Sendo Sushi — Restaurant in San Jose

This place is near why work in silicon valley and is a very popular spot for lunch for the surrounding business workers. the restaurant is not very big as many Japanese and sushi restaurants tend to be however it does have a very large menu with lots of different kinds of rolls to choose from. these are less of the traditional role that you see in every sushi restaurant and more of the special concoctions that local sushi restaurants will do that represents the local landscape. Otherwise the menu is your classic Japanese sushi restaurant offerings that includes bento boxes and rice bowls as well as udon soups. Because the foot traffic through this sushi restaurant is relatively high at lunch time they try to serve quickly and give you the bill quickly so don't expect to come here on a weekday and have a casual sit-down lunch with hopes of lingering in conversation beyond finishing your meal. I had the food on soup and found that it was acceptable but did not have any real character or flavor that I will take with me long term. It was beef-flavored and I found the small cuts of beef that were made into small chunks rather than sliced into thin slices were overcooked in the soup and a bit on the tough side to chew and did not really convey a sense of beef flavor in the meat itself. Also had a spicy tuna roll and one of their custom rolls which were both over all fine but the rice surrounding the exterior the sushi seem to be a bit loose and fell apart when picked up and did not have the tight wrap that I prefer on my rolls. The tuna used in the rules that I had ordered were more of the pureed style versus the whole tuna chunks that I also like on...

I'm by default a 5 star reviewer if places meet even basic expectations, but tonight my wife and I had what certainly would qualify as the worst sushi of our lives, and we eat a lot of sushi, even budget sushi. The tuna on our roll was the worst cut of the fish, bloody with no fat, and extremely bad tasting. I literally gagged and spit it out. Not even an amateur chef would dare cook that bad of a piece of meat, let alone use it in sushi. The eel was also terribly fishy tasting and strandy, with large bones I had to pick out. I've never had an eel roll I didn't like until this one. I hate to give a restaurant a bad review because I know the damage it can do first hand, but this was a genuinely bad experience I hope never to repeat. I've had passable sushi here in the past, one time I might have said it almost edged into the "decent sushi" category. I liked this place mainly because it's convenient to my location. In the past I would have given 4 or 5 stars, because it hadn't been "bad" (but not great either), but this experience was a 1 star meal at best, and one bad sushi meal can do a lot of damage (especially for the cost), so I'll settle on 2 stars because I'm not risking spending my money here again, despite prior...

I really feel badly leaving this negative review but I think it will at least aforewarn others when they dine here. We ordered multiple sushi rolls here, most of them range between $14-$19 with a few over $23 each. While some tasted ok, they were ALL (every single roll) just drenched with so much gloopey mayonaise-based sauce it was quite disgusting and salty, actually. The fillings, the great majority of most rolls, have a central "crab" aka fake crab actually made from cheap processed pollock (common fish) base. We would not dine here again, ever. It feels like fast food "sushi". Also, the tables and the walls adjoined to the tables were dirty and splattered with soy sauce. We were grateful for single-use disposable chopsticks. However, to some palettes this type of food may be enjoyed, thus to each their own. ...