Ashiya Sushi

Avoid. Not clean. Rolls made too quickly — fall apart and Tasteless
Slow service
Tatty interior

I worked with Ashiya to host a Sushi & Sake event for about 65 people and we had a great time! First, from an organizer’s point of view, the restaurant management was very easy to work with and they were very accommodating. When we arrived, the staff was prepared to start our event on time and had beers and sake waiting. The sushi was timely and always coming. For an all you can eat event, I was expecting to mostly salmon rolls, but we were able to order basically anything we wanted from the menu with the stipulation that we paid extra for anything we didn’t eat. The sake was served in pitchers so it wasn’t necessarily hot, but since most people were using it for sake bombs, it didn’t matter to us.
All-​in-​all the event was a huge success and imagine we’ll try to do it again in the spring!

I should have followed my gut instincts from the first time around, however since I work in FiDi there are very limited choices for good sushi restaurants, so I thought let’s give this another shot. Sigh.
Ordered today over phone:
(2) Maki B Lunches — 3 rolls
(1) Maki C Lunch — 2 Special Rolls
What was delivered:
(2) Maki B Lunches — 2 Rolls
(1) Maki C Lunch — 2 Special Rolls
Stated Delivery Time: 30 Minutes
Actual Time: 1 Hour
After 5 phone calls (mostly Ashiya calling me to re-​confirm my order), we finally receive the order an hour later. When we realized 2 rolls were missing, I called back to let them know, and they were very accommodating in delivering our 2 missing rolls ASAP. I confirmed what rolls were missing — hung up the phone.
5 minutes later — maybe same or different woman calls — asks me to confirm the missing rolls (again). Then proceeded to «yeah yeah yeah» me a few times (blew my mind, I thought my head was going to explode), and then argued with me that she’s called me several times and I didn’t answer — (which, by the way, fair enough — however I was on a client call and couldn’t answer) — and also explained this to her. Got one more «yeah yeah yeah» and I hung up on her.
1) When you’re in the restaurant biz, please try to treat your customers with respect
2) Please give a realistic delivery time (as the first time it took nearly 2 hours to deliver, and that order was also incorrect)
3) Your miso soup sucks.

Food Poisoning!!!
Me and the in-​laws decided to stay in and order through Seamless. The portions were big and everything seemed ok. I had the pork tonkatsu. 4 hours later, I was rolling around on the floor, sick to my stomach. I had the worst chills imaginable for an entire 36 hours afterwards. Can’t even remember the last time I was sick like this. When I threw up twice, I could taste it on the way up. Immediately after purging, I felt 10x better. Do not eat here if you value your health.

Came here for a friend’s birthday and did the unlimited sushi and drink special
Food and drinks came out realy quick and great food too
definitely great for parties. everyone is definitely there for the same reason
Only downside is the cash only part. but you probably don’t wanna deal w/​table of 10 drunk and trying to split their bill 10 ways
fun place to be

I never write reviews but I think it’s important to get this message out there. NEVER ORDER FROM HERE. I placed my order on seamless for a delivery that never came. I promptly called them about it for a refund. To this day, the issue has not been resolved. I wish I had read reviews about this place before I ordered from them and it seems like I made a poor decision.
BAD customer service.

Very solid sushi take out place with good lunch specials. Had to say much beyond that, but this is a reliable lunch spot for sure.

DO NOT ORDER FROM THIS PLACE
I ordered a Sushi & Sashimi for 2 on seamless (this cost $ 45 + $ 5 tip). They forgot to include SOY SAUCE! (How do you forget to put soy sauce on such a big platter of raw fish???) I called them to send someone to bring soy sauce. They never sent it.
I will never ever order from this place ever again!
P. S. The girl on the phone does not understand English, btw, because when I told her my order was missing soy sauce, her response was, «it’s already on its way!» She didn’t even know where I was calling from…
We couldn’t eat our dinner, what a waste of money!

