Chakra Japanese Fusion — Restaurant in New York

I was introducted to Chakra by a friend last year and I really like the place. The location is on the other side of Main Street (closer to the highway opposite of downtown Flushing).

The restaurant serves fusion Japanese food like the name suggests and has a very cool theme to it. Anyone who is a fan of the Japanese anime Naruto will love the place just for the decor. But they also have great food as well!

The menu itself (in keeping with the theme of the restaurant is a large scroll you literally have to untie and it covers most of the table. This place offers a large variety of rolls that I have not seen at other places. Regular and specialty thrown into the mix along with food options like ramen and rice dishes will have you scratching your head at what to order.

The specialty rolls I recommend are

Chakra - lobster tail tempura, mango, seared toro, eel sauce, scallion and tobiko.

Kakashi - spicy lobster, asparagus, jalapeno, filet minon, eel sauce, yuzu mayo, scallion and sesame seed

Sasuke - spicy real snow crab, jalapeno, mango, king salmon, gold flakes

My favorite apps include the Peking Duck Negimaki (have not seen that anywhere else) as well as the Green balls (funny name but very good dish).

If you want a nice rice dish, their salmon and chicken teriyaki always hit the spot for me.

They have dessert options like mango and green tea cheescakes and if are an alcohol connoisseur you will like that they have options for premium sake as well as soju and beer to pair with your food.

You would get the best dining experience eating in as all the dishes and sake would be made fresh. They do a good amount of take out business that I noticed each time I ate there but it should be known that if you have food sitinng in a container it will not appear as fresh. Please keep that in mind before anyone says a bad word about the business.

The employees all work very hard to meet the demands of the customer. Whenever i dine in or take my friends they have a...

4.5 stars. We noticed this new restaurant when we drove by yesterday as we looked for a place to have lunch. Unfortunately for us, they are closed for lunch and don't normally open until 4pm, so we made a point of coming back the next day for an early dinner.

The inside of the restaurant is a bit dark but each table is separated by large Japanese screens. The walls, interestingly enough, is decorated with characters from the Japanese anime, Naruto. The menu is quite extensive, and also very hard to read. Luckily, you can scan the QR code to read the menu and all the descriptions on your phone.

We ordered the chicken and shrimp teriyaki bento, beef teriyaki bento, fried spring rolls, volcano roll, and the black dragon roll.

The bentos were each served with shumai, california roll, vegetable tempura, white rice and miso soup. And both bento boxes were absolutely delicious! I loved that the shumai were steamed and then fried. The teriyaki sauce was a great balance of savory and sweet. And for $15-$17 they were well worth ordering. The fried Spring rolls were okay but I did appreciate that they came with four large pieces in one order.

The Volcano roll had spicy crunch tuna jalapeño inside wrapped in sliced avocadoes and topped with spicy mayo. I kind of wished it was spicier but it was really yummy nonetheless. The Black dragon roll had shrimp tempura and mango inside with sliced avocado and topped with eel sauce and sesame seeds. It was so good!

Then for dessert we got the mango mille crepe cake and vanilla mochi ice cream. The waiter was sweet enough to give us extra vanilla and strawberry mochi ice cream on the house.

Overall, we really enjoyed our dinner here. It is a little bit on the pricier side but the food is pretty good. And our waiter, Jason, was great. I wouldn't mind coming back again for...

I had take out in the winter, the sushi was a bit off... I thought it was because the cooked food was packed with the sushi and I didn't eat it right away (had to drive home first). So I decided to dine-in to see if it would make a difference. Unfortunately, that didn't make the sushi better. When tuna starts changing colors that should definitely be cooked thoroughly so people wouldn't get sick. I also ordered sashimi, the slices were sushi thin; sashimi is supposed to be slightly thicker cut than the fish you get on a piece of rice (sushi). The fried foods were clean (no stale oil flavor). The udon was a bit over cooked (started getting mushy). The Ramen was a good size and aldented, but you need to ask for the spices, sadly there was no Naruto fishcake slices in the Ramen. The Naruto decor is nice, but if that's the only thing that rings out Naruto, that's not a theme. I had their Naruto roll, it had salmon, tuna, yellow tail and imitation crab meat wrapped in cucumber... maybe the fish colors were too faded because they were the freshest that they should be, but the dish didn't ring out Naruto. Three of the four people I dined with got the runs, most likely from the raw sushi and sashimi. I gave the place 2 stars because it has the authentic Japanese hole in the wall feel and their Ramen and cooked food was on par to American diner standards (minimal seasoning). If I come back to this place most likely it would be for the Ramen. I think they could make it Naruto themed with a fresh hand made noodle chef. After all that is all Naruto ate. Recommend you skip the raw items. Eat safe,...