Nishimura

09/10/08

Best Food

by erwinyu888 at Citysearch

I went 2 weeks ago, the food was extremely good and fresh. I am not looking for any service and I am not even paying attention to that. All I care was the the sashimi. They are the best so far. Price is high, but you pay what you get. If you are planning to get Hand rolls, go somewhere else. This is for those who's really know how to eat sashimi.

02/25/08

Avoid Nishimura's on Melrose

by nobu74 at Citysearch

I went there this past weekend and it was horrible. I concur with the negative reviews of this place.

The sashimi is over priced, the wait staff was very rude, the sushi chef made substitutions on items he didn't have on the menu without consulting with us or telling us (he finally came clean when we confronted him), and our hand rolls were falling apart on the dish as the server put it on the table. My nearly blind grandmother can hand roll cleaner than Nishimura.

When we left the servers just stared at us as we were leaving. They said nothing! Avoid this place and go to Sushi Gen in Little Tokyo.

01/04/08

This place has completely fallen apart

by rw74 at Citysearch

Used to go there all the time. Back then the food was great. Service was great. BUT TONIGHT WAS THE WORST RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE I'VE HAD IN YEARS. First, when I called to make a reservation they told me they were fully booked. I asked if there were any cancellations on account of the torrential downpour. They 'somehow' found a cancellation that they had overlooked. At no point during our experience was the restaurant more than half full.

It took 20 minutes to get a drink and another 10 to order. In the first 45 minutes we received a few dishes (one of them something we didn't even order) but then NOTHING for the next HOUR. We asked the waitstaff about our food and they kept telling us it was coming. All the while the sushi chef was chatting with the patrons at the bar. When 20 minutes later we asked if our food was coming out soon they told us that they only have one sushi chef and things are slow tonight... oh, and he hadn't even started making our food. we demanded the check and walked out, still hungry, 1hour and 45 minutes after we arrived. what is wrong with the guy!?! the whole point of me going to your restaurant is that i want to EAT. If i wanted to sit and hear your talk with your customers I would have brought a friggin sandwich and a beer. with that kind of treatment of his customers I can only wonder how quickly he is going to go out of business.

there are way too many great sushi restaurants in LA for me to ever even bother with that place.

• Cons: They never brought me my meal.