Spicy Tuna Sushi Bar — Restaurant in Baja California Sur

Wife and I went here on a Wednesday evening. I thought because of the reviews that this place would be full of people. When I called to make a reservation they sounded busy. We arrived and were the only people in the restaurant, which I would normally walk out, but because of the reviews I stayed. We went upstairs to the open window dining room to get away from the exhaust fumes of all the cars driving by. We ordered plum ceviche as an appetizer, black and white sashimi, Yessi roll, and cilantro sashimi. Service seemed rushed, we liked the sauce from the black and white sashimi and asked to keep the plate so we could dip others in it, but I had 2 servers asking multiple times to take the plate away even though I clearly stated we wanted to keep it for the sauce. After eating the ceviche, the black and white and the yessi, I asked if the cilantro was coming and they hadn't ordered it. I chalk it up to our miscommunication, my spanish is bad and her english was non existent. This place is at the heart of the tourist Hotel zone, and not one server or manager had any good english skills at all, but usually we manage because I do speak some Spanish, but this server wasn't even trying to understand my Spanish. I ordered 1 bottle of water, she brought 2, we ordered the cilantro and she didn't order it, she kept having to ask the sushi chef to translate even which fish they had, she didn't know the English or Japanese names, and yet she kept trying to speak English when I was clearly speaking Spanish to her, I told her to tell me the Spanish names and she kept staring at me.

As far as food goes, the quantity of the sashimi plates impressed me, and I would come back for the black and white plate, but...

As someone who actually eats sushi, the fish was not fresh and it was cut unevenly and assembled poorly.

We had the “chefs special” which was the quality of premade refrigerated sushi you find in Whole Foods or Safeway in the US. It contained two pieces of imitation crab, and two pieces of low grade tuna. It was however priced accordingly (an omakase cheaper than a roll).

If you are you looking for an inauthentic “fusion” experience, the special rolls we ordered (pacman and lewy special) were surprisingly enjoyable (the Mexican fusion flavors were thoughtful and worked well, though poorly assembled and presented, and were overpriced)

We ordered a yakimeshi (fried rice) for our toddler which was unfortunately the highlight of the dinner - it was very tasty and cheap.

In terms of service, they were a little understaffed but otherwise not noteworthy.

For its traditional dishes / nigiri this place is a 1 star. If you don’t think of it as a Japanese restaurant and think of it as a more Mexican / Asian fusion it would be around 3 stars. It would fall squarely in the bottom 10% of Japanese restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The self proclaimed sushi experts in the reviews claiming this to be the best sushi are fake news or well out of...

Ok, so the service here was great, really the waiters were exceptional and they changed my order when I realized It was made with a ton of garlic which I cant eat. Nonetheless, this place is not faithful to what sushi really is. The rice was unseasoned, the menu is super confusing because it uses japanese words to mean something they are not — for example it uses “sashimi” to mean “tataki”. I ordered a couple salmon nigiri they were cut so terribly but tasted ok, like supermarket sushi ok. I ordered a roll, the shrimp had been fried like way earlier it was cold and the tempura no longer crunchy, the fish on it was ok but the taste did not deliver for me. I would honestly not eat at this place even if have slight sushi craving because it does no deliver on the basic sushi requirements: good rice and super fresh yummy fish. Mostly writing this review because some dude wrote “this is the best sushi they’ve had outside of Japan” which is absolutely whack and probably not true because the worst sushi in Japan is probably better...