Sushi Bayashi

I give this place two stars for a couple of reasons. First, we were the very first customers for the day and our ramen still took 35 minutes to come out. It was understandable that they had to heat up the food so that didn’t bother me much until later, but I will get to that. Second, my Chanpon Noodle– (Pork and chicken broth with soymilk, shrimp, scallop, pork belly, kanikama crab, wood ear mushrooms, garlic, onions, and fish-​cake) came out warm so I asked the waitress to have it microwaved because I like my broth to be hotter. The waitress then brought my bowl back out with bean sprouts all over the ramen. Somehow, It had turned into bean sprout soup when that was a non-​included ingredient. I was fine with it because I have no problem with bean sprouts. Just thought it was a little weird coming back to me differently than its original form. I then took a few bites, until I I got to a piece of scallop. It was fishy and smelly so my appetite was lost all together. I’m afraid to come back and try their sushi after this experience. Tip: for a better ramen experience, head over to Ten Ramen. Their lobster ramen have real lobster chunks. Other than a few shrimp and scallops, Sushi Bayashi uses imitation crab meat and and fish cakes. Not worth the price they charges.

Food was decent but the wait was so extreme that we’re never coming back.
We were seated by the hostess and then after 10 minutes of sitting there ended up having to walk up to the bar to ask for water and then the hostess to ask if we even had a waitress.
She showed up a couple minutes later and we immediately gave her our orders.
Our app came fairly fast but an hour later our friends hadn’t gotten their single basic rolls.
This is with 3 sushi chefs and at least 3 waitstaff, and plenty of empty tables around. Do yourself a favor and go literally anywhere else.

Always enjoy the food even though I’m not a huge sushi guy. Spicy tuna tower is great and the pumpkin soup was such a pleasant surprise. The staff is patient and explains everything to me. Good spot and a large menu for non-​sushi eaters.

I’m torn with this place, so I’m giving it a middle of the road, average rating for now. good enough for me to try it again, but definitely learned what I won’t be getting in the future.
Tonkatsu Ramen: Light yet creamy, full flavored yet not oily and rich without the heaviness. All this with a heavy amount of noodles definitely brings me happiness for this dish! Extremely glad I tried it, and will definitely be getting it again!
Japanese style pumpkin: tasting like it’s been braised or slow roasted for hours, this tender sweet squash is the perfect flavor combo when eaten with the soy ground chicken and green onions top the ingredient.
Yellowtail roll: nothing on the menu but just a simple roll with yellowtail, green onions and cucumber. Typically a light and fresh flavor, but here, sushi is just not done right. Too much rice and the quality of fish seemed worse than grocery store sushi! I was quite surprised!
Overall come here for cooked Japanese style plates; skip the rolls!

My first time here was strictly for their desserts. I saw a Facebook post of the bamkuchen and cheesecake. I had no idea what the bamkuchen was and looked it up. It’s Japanese layered cake. I also looked up to see if any other restaurants in Dallas offers it but no luck. I came here and absolutely loved it. If you only come for the desserts you will thank me. It’s worth trying.

So I gave this place another try and ate ahi towers, sashimi, sushi rolls, pork cheek, agedashi tofu, green tea cheesecake, tofu dessert. All the fish dishes were pretty good! The roll with softshell crab was… forgettable. And don’t get the tofu dessert. Weird texture.
DON’T get the ramen. DO get the sushi.

