Bento Asian Bistro

Love the Indianapolis roll!!! So delish! Staff is always super friendly and food comes out quickly.

Nice that they do delivery, and within 30 min as well. The bento boxes are about $ 8 each, and small boba is about $ 4. Bento comes with the entrée, a portion of rice, a spring roll and crab Rangoon, and four California rolls. Definitely a filling meal for that price. We wanted to substitute the extra spring roll for the crab Rangoon, but they didn’t do that. Still good though.

I had delivery and boy was it fast! Food was good. I’ll order delivery from this place again!

Just had a great experience. Family had varying tastes, so we had Pork Pad Thai, a Crazy Tuna Toll, and two Bento boxes– one with basil shrimp and the other with curry. It is worth a short wait to have fresh-​cooked food, not stored under a heat lamp or in a refrigerator. The curry was a nice sweet/​hot flavor. The Pad Thai was both delicious and well presented. The rolls were wonderful with crisp cucumber and avocado and fish.
We would come back and bring friends for an enjoyable, but relaxed meal.

Love Bento! Quick delivery, best Asian cuisine in the downtown area for the price.

Not worth it. Not worth the food. Not worth the bad service. Not worth your time. Not worth your money.

Really enjoyed the red curry bento box… the sushi was great and i recommend going at least once…

I LOVE bento boxes! It’s a little bit of everything. Salad, spring roll, crab Rangoon, and your entrée– I got a pink lady sushi. It was in a soy wrapper and had a great mix of avocado, and salmon, tuna, and yellow tail.
I got it Togo, and they packed everything perfectly with enough sauces for the meal.
The only reason why this wouldn’t be a 5 is that the rice had a little bit of a bite to it. So either it was prepared ahead of time or the rice was slightly undercooked. I want to come back and try their bubble teas!

Hey, hey, hey! Whaddya say? Bento box café! Right down the way.
It’s Friday and I’m rhyming. Get over it. Bottom line, I’m super stoked that I found this place because they have my Dragon roll WITH sides for only $ 10. Um yeah, I’m definitely a fan.
I typically bring my lunch to work, but one day I forgot it. That gave me the opportunity to search out a lunch spot nearby. Sushi was on my mind for a while, so I hopped on Unilocal to find me some. I’ve been to a couple sushi places downtown, but I haven’t been to the Bento Asian Bistro yet. As I looked at the online menu, I was happy to discover a bento box with sushi as well as some really yummy-​looking bubble teas. Oh yeah, I’m there.
It’s a small café-​style restaurant in the corner of the Indiana Street plaza, near the Noodles & Co. The interior is quite nice with plush, leather seating, chairs, booths and bar seating on the back wall. The menu is fairly simple, nothing like that thing you have to read at a typical Chinese restaurant. My order took about 10 minutes to come out, and it was lovely! The bento box consisted of the sushi roll, a ginger salad, a spring roll and a crab wonton in some duck sauce, and a little pickled ginger and wasabi on the side. I gobbled it all up like it was going out of style! My Dragon roll and the salad were very good. The warm spring roll and crab wonton in duck sauce was so good! I wanted to get more, but there’s a $ 5 limit for cards and I don’t carry cash. Oh well, maybe next time.
I also didn’t get a chance to try the bubble tea, but they have many flavors and boba options. Regular bubble tea with tapioca boba, red tea with pop boba, and green tea with fruit jelly. I’m going to try the milk tea or the coconut tea with tapioca pearls. LOVE those! Not a fan of the fruity ones. They also serve smoothies and coffee slushies. Sounds interesting.
I wish I knew about this place when I was in college because I think it’s a really great addition for students and downtown workers to go for an affordable sushi lunch. I’ll definitely be back for some more sushi and some bubble tea. Oh wait, I don’t have to go back because… they deliver!

The wife and I were looking for a quick Asian fix over lunch, so we decided to check this place out. The restaurant is nothing special — the inside is clean enough, but the counter where you place your order is a bit disorganized and chaotic. There’s a good amount of seating, but it seems like it fills up a bit at lunch. The food itself is maybe ok to pretty good. We both had the teriyaki chicken bento box and, while it fit the bill, it definitely didn’t impress. Overall it was a lunch that was good enough to get the job done, but I wouldn’t make a point to go here on the regular.

Stop, wait, turn around. Put down the phone /​Don’t go here. Panda Express is right beside it. China Star is a few blocks downtown… Naisa is maybe a 10 – 15 minute drive. Go to all of those places instead.
The thing about this review is that I seriously had such low standards. I hadn’t eaten in many, many hours and I had recently finished a workout. I would have eaten anything, but I decided to try a new place: Bento Asian Bistro.
Bad decision. I called for carry out and they told me it was a 10 minute wait. It had been about 15 or 20 by the time that I had gotten to the restaurant and I still had to wait 10 minutes more.
I ordered General Tso and hated it. I didn’t finish half of it, throwing away the rest. Rice was bland, chicken was awful.
The place seemed full — plenty of people were seated and eating. I’m so confused as to why.
Never again. =/

Quick Asian food — red tea with passion was very refreshing and the yaki-​udon shrimp was better than expected but the shrimp were just a tad too done.

