Daihachi Sushi - 大八寿司 — Restaurant in Vienna

I visited in November 2024, and I am still in shock at my dining experience. We arrived early, with no one there, but the wait staff made us feel like a burden. Then, the waitress stopped by every couple of minutes to re-align our chopsticks and napkins when we moved them. Finally, the most insulting part is that they served us fish that was dyed red, instead of the tuna that we ordered. I don't know if it's because they thought they could fool a group of Americans, but I have never experienced this in my life. After we complained, they passed it as "tuna from Spain", and then proceeded to serve us normal tuna in the next dish. This restaurant is connected to a nice looking hotel, so I imagine that is how they have stayed in business for so long. I can not in good conscious recommend this establishment...

Not a particularly welcoming place - I guess if I could have uttered some Mandarin phrases it might have been better - and waiting times were long when we visited in spite of the small place not being overly full and having been the first customers in the restaurant. As regards the quality of the sushi, we are quite a way from Japan. The fish is varied for Austrian standards and reasonably fresh but the itamae-san would benefit from lessons on properly cutting and presenting the fish. The shari is Kansai-style and not bad. It is one of the few restaurants where I just did not feel it worth...

I wanted to visit the daihachi for a long time and finally made it!

it was wonderful. this tiny bar is a small japanese island in vienna. the lady in service is charming and the sushi master obviously knows what he is doing. I loved watching him work. fish quality is very good and the sushi rice delicious (call me over-particular, but in most sushi bars in Europe the sushi rice is unsatisfactory).

I will...