Tabu Sushi Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Rancho San Diego

With all the options out there I would save yourself the trouble. Only low sodium soy sauce to start with which is slightly annoying because if I wanted watered down soy sauce I would just add it to regular soy sauce. The hand roll was the smallest hand roll I've ever had out of potentially over a hundred handles in my life. I asked for missago added to my hand roll which they forgot. I had to ask for refills. I wasn't checked on once. The atmosphere was really nice. The design and lay out of the space was very nice. The sticky rice was a 3 and 1/2 out of five. I wouldn't say it was a horrible experience by any measure but mediocre is a term that comes to mind as I sit in the parking lot post meal thinking about my experience. As I said with all the options we have for good sushi in San Diego you probably want to try somewhere else. To the ownership, with just a little bit of tweaking here and there you could easily be a four or a five star. At least give people the option for full sodium soy sauce. I'm not even sure that authentic Japanese would even consider low sodium soy sauce since it's nothing more than watered down soy sauce. As an adult I can choose to just use less if I would like...

Tony is the best head chef / manager / whatever that I've ever met. I used to always come in here with my ailing grandma and he would go above and beyond to make her laugh and feel welcome. We was crushed when he heard she passed and it was nice to see that she made an impact out in the world.

Tony is an amazing chef and found this particular type of truffle oil that makes hamachi sashimi taste so freaking good it melts in your mouth. The fact that there are nearby sushi places that have higher ratings is a joke, as this is the best sushi you can find in East county. The food is absolutely top notch (they buy the best of the best fresh fish they can find) and the staff is nothing short of incredible. The only tiny little gripe I have is that they use horseradish based "wasabi" instead of the real stuff, but I don't know of any sushi places that do shell out for real wasabi and I doubt regular diners would even be willing to pay for it.

If you want good sushi in east county, you...

I normally don’t post reviews but we tried Tabu Sushi in Rancho San Diego for the first time and it was awful. We went to the one in Santee several years ago and were underwhelmed, but wanted sushi and were in the area of this location. The outside of the restaurant was dirty, no signs or stickers on the door, so at first it appeared closed, and multiple unhoused people were hanging around. The inside of the restaurant was okay but the men’s restroom was disgusting. My spicy shrimp ramen was tasteless, had no spice, 2-3 shrimp pieces, a few pieces of unidentifiable vegetables and some of the noodles were clumped together. They brought out my ramen with no utensil to eat it with and then completely forgot my husband’s food. After 10 minutes, I nicely asked them to check on it and they brought it 5-10 minutes later, but the rice was cold. A table next to us complained that there soda was flat. Between the price, atmosphere and taste, we...