This place is insanely aesthetic…
That being said, I REALLLLLY wanted this place to be amazing. I REALLLLY wanted to fall in love with this place…
So it is a very Japanese-​feel place with wooden seats and share-​tables. They have their «special» more «weird» menu items written all over the chalkboard and walls. It is dim-​lit romantic lighting.
The actual menu they hand you is very short and simple. One page front and back and their sushi list is just as short and simple.
We got one of the specialty items on the chalkboard– some salmon platter with roe and enoki mushrooms. It SOUNDED like it should have been fresh but it came out baked… surprise!
That was okay with us, we should have asked about it. But the problem was that it was insanely SALTY. It was like drinking ocean water. We both took our first bites, looked at each other in confusion, and I spat my mouthful back out into the napkin.
We told our server and she apologized and told the manager and offered us a replacement appetizer.
We chose the beef tongue. OMG this… THIS WAS AMAZING. They definitely did this one right. It was a thick, juicy and tender cut with the perfect amount of slight seasoning. It came out sizzling hot and we couldn’t have finished the plate any quicker. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
Finally, our rolls came out. I got two simple rolls– a tuna roll and a yellowtail roll. My friend got the rainbow roll.
We both finished our rolls and said in unison– «It was ALRIGHT» at best. It was so mediocre… which made me sad after that amazing beef tongue plate.
A sushi place should not have «just mediocre» rolls… especially in a place like this and in Dallas where it is near SOOO many cut-​throat sushi competition.
I’d love to give this place another try some time later on because I think it has a lot of potential. But for now, it gets a 3 star from me.

Atmosphere: very nice. Great place to take a date quiet and can be romantic.
Food: no complaints, tried the sushi rolls, ramen, and tuna dumplings with a Japanese beer and wine
Customer service: staff was very friendly
Great experience

The tonkotsu Ramen here is disgusting. I hate to say it but I took a sip of the broth as customary before you take a bite and it didn’t have any trace or flavor. I caveat this with I came with a group of 14 people about 4 hours before closing time so maybe they didn’t have enough Ramen and added a lot of water.
The interior of the restaurant is cute though. Wooden tables and backless seats in a very open concept. Don’t miss the large chalkboard across the back wall with various menu items that you won’t find in the printed menu.
The service was okay here. Initially our waitress came by swiftly with water before taking our drink and appetizer order as more members of our party arrived. However she was not to be found when we finished our appetizers and drinks became empty. I had to wave a different staff member over who I asked to have our main entrees ordered. His respond was «oh I’ll get another person to take it, I really just walk around.» Well what a helpful person that guy was. I don’t intend to be mean but I’m a person in a restaurant trying to get the attention of a staff member, what could I possibly need? I mean it’s not rocket science that I may need assistance with a food item of sorts.
Also, a woman who I believed to be a manager came by, she poured my friends beer into his glass and then poured the remaining beer into another person’s glass. Uh I know we are all friends but I don’t think her just doing that is appropriate. My friend probably wanted to drink his entire beer by himself.
My recommendation, skip this.

Terrible taste. I should start by saying I’m a sushi fanatic/​snob and went in expecting great food. What we got was «interesting». My date and I walked in around 10:00 pm for a snack.
We ordered the $ 19 Dynamite Crawfish roll on the waitresses recommendation. It’s a large roll and we really tried to like it. It LOOKS nice but in the end it tasted terrible. The fried popcorn crawfish was over-​fried to the point of being chewy. The temperature of the crab layer that lays on top of the sushi pieces was both hot and cold in spots that speaks to a lack of attention to detail. The mixture of flavors were «interesting» pairings and the fish in the underlying roll was «on the edge».
Neither my date nor I could eat the roll it was so bad. We left more than 80% of it on the plate. I told the waitress we really didn’t like it. She walked back and rang up the bill anyway. As she walked back she turned around and consulted with another lady who looked to be the manager, they conferred a bit and then she gestured to still deliver the bill.
If you are the kind of person who can be excited just because you are «eating sushi» then this is your spot. If you expect your sushi to actually taste OMG good and have great service then I would never recommend this place.
Lastly, if a customer orders one item that the waitress recommended, informs the management that they really can’t enjoy/​eat it and the customer is charged anyway? That’s pretty damned sketchy service and management. I will never return. Shame on you Sushi Bayashi.

