Illuzion

Please do not eat here! I ordered vegetable spring rolls and two special sushi rolls for delivery and when I opened the cartons they smelled so fishy! And there really is no reason a vegetable spring roll should smell fishy in the first place. I tried a bite of everything — what got me the most was the spicy tuna was gummy. Like a chewy, fishy, gummy texture. Please save yourself the money and frustration and go to one of the higher rated sushi restaurants in Hoboken/​JC. Yuck.

Illuzion was recommended to me by a friend so I decided to give it a shot. I ordered delivery, and when it arrived, I noticed while eating it that there was a STAPLE in my spicy tuna roll. I’m glad I noticed before eating it.

Illuzion is by far my favorite sushi place in Hoboken. The fish is always fresh and there are so many choices for special rolls. Lunch special is a great deal. Highly recommend!

After several times eating here (both in house and getting carryout) I’ve decided to stop giving Illusion my business aside from rare circumstances. The service is mediocre at best and the quality of fish is questionable. Their lunch specials are okay and reasonably priced, but they will give you a hard time for not meeting their credit card minimum although the price of the lunch is under the minimum? Side note — they’re almost always playing weird techno-​pop music. Rare for a Japanese restaurant. Bottom line is there are better options in Hoboken.

This is my favorite sushi spot in Hoboken. Try the rock shrimp app and the block miso cod. They are always on time with deliveries and have great service in the restaurant. This place is worth checking out. They have outdoor seating on Washington if the weather is nice to take in some people watching. Enjoy!

The prices on their website (also linked from Unilocal) are not accurate. I called today to put in a lunch order. When I got my final bill it was a lot higher than expected. When I looked into it, the prices were all higher. For example the Sushi & Sashimi Lunch $ 13.50, is now $ 17. Among other differences. When I asked about it I was told the website is wrong and the prices changed a couple months ago.
I’m sorry but that is just disingenuous. I get that prices change, that’s fine but you know it’s wrong still let people order expecting to pay a certain amount. How hard is it to keep your prices up to date? I cancelled my order I was so annoyed.
I should add, that I live close to Illuzion, like their sushi, and have been their a number of times. But this just really irked me, and I need to say something in the hopes that they at least fix this. Then I’ll consider going there again.

One of my favorite takeout and delivery sushi places. Very fresh fish, great combinations, fair prices. My only warning: if you order on a busy night, it will take much longer than the estimated time. It’s worth it and it is to be expected.

It was a beautiful day out to sit outside, service didnt acknowledge that we were standing there for a while.
When we finally sat down, i always order kani salads when i go to sushi resturaunts however this kani salad was filled with so much mayo. I didnt even finish it. When i finally order sushi, i was already disgustingly full. The sushi didnt even taste fresh at all.

I always order take out (lunch time) and pay with my CC. Last time, the lady told me that i need to spend $ 15 min. So tht they can charge my card. I was like what? That never happened before? She was rude and said if you want your food pay or leave… I left! Not coming back! They need to learn how to treat customers.

I ordered nigiri and it was not fresh. I couldn’t it and the waitress didn’t even care to ask why. When I ordered my food and tried to order nigiri, she was clueless. That should have been the first indication. I will never come black to this place that serves unfresh sushi.

Crappy and belligerent customer service. It took over 20 minutes for them to serve me two simple (and very mediocre) sushi rolls at 8 pm on a Wednesday night. When I asked where my food was they said «so busy!» Then they charged me for green tea. I told the cashier that I didn’t want to pay for the tea because of the ridiculous wait. When she said no and that it was «so busy! there are a lot of deliveries!» I said I wasn’t going to pay the bill till she took it off. She then declared that she was going to call the police! I repeated that I just wanted her to take the tea off because the wait was ridiculous and she kept saying that I drank it so I had to pay for it. A waiter came over and I hoped he would get her to take it off so I would go away. But nope. He said he was calling the police. I pointed out that having the police at your restaurant wasn’t particularly good for business. She didn’t care. I don’t think they actually called the police. I stood my ground and finally they voided the first charge and charged me for my rolls and no tea. I left a $ 3 tip on a $ 12 bill (what I would have left on the $ 15 bill) because it wasn’t the waitress’s fault. couldn’t believe that she was going to piss off a new customer.
This was my first time here and not only did she lose my business, I am going to make sure everyone I work with at the hospital a few blocks away knows how crappy their service is.

