Sushi Town — Restaurant in Costa Mesa

Another Americanized Sushi place? Nope! I was pleasantly surprised that Costa Mesa has to offer such a detailed and tasty restaurant. Sitting by the Sushi bar is the best because you can always interact with the Chefs with your orders and just talk about nonsense!

Tonight, I had Chef Jin. As I closely watched him worked his magic, I can see him making our orders as Art taking his time with every slice and detail. Big props to him!

My order for the night:

Sushi- albacore , salmon (albacore was a 5-star...super fresh and tender)(salmon was a 3-star, tasted a little old)

Caterpillar roll $8.99 (my absolutely favorite dish of the night. Chef Jin really took his time to cut every single slice of avocado covering my little caterpillar, luv! The blend of all the flavors were perfectly balanced because none of it overwhelmed each other. Make sure to take the whole bite of the sushi, so you can have the sushi experience you deserve!)

Sashimi salad - $8.99 (Very generous with their sashimi and it's a hand-tossed. The dressing covered every bits of the greens and the slices of sashimi, simply amazing! it's definitely enough to share, do it!)

Even if it's been a couple of days, I'm still daydreaming about coming back here to try more...

We hear great things about this sushi restaurant and have noticed it for the last 5 years living in the area. Tonight we tried it out, noticing poor, slow, service was a common issue.

Well that was the case for us. We ended up sitting at the sushi bar in front of the head chef and it took 15 minutes to place our order. From there it took another 20 minutes for him to tell us he was now making our order... the folks who sat right after us at a table had already finished their order!!! Everyone else seemed to be enjoying their food and getting served. We ended up leaving politely and attempting to pay for our edamame. the servers were very polite and said not to worry and to please give them another chance or to wait for our food. We politely declined but did appreciate their concern, which seemed well practiced due to this being common.

In the end, there are better service options in the area. The sushi cannot be that good to wait 40 minutes for one order.

Also note, we went to H20 down the street and had our sushi brought to us in 5 minutes and its happy hour now due to waiting so long at...

If i wanted to make sushi myself, i wouldn't be at your restaurant! I ordered in restaurant and loved my food! I ordered the same thing for takeout (Ninja roll, or at least that's what i got in the restaurant 🤷) and get home and open up my food and don't even recognize my meal! I call, bring it back and get told, "Oh this IS a Ninja roll, you just have to put the ingredients on at home". So now, I'm sitting at home looking at some dry salmon looking at this container of sauce..wishing for some tempura flakes cus they're not here..and wondering why i decided on sushi tonight. Super disappointed...and NO. I don't want you to pour the dish of sauce on it NOW, that I'm back...that should've been IN and ON it already...and my...