Sushi Train — Restaurant in Nashville-Davidson

Phenomenal value for people who want to eat a lot of sushi but do not want to spend at least a hundred dollars to do it. This place's main attraction is definitely the sushi train, and like most other buffets, is better when it is busier in my experience (making dinner time more suitable than lunch, though the system they have definitely works). Everytime I go, I do the all-you-can-eat, which means you can eat all you want off the sushi train and order whatever you want on the menu. The sushi part is awesome, and I am the kind to only eat the sushi for an hour and a half to get my money's worth, but the menu is a great value because it is made to order. The food itself is classic Chinese buffet food, but getting it made to order allows it to always be hot and fresh, plus you can ask for small things, i.e. extra crispy (the best on General Tso's). It is not cheap, but it is the value of a one-money, all-you-can-eat buffet with a concentration on a good rotation of sushi. To me, the overall experience is actually all the things you want from a standard Chinese buffet. The only difference here is you get the sushi running by you on a conveyor, the other food you would get at the buffet is made to order and brought to you, and it is about double the price. That being said, I have never felt it was not worth it, and the service has always been consistently quick and good.

Again, the busier it is the better in my opinion. Nobody likes waiting, but when it is busier they do longer lines of each item on the train at a given time, and I have found you get those perfect item grabs more often in a unexpected lull of train activity. In other words, I feel like you can get a plate or two more of the sushi items you like more often when it is busier because they have more plates on the train.

Bottom line: if you like your standard Chinese buffet and you also like eating a lot of decent sushi without making yourself a car payment poorer to have it, this place is absolutely worth at least one try. Take a friend or two who like sushi/Chinese with you and enjoy the all-you-can-eat. It is the best value in...

We discovered Sushi Train about 3 years ago and really loved it. It was fun and unique. We have gone many different times over the last few years. My last visit here a group of friends and us met to enjoy dinner. I noticed it wasn't as busy as usual and when I went inside the price of the train had gone up to 20 per person. Okay. Then while I was enjoying the fun train of plates going around I noticed that the majority of the sushi dishes were just rice, cucumber and cooked fishes like shrimp and crab. Okay, still no big deal. At least I had a coupon. Then when I went to pay my check I was told that only 1 coupon per table was allowed. Well, my friends wanted to use their coupon as well. We were not the same family, came in separate cars and were paying separately. If we had known about separate tables using the coupon we would have sat side by side instead of together at a table. The server, who was super nice, asked for his manager to accept our coupons and she refused. I didn't want to be a Karen, but come on! The prices had gone up, the quality had gone down and they were splitting hairs over coupons. I asked her if she would risk us not returning for the sake of not accepting a coupon. She said yes. And that's when I realized why business was down. On the way out I told her I probably wouldn't be returning, giving her one last time to try to offer decent customer service. She argued with me instead. If this place was amazing, and the sushi was great, and it was worth the price, then maybe I would shrug this all off. But why should I pay higher prices for slipping quality and bad service? Nope. Save yourself some money and don't go to Sushi Train. Save yourself...

First, I do not like sushi...My family likes sushi, so we went to Sushi Train. We went for dinner and you could either order a la cart or have the all you can eat for just under $19. We were seated at a booth at the middle of the train (refrigerated tunneled conveyor belt that winds it's way past the tables). We got there right at opening (4:30/1630) and there were 3 other groups of people that went in with us. We all got the all you can eat though my DH said he wouldn't again because he ordered off the menu and a la cart would have been cheaper. Train plates come in 3 colors yellow - $2.50 per plate, Green - $3.50 per plate and Red - $4.50 per plate. Raw sushi, cooked sushi, veg sushi fruit sushi, canned fruit, fresh grapes and watermelon, cheese cake, carrot cake, key lime pie...all these thing come through the train plus more. We would take a plate from the train and share the items among the table to see if we liked it or not ($1 per piece of uneaten food over 3 piece to prevent excess waste). Whoever liked it had the option of getting their own plate when that option came back around again. Tried things I would not have otherwise tried. There are trifold descriptor cards stating the name of what follows, what the ingredients are and if it is raw or cooked. Nice experience and will definitely go again. Only 4 stars because of the price...2 of our group of 4 did not consume $19 worth of food. If you are going to charge that much for all you can eat then there should not be such an exorbitant...