O NIGIRI & SUSHI — Restaurant in Santa Barbara

The Five Stars I have given to Shintory Sushi Is for the way it was run and managed by the previous owner and her staff, and not for this present day staff and owner, they will eventually drive this great awesome little down to ground and probably to a close out situation, because they are soooo horrible at managing this wonderful little Sushi place. It has been a long time since I have eaten here at Shintory Sushi, but I used live it, when the previous owner had it it was more pleasant and the service was excellent and friendlier, now with this new owner not so much last time I was there it was I think Christmas Eve of 2015 and it was horrible and the worst experience ever nothing like with the previous owner, like when I first I walked in one of the waitress’s asked me what I was doing there and then when I tried to seat at one of sushi bar seat a different waitress wouldn’t have it and so i totally had it by then with the rudeness and walked out went across the street to Kyoto Sushi which they are not as good as Shintory but hey by this I was starved, so I just went with it! So no I wouldn’t recommend Shintory with the new owner and new staff waaay too rude and nasty, and mean and totally...

Love atmosphere of the restaurant however I had an awful experience when dinning. Long story not-so-short my friend and I were brought white rice with wet boiled vegetables in a bowl when we had ordered vegetarian fried rice to share. The food was shuffled around as we searched for anything fried about the rice. We asked the waiter if what was in front of us was the dish we ordered and said it was similar but not the same one. When she told her manager we wanted to have the dish we ordered he immediately argued with us saying that it is our fault for not ordering the correct menu item and we should have told him sooner before touching it. His attitude was extremely unprofessional as we felt threatened to be there. After we paid the check he told us we were "unwelcome" and banned from going to the restaurant again. Completely unprofessional staff,...

If you're truly a sushi fan this is not the place for you. Shintori is a budget sushi roll restaurant. There's nothing wrong with that, but expect minimal fish options and ALL specials are rolls. It seems like most of them have fake "krab" or spicy tuna. A higher end restaurant would show their FISH specials.

Since they seem to focus on rolls, after some nigiri I tried the avocado scallop roll. Their menu was correct - no where did it say "scallops." My roll did, in fact, have one bay scallop. It was mostly rice and some goo. As we sat at the bar, we saw the chef repeatedly reach for a big tub of this goo that he used continuously. In decades of eating sushi around the world (including Tokyo, Kyoto, etc.), I've never seen this before. I'm guessing it's some cheap filler as it was not...