Rain Japanese Sushi Bar & Thai — Restaurant in Seminole

To start with, I'm thai and eat alot of sushi. I've been to really bad places, and world class restaurants with renowned michelin star chefs. This restaurant in particular I came to check out because they had pretty good reviews. Unfortunately, I cannot agree with them. The service is good and the restaurant is clean.

My wife is Chinese and ordered the Thai green curry with chicken. She mentioned it was the milkiest Thai curry she's ever had while also lacking flavor. I ordered the Sushi Jo which surprisingly came with a nice variety of fish. Unfortunately, majority of the fish had a dry matte look and mushy texture which tells me its not as fresh. Flavor and quality wasn't there. The miso soup was watered down and tasted like someone added a bunch of salt to make up for it. The salad was typical with decent dressing. I requested low sodium soy sauce and it tasted like regular soy sauce that someone added water to. Rice within the sushi was mushy and overly seasoned with mirin. The seaweed used to wrap the nigiri and roll was thin and of cheap quality.

I also ordered the Botan Ebi which gets confused as Ama Ebi. This to my surprise was fresh and sweet with the shrimp head fried perfectly and a slight drizzle of unagi sauce over it which was just right. Unfortunately the rest of the meal was not of the same caliber. I tried this place due to the high markings, but I dont see how they are justified. If you enjoy big special sushi rolls with 8 different fish in it and drenched in 3 sauces, this may be the place for you. In my opinion, there are better restaurants in the area for...

Really digging Rain. I think this is quickly becoming our go to for sushi and Thai. Discovered Rain at the 2015 Tampa Bay Sushi Battle, was happy to find out that it's in St Pete! Restaurant is in a nondescript strip mall. Parking can be tight sometimes.

Restaurant is nicely decorated and has a nice ambiance. Quiet enough for a nice date night or you can bring the family and enjoy a night out. We have tried both sushi and Thai dishes. Almost everything we have tried has been delicious.

The sushi rolls we have tried so far are the Pregnant Woman, Heck Yea and spider rolls. All were very good and had nice flavor. Pad Thai is done right here! It's not the sickly sweet orange kind you find at almost all other Thai spots. It's got the right combo of sweet, salty, sour and spicy. Yum! The salmon curry is delicious, very savory and flavorful.

Oh- also last time we were there, we were given some kind of fermented soy mung bean sprout appetizer- I need the recipe because this is a side dish I want for home lol. The miso soup and ginger salad are also spot on here. Most of the time I will pass on these appetizers because of either lack of flavor or freshness but I really enjoyed them at Rain. Only thing that we did not like was the teriyaki chicken that someone at the table ordered. The chicken was very dry and did not have much flavor.

Service has been excellent and friendly. Would recommend to anyone looking for sushi and/or Thai...

Oh man, we REEEEALLY wanted to love their food. Presentation was fantastic and the menu is full of creative, seemingly bold-flavored rolls and entrees. After a bite however, they fell flat :(

I ordered the stalker roll, which supposedly has spicy crawfish inside with smelt roe and scallions, covered on top with tuna, salmon, and spicy teriyaki sauce and wasabi mayo. Once you read this description, you are expecting a bold, spicy explosion of flavors in your mouth. However, once I tasted... this happened to be one of the mildest rolls I've ever had. Just a tiny zing after putting almost the entire sidr serving of wasabi on top of the other 2 presumably spicy toppings.i had to dip it in gochujang sauce and spicy chili sauce that I had at home to have some flavor. Also, couldn't taste the smelt roe? Either nonexistent or such tiny sprinkle inside I couldn't taste it.

My husband had the house special fried rice. It came with huge chunks of chicken, beef, shrimp, and many other ingredients, which made it look GREAT. But then again, after you taste it, it really is nothing to write home about.

We were respecting way more flavor and everything seemed way too mild. Maybe most positive reviews are dated. Rain should really take note of their older reviews and make their dishes BOLD again! Please! With your amazing- looking menu, there's so...