Boto Sushi — Restaurant in San Diego

I have arrived at this restaurant earlier to wait for my daughter and husband to join me for dinner. I walked into the place-with the mask on; the host asked me if the whole party has arrived, I answered not yet. She pointed outside and said: "I can't sit you till your whole party has arrived; you need to wait outside." I walked out of the restaurant and waited. It was a freezing night and windy; I got very cold and decided to walk back to the restaurant. I was asking the host if I can stay inside in the front area. Having it said, it's a pretty good size area and plenty of room for others still keep social distance, and it was a slow night; I only saw two couples walked in the whole time I was there. The host pointed to the other side of the corner and said: "Please stay over there." I moved over to the exact place she told me. After about 5 minutes, a woman walked over and spoke to me extremely rude: "You can't stand here; you need to get out." It was very unexpected, and I answered:" Your host told me that I could stand here to wait for my parties to come; it's freezing to wait outside now." "This is our rule, and you can's standing here, get out, Now.." I asked, " If you would not allow me to stand here, why can't you sit me at the table since you are not busy at all?". She did not even wait for me to finish my question, took the menu out of my hand and said to me: "We are not serving you anymore; you need to leave." One thing I can see this woman is living a horrible life and need to get some professional help. Obvious this pandemic made her out of her mind and sense of being an actual human. But thank this pathetic woman, we end up at one of the best Janapnes restaurants that my daughter found - Shushi Kami at Rancho Bernado Rd, with excellent service and great food. If you don't want to be treated like a "Low Person" and being showed as "They are the King, and you are the slaves..".DO NOT GO THERE . Go...

The restaurant is nice, however we were greeted by an overwhelming smell of “spray and wipe” an hour before closing. They were most likely cleaning all the tables at that time. Everyone was friendly and the atmosphere was nice. It was very hard to find any sushi on the menu without crab meat. The imitation crab overtook the taste of every roll we ordered and they pretty much all tasted the same. Ended up enjoying the one roll with salmon and avocado the most, which was almost the only roll we found without crab meat. The cheap imitation crab meat (mixed with mayo) was the largest part of the rolls regardless of price. We couldn’t really find options without it. I would not recommend this restaurant for sushi, perhaps something else on the menu. I had to give it three stars regardless of friendly service because every single sushi is imitation crab based, about 50%...

3.5 stars for the food and an extra 0.5 stars for their playlist, because that was my playlist!

got seated immediately without needing reservations on a Friday night. The server was quick but nice, which may not always be the case in Asian restaurants. We got the salmon and blue tail tuna sashimi and the El Puesto and Lost at Sea rolls. I also got hot sake.

The sashimi was pretty good. I liked the salmon more than the tuna. Among the rolls, the El puesto was supposed to be spicy but it wasn't really spicy. The sauce and the jalapeno didn't do much heat wise. It was good but I expected a kick. The Lost at Sea was supposed to be a mild roll and it was tasty. The sake could also have had more of a kick. It felt a little buttery.

Is this the best sushi I've had? No. Will I come back here again? Yes, because it is good food and their music...