Wasabi Sushi Bar

Some of the best sushi I’ve ever had. Thankful I found this place, because it was able to turn my boyfriend into a sushi lover. We eat here about once a week — it is our go to. We have been to 3 Wasabi locations and this is by far the best one. The wait staff is great, especially the manager, he constantly goes out of his way to say hello and make sure your visit is exceptional. Monday nights are a great deal — 2for1 rolls. The food is absolutely delicious. I recommend the Fox roll!

We eat here once a week. Good selections of rolls and good amount of none rare/​sushi selection. Husband loves the beef teriyaki and the spicy shrimp app is always a good way to start the meal. Staff is awesome as well

Best sushi in town, hands down. Monday night specials are a great value, and even the non-​roll asian foods are delicious (Spicy chicken is so good). Rolls are fresh, good sized, and delicious.

The best sushi in town. Love the Cali, Veggie, St Louis and Philly rolls. I could eat here once a week!

I eat by myself frequently since I travel for work and this is one place that knows how to handle a customer dining solo. It’s not awkward or overly chatty. I love the Washington ave sushi roll and make a trip there at least once a week while in town

Very good!
My sister goes here quite a bit. Nice outdoor seating area. Service was good and fast.
Fish was fresh. Side salad basic yummy dressing.
Dip for tempura veggies was bland but veggies are good.
Will be back!

I’ve been to a few STL Wasabi’s. The T&C location is my favorite sushi joint in town! So naturally, I was a little disappointed with this location. They made a couple typical sushi mistakes: too much rice and too much extra crunch and sauces. The veggie tempura wasn’t even cooked. My sweet potato was crunchy. I think it’s best to stick to the other locations for local area Wasabi’s.

I eat at Wasabi with the other attorneys I work with often for lunch. I recommend starting with the Squid salad and then ordering rolls to share. Wasabi has a wide variety of rolls including ones that are decadent, fried, and delicious. I’m sure I’ll eat here again for lunch.

While many from the area are ride or die for Wasabi Sushi, I’ve definitely had better sushi out there. The sushi was actually decent, but the service was a huge turn off for me hence the low rating. We came here for a friend’s birthday with about 12 people. The dining room itself is pretty tiny so accommodating a group our size was a bit difficult. There is additional outdoor seating as well. If you’re not sure what to order, I’d recommend going in a larger group so you can try out different types of rolls and figure out what you really like.
Some of the rolls I remember us ordering included:
–Playboy roll (Shrimp Tempura & Spicy Tuna Roll, topped with Salmon & Avocado)
–Fox roll (Shrimp Tempura & Cucumber, topped with Avocado & Crunch)
–Kamikaze roll (Spicy Tuna, Crab, Avocado Roll, Deep Fried, Served with Ponzu)
–Geisha roll (Tuna, Yellowtail, Smoked Eel, Cucumber, Wasabi Tobiko)
–Wasabi Special (California Roll, Spicy Crunch, Chili Mayo)
Like I stated earlier, the rolls were fine, but the major issue I had was with the service. The first mistake was to put all of the maki rolls together in a single boat for all 12 people which made it difficult for people at one end of the table to grab the rolls they ordered. Furthermore, the server failed to tell everyone which rolls they ordered which left us to differentiate between the rolls on our own. He wasn’t attentive and didn’t do the best job of checking in on us to make sure everything was okay. I get that we were a larger group with only one server, but it was disappointing nonetheless. Maybe assign more than one server next time? I’d be willing to give Wasabi another shot, but definitely with less people. Check in on your Unilocal app and get a 10% discount!

