Umi Sushi Pacifica — Restaurant in Grover Beach

Great sushi, very fresh but a bit expensive. I ordered the "slow your roll" as an appetizer, which was a spring roll with shrimp, avocado and tomatoes, served with a creamy serrano pepper and cilantro sauce. The sauce and roll were good but not exceptional. The roll was too much like a Chinese egg roll and I prefer rice paper for a lighter and crisper roll. I ordered the "Salmon and Garfunkel roll. The roll was filled with tempura salmon, beans, capers, unagi and topped with a lemon caper sauce and a zigzag of that nasty brown sweet soy sauce. As you can tell, I hate that sweet sauce and the roll would have been so much better without it. The place is cute but the seating is uncomfortable and the tables are flimsy, they wobble if you apply any pressure to them. The service was ok,...

Short haired female waitresses was beyond rude. Made us wait over an hour for a table, when we arrived she claimed she tried to call us…. That was a lie. She gave our table away to another larger party and said “they would not be able to seat us”. HUGE MISTAKE. We went to another sushi place just down the street with better reviews. Our group of 6 people happily spent hundreds of dollars on sushi, sashimi, and drinks.

Thank you for saving us from wasting our money with your establishment. We will be sure to tell everyone we know up and down the coast about our horrible experience.

I have never been so mislead, this restaurant was referred to us by a few of the local wineries. We will also be sure to let them know to no longer recommend Umi Sushi to their other members...

On the way to Santa Barbara we were craving sushi and we decided to try Pacific Umi Sushi. After living in Japan for 4 years, the sushi here doesn't stand out compared to the other reviews.

I ordered the Saba, it was fresh and simple. Also, I ordered the Rock n Roll, which has unagi and avocado on top. I don't recall what was inside the roll.

My wife ordered the shrimp tempura, she like it and our kids had the chicken popcorn teriyaki. They said it was ok so I tried it. The teriyaki sauce tasted awful. It was thick, similar to molasses.

However, the salad portions were larger compared to other Japanese restaurants. Also, they served a tiny amount of kale and about a table spoon of Japchae before the miso soup. The Japchae was delicious, wished they served a...