$ 43 All-​You-​Can-​Eat Sushi & All-​You-​Can-​Drink Sake Bomb? What’s not to like? The service was fast, the sushi wasn’t the ‘high quality’ but it was pretty delicious for the price and unlimited feast! And the sake bomb just kept on coming.
I’d say Ashiya is worth coming if you’re here to enjoy the AYCD + Unlimited Sushi. But if you’re hoping for a good quality sushi & a romantic night, somewhere else maybe?

This is a tough one. I am in love with the idea of all you can eat AND drink (sake/​beer)! for 40 bucks or so. But the sushi is mediocre. I’ve had a lot better. So I wouldn’t really come here to enjoy sushi, I’d just come here to get drunk and eat something w/​a group of friends… don’t expect a lot, just a good deal.

Ok, so either I’m sick and tired of eating sushi and have no sense of judgement on food anymore OR I’ve become really picky when eating sushi, which is beneficial thing.
Last time I ate at Ashiya Sushi was when I used to work in Soho and I remember it being really tasty and fresh, I guess that was before I discovered a million other sushi gems hidden around the city.
Their lunch special seemed very attractive, 3 rolls with a miso soup for $ 10.50. Can’t go wrong there or so it may have seemed to the untrained taste bud. My choices: Spicy Tuna Crunch, White Tuna Maki, and Eel Cucumber.
The miso soup was pretty standard and delicious and within minutes my meal quickly arrived. For starters, my dipping saucer was pretty filthy. Seems there was some leftover food residue from the dishwasher or whomever was washing the dishes didn’t clean it properly. It’s ok, mistakes happen and that’s no biggie. Soy sauce and wasabi can just be drizzled all over my plate.
Secondly, the rolls were wrapped in way too much rice and I tend to not notice things like that but in this instance, there was rice sloppily cakes around all the rolls. Nevertheless, I was starving and decided to dig in. Never had white tuna maki before and I probably will never order it again. The tuna was kind of soft, tasteless and wrapped in way too much rice. The tuna crunch was perhaps the best part of the meal and the eel cucumber was fairly decent.
Seats were readily available when I walked in and the service was very prompt. I guess that was the only good part but the sushi was nothing reminiscent of my first time here.

I knew there was a reason why I stayed away from Ashiya for the last two years. My convictions were proven correct by a recent visit here.
There is a nasty smell as you enter the restaurant. The unadorned walls and the sketchy interior adds a sense of discomfort. As soon as we ordered, our miso soup came, which I took one sip of before feeling sick and disgusted — salty and lukewarm, it tasted as if it had been in the pan for days. The sushi lunch special is reasonably priced at $ 8.50 for twelve pieces, but nothing tasted fresh — looking over at the chef’s counter, I saw unevenly cut pieces of raw fish piled onto a plate too small, as if organization didn’t exist within the restaurant. Want some bland rice, some ridiculously low quality fish, and terrible taste handiwork? Want a place that looks as bad as it smells to sit down at for lunch? Look no further — Ashiya is here.
If you want sushi in the area, go to Hudson Market; sure, you won’t have a place to sit, but the food will be so much better there, and just as cheap if not cheaper.

