Samurai Sushi Bar Restaurant — Restaurant in Municipality of Agios Nikolaos

Let me start with my experience. I booked 20days ago even before i arrived to crete and got a confirmation from the online website but when i arrived to crete and asked the concierge to confirm the booking, surprisingly they told him there is no booking under my name. After 3 phone calls from my hotel staff they advised us to go at 9h30pm and they would find us a table for 2. We arrived at 9h30pm and they sat us on a table at the entrance of the restaurant far away from all the other tables. Service was the slowest i have ever seen on the island, we ordered a sake bottle and we kept on calling the waiters to come and pour us a glass of sake, and when i was fed up waiting for a waiter to show i stood to serve my wife and i , only then i saw a waiter running towards me advising it is not allowed for guests to pour their drinks, rather she advised me to call her everytime i needed a drink. Hahaha cheapest service ive ever experienced.

Now moving to the food, we ordered some nigiris, some sashimis and some makis.after taking the order The waiter advised it would take approx 30mins as the restaurant was too busy(10tables overall). Many items were missing like Toro (tuna belly) which is the tastiest and when asked the waiter said it is too expensive and hard to get! Soft shell crab and uni sea urchin was also missing!

The food was taking so much time so we decided to order some edamame and funnily it did not come only after the sashimi started coming.

Sashimi was not great at all, the white fish was hard and gewy, scallops were ok and salmon not the best at all. Eel unagi was good though.

Nigiri was bad and rice was sticky ! Octopus sushi was bad and hard and we had to spit it out!

Makis are big and do not fit smoothly in once mouth and had too much rice! Very surprising for a japanese place on an island that offers cheap and fresh with so many options seafood!

To top it all off it was the most expensive dinner for 2 we had on the island 12 sashimi cuts 10 nigiri sushi 4 maki rolls orders 1/2 bottle of sake

280Euros

What a ripoff and such and unpleasant experience.

Not...

We were guests of the Royal Marmin Bay Hotel, where this restaurant is located, and visited on 2 occasions for dinner. We are lucky enough to have eaten in many sushi restaurants around the world, and this was definitely up there in terms of sushi quality and taste. Food in our opinion was excellent, see selection of dishes attached. Service was also brilliant, with attentive but not overzealous staff, who remembered names and orders from our first visit for example. As some other reviewers have commented, prices are a bit steep with €8 for steamed rice and €18 for edamame particularly "out of whack", but overall we felt the total bill was a fair price, no doubt helped by the 20% off voucher given to hotel guests at check-in! We thoroughly enjoyed both visits, many thanks to the chefs...

Zu teuer, für das Gebotene. Ich esse sehr oft Sushi. Das hier war das mit Abstand teuerste Sushi meines Lebens, aber nicht das Beste. Es war gut, Punkt. Man muss pro Person 50 € rechnen für Appetizer und Getränke, und 100 € wenn man gerade so satt werden möchte. 100 € p.P. bekommt man auch in Deutschland hin. Dann ist man in der Regel aber pappsatt. Auf dem Foto liegen 45 € Sushi. Die Preise sind seit 2020 gestiegen. Wenn ich 23 Euro für 5 Maki ausgebe, dann erwarte ich, dass man mir echtes Wasabi auf den Teller reibt und mir edle Essstäbchen und gute Sojasauce reicht. Das waren Bambus Einwegstäbchen und das Wasabi war die grün eingefärbte Rettichpaste, die es auch beim billigsten Sushi Circle gibt. Das Lachs Sashimi war zart, aber nicht die beste Qualität. Da habe ich in Farnkfurt, Gießen, Bad Vilbel, Weilburg und Bad Homburg schon besseres Sushi gegessen. Und das sind nur meine Regulars in Hessen! Wir waren jetzt Mitte Oktober 4 Nächte im Hotel. In der Samurai Sushi Bar waren kaum Gäste. Der Wareneinsatz ist im Verhältnis zum Einkauf sehr gering. Es müssen Unmengen weggeworfen werden...

Das Personal ist aber sehr professionell! Besser als das Personal im übrigen Hotel. Das Ambiente ist auch hervorragend!

Mein Fazit lautet: Man bekommt besseres Sushi für weniger Geld. Weder das Hotel noch die Samurai Sushi Bar würde ich nochmal besuchen. Kann man machen, muss man aber nicht. Zu teuer insbes. für Kreta. Mehr Schein als Sein und die Bucht um Aloundi herum ist auch nicht der schönste Fleck auf Kreta. Sehr touristisch und wenig...