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# HIBACHI PAPI BAR & GRILL, Los Angeles: a japanese restaurant in Los Angeles (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/hibachi-papi-bar-and-grill-los-angeles-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 4 sources. Updated 2026-09-01. Owner review: not yet.

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## In short

HIBACHI PAPI BAR & GRILL is a japanese restaurant in Los Angeles, CA. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Japanese restaurant |
| Address | 6201 Hollywood Blvd #120, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 10:30 AM to 12 AM |
| Phone | (310) 360-5233 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.7 across 53 reviews on Google |
| Known for | HIBACHI PAPI BAR & GRILL excels in providing an engaging teppanyaki dining experience, highlighted by friendly service and a lively atmosphere that keeps guests coming back. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Saturday |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 19, 2026, 10:30 AM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 6201 Hollywood Blvd #120, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | Hibachi Papi Bar & Grill to Hollywood is the newest location of an independent, minority-owned Los Angeles brand specializing in fresh, made-to-order teppanyaki. We focus on high-quality ingredients, clean cooking methods, and bold, craveable flavors with options for every lifestyle, including vegan and high-protein builds. Our Hollywood restaurant features a full bar with handcrafted cocktails, a private indoor room and a large outdoor patio available for private events and celebrations. The menu includes hibachi favorites like ribeye, steak, chicken, shrimp, lobster, scallops, tofu, garlic noodles, fried rice, and seasonal vegetables, plus exclusive appetizers and desserts. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | HIBACHI PAPI BAR & GRILL | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (310) 360-5233 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Catering | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Fried rice | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Full bar | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Garlic noodles | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Handcrafted cocktails | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | High-protein meals | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Outdoor patio | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Parties | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Private events | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Ribeye steak | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Teppanyaki | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Vegan options | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/103759921832491 | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/thehibachipapi | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.hibachipapi.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 2 services HIBACHI PAPI offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Parties |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Catering |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

HIBACHI PAPI BAR & GRILL excels in providing an engaging teppanyaki dining experience, highlighted by friendly service and a lively atmosphere that keeps guests coming back.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting HIBACHI PAPI

Address: 6201 Hollywood Blvd #120, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA. Phone: (310) 360-5233. Hours: Mon to Sun 10:30 AM to 12 AM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:33 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by HIBACHI PAPI on its Google Business Profile: "Hibachi Papi Bar & Grill – Hollywood is the newest location of an independent, minority-owned Los Angeles brand specializing in fresh, made-to-order teppanyaki. We focus on high-quality ingredients, clean cooking methods, and bold, craveable flavors with options for every lifestyle, including vegan and high-protein builds.

Our Hollywood restaurant features a full bar with handcrafted cocktails, a private indoor room and a large outdoor patio available for private events and celebrations. The menu includes hibachi favorites like ribeye, steak, chicken, shrimp, lobster, scallops, tofu, garlic noodles, fried rice, and seasonal vegetables, plus exclusive appetizers and desserts."


### When to go

Quietest day: Saturday. Busiest day: Thursday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chicken Guy! | Chicken restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Hollywood Walking Tours | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk |
| Dunkin' | Coffee shop | 1 min walk |
| Shake Shack | Hamburger restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Retail Restaurant Fitness | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Argyle & Hollywood Blvd | Bus stop | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.7 average across 53 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.)

Hibachi Papi Bar & Grill stands out for its generous portions and flavorful grilled dishes, making it a popular choice for casual dining. (AI guess, from 53 reviews.)


### What people like

- Shrimp fried rice with mixed veggies
- Yum yum sauce and spicy teriyaki
- Tempura vegetables as a fantastic appetizer
- Generous portions and delicious food


### What people do not like

- Service can be slow and unresponsive
- Kiosk ordering system not functioning
- Food quality inconsistent at times


### Press

No press story about HIBACHI PAPI found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from HIBACHI PAPI

HIBACHI PAPI hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### HIBACHI PAPI or Yamashiro Hollywood?

No answer yet


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?

No answer yet


### people keep recommending HIBACHI PAPI, what for?

No answer yet


### what time does this place actually open?

No answer yet


### last update from here was when?

No answer yet


### the good stuff about HIBACHI PAPI, what is it?

No answer yet


### are prices in Los Angeles higher than everywhere else

No answer yet


### is there parking at HIBACHI PAPI or is it street only?

No answer yet


### trying to avoid the rush, which day is quiet

No answer yet


### best japanese restaurant in Los Angeles

No answer yet


### services here, what do people go in for?

No answer yet


### do I need to book HIBACHI PAPI in Los Angeles or can I just turn up?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about HIBACHI PAPI

We ask ChatGPT about HIBACHI PAPI. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 26 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Los Angeles japanese restaurants run 23 to 42. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. HIBACHI PAPI scores 26, below the Los Angeles average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | HIBACHI PAPI |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Nobody at all was recommended in the 1 answer we hold, so there is nothing to score. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 79 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 56 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 47 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a japanese restaurant

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a japanese restaurant in California, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.

- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.
- Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.
- Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including HIBACHI PAPI if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to HIBACHI PAPI |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HIBACHI PAPI BAR & GRILL | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.hibachipapi.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Los Angeles, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City HIBACHI PAPI is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the japanese restaurants in Los Angeles, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best japanese restaurants in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles/japanese-restaurant
- Best businesses in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles


### Nearby

- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno
- /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own HIBACHI PAPI BAR & GRILL. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ-UOrdsW_woARiUfb3wIMJzQ (accessed Aug 31, 2026)
- [2] hibachipapi.com, https://hibachipapi.com/party (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] hibachipapi.com, https://hibachipapi.com/catering (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] AI engine output: ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)