Sushi Café — Restaurant in Cottage Grove

The food is good. But--I really can't stand it when restaurants advertise their prices one way on their menus and then when they ring you up the prices are marked higher.

Their entire menu is all wrong price wise. The guy who checked me out said oh yeah just increase all those prices by 5%. I paid 17 bucks for one small roll. Kinda crazy. Prob won't come back bc of the poor service and non-transparency with their prices

Response to owner:

Of course I know prices had to increase because of the pandemic. Everyone did that that’s fine—that is not the issue. The issue is that you do not want to update your menus to reflect your new prices so it has become an issue of false advertising.

Why would you just assume everyone would know your new prices? What about someone coming to your restaurant for the first time? Thank you for the free soda but honestly, I am not a soda drinker. I have no problem with your prices as long as they are advertised on your menus correctly and I know what I’m paying for ahead of time. That’s pretty standard for a restaurant. A customer has the right to know what they are ordering and how much it actually costs and not just be surprised...

What happened to this place. 5 years ago this place was good. The food was on point, the staff didn’t do pull-ups in the doorway… To call it disgusting doesn’t do it justice. The rice was the only thing I could take more than a few bites of and even that was questionable.

As far as the “tuna” in my spicy “tuna” roll goes. I’m pretty sure that’s not tuna. If anything it’s just bread crumbs mixed with spicy mayo. I’m also pretty sure the chicken was precooked along with the rice. How do you explain rice that is hot and cool in the same bite ? And the miso soup, it’s more like dish water, how can your miso soup be so cloudy. A good miso is the same as Pho, if it’s cloudy you need more work…

As far as reading the reviews and responses from the owner. This owner probably doesn’t know how to run a restaurant much less staff it. The food is below average for the prices you are charging. I ran restaurant for 12 years and this one makes me sad because it was once good… whatever happened definitely reflects through to your guests…

and you don’t need that many...

What a wonderful addition to the Cottage Grove area! Excellent, healthy food, great service, and fun atmosphere. Some of the prices seem steep, but the amounts of food are huge and easily stretch for two meals. Plus they have amazing bubble tea, with real tapioca! My new favorite restaurant! ❤️ This is an addendum from a later visit While I still love this restaurant, I was so disappointed today! I have ordered vegetable fried rice in the past. It was chock full of vegetables, and amazing! Today I ordered chicken fried rice, for a more complete meal. Today I ordered chicken fried rice, which had the EXACT same description: "With egg, onions, green onions, carrots.", except that chicken was also added. So I was very surprised, and not in a good way, to discover that there was not a single vegetable in the entire dish! No onion, green onion, or carrots, or any other vegetable. I'm sure that some people love it like this, but as a consumer I expected it to be the same, but with chicken, or at least to have the vegetables in it that the menu...