Hana Sushi

This place is amazing. Don’t even like sushi but i always crave the salmon teriyaki bento box with four california rolls fresh fruit and rice. The salad dressing is to die for.

Best sushi in the surrounding area! Don’t let the outside dissuade you… it has a lovely atmosphere. Gets busy during peak hours but so worth the wait. Staff is her friendly, sushi options are fabulous and the tea is HOT.

I would like to preface the review by saying 2 things;
1. Although this is my first review I have been here four times
2. I have a severe allergy to milk, so I almost exclusively dine at Asian reasturaunts because I know that 99% of items on the menu are dairy free due to the Asian cooking culture. I’ve lived in the valley almost my whole life, and have been to almost every Asian restaurant around. I feel this puts me in a good position to review these types of reasturaunts.
I fail to understand why this reasturaunt has such an amazing star rating on this website. At 4 & ½ stars this place should be one of the best in the valley. Unfortunatly many dishs I’ve been served here at Hana Sushi have been anything but.
I’ve been privy to a lot of fresh sashimi in my short lifetime. Once I had tuna shashimi cut from a whole tuna caught not more than 8 hours before serving.
I’ve also had shashimi that is fresh, but flown in.
And then unfourtuanatly I’ve had a lot of frozen shashimi. The shashimi at Hana is exactly that, and it is more than obvious to tell.
The shashimi is almost room temperature on the outside, yet stone cold almost frozen in the middle. The fish is mushy, slightly sticky, and smells faintly of fish. Along with my shashimi I received cooked shrimp tails, large pieces of mushy oshinko radish, sticks of fake crab meat (watery and unplesant), and octopus chewier than my dogs rawhide. Finding these items on a shashimi plate advertised on the menu as «assorted raw fish» is a tell tale sign of low quality, corner cutting, and takes advantage of the general US populous notion of raw fish in order to save a couple bucks. This I could understand coming from a reasturaunt that does most of their business in classic American style Chinese food, with some sushi on the side. But coming from a place where sushi is in the name, and rightly so considering 80% of their menu is sushi options, I have come to expect more, and hana sushi just simply does not deliver.
So the sushi is abysmal, we’ve gotten that out of the way. Their only mildly saving grace was how good their brown rice green tea is. No other place in the valley serves it and it is bar far the best hot tea I’ve ever been served.
Come for the tea, leave for the sushi. 2 stars.

Dining date June 18, 2015 for dinner.
Sushi is fantastic in this hidden restaurant. Only about six tables plus seating at the sushi bar, but I loved everything from my Monkey Roll to the Sushi platter. My wife really enjoyed the teriyaki steak. I would give 5 stars if they had a license to serve alcohol!
Great service and prices are excellent.

A hidden gem. Almost five star rating. Exceptionally priced. Amazing amazing quality of fish. Perfect ambiance. BYOB

Very good sushi. It’s byob so bring what you want to drink. Place is small but only 1 other table was there so it was fine. Sashimi was very fresh and tasty and gave decent portions. We left happy! Will be back

All the sushi I have had from this place has been great. We did take out multiple times.

Went around 8:30 on a Friday night, and seated immediately. Waitress was great. The food was excellent. We got 2 hand rolls and a variety of sashimi. The yellowtail was by far the best I have ever had. Fresh and basically melted in your mouth. It was refreshing to walk in and not be overcome by the smell of fish. This place is great. Hope to be back soon

Call me picky, but I could not come up with a single reason to award any stars. I actually just joined Unilocal specifically to write this review. My girlfriend and I recently moved to the area and were looking to enjoy some sushi. We googled, and after reading reviews Hana seemed to be a good choice, wrong. Atmosphere was nice, but very cold. Service was ok, and the order took forever to come out, hence the one sushi chef. Usually special rolls are larger in size with a substantial helping of fish. Not at Hana. When the waitress brought the plate to the table I was appalled as immediately tied the dollar amount to the not much larger than a nickel sized rolls sitting in front of me. The pieces of fish were extremely tiny, and left my girlfriend and I still hungry. While it was fresh and tasted ok, this place is merely out there to turn a profit, not a good meal. Basically everything on the special roll menu was tempura or spicy, meaning more filler and less fish. I would surely not go here again. If you have about 300 to make sushi your meal then be my guest, youll love it. The four rolls we got came to around 50 dollars and was nothing but an appetizer in terms of size. And better yet to follow, the lovely gut rumble! As some of the following reviews say best in the ABE, I am a bit scared to even consider any other place in the area. O Hana…

Pretty great sushi for the Lehigh Valley. I haven’t had better anywhere else in the area, and the ambience was nice too. A little pricey for small town Nazareth I think, but I was very happy with both the food and the service. I’ll definitely go back. Check it out if you’re in the area and looking for a higher end meal.

