Sushiko — Restaurant in Columbus

I don't usually leave poor reviews, but I have not had this disappointing of an experience with service and food for awhile. I get that my boyfriend and I ate at Sushiko and not at some fancy Japanese restaurant. I get that this is not Japan where I once lived. However, 4 star reviews for this place?! For what?! When we came in, the girl who seated us could not have been less hospitable. We heard an older woman to the side of us complaining about her food as we ordered. My boyfriend went out to the car to get something, and, as he was coming back in, the older woman passed him and, according to him muttered, "They can't cook." We should have listened to her warning and left. We started with crab rangoon that had the strangest taste I've encountered and had some orange gloopy matter coming out of it. I took one bite and stopped. When my chicken teriyaki bento came out, the chicken was over-peppered and in some strange brown sauce that was NOT teriyaki, the nori in the sushi was beyond chewy, and the tempura and seaweed salad was just poorly done. The only thing I ate was the rice, the cucumber salad, and some of the chicken. When the waitress came over, I told her, "I don't mean to be offensive, but this was not good." She asked me what wasn't good about it, and I told her everything I have written here. We went up to pay, and she said that she had told the manager about our bad experience. Wow. Thanks. That really makes up for it. It doesn't help that my boyfriend ate pretty much everything on his plate and thought it wasn't that bad, I'm sure. All I can say is that I've had stomach cramps since we left there, and I'm really hoping I don't end up with worse issues as the evening goes on. You pay for what you get;...

My wife and I have dined at SushiKo quite a few times over the last several years. It's always been good and we enjoy it. But I wasn't inspired to write a review until last night. Our dinner last night was excellent. They just keep getting better.

We started with a couple of excellent Japanese beers. We knew they had the usual most common Japanese offerings of Asahi, Kirin and Sapporo. But I was surprised to learn they also have Orion, from Okinawa. I've not had Orion since I left Okinawa almost 30 years ago. I had the Orion and my wife chose Asahi. We enjoyed both. We also each had a bowl of miso soup, which is very good.

When our sushi and sashimi arrived, we were quite delighted with how artfully the chef had prepared and presented it. It looked wonderful. Not surprisingly, it tasted just as wonderful.

Towards the end of the meal, I ordered a bottle of Nigori style (unfiltered, sweet) sake to finish off our dinner. We finished the sushi & sashimi, but still had some sake left. I wanted something for dessert to go with the rest of the sake. Nigori sake goes very well with chocolate. We ordered a slice of cheesecake (with chocolate drizzled over it) to share. It and the sake were a very pleasant finish to our meal.

This has been our "go to" place for sushi & sashimi. Last night's dinner just solidified that position. We keep saying we're going to try somewhere else. We usually end...

Our first dinner there was awesome. Atmosphere could be better, but the sushi is fresh, and that is a big deal to me. However, when I ordered here from Doordash for lunch, they piled on a hot chicken bowl in top of my very expensive sushi in the bag (which is packed by the restaurant, not Doordash) Anyone who knows sushi would never do this, especially at their prices... You never serve warm raw fish, its disgusting. Out of my $70 order, only the chicken and rice bowl was suitable to eat. When I called the restaurant to tell them what happened and that they can't do that with raw fish and I needed a replacement, the man, Lim, who claimed to be the owner, was rude and said he wasn't going to do anything to fix it. Doordash fortunately took care of it but we're very disappointed that we didn't receive professional service from the restaurant. Also, my seaweed salad was over half pickled cucumber, not seaweed like I ordered and the tuna roll was done poorly. The sashimi was decent size, however. Our service from our waiter was awesome at the restaurant, but when I called for this second experience, I was very surprised by the...