Lots of good things are happening here – we had very friendly service on a mostly uncrowded Monday evening on the patio. Great time to go!
Sake was $ 6 on Happy Hour and our server allowed us to sample a couple before choosing and they were really good!
Here’s why the 5 stars–
About 15 years ago I had an extended stay in Japan and learned to really like this chain of diners they have there called Coco Ichibanya where they served an awesome katsu curry – a breaded, fried pork cutlet half smothered in their brown curry sauce (w/​a side of rice) and you can dial it up to however hot/​spicy you’d like it according to their 1 – 10 scale. I could barely get past a 6 and I love spicy food!
Upon returning to the States, I’ve had a 15-​year Dallas-​based odyssey of trying to find katsu curry. For the first several years there was nothing, and then «Foodies» exploded and finally in recent years the dish has made some appearances in the Metroplex. None of them were exactly like the Japanese Coco version – until now!
I’m tellin’ ya, this was exactly what I’ve searched for all these years. The pork tasted and crunched correctly and was half-​covered in the exact brown curry sauce I needed, and even included the red pickled radishes or whatever that Coco’s had in the middle of the white rice.
The only thing it lacked was an option to make it spicy. When I return and have the dish again, I’ll be bringing my secret container of HOT to sprinkle on. Then the circle will be complete…

Trinity Groves continues to bloom. Trendy restaurants continue to pop up… some hit, and some miss. The location seems to give you that advantage to succeed though. As long as you have good food, the crowds are there. Sushi Bayashi is in the right location, and based on my experience, they will definitely succeed.
My sister was in town, so I wanted to take her someplace nice on her last night here. The great part about the strip of restaurants in Trinity Groves is the variety of cuisines in one spot. Just walk up, and take your pick of the type of food that you’d like. The thought of sushi and ramen enticed us, so Sushi Bayashi was the decision.
It was a Sunday night, so the TG area wasn’t as packed as it would have been the previous night. We just left the Cowboys game, so the absence of a crowd was something I was looking forward to. We were starving, so once seated all of our heads immediately went to the menu. Here’s a tip, right above the sushi bar, there’s a HUGE board loaded with specials for the day that aren’t in the menu… be sure to take a look up there as well.
I really wanted noodles, but I noticed a interesting roll on the menu as well. Why not get both? Don’t mind if I do! (Typing to myself while doing this review is weird) I forgot the name of the roll that I ordered, but it consisted of asparagus inside the roll, and it was topped with slices of eggplant. It was legit. Most of the time when you get a veggie roll, it is either cucumber or avocado. I love to see the creativity and great flavor in rolls like this. The eggplant had almost a eel-​like look to it. Very well done! I also ordered the Miso Ramen. I asked them to leave out the ground chicken and the egg which was not a problem for them to do. The broth was very flavorful and the ingredients were fresh. The combination of the miso and the sweet corn was great. The noodles were decent. There was nothing wrong with them, but they didn’t live up to the level that the broth was on. Very good dish. My sister and my fiancé ordered a few rolls too which they thoroughly enjoyed. Everyone was satisfied.
The next time you wander down the long aisle of restaurants in Trinity Groves, stop by Sushi Bayashi and give it a try if you haven’t already. I’m definitely going back!

I love this place partly because Yuki will make my old favorites from Sushi on McKinney. (That’s where two of my buddies each took their second wives for their first dates.) (I took several potential wives there but landed with just one. And she loves the place too.)
The «cup» sake — little cans are really cool servings. Only six bucks each at happy hour. Incidentally 16 ounce Asahi extra dry beers are only four dollars at happy hour.
One of the best things here also comes free when you order sashimi. It’s the fresh wasabi relish called kizami. Yes the real wasabi folks.
This is going to be a great place to sponsor my daughter’s 18^th birthday party.

The Trinity Groves area is a perfect place to go if you aren’t sure what you’re in the mood for. Sushi Bayashi is a great option. I really like the long wooden tables and the large chalkboard with menu options on it. The service overall was exceptional and they made sure that we were satisfied several times. I had the tonkotsu ramen and I thought it was alright. It certainly wasn’t memorable to me. The portions are huge so you definitely get your moneys worth.

