Sushi Sakura Restaurant — Restaurant in Longview

Normally a good experience because they have historically been very kid friendly and we love the food. It was my craving spot when I was pregnant, my baby ate her first solid bites there at 7 months, and we had many dates there. Tonight we wanted to celebrate Father's day. Our baby is 18mo and for the first time, was genuinely difficult to keep happy. We took her outside over and over so she wouldn't be crying in the restaurant but our waiter was still visibly very annoyed anytime she started to make noise. We were one of 4 occupied tables in the restaurant. We did our best to keep our kid quiet and out of the way but food took over an hour to arrive. She ran out of snacks and got bored of the chopsticks. She expects food when we sit her at a table. I tried letting her walk while I followed right behind her. She was upset she couldn't get in another booth so I sat in my booth and had her stand next to me. I gave her a fork because she likes to hold them. Our waiter was a large man with a high bun. He walked by, said "oh that's not safe." I'm not clear on if he was criticizing me for giving a clean fork to my toddler or if he was convinced that she would be a tripping hazard right next to our booth in an empty restaurant. I let my husband know in front of the waiter that I needed to stay outside with her until the food came because he had an issue with her being out of the booth. The waiter watched me spend most of my time outside pacing with her. She cried because she wanted to walk if but it was too dirty to put her down outside. We ultimately decided to get the food to-go so we could be done with the judgement. I discussed it with my husband outside while our waiter swept as close to the glass as he could and was clearly trying to ease drop. When it finally came, our $50 order was an $80 order but I was too drained to argue about it. We found that we paid for an extra cali roll, an extra miso soup, and a shrimp veggie tempura. I told the waiter we were leaving because he wasn't okay with how I was occupying my baby and he pretended not to hear me. It was an uncomfortable experience. I can tell he doesn't have kids but when he does, I hope he can continue enjoying his favorite restaurant....

I don't typically write comments, and the 2 other times I visited this restaurant, I didn't have too bad of an experience. But after my visit tonight, I won't be going back. It started by my 5yo daughter going to stay the night at her friend's house, which never happens, leaving my 3yo son and I to hangout. We don't ever go out to eat, so I figured tonight would be a perfect night for a guys night out. I had been craving some good sushi for a while, and since it's a Friday, let's do it! We arrived at 7:30pm, the place was not too busy and already took 10 minutes to have staff approach me and get us a seat. My son and I sat down, another 5 minutes and we had our menu brought to us. The waitress let me know it was going to be a little bit of a wait to get some food, so we ordered some appetizers as well as sushi and beef yakisoba. Appetizers came within 20 minutes. If you don't have kids, entertaining a 3 year old when they are tired is a task on its own. A few times the waitress came to tell us it was getting close. I asked if I could get extra wasabi and ginger with the sushi. By that time it had been so long I asked if it could be a to go order, got the check and paid with a generous tip. Much more time passed and out came the yakisoba noodles. Great! Almost there...nope. Another 15 minutes went by and I gave up. My son and I got up and started for the door, where the waitress met us with our sushi at 9:23. By this time we were the last ones in the restaurant. The waitress said she had given us some ice cream, so I was looking forward to what I thought was going to be deep fried ice cream. I get some and sit down, pull out 2 trays of sushi. Only one of which has a marble size ball of wasabi and a small portion of ginger. The other tray has none. The ice cream was not deep fried, but a serving of mochi in a plastic package. Trying to stay positive that the sushi would be good. It was not. It was bland and poorly filled. I don't know if my excitement made this experience worse or if it was just that bad, but I will be looking elsewhere for my next...

This is my second visit to this establishment.

General atmosphere and service: The first time we looked up the menu ahead of time, and decided to dine in and have an order to take home, the service is quick, responsive, and very helpful.

This is the second time and we decided to just pick up and dine home. The wait time was short, service was just as great this time.

The front reception area is well lit, you can see the sushi bar on the far side of the register as you enter.

The restaurant feels on the dim side in the eating area, but this is more due to the very high backed booth seats.

Food: In the restaurant we had the Gyoza Ramen and Oyakodon, both were outstanding

For the sushi we took home, the Spitfire Girl Roll, Boston Roll, and Trick or Treat Roll. Again these were amazing.

Pricing and Summary: If you dont mind food being around $10 on average per dish, combos and specialty items running $11.50 on average. The food is great, the ramen in particular was a full bodied savory dish. The Spitfire Girl roll was an experience of spice. However the Trock or Treat roll suprised me and stole the show.

I would highly recommend trying this place if you like sushi or...