OkiDoki Sushi — Restaurant in Minneapolis

Excellent restaurant to visit in the very busy UofM area. Very delicious food with excellent knife slices and perfect rice to fish portions. Perfect portions and some quite generous. 2hr parking garage next door with parking meters out front. Small space (booths, window high chairs, table tops) with single sex restrooms. A must stop shop for revisits. $39.99 AYCE- worth it.

Their not like the other AYCE spots. They bring the appetizers first and gradually work to the main courses. Dessert is separate. Lunch menu is until 2pm, AYCE begins at 2pm. A la carte is all day.

Favorites: (1)Honey Bee Roll- perfect touch of honey! (2)Spider Roll (3) Blackened Tuna Nigiri (4) Seared Scallop Nigiri (5) Poke Salad, (6) Sunomono Salad (seasoned cucumbers) (7) Takoyaki (8) Gyoza(9) Tuna, salmon, white Tuna amd yellow tail sashimi were great- generously sliced and fresh, not fishy (10) chicken teriyaki rice bowl (brace yourself, lots of rice but the teriyaki chicken is tender and phenomenol)

Dislikes: (1) Green salad (shredded iceberg and cabbage with a mayo based dressing and crispy onions). Very much like coleslaw (2)Coconut shrimp (the whipped cream and coconut shavings made the roll overly sweet)

Average dishes: (1) Calamari (rings- sauce is perfectly tangy) (2)Shumai (nicely bouncy & porky) (3) Spicy Tuna (needed more sauce-dry)

Sadly, no fried rice or fried noodles or...

✨Personal recommendation: AYCE, bento boxes, and salmon lava bowl ✨

If you are feeling particularly hungry, I recommend doing the all you can eat (AYCE) for around ~$40 per person (dinner price). The individual dish prices can be rather high so this lets you try different items while letting you eat to your fill. I personally like their salmon since it is very thick cut 🍣

For AYCE: some items are excluded (entrees, some special rolls, etc), unlimited soda, must follow set rules (no food waste, cannot share with ppl not doing AYCE, cannot bring home leftovers, etc) 📝

Their bento boxes are pretty good for their price point and can be convenient for to-go

I love salmon (not sure if you can tell 😅) so I tend to gravitate towards their salmon lava rice bowl - unfortunately, this is one of the items included from AYCE.

The only issue I had was that the space smelled strongly of oil, granted we were seated pretty close to the kitchen, but the smoke or oil in the air made my eyes sore and irritated. The smell even lingered on my clothes and followed me all the way back home.

Other then the smoke, we had a wonderful experience. The staff were very friendly and quick to help, we got a $20 discount voucher from their 1 Year anniversary event so I will definitely be back sometime! - I’ve been eyeing...

TLDR: Great location and atmosphere. Food is mediocre at best. Would not visit again. Much prefer competitors for ala cart and Kyoto for all you can eat. If you like cooked sushi options, you might like this place.

Let me start off with the good: The workers were very kind and friendly. The location is great being right next to the light rail and several other restaurants where you can head over to grab dessert afterwards. The restaurant itself is clean and well decorated.

For those who don't like raw fish but want to try sushi, or you are trying sushi for the first time and are apprehensive, this might be a good consideration. They have several shrimp tempura.

The less good The food is only okay in my opinion. The option of rolls is standard but the rolls themselves have an imbalance of fish to rice to filling ratio. It weighs heavy towards the rice. The rice isnt as well seasoned. The sashimi is cut much too thick but other than that the sashimi is good. My friends got the all you can eat option and for parties of 2 to 6 people, they allow you only 6 orders per round. This is fine if you want to order their rolls but makes it impossible to get enough food if you want to order sashimi/nigiri or any of the specialty items which is usually what you want to get more of when you do all...