Enso Sushi - Alicante — Restaurant in Alicante

We went to Enso for our wedding anniversary after reading reviews however, I regrettably must say I was disappointed. I was excited as I come from Japan and thought I would get what people tend to call, "authentic" Japanese food. When I saw Yamada Nishiki being served, and first off the seaweed vinaigrette salad starter tasted good and the host was attentive. We ordered starting with miso soup which was nice but it was too salty. The sake, we ordered hot sake and it came almost cold - the bottle was just about luke warm plus was served much later after food had already arrived, the gyoza skin was too thick like a typical "Asian food" restaurant (and there is a Japanese restaurant that serves gyoza with proper skinner skin in Spain) and the presentation was sloppy just pouring sauce on too big plate with only 2 gyozas on it. The tuna tataki was nice but how it is supposed to be seared (at least that is what "tataki" is), I cannot say they did a good job. The uramaki sushi, spring roll, had green onion on the outside which some people may enjoy but for me, it took away the taste of the salmon and prawn but presentation (color coordination was beautiful). The salmon teriyaki, again the presentation was beautiful but the teriyaki sauce was an over-kill to taste the natural salmon flavor and the plate is expected to be preheated but the food was put on a cold plate. All the food was presented beautifully but what is expected to be hot food all came lukewarm or cold (except the sushi and tataki) So 5 star for the location, ambience, quality of ingredients used, and all presentations, 3 star for the service (how plates were placed or took away from the table, slow service and temperature of the food). All things considered, the price is...

Based on the look of the place and the good comments, me and 3 other friends, being fervent sushi eaters, wanted to try this joint out. It looked very promising. Very nice place, original dishes but I'm afraid it's at the expense of the taste of the food.

Let me just share our experiences: The tartare of salmon was too brightly acidified so the flavor of the salmon was completely gone. You only tasted the acid. The uramaki spicy tuna: The texture of the tuna on top looked like a slush and that's how it tasted in your mouth. Little flavor as well. The maki veggie was OK, no more no less The uramaki Enso with foie was original and also OK. The taste of the foie could have been emphasized a bit more. The gyoza waygu were very tasty. But for 7 EUR for 2 mini-gyoza's I will not go back for.

Actually, we were still hungry after this but given the prices and the substandard sushi, we didn't see the point in ordering more and went for a pizza afterwards.

We were disappointed because given the more expensive prices our expectations were higher than we got.

If you're going for the experience of dining out nice and special, then you're definitely going to have a good time. But if you're going for the sushi experience, you're going to find better sushi bars in Alicante that are cheaper for a...

I am not an expert in Japanese cuisine, but on my birthday, I decided to try new flavors. We chose a restaurant based on reviews and went for a tasting with my mom. We ordered what we liked from the description.

The staff behaved quite strangely, it seemed to me that they were mocking us (it was very noticeable) because we were not experienced connoisseurs of Japanese food. One of the waiters (most likely the manager) was very unpleasant, and he was the one laughing at what we ordered.

We ordered the «chef's sashimi», 16 pieces for about €40 (by the way, it's raw fish), and 2 portions of sushi - California (I didn't like it at all) and Ebi (very tasty), and delicious beer.

Never going back to this place again 😑

Our dinner check...