Go Sushi Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Pacifica

When you want sushi and rolls that hit you with the feeling of greasy and soggy Chinese food, then you want Go Sushi Japanese Restaurant.

An outing around a happy graduation event for family member had us all in a good mood and we wanted sushi for dinner. The time was right to once again try Go Sushi with an attitude that would give them another honest chance to impress.

For the meal this time we had the following; Appetizers: Edamame Agedashi Tofu Shrimp Tempura Miso Soup

Mains, Rolls, and Sushi: Salmon Shioyaki Spider Roll Rainbow Roll Philly Crunch Roll Spicy Tuna Crunch Roll Maguro Sushi Unagi Sushi

Drinks: Thai Iced Tea 7-Up Hot Tea

I was looking forward to the crunch rolls since I heard they were good and I like the crunchy tempura added.

On arrival arrived with four employees people working in a relatively empty place it still took about five minutes to be seated. Not bad. But not outstanding given the number of employees standing around.

Being seated I once again encountered and tired old place with an half-hearted attempt to pass of some kind of "atmosphere. I get it Go Sushi. You want me to think I am am walking into some kind of red lantern lit Washitsu. Except with carpet and table. And american style 70's era booths with vinyl seating that is torn and worn. Yes, I certain get the cheap feel all right.

Started off with the Miso Soup, Edamame, Agedashi Tofu, and Shrimp Tempura. The edamame was you average good edamame. But the Agedashi Tofu, while well presented, quickly devolved on the table into a slimy mess. I know the reason for it was the preference for using cornstarch dusting instead of potato starch. This dish is one of my favorites but this time I left pieces in the bowl. The Miso Soup was good. The Shrimp Tempura was average. The part that made it average was the tempura itself being heavy and oily in a way that did not compliment the dish. As I found out this problem was to plague the other rolls to come.

The first main to come out was the Salmon Shioyaki. Which I found a little odd give the amount time there was between this dish and the rest of the dishes for the meal. The salmon was a little too overcooked. This resulted in cause the flavor to be lost as well as slightly drying out the fish. Once again the presentation was okay but overall the quality was not up to the looks of the dish.

The rest of the of the rolls, and sushi followed on about 5 minutes after the Shioyaki.

All of the rolls with rice shared on big failing. The rice itself was both sticky and soggy. Maybe its a style of rice i have not been used to when eating sushi. maybe not. Either way my perception of the rice affected the each roll. None more so than the roll with the most visual distinctiveness, the Spider Roll. This is an exciting dish to look at. But when everyone at the table leaves enough on the plate to feed another, you know there is something wrong. The Rainbow Roll was passable even with the rice issues

The crunch rolls, Philly Crunch and Spicy Tuna Crunch, suffered from two points. The rice as mentioned, and the tempura problem. Or maybe the tempura batter was made with brand I had not experience before. To the tempura batter came off was as if a heavy pancake batter has been used. Then deep fried in tired oil needing to be changed. Neither the crunch rolls or the shrimp had a fresh light flavored tempura. This ended up getting in the way of the roll instead of complimenting the roll. When my wife leaves anything spicy on the table there is a huge problem with the dish. This time there was more thank half the plate of Spicy Tuna Crunch that had to be boxed along with several pieces of Philly Crunch also taken home.

Bill total before tip was $80.85. Not a great value for what was served. I have had too much good sushi to settle...

My fiance's children (who have lived in this area their entire lives) love this place and because I am a recent transplant, I'm trying to work my way through all the restaurants on the coastside and this was one I had yet to hit. Fiance and I went on Sunday evening - advising them that we were in a bit of a rush (not wanting to miss the return of Breaking Bad).

We ordered a wide variety of items to share, each one more forgettable than the last: Goma-ae: Wrong dressing entirely. I think they just put their regular miso dressing on frozen spinach and sprinkled sesame seeds on top for affect. Soft shell crab: Overly breaded and mostly flavorless. Honestly, it seemed as though panko crumbs were just molded into a crab shape. Bento box with tempura, salmon teriyaki, and sashimi: Felt as though the tempura had been fried several hours before and slightly re-heated; very thin and chewy salmon, and three meagre slices of sashimi, the best of which - surprisingly - was the toro. The mound of rice was cold. Baked oysters: I didn't try these... I am working on an oyster book so the bivalves get ordered wherever we go, but my fiance IMMEDIATELY spit out the one in his mouth and told me to be glad he had just taken one for the team, they were so bad. I smelled one and immediately return it to the platter. When we returned them, apparently the kitchen staff were smelling them too, but I don't know if they could tell how bad the aroma was. 49er Roll: Topped with salmon, we sort of picked that fish on top off to eat because - for the life of us - we couldn't figure out what was inside the roll. It was dark and slightly crunchy. I think it might have been slivered, fried bacon but it was so hard and chewy as to be inedible.

Overall, the place is dank and desperately needs a remodel. There is dirt on the floor, the wallpaper is peeling off the walls, and the fake flower centerpieces are dusty.

To the server's credit, she removed several items from the final bill and tried to apologize, offering us a complimentary ice cream desert. We politely declined (Walter White was waiting, after all!) but the real injury came early the next morning and throughout the following day, in how unsettled both I and my fiance felt.

I think the kids like it because they deliver - at least to their Mom's house - but we won't ever be eating there...

Don't Go for the soup! We were in the area and hungry for lunch. Kid likes ramen, so Japanese seemed like a good idea. I should have read the reviews.

Beef udon for the kid- apparently the beef was very tasty. Onions looked cooked but were raw. Kid was happy with the noodles, first time having udon. Said broth was ok.

House soba for me- the pork that came was different than in the picture, but pretty good. Egg was over cooked. Cabbage was cut in oddly large pieces. Broth was basic. Not bad, but not very flavorful. I had the feeling that they hadn't cooked it long enough.

But the noodles! The soba was mush. I could tell before I even took a bite. The noodles all lay together, in a clump, without enough structural integrity to keep any spaces in-between. They were too pale. When I lifted some for a bite half of them broke off with no effort. They tasted like water, as in they had soaked up too much water.

I sent them back. 10 minutes later I got another bowl of soup. These noodles apparently had been cooked for 30 seconds less than the first.

I was really hungry, we had been there at least 30 minutes by this point, the one server was busy and my kid had stopped eating, leaving half of the udon. So I ate the toppings and broth from the soba and finished the udon noodles. They were also somewhat over cooked. Nothing like the soba, but they had lost most of the texture that makes udon good. Then I tasted the broth they were in. I'm not sure what that was, but it was no soup broth I've ever tasted. It was vaguely beefy, but not right. I wish my kid hadn't eaten it, because I just don't know.

I also ordered a chicken teriyaki to go for my husband. I shouldn't have, but this was before they gave me overcooked soba the second time. He said it was mediocre, with boring sauce that was just sweet, with no other flavor. He assumed we had gone to some cheap Japanese food...