Trinity groves is a growing area with a LOT of potential. Sushi bayashi lucked out in the location because i honestly think that’s what’s keeping the business alive. I feel horrible for saying that but as many chances as I wanted to give it, it failed me each time!
Octopus croquettes, eh. Comes with a dipping sauce that was pretty good but the croquette in itself I didn’t care for. The tonkotsu ramen we ordered tasted horribly… Not that it was disgusting and inedible type of horrible but when you dive deep into the DFW for legit ramen and then you come here for ramen, you’ll be disappointed by mainly their broth which tastes like powdered ramen broth mixed with water. The noodles didn’t impress me either. I feel bad for comparing their ramen to growing ramen restaurants in the DFW since their restaurant does not focus mainly on serving ramen but for a sushi restaurant in trinity groves I kind of expected a little more than powdered ramen broth =\ also, the chili oil that comes separately from the ramen bowl had absolutely no taste to it. It was literally red flavorless oil.
Service was okay. It was completely dead when we were there. It was us plus one other couple with a baby. It was so dead it felt a little awkward in that the chefs and hostess were kind of just staring around… Doooooo doooo dooooo… La la La… Lol
I forgot to mention their overly extensive chalkboard menu (in addition to a smaller hand out menu). It’s huge… Seemed like they had a lot to offer when it came to appetizers, sushi, sashimi… we didn’t get to try either of them but given my experience, I don’t have future plans to come back. Sounds unfair but after reading other Unilocalers’ opinions. I’m not really convinced!

I’ve eaten here for both lunch and dinner. Lunch was a bento-​box type meal with some tempura, agedashi tofu, soup, and other items. The soup was way too salty and the rest were decent. Average meal, all in all.
Dinner was a better experience, with a hiccup or two. My friends and I wanted to enjoy the weather and sat outside, but the regular menu is somewhat limited and the specials menu (which seems to be the menu to order from) was written on a giant chalkboard inside. Thanks to smartphone technology, I was able to take photos of the chalkboard and view the menu from my phone while enjoying the patio. Now on to the food. .. .
Among the items we shared were some sashimi pieces, natto with tuna sashimi, chicken gizzards, the hamachi kama (yellowtail collar), and chanpon ramen noodles. None of the items blew my mind, but they were all enjoyable. One note though — the natto, which is fermented soybeans with sashimi, isn’t for everyone. I grew up in a Korean household and am used to stinky fermented soybeans, but I didn’t love this dish. I found it a little bland, in fact. Other in my party, however, claimed this was their favorite dish of the night. Go figure.
I can’t say I love Sushi Bayashi, but I’m glad for the sushi option in Trinity Groves. And I would come back here if I were in the mood for some Japanese food in a fun patio setting.

I had pretty high hopes for this this place and some of them were met, some of them weren’t. ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ we’ll say.
I’m a big admirer of sushi, but I think my mistake was in assuming that this was a primarily sushi restaurant. It’s a Japanese restaurant that has sushi.
But I made my mistake and ordered only sushi. The sushi was good and priced regularly but there was nothing ecstatic about it. The portions were fair and the quality was high but the options were limited. Looking at the food menu, there wasn’t really that much to go off of either. I should have probably ordered from the huge chalkboard that had a bunch of specials on it but it went largely ignored cause no one brought our attention to it and by the time we noticed, we had already ordered.
The service was quick though and the seating arrangement was awesome! It felt like a good mix between modern and traditional so it made the meal pleasurable. I’ll come back here to try some of the other options out soon I’m sure. Maybe the blackboard holds all the answers?

Delicious ramen! Ate here with the boyfriend one night and was pleasantly surprised. So good we came back a few nights later.
The broth is milky and flavorful, the noodles cooked al dente, the meat cooked to perfection, and the sprouts are a delightful new twist. Apps are good too. Wish they had more skewer dishes. Agedashi tofu, baby octupus, uni nigiri, and gizzards are some of our favorites from what we’ve sampled. Sushi not as fresh as Teppo or tei an but, eh, I come for the ramen!
We’ll be back more to stuff our faces. It’s good stuff.
Also, communal sitting is a bit awkward for some people but here they have a red divider. That privatizes your space some. And with the noise level. You still have plenty of elbow room too.
They carry a good selection of Asian beers.

