Nekko Sushi & Cuisine — Restaurant in Lake Elsinore

If I could leave zero stars I would. This was our favorite sushi place in Lake Elsinore. We do not know why everything changed, if it was ownership or what, but we simply cannot eat there any more. We called in our order and was already a bit taken back when they said it would be ready in 15 minutes. What we got was old sushi, pre-prepared. The rice was dry, the tuna was old. We are hoping no one gets really sick. The volcano roll tasted like they poured sugar in it. The Teriyaki salmon also tasted like it had pure sugar poured over it, and the fish was rubbery. The tempura was undercooked and soggy. The chicken tasted like it had been reheated from leftovers, way overcooked to the point of being hard to chew. Literally every single dish was poor quality. The spicy tuna rolls and the yellow fin tuna rolls tasted old and the rice was dry like it had been made several hours beforehand. We'd have been better off grabbing a package of sushi from Stater bros across the parking lot. As I said, this was out favorite sushi place in town. They used to be excellent. Whatever they did to cut corners, it was a bad decision. We will not be back. If we'd wanted fast, reheated food, we could have gotten that for less than half the price. It seems we have lost another fine establishment in our town. Sad to not have this option any more, but you don't get second chances when you are serving sushi. I am so disappointed. None of us to even eat half the meal, it was...

I like your restaurant it's really cute. Your server is really nice. The owner is new at this. I guess so every time the server would come over to talk to us. You would see the owner right behind or want to see what was going on why she was talking to us. She kept asking if everything was okay like we were complaining. We were just telling her how wonderful The restaurant is and are nice experience. We had had this the second time. We've been in there and the owner has done this. If we had a complaint about something we would not go to the server. We would ask for the owner. We didn't ask for the owner because we didn't have a problem. We were just letting the server know how nice she wasn't. How great of an experience we had? That was all. You guys have a lot to learn about running a new things. Get better for you you need to relax and enjoy. It wasn't even that busy anyways, she probably could have done it all herself without a helper. The owhen it's people is better. It makes you more money more people. You make less money if there's not a lot of customers in there. If there's a lot of customers then yes, you need help but if there's not any customers, you don't really need the help good luck to you in...

Why this place has such high reviews is a complete mystery. The food here is atrocious. We ordered our go to appetizers and sushi items and what we got was barely cheap buffet quality. The mixed tempura we got had items all at different frying temperatures and 2 of them were literally burnt. I can't remember the last time I saw burnt tempura. The beef yakisoba was appalling. It wasn't stir fried and light....it was a plate of reheated, dry ramen noodles with a nasty and COLD dollop of teriyaki sauce dumped in the middle of it. I mean they didn't even have the sense to stir fry that in. Usually yakisoba takes awhile to get because its being stir fried but it came right after our drinks were dropped and before anything else, even edamame. The table next to us had 3 children who also ordered yakisoba, all of whom said it wasn't good either. Of the 2 rolls we initially ordered one we didn't even eat because the sauce was off putting both visually and taste wise. Again, I'm not sure who's rating this place so high....maybe they never get out of Elsinore to eat sushi but I know my family and I will...