Sakura Japanese Restaurant

This was my first time eating lunch there. I did the all you can eat lunch special. Everything I had was delicious. This place had sushi hand rolls. I had a spicy tuna hand roll for the first time, and it was so good I ended up having two more. I also had a spicy salmon hand roll which is also excellent. In the picture you can see two Japanese spring rolls which were good, and I also had a house salad. Their lunch special is the same price all week, which is great. I will definitely be going there after church on Sunday as they open up at 11:00 a.m. . Highly recommend this place, good service, excellent sushi and friendly staff.

To put this in perspective, this is an all you can eat sushi place in a strip mall in the Walmart parking lot. Having said that, I couldn’t be more impressed. I’ve been in Norfolk almost a month, coming from San Diego, where sushi places are on every corner. I stayed away from sushi because I didn’t think it could stand up against my standards. This place definitely tried to impress. The real reason I was willing to try this place is because of everybody’s review saying how nice the staff was, they couldn’t be more right. Everybody I met was genuinely a nice person. They really tried hard with the decor, it reminded me of some of the little sushi places I used to go to in Japan. I opted for the all you can eat lunch menu, it wasn’t huge in terms of raw fish but they did have a lot of options. As far as I could tell the only raw fish was salmon, tuna and red snapper. We made these work the best we could. I tried the salmon and the tuna as well as the spicy salmon and spicy tuna, no spicy red snapper but the red snapper nigiri was good. I also tried various roles that were all very good. Some of the reviews mentioned $26 all you can eat, which isn’t bad, that is what you pay in San Diego for lunch, $32+ for dinner. When I got my bill, my lunch was $16.95. I ordered 12 things off the sushi menu and only paid $17. Not only did I walk out of there stuffed, I was so impressed with the price. I will be back.

The all you can eat sushi is $26.95 per person however worth the price. The sushi is fresh and the kitchen items came out fast and hot.

Pretty sure this is new management because the time I came here over 3 years ago I was unimpressed. The owners who run it now really seem to care about the service and check up on every table. The chefs care about quality, rice to fish proportion, and presentation. I was throughly impressed and satisfied.

This will now be my go to sushi place!

Came all the way from N. Virginia to celebrate daughter's birthday for some fresh sushi buffet. Our favorite sushi spot. Wish there are more like it. Great customer service and delicious food.