CRAVE American Kitchen & Sushi Bar

The last 2 times I've visited CRAVE in Woodbury, the service was bad. I met my sister and mom for an afternoon lunch during the middle of the week and we had a reservation, but clearly didn't need one as the restaurant wasn't busy. After being seated by the host, it took our waitress ~10 minutes to come over to our table. My mom ended up getting up to go find out who our waitress was. She said, "I didn't see you guys sit down" -- yikes! Having worked in the industry, she has a section of tables so I'm not sure how she didn't notice us being seated.

We all ordered sushi and drinks which were accurate and delicious.

I'm disappointed the service has really gone downhill. Maybe they changed management and don't train staff anymore? Whatever it is, we won't be visiting this CRAVE location anymore.

Today I dropped in for a quick bite before a trip to the spa. I decided to sit at the bar and order 1 exquisite sushi roll - the rainbow roll. I love the ambience of Crave and I feel that everyone will find something they love on the menu. They have such an expansive menu. Service was great and being gfree - they have tamari - yay!

While visiting Minnesota on a work trip, my coworkers always recommend coming here for dinner on my last night there. Apparently there's quite a few locations of his restaurant in the area. I honestly love coming here and the menu has such a great array of food options. You can go from steak to sandwiches than Sushi. The two times that I've been here, I've only ordered the sushi poke bowl. There was a normal one and a keto, Ive tried both. I'm interested in trying one of the steak dishes, but since this is on the companies dime. I try not to order expensive meals. They have an amazing dessert that I'm not quite sure if it's always on the menu or just a seasonal item. It was called the s'mores brownie. Absolutely delicious! Huge fan.
This restaurant is quite large and has a feel of a cheesecake factory decor. Minus the portions being ridiculously large. They do have a bar in the middle of the room and I'm pretty sure they also offer happy hour. This location is located in a shopping center right across from a movie theater. I doubt you'll have any problem parking. I highly recommend coming here.

Horrible service, waited a long time at the table when we had a reservation for 7:45 no one came for over 15 minutes. Waitress checked on us maybe once as she walked by. Was laughing and talking with her other tables near us. By far worst crave I've been to and i've been to probably 10. Don't recommend. added a photo of my california roll.

Large variety of food as vegan friendly, but the thing that stuck with me most is the dishonest pricing. Adding a 5% surcharge "to hire and retain talent", i.e. to pay your workers, is not cool. Add it to the price on the menu and pay your employees properly. Making your cocktails $18 and not printing them on the menu? Also not cool. If you want to make your items expensive, and you make it worth it, fine. It looks bad for you and feels bad for us to price unfairly.

The main room was loud and even with the salary surcharge they clearly aren't good enough to staff to retain talent, because it was extremely short staffed.

Food was decent but not great.

Always a hit. Birthday celebration with my bestie but not real hungry so shared Truffle and mushroom flatbread. Just right! Never too busy at noon so no rush. And a glass of wine helped the happiness.

The food is good with certain items better than others. The dining room was closed when we were there last month so we had to take out.

Crave has been a long term solid option for dining around the metro for a long time. They offer a huge menu with a lot of variety, pretty much something for everyone. Generally service is very good and the spaces are quite nice. The patio is nice, a little sidewalk patio into the shopping area where Crave is located.

Crave has aways been pretty expensive for what you get, but most of the portions are good and the food is good quality. If you are looking for a nice ambiance, a menu to feed picky eaters (or people who want all kinds of different food such as sushi and burgers), and are willing to spend a bit then this place is a very good option.

What we ordered and received was okay.
The tempura shrimp roll was neither memorable nor bad, the key like pie was acceptable, etc but what really wrecked the experience for me is seeing them advertise a scallop and snow crab roll only to find out, they don't actually use 100% snow crab. making it actually an imitation crab roll like every other one on their menu.
For someone with an allergy to fish, but not shellfish, this was a huge disappointment. even more shocking is that they apparently didn't even have snow crab on hand to make the roll as I needed it. What type of crab is really in the mixture?
Our service was a bit slow given the restaurant being less than half full at 6pm.
Overall, 2 stars. I wont be back and wouldn't recommend anyone go here.

We frequent Crave Edina, but were a tad hesitant to visit this location knowing the MOA location sucks and the steady movement into chain territory isn't ideal... To our surprise, we had a great experience today in Woodbury!! Service was fantastic and the food was A+! Aside from the typical comments around great taste, I cannot rave enough about how appropriately timed everything came out to our table. The interior of Crave gave me Joey or Earl vibes (if you're from Seattle), though the food is undoubtedly better at Crave.

Typically I don't love when a menu is super extensive. More often than not it's a red flag that the establishment isn't specialized in cooking anything and they probably have too many ingredients in the back that aren't fresh. With Crave, I don't find this to be an issue and greatly appreciate that their menu extends to plant-based and gluten sensitive diets as I trust the quality going into each plate. Likewise, they bring warm (hot!) towels to your table during the wait which is amazing.

For drinks we enjoyed the Crave Old Fashioned and the Pear Smash, both were delicious. The Pear Smash is surely a top shelf drink- it's crisp, yet strong, and perfect to sip. They also have their own unique ice cube.

For food, we shared the chicken avocado egg rolls and grilled cheese and basil tomato soup combo. No complaints.