Really bad service. Rude crew.
My friends and i decided to have lunch here and we were waiting for another person so we reserved a seat for 5… As we all know its difficult to find a parking spot in HOBOKEN during Sundays so our friend was late for 30 minutes… The place wasnt busy at all so we werent being inconvenient by just keeping 1 chair. But one of the waitresses kept coming back asking if our friend was still coming… Mind you in 30 mins she asked like 5 times. Also we left a tip of cash on the table and some on our debit cards because we all had to pay separate. And she was complaining about how we just left $ 5 on the table and failed to realize that some was on the debit card. SMDH.

My go to Hoboken sushi restaurant. It’s byob, quick but not rushed service, a wide variety of rolls and hot Japanese dishes, and reasonably priced. The menu is 6 pages long so they have a lot of different options to choose from.
During my last visit there, I tried their Rock Shrimp ($ 11) with plum sauce which I loved. It was sweet, crunchy, and perfect way to start a meal. We also got a bunch of rolls including the old man and the sea special roll ($ 14) which had a variety of fishes wrapped together and a good crunch. Rolls range from $ 4 – 7 and special rolls are $ 10+ but they give a good size portion for the special rolls.
If you go on Friday or Saturday night after 7:30, plan to wait briefly but it’s worth it!

Consistent for showing up at my door with accurate order within an hour. Portions are nice and price point is reasonable for the amount of food you get. The rolls are decent. It wouldn’t be my first choice for sushi on a weekend, but a good weeknight choice for delivery.

Ordered take-​out from here off Seamless.
This food made me feel like a food snob it was just really kind of mediocre. Sorry.
We ordered: Chicken Noodle Soup, sushi and Gyoza.

Good sushi spot in Hoboken with outside seating. The service is prompt and food is yum. The illuzion frostee is quite good (lemon mint tea with coconut cream). The rolls are good and i had a beef dish served over rice which was quite good. Prices are reasonable and the people watching can be entertaining.

The new special roll, independence roll was spectacular; Specially the king crab on the top, they look nice and taste better.
I would recommend the Kumamoto oyster and the live scallops.

If I could give three and half stars, I would. However, they only had one visible server on a Tuesday night who was clearly serving at least 8 – 9 tables at a time. It wasn’t his fault but we had to ask for the check a couple times. Even if they chose to have one additional server, the service people received would be that much better.
As far as the food goes, we had the vegetable spring rolls which were okay. Then, I had the grilled seafood with coconut brown rice which was delicious! I would consider coming back to dine in and give them another chance.

Worst place i’ve been to in Hoboken. The service was so bad that we kept contemplating having to go inside to see if the waiter forgot about my table. The place wasn’t even crowded so it was completely unacceptable. To make things worse, the was food was disgusting. I’m not going to be bias and say every roll is bad but please do yourself a favor and stay away from the chef’s special dancing lion roll. Unless you plan on throwing up that is…
I don’t plan on ever going back to this place.

We were relieved to find out that Illuzion; a Japanese fusion restaurant located at Washington street in Hoboken was open for business during the holiday. We came here for dinner to cap our Memorial Day weekend road trip to Pennsylvania.
It was late at night when we got here and since the weather was pleasant, we decided to sit outside the restaurant.
The waitress introduced herself to us and handed us the menu almost immediately. There’s wide variety of dishes to choose from the menu. From sushi rolls to hibachi, teriyaki and tapas. I selected the «spicy rolls medley» that consist of spicy tuna, spicy salmon and spicy yellow tail rolls served with miso soup and vegetable salad with ginger dressing.
There’s nothing particularly outstanding about the food, I certainly have eaten better rolls before but it was decent and they do have a solid customer service.
I will certainly visit this place whenever I’m in Hoboken, especially now that I know that it’s BYOB and they don’t add corkage fee!