Sushi Box

Holy Value! Sushi is very well done and LARGE. A lunch with appetizer and bottled water cost around 10 bones. Very clean and comfortable. Elegant and simple in the Japanese tradition.

Best Japanese in town. Having lived in Japan for two years, I know what great Japanese is. This is it! Have the katsudon!

Ever since we moved to Madison we have gone many times to Sushi Box and I though it was time for me to right a review. The atmosphere/​ambience is nice! I really like how you are able to see the chef prepare the sushi! The service is fine! The food really good the sushi is very and fresh and taste full there are also many options of deffrent types of sushi witch I like! If you are a sushi lover you should go to Sushi Box!

This is a very casual, relatively quick sushi place. All made to order and very fresh. Not the fanciest but very reliable. We’ve been coming for years. Some of our favorites are the rainbow roll and jalapeño roll.

While the TV thing was cool, and the sushi presentation was quite nice, it was probably some of the worst sushi I’ve ever eaten. The soda and water had a different taste to them, than what it’s supposed to taste like, and they had no napkins. I was very disappointed.

This place is a sushi gem in Madison and is as close as you’ll get to authentic sushi in the Midwest. For starters, it is actually owned and staffed by Japanese people. The rolls are not flashy and there aren’t fancy sauces-​it is just well done fresh fish. Prices tend to be a bit higher than other places in Madison but you get what you pay for and portions are larger. For good cheap sushi, Takara is good, for flashy rolls, go to Sushi Red, for upscale sushi, check out Sushi Muramoto but for a nice splurge on large cuts of «Japanese style» sushi, Sushi Box is your place!

I’m a big fan of sushi and was not impressed by anything here. I’m surprised by all the good reviews it received. I was here for dinner and tried the seaweed salad, 2 rolls, and hot sake. The seaweed salad was fine and the hot sake was average. The rolls left for more to be desired. You also order and pay before eating, cafeteria style. I left feeling hungry and disappointed. If you want good sushi in Madison you must check out Red Sushi on King st.

The sushi here is fresh and delicious, as others have posted. I first came in 2004 (right before I left Madison) and liked it very much every time I visited.
When I moved back to Madison after a decade in the bad-​sushi Mecca of Phoenix, AZ, I was eager to go back. I did, and the sushi is still quite good.
But the woman who runs the restaurant with her husband blew my mind. I noticed she was re-​using sushi order sheets with the old orders scratched out. «Hmm…cheap. And a little weird,» I thought.
The weirdness was only beginning. The proprietress ran my credit card for ~$ 21, and it came back as declined. This is enormously weird, as I pay down my balance religiously. Since the restaurant was nearly empty and no one was behind me in line, I called my bank to straighten things out. It turns out that they had no record of the attempted transaction and suggested a communication error with Sushi Box’s credit card processor (Heartland Payment Systems).
At this point I shrugged and took out some cash. The proprietress was visibly irritated and said that the credit card point-​of-​sale unit was brand new and the problem couldn’t possibly be hers. «Uh, OK,» I thought to myself as I handed her the cash.
Then she said «They charge me every time I swipe a card, and I swiped your card three times.» Then she just stared at me. I realized she wanted me to give her money for having my card declined. I explained that whatever her arrangement with her credit card processor, things like that were just part of the cost of doing business and I wasn’t going to pay her for swiping my card.
At this point, it was like a smashup on the side of the road: I just couldn’t look away. So I asked: how much do they charge you to swipe a card?
I wanted to know how much money she was halfheartedly trying to extort from me. But she couldn’t tell me, because she didn’t know. At least, that’s what she said. Evidently, she wanted me to slip her an indeterminate sum for her trouble.
Really: the sushi is good. I will go back, and so should you. But I recommend paying with a credit card for maximum entertainment.
In all seriousness, if the proprietress is so hung up on credit card fees, she should try Square or something along those lines. The fees are reasonable and customers generally like using it. This sort of penny-​wise, pound-​foolish management approach inspires longtime loyal customers to join Unilocal specifically to complain about your restaurant, just as I’ve done. I wish Sushi Box well, and I hope someone helps the proprietress get over her unhealthy obsession with the cost of doing business: credit card fees and even non-​reused sushi order forms are simply part of what happens in the American economy these days.

