eel sauce and spicy mayo.
Cajun Roll
Blackened, seared tuna avocado.
Dynamite Roll
Salmon topped with mayo shichimi pepper, baked.
Volcano
Eel, avocado, deep fried, topped with spicy crabmeat.
JTB
Crab meat, cream cheese, tempura fried, with a drizzle of spicy mayo.
Dragon
Shrimp tempura, topped with eel, avocado, eel sauce, smelt roe.
Caterpillar
Eel, crab meat, topped with avocado.
Sunday Morning Roll
Salmon cream cheese, deepfried with eel sauce.
Rainbow
Avocado, cucumber, crab stick, tuna, salmon, white fish.
Crazy California Roll
California roll top with spicy crab meat.
Tutto Mio Vino Rosso Dolce, Italy
Delicately sweet, slightly sparkling red wine.
Pinot Noir, Underwood Cellars, Oregon
Baked, sweet cherries and rhubarb characteristics.
Malbec, Urban Uco, Argentina
Easydrinking, fullflavored with blackberries and hints of cocoa.
Tempranillo, Sierra Cantabria, Rioja
Elegant dark cherry flavors and a pleasant streak of dusty tannins.
Cabernet, Aves Del Sur, Chile
Red black cherry, with vanilla and cedar.
CMS, Hedges, Washington
A silky blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot Syrah.
Cabernet, Wellington, Sonoma, CA
Rich berry aromas with spicy, woody finish.
Riondo Split, Brut Prosecco NV, Italy
Terrific floral notes a clean, delicate finish.
Chandon Brut Classic, California
Dry, sweet, apple pear, smooth finish.
Riesling, Von Schleinitz, Germany
Clean, showing peach pear, mineraldriven finish.
Sauv. Blanc, Dom. Des Corbillieres, France
Tart lime peel, herbal zest and slick minerals.
Bordeaux Blanc, Charton La Fleur, France
Approachable easygoing, elegant with a dry finish.
Torrontes, Hermanos, Argentina
Ripe apple flavors on a clean fullbodied palate.
Choya Umeshu Plum Wine
Sweet fullbodied, garnished with a whole plum.
Wine
Cocktails
Tokyo Hotel
Ozeki sake, hendricks gin, lychee liqueur, sprite.
Heaven
Rum, coconut rum, guava juice, grenadine.
Diamond
St. Germain, champagne, Limoncello.
Cucumber Mint Rocks Cocktail
Hendricks, cucumber, sprite and fresh mint.
Cherry Cosmopolitan
Cherry vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice splash of OJ.
Cara A Cara
Tequila, Grand Marnier, raspberry liqueur, pineapple juice.
Sweet Berry
Fresh strawberries, St Germain, vodka, sugar Sprite.
Apple Twist
Vanilla vodka, amaretto, apple pucker, cranberry juice.
Blood Orange Manhattan
Bourbon, sweet vermouth, blood orange juice.
Skinny Pomegranate
Citrus vodka, Pama, Limoncello, pomegranate juice.
Green Tea Cheese Cake
New York Cheesecake
Chocolate Mousse
Japanese Tempura Fried Ice Cream
Tiramisu
Matcha Tiramisu
Mochi Ice Cream
Choice of coffee or green tea flavor.
Vanilla Ice Cream
Dessert
Lunch Special
Any 2 Rolls
Avocado Roll, Asparagus Tempura, Asparagus Roll, Sweet Potato, Oshinko Roll, AAC Roll , Veggie Roll, Yellowtail Scallion Roll, Tuna Roll, Salmon Roll, Eel, Cucumber, Spicy Tuna Roll, Spicy Shrimp, Spicy Scallop, Spicy Salmon, Spicy Yellowtail, California Roll, Salmon Skin, Boston Roll, Crunch Roll, Philadelphia Roll, Yum Yum Roll, Dynamite Roll, Cajun Roll, Shrimp Tempura Roll
Any 3 Rolls
Avocado Roll, Asparagus Tempura, Asparagus Roll, Sweet Potato, Oshinko Roll, AAC Roll , Veggie Roll, Yellowtail Scallion Roll, Tuna Roll, Salmon Roll, Eel, Cucumber, Spicy Tuna Roll, Spicy Shrimp, Spicy Scallop, Spicy Salmon, Spicy Yellowtail, California Roll, Salmon Skin, Boston Roll, Crunch Roll, Philadelphia Roll, Yum Yum Roll, Dynamite Roll, Cajun Roll, Shrimp Tempura Roll
Lunch Sushi Combo
6 pieces sushi, and salmon roll
Lunch Sashimi Combo
9 pieces of sashimi and a bowl of sushi rice
Luch Sushi Sashimi Combo
3 pieces of sushi, 6 pieces of sashimi and a California roll
Bento Box
Choice of Sauteed Mixed Vegetables, Chicken w. Mixed Vegetables, Beef w. Mixed Vegetables 1, or Shrimp w. Mixed Vegetables 1 Choice of Edamame or Crab Puff Choice of AAC Roll or California Roll