Matsuri San José — Restaurant in Mata Redonda

Updating to lower rating from 2 stars to 1.

I knew the nigiri was bad, but I didn't realize it was that bad: 24 hours after eating here I had food poisoning. I'm the only person who is ill and the only food I hadn't shared with someone else in the past three days was the six pieces of sushi (saki, maguro, and ebi) I ate at this restaurant.

Very mediocre with a limited selection of fish. The nigiri sushi I ordered wasn't horrible, but I've had better in just about every other sushi restaurant. The rice was like a hard rock - seems like maybe they made the rice balls in the morning and then just slapped a slice of fish on top when I ordered that evening. You might have better luck ordering cooked dishes, but the pork ramen soup was also mediocre - and took a long time to get made even though the restaurant was nearly empty. Will not be...

Had Shrimp Tempura udon and Tempura Matsuri because we really wanted tempura. I’m from Japan, now living in Hawaii, so won’t claim it’s the same quality you’d get in a restaurant in Japan but it was served sizzling hot and the portions were immense and well prepared, including udon noodle and broth. It did take quite a while for the food to appear but totally worth waiting for, and I highly recommend their tempura, but this is the only time we ate there so can’t comment on anything else...

This evening, we took 2 fish soups and a sushi plate. The sushi was very good but the soups were too expensive for this kind of quality. First we were satisfied with everything. But when we got the receipt we were surprised because the price was much higher than we expected. 25% surchange?! For the bad service? Are you kidding. In my opinion you have to inform the guests for big surchanges like this. So, all in all, watch out if you...