New Osaka Sushi — Restaurant in Sacramento

Technically, this place is 3.5 stars, but they don't have halves, so I rounded down. Mean, you might say, but I've had better Japanese food for cheaper prices, hence, the rounding down.

I came here with my family for lunch and we literally made it inside ten minutes before they closed for lunch. My brother and dad ordered Bento boxes, which were $9 each and my mom ordered the Chicken Curry Don Buri, which was like $11. If I come to a Japanese restaurant, I won't order anything except for sushi, so I ordered two Holiday Rolls, just to make sure we finished off the gift card.

The food itself, not bad. It was actually pretty good for a Japanese restaurant, considering I'm extremely biased. The Sesame Chicken was tender and juicy with just the right amount of crunch and sauce. The Don Buri was extremely flavorful and was a rather decent sized portion. But the sushi, I was glad to see that the roll wasn't the size of a hot dog, but a decent sized sushi roll, however, I was slightly disappointed. When the menu says the roll is topped with avocado and maguro, you would expect to see maguro and avocado on each piece. No, there wasnt'. Each piece was literally missing some component of the roll. Either the tuna, avocado, or fried shrimp was missing! Seriously? Come on! Who does that?!

Eh, the food here isn't bad and the prices for non-sushi items was rather decent, but for sushi, I really don't want to spend $14 on a...

Update: the rolls seem more appropriately sized. We've eaten there a few times since I posted the original review. It's no longer a go-to, but they have always had great sushi roll options and will substitute ebi for panko shrimp to make many of their rolls gluten free.

I used to consider this a 5 star sushi restaurant. I still want to, but the last time we ordered our favorite rolls (we always do take out) and got them home, we found that they were half the size that they normally are... At the same price! Without any warning or anything we got half as much for the same price we always pay. And they're already on the high end for sushi.

When i talked to the manager, he just said that had a new chef and were cutting back on rice. Well, it was more than rice that reduced the rolls. While he did eventually grant a partial refund, for which I'm grateful, we were made to feel like there was nothing abnormal about our situation and we should just be ok with the sudden change. I certainly understand the economics of small business, but this approach reeks of poor customer service. We'll be thinking hard before choosing to go there...

This place has one of those sushi conveyor belts, how fun is that?

Besides that, this place is a decent place to get some sushi in the Elk Grove/Laguna area. The prices are decent although not as "cheap" as some places, and they even have lunch specials. Do keep in mind that this place is near to a pretty busy movie theatre, so if you are going to visit on a weekend when a popular movie comes out, expect this place to be packed!

This place DOES lose points since every time I have come here they have used fake crab meat. I know that has (sadly) become an industry standard for things like California rolls, but I just hate the stuff. Not only was it in the rolls, but I ordered a "chef's choice" and one of my sushi was literally one long strip of fake crab meat tied to a bed of rice with nori. Yuck. I gave...