Seiki Sushi — Restaurant in Bogota, Capital District

Seiki offers some excellent choices of absolutely authentic Japanese food along with a couple of questionable choices. We have tried three different bento 🍱 combinations, all of which were first class and amongst which the grilled salmon was our favorite. The ramen uses what is essentially a spaghetti noodle—absolutely inauthentic and rendering the dish a total disappointment by comparison with the real thing. Nonetheless, the dishes that were done well were done very, very well.

The same can be said of the decor. While there are a very few specimens of calligraphy of high quality (perhaps exactly two?) the best of all is almost totally obscured by a clumsily made divider panel between two tables. There are a few pleasing pieces of artwork and nicely arranged spots but much of the decor seems like the work of a beginning high school student of carpentry. Nonetheless, we enjoyed the food enough to return and will certainly return again. Our servers were pleasant as was the owner when he came in...

Best Japanese meal I’ve eaten in Bogota yet. I’ve been eating sushi/sashimi my whole life, and had it in the US, Japan, Korea, São Paulo, and I can tell you, it’s very apparent that Japanese skills had a hand in the creation of these recipes.

You can usually tell immediately how the food is going to be just from the miso soup. This is the most authentic miso soup I’ve had in Bogotá.

Even most Japanese restaurants in the US will not serve you nimono with your meal, but I got two (hijiki and a fish). This helps me to understand the prices. Very impressed.

If I HAVE to be picky, the miso soup was a little salty (level is fine if you’re having it with rice, a bit salty if you’re having it as an appetizer the way it’s normally served in restaurants) and the temperature of the rice in the nigiri was a bit colder than what I’m used to....

This is by far the most overpriced & overrated sushi place I’ve been to in all of Colombia. The sushi doesn’t even have the slightest resemblance to true Japanese sushi. The dragon roll was dipped in teryaki souce so much that the rice was literally wet. The other portion of maki rolls was just bland and the rice was not at all sticky - all the rolls were falling apart while I was eating them (can’t remember exactly what I had, that’s how unremarkable it was).

There are more authentic places in close proximity that offer more authentic and much tastier japanese food for 50-75% of the price. Don’t bother going to Seiki.

I only give this review 2 stars because the ambience was not too bad, the service was ok & at least I didn’t get a...