Satoshi Sushi — Restaurant in Fountain Valley

Definitely not Japanese owned. Which is fine, if the food and service is good. Not so much this place. The chairs were dirty, I needed to swipe it off with my hand. There was a chair blocking our seats that we couldn’t pull out our chairs without moving the chair. They served rice on a small plate and not a rice bowl (which is offense to Japanese people, because in Japan, they give offerings of food / rice in small plates to the dead and leave it on their shrines.) A sushi restaurant doing this makes you question if they know anything about sushi or Japanese food and culture. The hot green tea tasted like detergent. I’m not sure how you can mess up tea, but i guess it’s possible. We needed to ask for the tea twice, since they seemed to have forgot about it. When the tea came, two of the teas were lukewarm and one was piping hot. We ordered Sashimi, which wasn’t bad. I just wondered why the sushi chef would forget to add the ginger and wasabi. Btw the sashimi was $69 just saying. Overall, it was funny how bad the experience was. Definitely won’t be back. 2 stars cuz the...

We are frequent diners here, and it's a great small sushi restaurant. On this visit, I came in on a Friday evening and was happy to be given a spot at the bar even though I didn't have a reservation. I was not aware of the reservation option, so that was why I walked in.

The chefs and servers al all nice, knowledgeable, and get the job done fast and with great customer service.

This time, I was solo, so I ordered the Scallops and Golden eye snapper sushi. The sushi chef notified me that they were out of the golden eye and offered a replacement of black snapper, which she said was similar to red snapper. She said If I knew I'd like red snapper, the black would be good. I appreciate the recommendation and the distinction between the snappers. I do enjoy all snapper, so the replacement offered was perfect.

I also ordered the Pick Me roll (not pictured), which was a tasty roll. I can't wait for my next visit to try their...

I have now been to the restaurant twice. Visit 1 the food was ok. Not bad and not good. It was fine. We were sat and then 5 mins in we were told we needed to be moved.

Tonight was the 2nd time. We walked in (my 16 month old daughter in my arms and just myself) and I immediately put us on the yelp wait list. Nobody was ahead of us. Two ladies walked up and were immediately sat (I heard them say they didn’t have a reservation). I let the staff know, Very politely, that we had arrived first. They apologies and said they would clear a table. A party of 4 walked in and were sat at the table they had cleared “for us”. They also said they didn’t have a reservation.

I ended up just walking out, as that was the last table that would allow for a high chair, and the only free table has a chair removed from it with a party of 5 occupying the chair and the space required...