It is time to wasabi another try read below
If you have been disappointed by Wasabi in the past. It is time to give them another try. They went through headquarter changes as an article in sauce/​feast magazine in I believe February 2014 and are now on point an true contender for your sushi dollars!!!
After over a year, I was invited back to try the wasabi I knew when they first opened up in edwardsville. I was more than overwhelmed. The fish more than fresh, it was simple beautiful. My husband who enjoys sushi, not rolls. He had the sashimi said was superb. My pieces of nigiri fresh and perfect. If you are a true sushi person, not just rolls, although their rolls are fantastic, rice which is one the true signs of a great sushi place. The rice was as rice should be right
texture, yes taste, and constancy. Chef Won is obviously very skill and knows what he is doing. He served a fabulous piece of sea bass, that brought tears as I ate it. Beautifully seared, on a wonderful crispy rice cake with a sweet, mild heat, tangy party in your mouth experience. I trust him. I am sure my husband will be trying Omakase very soon.
I think having manager Lauren May as the face of wasabi is stroke of genius. She cares about the appearance, performance, reputation of wasabi. If management does not let this young lady write her own ticket in the organization. It would be tremendous lack of foresight. She cares and it undeniably shows. Which is rare in any corporation.
Between Lauren’s excellent customer service as manager, Chef Won superb skill as chef, finally a great waiting staff. Wasabi is back and so are we as regulars.
Thank you, Ms. Lauren May, Chef Won, our waiter Mat.

My hobby is bodybuilding so I always have to maintain a clean diet. Fortunately Wasabi sushi came to the rescue! Sushi is high in protein and Wasasbi’s brown rice option allowed me to eat clean carbs. I saw a Wasabi near me in Fairview Heights but this is my first time trying it and I must say that I had a satisfying experience.
I started with the seafood salad as an appetizer. The seawood dressing was just right and it didn’t taste too vinegary and not too sweet. For the main course I stuck with different Nigiri. I had two each of Sake (Salmon), Ikura (Salmon Roe), and Maguro (Yellowfin Tuna). The sushi tasted surprisingly fresh… didn’t expect sushi to taste like this in Edwardsville. Coming from Chicago I was used to fresh sushi but I definitely paid more when I was out there.
Considering how busy the place was the service was great as well… my server constantly filled my drinks and checked up on me a few times. The most impressive fact was that a person named John asked if I was enjoying my experience and asked if I wanted to try some complimentary tea. It felt great receiving such attention. I only realized after I spoke with the server that John was the owner!
There is no question I will be coming back. The sushi was fresh, the service was excellent, and most importantly I felt like family. Bravo!

Best Sushi place in town! Fresh and delicious always! Very friendly staff!

My absolute favorite sushi place! The menus are set up very nicely, the kitchen food is also fantastic! When I was there they had some SIUE jazz musicians playing, it was great. The server was great, the food looked and tasted great (as usual). I would definitely recommend!

Good sushi. It is pricey, but hard to find fresh sushi around here so it’s to be expected. The pieces can sometimes be lukewarm though which is not what I was used to in the NW. I like the unique rolls like the Playboy. Will definitely be back!

Wasabi still has good sushi, which my dining partners enjoyed. Unfortunately, for John H., certain other aspects of the experience were less than stellar for me.
The symbol designating «gluten free or can be made gluten free» has disappeared from the sushi ordering menu, which meant extra time asking questions and getting answers. Why, in the name of Mizuchi, would a sushi place remove gluten-​free notation from its menu? Don’t they know all the celiacs and their friends rely on Wasabi as one of the more celiac-​friendly dining establishments in this community?
Well, without the gluten-​free notation, and despite the server’s assurances, the resulting order came back five minutes later with the server explanation that virtually everything she THOUGHT could be prepared gluten free, was, in fact, NOT available gluten free. Starting over, my patient and happy dining companions discussed their choices again. Our order was placed, but now about five tables behind prior position.
So glad we started with wine, and so glad my house salad arrived after about 30 minutes, because it was 40+ minutes into this visit that my entrée appeared. I had ordered spicy shrimp, but spicy chicken was placed in front of me. Now I had a choice: I could explain that this was not what I ordered, and wait another half hour, or I could just settle. I settled. But not happily.
Still, I was better off than my dining companions, whose beautiful sushi serving platter was delivered, but without plates or gluten-​free soy sauce. Nearly an hour to get these items on the table, but only then did the search begin. I say «search,» because when the plates were placed before them, the server explained the GF soy sauce was hiding. Eventually, it was found (tip: ask your server to look in the refrigerator).
I looked around, wondering if there’s something wrong with me, or something wrong with Wasabi. I saw four busy sushi chefs, which looked about right. I saw one or two others working back in the kitchen. I saw several servers running to and fro, and one hostess, trying help out, but rather timidly. These folks looked like they needed a leader to help them work together effectively and efficiently. But I may just be fantasizing, as I often do, when, at the end of a long week, and waiting too long for food, I enter the world of hunger-​induced hallucination.

