Tsunami Panhandle — Restaurant in San Francisco

Supremely underwhelming and disappointingly expensive. Be prepared to spend $200 and still be hungry, even during happy hour (like in our case). We ordered the miso cod and carpaccio along with a bottle of beringer wine. If you order a bottle, you get a dozen oysters free. Sounds good? Not really. You’d expect fat, plump oysters, but the meat was the size of a quarter each. Two of them were mashed; not sure what happened there? Maybe they got destroyed in the opening process? I accidentally bit into pieces of broken shell that were left in those oysters too. The cod and carpaccio were good, but tiny as heck for their price. By the way, the other comments were no lie- they tack on a 20% tip onto your bill which is outrageous considering service was average, at best. It’s embarrassing that you think it’s ok to do this to your patrons. If you want to support your staff, support them from your own pockets. We live in SF and have never seen any other restaurant do this. Tips should be appreciated, not expected. If you’re going to pull this kind of stunt, I would expect tremendous service on par with that found in fine dining restaurants- have your waiters clean the table in between dishes and give new cutlery and new plates without us having to ask (our waitress took our serving plates and didn’t replace them, even though we ordered a roll to share between us). At the end of the night, we were still starving but did not want to spend another penny here. We were researching other places to eat nearby so we wouldn’t go home hungry. Will...

I wish I had checked this place out sooner--it's terrific! Aside from the extensive and impressive collection of sakes, shochus, whiskeys, and cocktails, the food here is top notch. The rolls are so creative and intriguing it was hard to pick just one, and the one we ended up trying, the Black Sabbath, was excellent. Definitely have to come back and try more. We loved the Torch My Belly appetizer, a heavenly serving of seared salmon belly paired with a savory salad, and the hamachi kama was pretty good, though not the best we have had. The shining star for me was the sushi. We ordered the chu toro nigiri, and this was the runaway favorite not just because it's an obviously fatty and delightful cut of fish. The rice was a level above the best sushi places in the area, with the perfect amount, texture, and flavor. I could order that rice with even the lowliest selection of fish and and still cry with happiness. Can't wait to explore the rest...

This place is disgusting (at least the fish/sushi was).

Came in for dinner. That atmosphere looked great and we were seated quickly at the sushi bar.

I started with an matured tuna nigiri (2pcs). One of the pieces had a massive bone in it. I left the bone in the middle of the plate for the sushi chef to see and they ignored it.

Then came out rolls: the pepper one tasted decent the other one we got (with Tuna on top) had the nastiest looking tuna on top.

The worst part of sitting at the sushi bar was seeing each roll - with a similarly disgusting quality of fish (discoloration and worse) come out like clockwork.

It was the first time I could remember where I was too disgusted to finish a roll of sushi, despite under-ordering.

Maybe this is a happy hour spot. The fries and fried oysters looked decent — but avoid like the plague for actual...