If you are expecting specialty sushi rolls covered in sauce and triple fried in tempura batter, this is NOT the place for you. Let me reiterate: if you love sushi because of the taste of seafood and not the sauces that drown popular westernized rolls, this is the place to go. You even get Japanese classics like inari and futomaki.
I was a bit wary with the communal seating they have setup because I ignorantly believe the people of Dallas really like their personal space. I like the seating arrangement though and it does make it easier to eavesdrop on the drama that inflicts other first world people. You can sit at the bar if you wish to not be judged.
The kabocha (stewed Japanese pumpkin) is extremely good and comforting. I love things that are sweet and savory and their kabocha was perfect! I could have just ordered that with a side of rice if I really wanted to throw down. It does need something a bit bland to pair with because it has a lot of flavor.
I tried their Chanpon, this huge bowl of noodles and seafood, and it really reminded me of saimin. Another comfort food item for me here at Sushi Bayashi! It had slices of fishcake in it too and was loaded with noodles. It could have fed at least three people in total.
The tuna sashimi was fair as well and I’m so glad they had futomaki. Unfortunately it had a piece of avocado in it, but it wasn’t enough to make me gag. I love how they have house made soy sauce too and fresh wasabi as an option. The sushi in general though is just average, which may be the reason why the prices are so affordable.
If I haven’t convinced you yet with their cheap sushi and delicious Japanese pumpkin, come here and get a bottle of $ 15 wine for your cheap date. Seriously, just don’t let her look at the check. She will think you took her to a fancy place in Trinity Groves when it’s actually the most reasonably priced restaurant there ;)

Sushi Bayashi at Trinity Groves is the latest addition to Trinity Groves. A true Japanese restaurant, Bayashi serves up quality «Tokyo style» eats, including quality sushi & ramen. Another bonus is the prices are pretty good, as most TG restaurants are a little higher in price.
My Overall Rating — 4 Stars (Atmosphere, Service, Food, Return)
Atmosphere — Sushi Bayashi has a really cool feel. Inside you’ll find long, communal tables & a large chalk board in the back with the menu. Additional cool touches include Japanese banners hanging from above and large containers on the side. It has a really unique, open feel and when combined with good weather, it is extended into the patio. 1 Star.
Service — Our server was nice & attentive. We went opening week and while general service was good, I would have liked to have known more about the menu & concept. But like I said, general service is fine, I just think there was a lost opportunity to differentiate. ½ Star.
Food — The one thing that drew us to Sushi Bayashi was the fact they served ramen. The good news is the Tonkatsu Ramen had a nice, flavorful broth. The ramen was soft and pork & egg were great additions. I wish I could have ordered extra items to add a la cart like at Tei-​An, but it was a quality bowl. The hamachi kama was also a favorite, with lemon pepper brushed on top and grilled Hamachi. You can also order freshly grated wasabi. For dessert we went with the fried udon, which was like eating a chewy funnel cake (this is a good thing). We finished with ice cream wafers which ended our unique meal. 1 ½ Stars.
Will I Return? — Yes. Not only is Sushi Bayashi a nice addition to Trinity Groves, it’s a great Japanese restaurant for Dallas. I will come back for the atmosphere, fried udon, and quality ramen. Another great option for TG!
My Unilocal Rating Scale (Sum of all parts):
1 Star — Atmosphere — Is it a cool dive? Perhaps an upscale place? No matter the type, atmosphere plays a big part and I’ll give a star if I like it or thinks it has great charm.
1 Star — Service — You can have a great meal with bad service. But that’s also what can make a five star joint drop to four. It’s important to the dining experience that service is great and on point.
2 Stars — Food — I’ll award up to two stars for the food, since this is the main reason we dine out. Sometimes the extra star is given for value, but it’s really all about the food.
1 Star — Will I come back? — If I know for a fact I’ll return, I’ll give this a star. A place has to make an impression for me to return.
Each Category can be given up to 1 star except food (2 stars) because I consider all these categories important to the overall dining experience. I will sum them up to provide my final Unilocal score.