I LOVE this restaurant. My husband and I eat there about once a week. The food is amazing and the service is always top notch. We have ate at several sushi bars and this one is by far our favorite. The Wasabi special roll is outstanding, but I have to say I have never had anything there that I didn’t just absolutely love.
Highly recommend this restaurant.

Wasabi is a wonderful and quite inexpensive sushi restaurant. Often times when searching for a sushi restaurant, a consumer has to decide between taste and price. That being said, I feel that Wasabi has really found the correct balance in their menu. The atmosphere is wonderful and has a very urban/​eclectic feel. On Thursdays they offer a live jazz night which is a nice way that the restaurant helps display local talent.
I started out with an appetizer called seaweed salad. The name may deter some potential diners, but the salad is absolutely decadent. It is light and tasty — the perfect appetizer. Then, I ordered a traditional california roll and a vegetarian futomaki roll for my main course. The california roll was delicious as expected, and the futomaki roll was quite scrumptious as well. I also tried a bit of my friends fried rice. The fried rice was literally the best fried rice that I have ever had. When I got back, I will definitely be ordering myself an order of fried rice.
Another neat thing that I love about Wasabi is that every weekday from 5pm-​6pm they offer a happy hour special where a numerous variety of rolls and appetizers are half price. My friends and I often go in specifically for the happy hour special — you can’t beat $ 3 and $ 4 rolls! Wasabi is a great, all-​around restaurant

I have been to MANY sushi places in my day, and this place just does not measure up. I wasn’t expecting much with it being in Edwardsville but some friends and I decided to give it a try anyway. The atmosphere is OK. The host was very friendly, the server was horrid. She seemed very annoyed that she had to be at work. Upon being seated we were given one menu to share. Ordered drinks to have them forgotten.
I started off with miso soup which should be pretty easy. I think someone poured a salt shaker in this batch — unbearably salty (my companions agreed). Seaweed salad was also a bit salty. I decided to order a combination with sashimi, nigiri, and maki in order to try a bit of everything.
The maki was very lose, and fell apart as you tried to pick it up with chopsticks. That’s another thing– I had to ask for chopsticks… really? If anything you should have to ask for a fork! The flavor was OK, the sushi rice was very sweet. The sashimi was decent but you had the impression it was not that fresh. With the nigiri, again the rice just fell apart and was way too sweet again, fish not so fresh.
For the price I want decent sushi. I am disappointed. The staff needs lessons on effective service, and manners. I wouldn’t recommend this.
The only redeeming quality is that Global Brew is upstairs.

The sushi were always pretty good but the staff were always consistently fairly bad. The times I’ve been to dinner and lunch here, they manage to forget something that had been ordered. They aren’t too attentive and a few times, I was left to sit and wait for a while to get a refill on my drink even when they saw it’s been empty for quite some time.
I agree with the review claiming that the portions have gone down noticeably.

I wish the people that have left this place 3+ stars had been to a real sushi restaurant, with fresh fish… this place was pretty bad, maybe its the fact that I’ve been in SoCal for the last 5 years and had the best Sushi in the US, or maybe its the fact that this fish just tasted gross and frozen.
I would never go back here… the service was ok, but the food was bad… I understand this is the only sushi restaurant within edwardsville… but seriously it needs to get fresh fish. It was highly overpriced as well. for $ 3, you get 2 – 3 pieces of fish out west. here you only get one… I was ub3r disappointed in this place…