Gold Taste Sushi and Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Williamsburg

Bottomline: I spent more money and time at this fastfood like place than at the sit down Japanese restaurant on the tourist strip.

Full story: We didn't want to drive to Newport News for Sushi and Kyote isn't that great so I was glad to find another sushi place in Williamsburg. We were disappointed when we pulled up that it looked like a fast food place, menu items above the counter, self serve drinks and few tables. That being said, we were still instructed to take a seat, perhaps because of my 3 children in tow? A nice nonEnglish speaking girl brought us paper menus and asked us what we wanted to drink. So is this full service or nah? She didn't understand lemonade (from the fountain) and brought us a lemon line Gatorade and I ordered a saki but she didn't ask which size or temperature, which might have been fine since it is hot outside she could have assumed cold. It was a full 33 mins until a different lady came around to ask us what we wanted to eat. Now; perhaps I should have gone up to the counter however there was a line of carryout orders and they were also waiting a very long time for their food. One lady was told to get her order at 6pm, but was still not ready at 6:40 so we were not the only ones waiting a long time. I reordered the Saki and also ordered edamame, a shrimp rice bowl, a chicken rice bowl, eel hosomaki and soymaki. The edamame came out (served cold) with a salt shaker on the side. It was very good. The miso soup came out after we had eaten all the edamame and normally I do not like miso soup however since we were starving and a bit chilled from the AC I tried it. It was delicious. The shrimp rice bowl had verge large shrimp that were flavorful and my daughter enjoyed however she commented that the sauce and rest of the bowl were bland. The chicken rice bowl was not very impressive; the chicken was very dry. My eel hosomaki was good. The soymaki was good however I think they used some form of shrimp or crab salad mixture and not real pieces of fish. I would have let the children order ice cream however we had already been there for an hour and a half. I went to the counter to get to go containers and pay. I inquired about how much the saki was thinking I would take one to go however it was 12.99. 12.99...

I have no idea at all why this place has so many positive reviews. The food is solidly OKAY but it's extraordinarily overpriced for what it is. 5 shrimp over a bowl of steamed rice should not be $15.

Alot of the food tastes alright as I said but it's just that - alright, and a few items were actually really terrible. The water here is strangely disgusting, the miso was bland, and the salad tasted unwashed. The items that were good tasted homemade, which is great and all but I mean that it literally tastes like the kind of thing you could make at home. Really simple food, tastes like mom made, but definitely not worth what they charge.

As nice as the old lady running the place is, they forgot 2 of our items and then were reluctant to remove them when we asked for them to be taken from already huge check. It also took them nearly 40 minutes to show up with a salad.

Don't trust the (possibly fake?) reviews and waste your money here. It's hole in the wall food at...

We chose this place because they were the highest rated sushi place in Williamsburg. Atmosphere doesn't matter to me at all but if it does to you, know that this place is a hole in the wall. I give it three stars because the food was disappointing; I have no idea how it's rated so well. The sushi was cold, which I prefer mine slightly warm. The rice was the softest rice I've ever had--almost mushy. The flavor was OK, nothing special, although they put a lot of sesame seeds on the top of the rolls that I had which I enjoyed. Tried their fried rice as well and it was so weird and had a licorice flavor to it. I think I wouldn't have been so disappointed if their prices were a little cheaper, but I'd say this place was actually sightly more expensive than your average sushi joint in hampton roads. Can't say they were awful, but we definitely wished we'd gone...