Great place. We went for lunch on a Saturday. Service was very good and the Sushi was fresh. Recommend the Shaky Dog Roll and the Sushi Sashimi lunch special. One of my new favorites. We will be back.

First of all, the LV doesn’t have good sushi anywhere. By good, I mean suburban NYC quality, not even NYC quality.
Anyway, the fish tastes good and fresh, but the rice is way too sweet and they use way too much of it. Atmosphere is nice inside though.
EDIT: We have gone back a few times (for takeout and dine-​in) and have really been happy with the rice taste and quantity. I’m not sure what happened, but I’d recommend Hana for sure.

3 stars is «A-​OK», as Unilocal says. Visited this week for my first time. If I’m in Nazareth, I’d probably go back.
Rolls were good, but not quite what I was expecting with all of the 5-​star reviews. Perhaps for Lehigh Valley this is very good — not sure.
Environment is cozy. Small foot print, with about 6 or 8 tables and a small bar. Staff seemed fairly friendly.
There’s a little ice cream store down the street, to the west — didn’t have time to sample that, but could be a good one-​two punch.

After living in the SF Bay Area for 4.5 years, I’m back in Nazareth. Needless to say, I was so happy to see we finally have a Japanese restaurant here!
I had lunch today and sampled a variety of sushi and sashimi and I have to say I was very impressed. While the menu offerings are what I would call «white people sushi» items, the quality of the fish and rice was on par with many of my favorite places in San Francisco. The size of the sushi and sashimi is average; I’ve had larger portions of the same items for the same price, but that’s also due to being in San Francisco and not the Lehigh Valley. :)
The level of cleanliness was immediately apparent, and the interior was casual and relaxing. Didn’t have to wait before a server approached me and even though I was at the sushi bar, my server still made sure to check in with me as my meal was made.
The only reason I haven’t give this a 5-​star rating is because the menu, while a nice sampling of the various types of Japanese cuisine beyond sushi, didn’t have two of my all-​time favorites: zaru soba and o-​toro. I inquired with the chef if they ever have toro on special, but he said unfortunately they don’t. The hostess told me they just don’t get enough requests for it.
That being said to my fellow Nazarenes… don’t be afraid of toro! LOL There are 3 cuts of toro, all of which have delicious and delicate flavors.
The highlights of my lunch were the scallops, yellowtail, regular tuna, and the saba (mackerel). Nothing tasted or smelled stale or off. The chef’s presentations were traditional and enticing.
I’m definitely going to be coming here often. It’s so encouraging to see real Japanese food in Nazareth!

Delish, fresh sushi. Absolutely LOVE it here. Try the yellow submarine or dragan rolls.

Overall i cNt say enough about this place. Good places and a great value. Always fresh and the staff is amazing.

I cannot say enough about this place! The quality of the sushi is amazing, the staff is always friendly and go out of their way to make you feel at home. For such a small establishment, you do not feel crowded. The other fare they serve is just as good as the sushi. The tempura, soups, bento boxes ect. are delectable. Make sure you try the fried Ice Cream! If you are in Nazareth, stopping in at Hana Sushi is a must!

I was craving real sushi rolls like I get in NYC. All that’s around the area is your typical buffet and hibachi spots located in and around the shopping centers.
My search lead me to Hana Sushi. The food was fresh and the creamy ginger dressing that came with the house salad was super yum. It’s also BYOB, which I certainly did! This will be my go-​to when I head back to the Lehigh Valley area.

If I could give 3 ½ stars I would. This may be the best sushi house in the Valley. The atmosphere is very nice and intimate. the sushi seems very authentic. I really enjoyed my experience and would definitely come back for a return visit. My only real criticism is that I feel that the rolls could be a little more refined. I think some of the rolls are very ambitious, but lack the execution to make them as good as they could be. An example would be I had a roll that had cucumber wrapping instead of Nori, the thickness of the cucumber detracted from the overall sushi. Again

BYOB and closed on Mondays.
But don’t let that stop you, this is one of the better Sushi places in the Lehigh Valley!
Hana Sushi is small, maybe 5 tables and a few stools at the sushi bar. Tucked away on a side street in Nazareth, the intimate setting is tastefully decorated and well lit. The quality of the food we got (soup, tempura, sashimi, sushi, softshell crab) was all high for the LV. Pricing was reflective of the quality, slightly higher than other places in the area, but well worth it.
I will be back again.