Miyabi Sushi Express

Oh no no no no no! This location is closing down forever, today is their last day of business. I have been a loyal customer to this location for at least 3 years! I’m completely saddened by this announcement, as it was my default sushi fast food spot.
Cali rolls and salmon sashimi were made fresh daily. All I had to do was grab and go. On colder days, a bowl of veggie udon soup was a great meal to have.
I will be lost without Miyabi… good bye and good luck ‘default downstairs sushi place’. I will miss you!!!

Not enough time.
Cosmic Gate didn’t have enough:
Neither did yours truly.
Furniture delivery was happening thirty minutes earlier than scheduled and I needed to get home ASAP. But not without an already late lunch.
Fortunately Miyabi was waiting for me as I entered Montgomery Station.
Some days you want a sushi chef to do their thing. Other days you want to grab and go. This was most definitely the latter.
One salmon nigiri. One veggie roll. Six bucks. Quality decent. Prices reasonable.
There are plenty of better sushi places out there. There is also an alternative downtown option if you don’t have much time.

Inexpensive and good. Great place for lunch without spending mucho dinero.
Bi Bim Bap is good here.
5 stars because really, I keep coming back.

Meh, but decent when there is no other sushi place around walking distance in the Fidi. This place is hard to find. I walked around the Bart station up top and did not realize that you had to walk down the stairs and that it was underground level w/​Bart. I got there around 1:30pm and decided to eat in. The place was empty. I ordered a CA roll and cucumber. Both were meh. Kinda sloppy looking but tasted fine. I’m the type of person that when I crave something, I wanted it ASAP. This place didn’t hit the spot but tied me over until the next craving.

This is my go-​to choice when I need a filling meal quickly during work hours. I think the best option is to get the salmon dunbori. You have to ask at the counter for them to make it (thankfully, they don’t let it sit out with the hot foods and get all mushy-​nasty), but it’s no problem. It’s a solid serving of rice with strips of salmon (or tuna, if that’s your thing), and the spicy sauce is a good balance. At $ 6.50, it’s one of the best bargains in the area. There is a little seating, especially if you’re there early in the lunch hour, but for the most part this is a grab-​and-​go experience.

Fair quality and good price mean I may be back again. Atmosphere was nice despite being small. Not excited about sushi being made in the back and available packaged on racks like at the supermarket, though, especially since the hot and cold racks seemed neither hot nor cold — I get finicky about food safety temperatures when raw fish is involved…

Came here with a bunch of co-workers.one insisted after trying it after seeing the first review (under Unilocal sort).
Not a fan of premade sushi. if i wanted that. i’d go to Safeway. still for some reason i was compelled to try the spicy tuna california roll. once i get sushi in my head. it’s hard to get it out.
The tuna seemed ok. tasteless (felt that was a good sign) and the spicy sauce. perfect balance of sauce. The accompaning california roll not to bad.
The rice. was super cold. and just a bed of rice. and well beyond sushi rice sticky.
It was ok. but i’d rather go somehwere for made to order sushi.

I rarely dish out one star reviews but I find their service to be terrible. I come here every so often when I have appointments downtown and need to rush back for work. I always order the bento box without sauce. The food is mediocre but I go for convenience.
The past few times I stopped in to order the lady tells me that they are «out of chicken» and that I just have to buy what has been sitting out on the counters — which is basically a ploy to get rid of inventory.
With hundreds of lunch options within blocks distance I will never go back there again.

Occasionally I get bad fish from Miyabi. It winds up giving me digestion scares perhaps about once out of every twenty meals. However, It is a great bargain in the city and it’s prepared in advance, so you save time. Because of this I keep going back, just not as often as previously. For nigiri in the FiDi, you can’t get better bang for the buck!
Oh, and no big deal, but they don’t offer the miso soup free any more.

Why is it so difficult to find sushi downtown that is good, fairly reasonable in cost — and fast?
I’ve given Miyabi Sushi Express a couple of tries, and as much as I want to like it, needing a go-​to takeout sushi place — I really can’t.
It feels like a hospital cafeteria with the different items sitting out in the air, refrigerated or under heat lamps (depending on the food). And as others have posted — after, say 1:30 there is no sense of freshness.
Which leads me to my last issue with Miyabi. On a previous visit, I asked a woman working the register there if they could make something fresh if I didn’t want the pre made product. She told me no problem — they do it all the time.
But when I went by last week and asked the same woman for a an order from the kitchen — she looked at me and pointed at the shelves with the pre made food.
Didn’t even speak — just pointed.
No. I can get fresher product and better service at — of all places — Bristol Farms. I hate that idea.
But the bento of bad service and poorly-​treated food that is Miyabi makes Bristol Farms look… dare I say it … compelling?

