Yoshino Sushi — Restaurant in Oakland

My experience was horrific!!! This is my 3rd time going to this restaurant, once with a group, and twice for take out. In the group setting, the food took an extremely long time and the restaurant was not even that crowdy. We had to ask the waitress for water while we wait, which should have been standard practice and the waitress acted as if we were annoying her. We were not even acknowledged when we first arrive for at least 15 minutes. In fact, we had to stop the waitress who seemed to ignore us while she attended to the few people that were there to let her know that we were ready to order because we only had an hour for lunch. My second experience was take out. I called in the order for a friend and myself, and I was told that our food would be ready in 15 minutes, this was at 11:45am, we got there at 12:05, my order was ready but my friends order was not. We had to wait another 10 minutes for her order and the order was not correct. Again the waitress who was helping us, if that's what you call it, seemed to be annoyed that my friend was questioning her about her order not being correct. My 3rd encounter was take out again, the order was correct and on time, but a waitress once again seemed extremely bothered that I requested extra teriaki and sweet and sour sauce. The cooks also asked me sarcastically was I going to drink the sweet and sour sauce. This was very inappropriate. Moreover, the waitress asked me to come over to her in a small area to sign for the payment and when I put my keys down and phone to sign for the payment she picked up my key and phones and rudely ushered me out of the area in another area as I was asking her for extra teriaki and sweet and sour sauce. Because of these experiences I refuse to patronize this place with my hard earn money and be treated so poorly and disrespectful. I'm sure many people that have patronioze this place will agree that the customer service at this restaurant...

Please don’t eat here, I felt bad for the next customer who walked through the door hoping to get good food. I ordered a deluxe bento box that was horrible. The sushi tasted cold and stale like out of a gas station. The only thing that was good was the miso soup, sadly only one piece of tofu. Also the raw pieces of fish.... were tasteless and had the worst feeling in my mouth , I love seafood and I enjoy quality raw seafood but this had to have been bought in the clearance section. I didn’t take my leftovers home, I left it on the plate , I hope they saw it as what to improve on and not stuff to reuses for the next customer. People of this restaurant don’t comment to give you another try, because I won’t, I also won’t take a voucher of no sort. A refund would be greatly appreciate but if not at least I can warn people that this place is awful and the waitress was awful, she was in a rush to get people out and the manager or some staff member kept staring at me...

Man... I don't know what to say. I got miso soups, edamame, happy hour rolls special, and one of their special rolls.

The Miso soup were flavorless. So was the sushi special. It was three rolls and they all looked and tasted like Blend California rolls. The main flavor was the vinegar in the rice. And it got old quickly.

The special roll had an unagi sauce that tasted like it was from a bottle. I'm sorry to say that. The quality of the fish on the special roll was good though.

The interior is okay. The lighting is dim, making it hard to read the menus. I had to use my cell phone light, but maybe that's a personal problem.

The bathrooms were uninviting. The men's bathroom was dark, and it had graffiti in there. See the pictures.

All of this for $47 including tip? I'm sorry, but it's not worth it. Any takeout sushi would have done better than this. The only thing good here really was...