Sakura Sushi — Restaurant in Zaventem

Rating and review are for the all-you-can-eat option. I'm giving the food one out of five stars but adding an extra star because they have parking. The sushi was mediocre at best. The fish was fresh enough, but there was a very high rice-to-fish ratio. The eel sushi came with what looked like eel sauce but tasted like something we couldn't even identify. The rolls were okay, but my husband hates cucumber, and a) we weren't able to request that rolls with cucumber come without it, and b) even one of the rolls that wasn't pictured with cucumber came chock full of it. The appetizers were hugely disappointing. Everything was not just deep fried (even the shumai!) but also shiny with grease. The "shrimp tempura" were dipped in something like bad fish and chips batter and ended up being a tiny sliver of seafood coated in five millimeters of soggy, tasteless breading. As an added offense, they were served with duck sauce, not even real tempura dipping...

We ordered only one round with little food and then didn't want to finish those or order more. The taste was ok, but Sushi has too much cold and hard rice. You can easily get full with the rice. It seemed like that fish salad had fish as decoration and lettuce was actually the major part. In the hand rolls, we could hardly find fish. We feel some of the fish were not fresh either.

Besides the disappointing food, we received cold services. When we asked about the menu at the beginning, the waitress was quite impatient as if we were wasting her time. The menu sheets given to us were totally different from their website. Sashimi is not in the all-you-can-eat buffet at all. You need to pay separately for them.

I can understand that this is not an easy moment for restaurants. But when the prices are already increased, the food materials are also decreased or down graded, why should we go to such restaurants again?

We won't and do not...

This is based on a delivery order: Food was awful. Huge lack of taste. Fried stuff was just ok but for the rest it was just awful. All hot dishes were the same gluey sauce with different "spices" (for me the only difference was if it was hot or not). The rice was clearly cooked at least 24 to 48 hours earlier and was totally dry. Mushrooms tasted like they were not fresh at all.

As we ordered for delivery we didn't get the all you can eat formula and paid every dish: 80€ for it it a theft (as over half of it went straight to the trash after one bite)

My final thought is : this is the WORST asian food I've ever eaten. The WORST by far. We were shocked to pay so much for such an absence of quality. We also got rid of the menu because we will never order from them again and of course we will never go there for an all you can eat experience.

Avoid this place at all costs. If you don't get sick eating there the best you can hope is...