It’s good for a fast food alternative when downtown.
There are a lot of positive things to mention about the place — easy to get to, clean establishment, friendly staff, and their takeout shelves are always stocked. It’s surprising just how many restaurants screw up rice; this place doesn’t have that problem. Most importantly, the food’s pretty good.
That said,… there are some weird qualities that fall flat. None are dealbreakers but, with the sheer number of Japanese restaurants in the Bay Area, there are some quirks present that might find you hunting down another restaurant for your vittles. You might scoff at the size of the portions (which are actually still reasonable, you glutton). The takeout sushi has the chance of having sat in place most of the day. The chicken and pork are a little fatty and dry; to counteract the dryness, they’ve been doused in shoyu. Actually, most everything is swimming in it.
Still, the pros outweigh the cons. Give them a shot and see what you think.

Yummy place for some quick, authentic, Japanese office-​worker food. Just like the little bento spots I used to frequent in Tokyo used to make.
The rice is good quality and cooked to sticky perfection. The chicken in the bento is great!!! The sushi is basic and solidly good.
Unfortunately, they were out of curry rice this week. «We didn’t make it this week.» was the only explanation I got. At $ 4.50 for a lunch, I’ll definitely be back.
Just what you need for a quick, cheap lunch. ;)

Never would I suspect that a yummy sushi option could be found in the little underground plaza next to the Montgomery BART station, but weirder things have happened I suppose! It’s a favorite grab and go spot of some of the Bay Area CMs so I went along one day and was very pleasantly surprised!
The setup is simple to the extreme, with a little deli counter with all sorts of bowls and sushi dishes for quick pickup, and a few tables scattered in the tiny space. Both my lunch partner and I wanted their little platter with sashimi over rice and california rolls on the side, but they only had tuna sashimi and no salmon. We asked the guy behind the counter if he could make us a version with salmon and he generously obliged! I think our meal may have been even more delicious because it was freshly made and hadn’t been sitting in the fridge, but in any case I gobbled up every bite and was full but didn’t feel gross afterward. And all for about $ 10!
I’m often in the mood for this kind of lunch — quick, not too heavy, and not too complicated. So I think I’ll definitely be coming back here soon!

While there’s not many things I love more than eating, I must admit… tearing myself away the comforting glare of my computer screen to take a lunch break is a major hassle sometimes. Ya know?
Miyabi to the rescue!
My clever pal, Abby S, tipped me off to Miyabi’s convenient grab n’ go sushi options. They’ve got everything from a 2-​piece nigiri pack for $ 2.50, to a mega sushi sampler with nigiri, rolls, rice, and salad for about $ 10. I’ve become a big ol’ fan of the super filling salmon sashimi rice bowl. For $ 6.50 you really can’t find a better stick-​to-​your-​ribs lunch. That rice keeps expanding in my belly all afternoon, and almost takes care of my 4pm cookie craving. Luckily, Specialty’s Bakery is right next door, and we all know how irresistible their naughty carbs are. Psssh, who has time for willpower? Not I.
Oh yes! And the quality is just fine for the price. I know you were suspicious…
If you work in the FiDi/​SOMA area, and don’t want to spend more than 15 mins or $ 10 on lunch, let Miyabi make your lunch and you’ll be back to that beloved inbox in no time.

It’s 1:30 pm on Friday — I’m hungry
Skipping lunch is not an option
Where do I go? What should I eat?
I don’t want a huge, expensive meal
Bust out the Unilocal app on my phone to see what’s nearby
Miyabi is .2 miles away and has good reviews
Head over there
$ 5 and some change later, I have a spicy crab roll and some edamame
I’m full and happy (and not broke!) thanks to them.

FOOD:
1.) Teriyaki Chicken
2.) California Roll
3.) Miso
4.) Side salad
Not to shabbs for a quick togo-​like sushi /​Japanese fast food!
SERVICE:
Order at counter, they bring it out. The food came out fast!
ATMOSPHERE:
It’s small, it’s casual. 22

We came here for lunch on a recommendation by a friend. Rolls are extremely dinky for their price. The raw sashimi looks mushy, discolored, and basically unfresh. I opted for a warm rice bowl considering everything else wasn’t that appealing.
Good price for a chicken bowl full of meat. About 4.95?
The quality of the bowl however was «meeeeehhh»”. I can make a better chicken and rice bowl at home. The sauce was overly sweet and the veggies were only a bit cooked leaving it mostly raw. It was pretty gross.
If you just care about satisfying your hunger and not your palette, then this can be the place for you!

This place has been closed for a while now, for ‘renovations’ indefinitely. :(
So…wait for the Open sign to come back on before you go.

Convenient sushi
Delicious Udon noodle
Montgomery BART stop

Decent sushi without having to wait. I’m a fan. They have a large variety of sushis, sashimis (including sashimi salads) and Japanese curry choices. The miso soup is only $ 1.00 and is decent.
They skimp on the soy sauce, but otherwise I only have good things to say. It is way better than most fast-​food sushi establishments, and the price is right. Normally I can easily spend $ 15-​$ 20 on sushi, but I can fill up here for around $ 10.00.
Plus the place is well lit, clean, and right below my office.