Kura Revolving Sushi Bar — Restaurant in Framingham

Kura Sushi is part of a franchise of revolving sushi quick service restaurants expanding across the Boston area.

There isn’t much seating outside and the line can get a bit long, so during rain it might be a wise idea to wait in your car.

The service is exceptional, with them checking in your table multiple times and even the self serve robot bringing the drinks out.

The atmosphere is nice, no music ambiance but the seating is spacious. There is little walkway room, but it doesn’t hinder the experience that much.

The food is good. Quality of the sushi is top notch and the variety is good. You can either grab it off the revolving belt, or order it straight to your table. I’d say ordering it to the table is better, since the placement of your table along the belt may result in the trays being empty by the time it arrives. There’s typically only 2 of each dish on the belt as well, so this happened consistently during the visit.

At $3.70/dish and higher prices for the meals like ramen, it is on the pricier side for sushi, especially since most plates only come with 2 pieces. I’d recommend this for smaller parties and not when you’re really hungry, as your bill will go up quite a bit.

The prizes are cute and nice, but they also give you an option to buy the prize for the price of a dish, sorta eliminating the need to rack up the plate counter to get a prize (which is 15 plates or around $55 per prize). There are rare ones you can get only from the prize gashapon but idk if it’s really worth it unless you care about the...

What a delightful concept here in the states! Having been to Tokyo, I was no stranger to similar automated restaurants, but this one was darling (talking water delivery robot was Kuwaii) and… inexpensive!

That was the big surprise. We had 10 plates of sushi for $37.50. The green teas, at $3.90 each, were more expensive than the sushi plates. I have been to sushi bars where the chef is in the middle, and the customer picks plates off of floating boats and all of the dishes are color-coded so the price really varies. The boats go by quickly and when you see something you like and grab it, it may be quite expensive. Not so here!! All the rotating sushi dishes were the same price at $3.75 a plate. What a bargain!

How it works: You have two options. You can either pick a dish off the conveyor belt that is rotating past you, or you can order something custom from the touchscreen at your table. When that happens your sushi dish also arrives on a higher conveyor belt and stops only in front of you. Drinks are delivered via the kuwaii robot, although our server did deliver the green tea, because it was hot, and she said the robot may spill it potentially.

When your meal is complete, you place the used plates in a slot, and that is how your bill is calculated. They just count per plate, at a set price per plate. It’s such fun.

I only wish they had one of these in North Carolina. I know this is a chain, so let’s bring one to Asheville or Charlotte. People...

YOU NEED A RESERVATION. IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, YOU MAKE ONE AT THE DOOR AND THEY MAKE YOU WAIT FOR A TEXT. THIS WAS A BUMMER AFTER A TWO HOUR DRIVE.

I was relatively unimpressed with Kura. The food is relatively average, the sushi flavors are restricted to mostly plain fish with some staples like dragon and tiger rolls. There was a very good crunchy roll. Unfortunately there is NO PLAIN CALIFORNIA ROLL (with ARTIFICIAL crab meat). I can't eat crab so this was very disappointing. I ordered a Teriyaki chicken which came with lettuce and carrot. It was okay.

Taiyaki ice cream that was the highlight. It had red bean paste on the ice cream and inside the fried taiyaki treat (which is a lot of red bean). My friends enjoyed a shoryu ramen. We had 17 individual plates, 3 which was subpar.

As someone very familiar with Japanese cuisine available in Massachusetts this isn't overly expensive but a bit higher than you might expect. After a tip it was around $150 for 4 people. Know that you're paying extra for the uniqueness of the experience.

It's unwise to go in and just use the conveyor belt. Make sure you use the screen to order something you like just in case. Good place to go with friends, although I would recommend coming later in the afternoon when it's less busy. Do I recommend it? Hesitantly, yes. It's really quite unique for our area. But personally, I consider it only as a novelty, not a...