The idea of this place is very appealing, but l can’t see myself returning. Cheap, quick sushi and boba? Sure! But the execution of their food is sub-​par at most. The non-​sushi food options are pretty much comparable to your average Americanized Chinese restaurant or room temperature supermarket sushi. Very oily and often deep-​fried, followed by that joyously inevitable belly ache. I’m a frequent buyer of boba elsewhere, and that was probably the only decent thing I had here. Decent, not great though. Nothing felt fresh and there weren’t any distinct Asian flavors.
Side note: I don’t know if it was OrderUp’s problem or Bento, but the delivery experience wasn’t the best. Maybe the guy was new? I had ordered to have something to be delivered to work, because I couldn’t get away for a break and it took over an hour (which I was willing to brush aside). But when the delivery guy finally showed up, he said I had to come down to grab my stuff and I said I couldn’t because of work (the whole point in ordering online)… Then he argued with me on the phone and hung up, so I ended up having to run outside on Monument Circle to look for him and get my food… Yikes. :/

Calm down on the soy sauce!
Whatever you do, do NOT get the chicken basil bento combo. It was extremely salty to the point where every bite felt like torture. It’s like they marinated and cooked it in soy sauce. I expected more from what seemed to be an authentic Chinese café and for $ 8.50. Unfortunately I didn’t ask for it to be recooked because I was so damn hungry and in a hurry. The other complements including the fried rice, sushi, egg roll, and cream cheese rangoons were just okay — nothing special.
I’m sure they have other decent or even glorious dishes, but stay away from that Chicken Basil Bento!

I got basil shrimp! It was very salty. The food is not that good. Bubble tea is okay. Pretty disappointing for asian foodos!

Is it me or there’s too much Asian food where I live. Well probably not their fault! I first went to this place a few days after it opened. Matter of fact I like how the service was courteous and efficient. This is a medium sized place that opened where previously Einstein bro bagels was.
The whole idea of Asian fusion is having all major Asian food types under one roof in one bento box! It’s actually very clever especially if you are selling Asian food in an area where you already have 4 places that serve Asian food. However now comes the part where it makes me give them 3 stars. It’s the idea of fusion that’s excellent, the food however is pretty average.
I have had almost all their bento combinations. It’s decent as long as it’s warm like any other Chinese entrée. The sushi is actually very average. I was very excited initially but now I’d much rather avoid the fusion and stick with the culture I’m craving the most. Pricing is very good however and they deliver as well I asked them.

Fun, trendy, great food.
This is a good addition to the developing complex of restaurants near IUPUI.
I haven’t tried the sushi yet, but did get a chicken teriyaki bento box that was excellent.
The service was great, the prices were reasonable, and if you’re a student they accept jag as currency.

So they messed up our order pretty badly, but the food we got was pretty good so I can’t really complain. I would go again. Everyone was really friendly.
Their boba are amaaaazing they are perfect. The taro coconut smoothie is good and so is the Thai iced tea.
I didn’t like the eel roll, but I did like the dragon roll we ordered.
I would stick with pure sushi and boba teas to be hones the whole box was a let down.
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We went back again and the food was great. Two drinks were missing boba but the food was great and the boba are exactly how I like them at least. I really recommend the spicy salmon roll, and the wontons are pretty good. My friend got the sweetheart roll and liked it.
I got the steak and shrimp hibachi– it was pretty good but a little chewy. I really liked the salmon roll and California rolls a lot more. My other friend got the sushi be to box with salmon and that was great! We also ordered some dumplings for the table and everyone loved them, ideally suggest trying them. They are very filling.
Lately I have been coming after class just for the Thai iced tea with bubbles and for the dumplings :)
I also really recommend the chrysanthemum slush (with or without bubbles) it was delicious very smooth and sweet.

I don’t have a strong opinion about their food yet but I definitely prefer their rice over Sushi Boss’ rice a few doors down. It’s cheaper than Marsh’s sushi for what you get. However, I wouldn’t recommend this place over Marsh yet. I still suggest giving it a chance.
They have a lot of different bento boxes to choose from. You’re not limited to just Japanese style cooked meats; they have choices from other Asian cuisines as well. I wish there were more options without the cream cheese wonton, though. They also have «Special Roll Bento Boxes» which comes with a salad, an egg roll, and a cream cheese wonton. You can get just the roll without any of the sides for $ 2 cheaper. There is also an Indianapolis Roll, which I would have gotten if it didn’t contain cream cheese and the entire roll wasn’t fried (figures).
I ordered a Thai Iced Tea with Boba. It had too much cream/​milk in it and there was no detectable tea flavor at all. The boba was a tad bit too mushy on the outside, but still decent. I haven’t had better boba since I got to Indiana so I don’t know if that’s just how people prefer it here.
I got my roll To Go. They placed it in a nice plastic sushi container in a gigantic paper bag. They stapled the paper bag together with a menu and another copy of the receipt. Then they placed everything into a plastic bag. The environmentally conscious side of me thinks that’s a bit too excessive but they did make it look nice & neat. I also walked from the restaurant and at no point was I worried about my roll getting messed up.
I ordered the Manhattan Roll which has shrimp tempura and avocado on the inside and spicy tuna on the top (along with 2 sauces). My roll was made fresh but the tempura was old and a little bit mushy. The spicy tuna was not spicy at all and too warm. I walked maybe 3 – 4 minutes to my destination in 50 degree weather so the tuna should not have been anywhere close to as warm as it was.
The cashier that helped me was super nice. I definitely want to come again and try their regular bento boxes. I’m also interested in how their Pad Thai is, but the picture on the menu isn’t the most appealing.

Love this place! The décor is beautiful and welcoming. Picked up some take out for two and it was quite a lot of food. Love the option of the bento box that comes with rice entrée and sushi. And on top of that they have boba. I got the lychee bubble tea. So good! It’s so refreshing. It’s like drinking up a cup of spring. It’s not bad food for the options, price, and portions. And the staff there super nice and extra welcoming. Definitely will be back for lunch or dinner.