Just had dinner for the first time., very quit I was the only customer which I don’t mind and hey it’s a Tuesday at 6pm. Ordered a Godzilla roll two pieces of shrimp tempura and a sweet potato tempura… Very good quality just a wee expensive but I don’t mind I did just eat very fresh sushi in the Midwest… Ordering was kinda strange made it feel like fast food… Not a sit down kinda restaurant… Overall it was a good experience I will be going back

I’m a Japanese food snob. This place wasn’t exactly Japanese but it was pretty close. My only complaint was that it was expensive for what you get. Didn’t realize there were lunch specials so i spent about $ 50 for lunch for three people. Mori soba, their version of Zaru soba, wasn’t bad. Dragon roll was pretty good. Best thing was something they called tofudon. Never had that in Japan but it was tasty. If you go there for lunch, save a bunch of money and order from Their lunch special board out front.

This is a wonderful mom & pop sushi shop. When they first opened I only lived a block away and I was there all the time. This place may look unassuming, but they have good quality food at reasonable prices. Their American Dream roll is still one of my favorite rolls.
Eat there enough and they’ll get to know you. They’re located near the UW hospital and get a fair number of customers who are visiting patients. I remember number of years ago they added a menu item just for a family whose child was being treated at the hospital — a little bit of home for a family who had been uprooted by disease.
There are a couple of parking spots in back, but street parking isn’t hard to find. Stop in for something to go, or pull up a chair and watch the sushi being made on a TV screen in restaurant area.

GREAT quality, especially for the price! I choose sushi box over Muramoto any day because of the price, quick and friendly service, and great entrée options. Not to mention great sushi! Highly recommend everything and anything on the menu, eat your fill of whatever Japanese food you fancy.

The sushi was good quality and so was the presentation, although I would have liked for the sushi to have been served colder. The roll was good, but a little large in diameter which made it more difficult to eat. The restaurant is small but very clean and comfortable for a small place. Price was a little on the high end for what you get: 1 beer, 1 roll and 2 nagiri, no miso and no salad cost $ 20.

Small homey restaurant.
I love the unadon. The eel was tender and juicy. The rice was covered with soft scrambled eggs. Very fulfilling.
Yellow tail roll was umami. The spring onions brought out the yellow tail’s flavor.
Tuna rolls were simple, but fresh and delicious.

I stopped back at Sushi Box for a proper sushi dinner last night and I was thoroughly impressed.
I sampled the unagi, inari, tuna and salmon sushi. They were all fantastic — great texture, temperature, color, and flavor. The Tuna was seriously dreamy. I also tried the shrimp and avocado roll and it was very tasty.
My one and only complaint would be the rice — it was sticking to the plate and falling apart, making it difficult to eat sometimes. But it really wasn’t a big deal.
One thing I love about this place is that it isn’t pretentious or super busy — many other sushi shops in town seem rather stuffy in comparison.
Overall this was probably the best sushi I have had in Madison to date and I will definitely be going back for more. Good stuff!

It is such a hidden gem with authentic Japanese food!
They have a pretty nice paitan ramen, even okonomiyaki from time to time!
Also their donburis are alright, but it is one of the few places in town that serves donburi
***Bonus that they sell some Japanese beverages and snacks (わがし Japanese sweets) as well by the counter!

I hate to give bad review. The chirashi don and hamachi;salmon sashimi were the worst quality in my sushi experience. The cut of hamachi was odd including bloody part which usually got cut off when serving sashimi. The salmon sashimi had no shine; no sign of freshness, the texture were bad. So disappointed. We have not yet visit the restaurant and it was the first time ordered takeout from here.

I’m definitely a fan of this place. It’s simple and satisfies your sushi cravings. Everything is very affordable and the owners are very nice.

Very good sushi for an affordable price. I ate tofu with rice but my family had rolls and they said they were remarkable. The place itself could be improved.

Good portions, appropriate price, and prompt service. They had some varieties of sushi that I had never had before putting one of a pickled vegetable that was absolutely delicious. Their menu is very extensive and has a lot of different options.
They also had some ethnic sweets that are difficult to find another places. This place is a very good stop if you’re in need of some sushi and you’re in the Madison area.
The five star review is mostly about bringing their overall score up to about a four star review which is where it belongs.