I walked in, sat down. Unassuming. I knew what I was coming for, but I didn’t really expect a pitcher of sake to be put in front of my face right next to a pitcher of Sapporo. Definitely thought it was water.
Nope. Sake. It’s like they are asking you to do Sake bombs while you gorge on rolls until you explode.
I, thankfully, prepared myself for this adventure and subsequently did not explode. The trick? I yelled and chanted and banged the table any number of times causing many of my friends to drink, but failed to partake in Sake bombs myself.
This…was a good decision. I’m not the biggest fan of sake to begin with and I was told this was the «rubinoff» of Sake. Which makes sense, because any restaurant that would serve Goose quality sake in a pitcher isn’t making any money.
So you don’t come here for what is commonly referred to as «dinner», you come here for an all out loud-​fest of drink-​tasticness and sushi shoveling all elegantly clocked down to the second like you are running a 5k.
Sapporo? Good. Cold. Always flowing. Sake? Don’t ask. Use my rubinoff analogy as reference but i’m not really a fan. It exists and is plentiful, so you never have to worry about running out.
Service? Try and avoid playing musical chairs. It was a large group (14 or so) of us and we moved around a lot for optimal discussion proximity… but they take your order based on where you sit, so when our waitress came back and couldn’t figure out where the food went. That, combined with the fact that nobody seemed to remember their order… I thought she was going to throw it in our faces. She only threw the plate on the table, so that was better, but not optimal nonetheless.
The meat of the review — the sushi. I’m a firm believer it depends on what you order, because there were some people in my group that were perfectly happy with their food, and others were so unhappy they opted to spend money on a teriyaki chicken platter. Personally, I found my spicy yellowtail, rainbow, dragon, and Jun (Jin? Jon? Has real crab meat.) rolls to be fine. Pretty tasty going down and kept me and the beer on an even keel.
Now when I say three stars, I say three stars for THIS kind of place. I’m not comparing it to a normal sushi place — hardly fair. For all Ashiya aims to be (a full out face stuffed drunken gluttonfest of raw fish), it does it well. And hey, nobody got sick. So thats a win in my book.
Good for: loud noises, pitchers of booze, fast, plentiful sushi (with a surprising amount of options for an all-​you-​can-​eat place.)
Bad for: A normal sushi dinner.

This is an experience. It is a Japanese restaurant’s take on a frat party, with unlimited food/​drink for ~2 hours (all for ~$ 40 all in).
THE FOOD:
You’ll get hot sake, cold sake, beer and wine. You’ll get sushi and some teriyaki dishes if you prefer. The sushi is actually halfway decent (quality is miles above sushi house), and the sake is certainly drinkable. And if I didn’t know any better I’d think they came up with «sake bombs.»
THE EXPERIENCE:
To fully appreciate the frat appeal, think of a cafeterial with 8 tables, each seating 6 – 10 people. Then think of all those tables filled with separate parties who are each drinking bottomless with nothing but sushi to absorb the liquor. Expect broken sake glasses because ashiya certainly does.
But let’s be honest, you’re coming to relive college days. Or just to get blackout drunk. And if that’s what you’re signing up for then you’ll be just fine.

Frat sushi.
All you can drink saki and beer and all you can eat sushi for $ 43 (all in after tax and tip) for 2 hours isn’t a bad deal.
The sushi is pretty good for having a deal like that. The stuff is good about refilling the drinks and keeping the sushi coming.
If you don’t want to participate in the AYCD/​AYCE deal be prepared to put up a fight. I went for a birthday party last weekend, but couldn’t drink due to some medicine I was taking. I didn’t want to miss out celebrating so I showed up just planing to order a roll a la carte. They were not happy about this. I mean, I get it… they are worried people will take advantage of their generous deal, but at the same time, there were 45 people in our party and 44 of them were participating… We brought a huge profit, they could at least try to work with me. They made me sit in a «special» seat so they could keep an eye on me (they almost made me sit at a different table by myself). Whatever. I was able to order just a dragon roll and some miso soup, which were both ok, nothing special.
Anyway– long story short, if you are with a party that is planning on going for the AYCD deal, you should probably participate too. I don’t think I would frequent Ashiya unless I was doing the deal. It’s nothing special when it comes to sushi, but fun when it comes to a party.

I hate Sake Bombs, they’re just an excuse for loud people to be loud, and I don’t like anything that slams or anybody that screams while I’m eating. Also, the shot-​glass of Sake has been held by a few different pairs of hands since leaving the dishwasher, and it’s undoubtedly touched a few tables and trays and counter-​tops — why in the world would I want to drop all that into my beer? HOWEVER — UNLIMITED SAKE & UNLIMITED BEER & UNLIMITED SUSHI FOR 120 MINUTES FOR ONLY $ 44?!
Whether or not all the tables around you are being completely obnoxious, shouting and smashing, SAKE BOMB SAKE BOMB SAKE BOMB, it is completely possible to very comfortably and very leisurely sip at countless glasses of both Beer and Sake, over the course of two whole hours. For two whole hours, you can drink enough to justify the entire amount of the check — 44?! And if you’re hungry, you’re welcome to forage through the massive menu or tasty treats — nigiri, maki, and special rolls. Even if you don’t drink anything, it would be very easy to eat $ 44 worth of Sushi! So, basically, this place is an incredible bargain, a fantastic deal, and a whole lot of fun.

Who can say no to an all you can drink sake and all you can eat sushi rolls for $ 30 during the week /​$ 33 on weekends? This is not the place if you’re looking for something fancy fancy but rather a nice place to chill with friends and enjoy good drinks and food.
You can eat and drink to your heart’s content. Perfect place if you’re looking for a night out to get a little uninhibited (after all the sake bombs and pitchers of delicious Japanese beer of course!)
They give you a nice menu for this all you can eat which lists their special rolls, hand rolls, and regular sushi. If you really love sushi and want to eat A LOT of it, this is your prefect spot! Don’t forget to have a few sake bombs to wash it down! Will be back soon!

If you’re looking to fall while walking home, then come here.
If you enjoy eating a shit load of sushi while chugging beers, then come here.
If you’re looking to blackout then pee in a subway station, then come here prior to doing that stuff.
Weird things happen afterwards when you eat ‘dinner’ at Ashiya. The problem is there isn’t much eating happening here. Yeah sure, order some food, but you will be more concerned with the wait staff filling up your pitchers. It’s true. $ 43 for 2 hours to drink and eat your face off. Is that enough time? Definitely. You will be toast.
The restaurant will chant SAKE BOMB at least 15 times through the 2 hour visit. You will be talking to the tables around you because drunk people tend to talk to each other. Go and get wasted. Enjoy yourself with a group of people. Don’t go by yourself and look like a weirdo.

I came here for a friend’s birthday and boy is this place like a loud frat house! This is a great place for a group of friends to get together and have fun.
For $ 35 per person, you get 2 hours to eat as much sushi (they have a huge variety of sushi) and drink as much sake and beer as you can. Needless to say after countless sake bombs, everyone left pretty bombed themselves! It’s not the most amazing sushi, but it’s good for the all you can eat deal.
The staff was hard to get a hold of sometimes, especially when someone wanted to request more beer or sake.
But in all, it was a very fun experience!

For lunchtime sushi in Tribeca, Ashiya is an ok and affordable spot. While the fish is far cry from fancy pants sushi joints like Yasuda, the prices are also a great deal less, and I’ve never met anyone who got sick
I’m a fan of the 2 rolls for $ 7 or 3 rolls for $ 10. You can pick from most of your basic rolls, so you get a decent amount of variety. As a bonus, you get a small cup of very good miso soup. Some good, mood based options:
— Feeling Fat-​tastic: opt for the ever classic spicy crunchy hat trick combo (spicy crunch tuna, yellowtail and salmon rolls)
— Veggin out: cucumber, avocado and sweet potato rolls
— Writhing from Wanderlust: Philadelphia and California rolls… am I the only one who thinks Philadelphia rolls should include, chopped steak, cheese and sautéed onions? Can I get a witness???
The lunch boxes are also solid. I like the Assorted Tempura Lunch Box ($ 9) and the Tofu Teriyaki Lunch Box ($ 7). The former comes with 2 breaded shrimps and a lot of battered veggies and the latter includes 4 squares of lightly breaded tofu with sauce on the side. Both boxes include miso soup, salad with ginger dressing, 2 pieces of shumai, 4 pieces of California roll and white rice. For an extra $ 1, you can get everything with brown rice, and I sometimes pay another dollar more to sub in an avocado roll. In case you were wondering, yes, Ashiya entertains custom orders. Skip the beef negimaki lunch box. It comes drenched in rather oily sauce
PARTING THOUGHT: the kitchen works quickly and whether you pick up or eat in, which is a nice option when the weather’s warm, you’ll find hassle free value at Ashiya