Mizu Sushi

I just got delivery from here and I’m seriously disappointed. I got a ninja roll, an order of tobiko sushi, and an avocado hand roll. The only one I’m not mad about is the avocado roll, but they’re not really difficult to make. The ninja roll was six small pieces and incredibly bland, which is ridiculous seeing as it was $ 12. The tobiko sushi WASNT SUSHI. It was a spoonful of tobiko in a cucumber slice with scallions on top, which was disgusting. It was also only one piece. I spent 20 dollars on this order minus tip and delivery charge, and I hardly got any food. I will NEVER be ordering from here again.

Kind of disappointed in Mizu. I saw great reviews and thought I would give it a try. I decided to order take out and this may have been where I went wrong. Some sushi places are great for dine in but not for takeout and this was one of them. The takeout was extremely small sushi. I hate small sushi. We bought a few rolls that totaled almost $ 70 and it certainly did not feel like we received that. The sushi was small, smushed and soggy. I’m not saying small sushi is always a bad thing (most of the time yes), but a chefs special roll that costs $ 15 should not the diameter of a quarter. The sushi itself (not rolls), was pretty good. I’m a huge sushi guy and have had plenty of awesome places in the capital district; this was not one of them. In my opinion, takeout is not worth it and this place is not worth it. Dine in may be better but I’ll stick with my go to places.

Been going here only a little while but you would have thought we were old friends of the owner. Amuse-​bouche was delicious and very tasteful. Cut to food arrival, excellent presentation and incredibly fast service. Price is excellent for the quality of food. I honestly can’t praise this restaurant enough, best sushi and Japanese cuisine around.

I love Mizu sushi. There are some really good sushi places in the area but this place is the best. Always really good and the service is without a doubt the nicest people I have ever been waited on. They never stop surprising me. I ordered 6 rolls tonight for my family, which as you know if you have a family is average and they tossed in free fried spring rolls! So nice! My favorite place by far to eat.

Excellent locally owned Japanese restaurant! Delicious! Love the kane salad, box lunch & sushi.

A true hidden gem. Small but very authentic. So delicious that we almost want to keep it our own little go to place for Japanese fare

Our party of 4 dined here last night. So glad we had a reservation as all the tables were full. they now do have a liquor license, so wine, beer and saki were available. Although the location is at the end of a strip mall, inside it is charming. Our service was excellent, and we all found our sushi to be delicious and reasonably priced. We will return.

I hardly venture out to this area but I am glad I did. I discovered this small restaurant tucked into the plaza basically across from Mohawk Commons (Balltown Rd). It only has a few tables and won’t be able to hold larger parties and does not have teppanyaki tables. The bar area is also proportionate to the size of the restaurant and I noticed single and multiple diners don’t mind sitting there. The interior is clean and welcoming. My party of 4 were greeted warmly by who we were introduced to as the owner, who was also our server. She was very nice and friendly, never let our teacups run dry and in general very attentive.
The lunch specials were decently priced and portions adequate. The box style lunch included choice of meat, white rice, green salad with ginger sauce, 4 pc California roll, and shumai. The harumaki (spring rolls) were fresh and piping hot when it arrived to table and were perfectly crisp. I had the mixed tempura and the teriyaki salmon… both very good! I also sampled the Su-​Sa Combo with various sorts of sashimi and a regular sushi roll. Fish were fresh and sliced appropriately. The most interesting thing we had though was a special appetizer that started off our meal fantastic. I’m not sure if this is on the regular menu but when I was made aware by our server such item was popular I immediately wanted to try it. It was the Seafood Stuffed Tomato. With chunks of tuna and crabmeat + probably some other fish I don’t remember and bubbly cheese on top… it was heavenly!
They don’t have room for all your family plus friends so you’ll have to choose who you want to enjoy this hidden gem with! We ended our meal with complimentary oranges which was a nice gesture.

Mizu knocked it out of the park! Hidden in a mini strip mall across from Mohawk Conmons this gem is s treat. They started us with a free mini app. We moved into the spicy rock tempura shrimp. Crisp and tasty. Could have used more spicy mayo. The sashimi deluxe was fresh and were sliced into decent portions. The hit was the white tuna. Also on the plate was a tuna with apricot dipping sauce. Fantastic experience. 18 pieces.

NEW PARENTS BEWARE — DO NOT EAT HERE ON A SATURDAY EVENING!
My husband and I are new parents and went out for date night. Do you know how difficult it is to get out with a new infant? It’s difficult!
Needless to say — we walked in, were seated at 1 of 4 tables and walked out 10 minutes later.
With 3 servers and 4 tables one would think that even a decent «I’m sorry, we are swamped» would satisfy a customer. But in those 10 minutes the 3 servers glanced at us and our table, neglected to clean the dirty table where they seated us and failed to bring us menus.
Sadly, when confronted, they had the nerve to say «oh we were about to take your order but you left!» Lies! You never brought us menus!
Sadly, when confronted about serving a party that walked in AFTER us, they had the nerve to say «oh they had a reservation.» For a party of 10, only TWO people arrived! But you still put place settings out for them and continued to ignore us.
…Such a shame because my husband and coworkers love this place.
To the owners of the restaurant: improve your customer service. You never know who and how this will impact your frequent and/​or future customers.
(FYI: I called to address the above mentioned with the hostess and warned her about this review. I expected this from the restaurants in NYC, not from family-​friendly upstate Ny)

Nice owner with great foods :)

Right. went to this place last night because everyone I know was raving bout this place. Got to this place around 9pm, seeing that it closes at 11pm. Was dead empty, understanding its 9pm on a Thursday. But still wasnt allowed to be seated, the owner kicked my wife and I out of the place saying they were closed. I mean hey! Wtf man, your store says it closes at 11pm, I still got 2hours. And if this was a well establishment then close at 11pm. We were really looking forward to it. Might change review if we ever get a chance to eat there.

Went back to this which my friend wanted to go to, I figure id give it another try. Went in during dinner time and there was noone in there. I had ordered the bento dinner box which comes with soup. I never got my soup til my meal was finish and the waiter came over and asked if I still wanted my soup. 2 times been here and both bad experiences. The heat felt like it was cranked up to 90 degrees and way to hot inside. The food was medicore to my taste. Ill throw in 2 stars for a neutral rating and never return.

They have delicious sushi! My cousin and I ordered the Healthy Roll, the Lobster Tempura Roll and pineapple fried rice. It was all delicious!!! The bill was only $ 29 dollars!!! On weekends when you buy one specialty roll you get the second for FREE!!!

Server: Jean
Table: 8 Guests
2014 U-​Pick Adventures continue with Eric and Erica’s pick to Mizu Sushi. They have been trying to get me to come to this place for a while now, but I’m pretty loyal to my key Asian places.
The following are out of 5 Points.
* (5) Customer Service — Meaning how well they assisted me in my needs.
I called in the reservation for Mizu Sushi the night before with the goal of eleven people, but a few got sick or emergencies came up so we walked in with the eight of us to see Jean putting our table together. I’ve never seen such a waitress with a skill to memorize the tables order, person by person… until now; even with a few of us changing our mind with our dessert picks.
* (5) Décor — The atmosphere of the place.
It’s small, it’s cute and it has all the seasons. The décor streams from each season. There is a magnificent sushi bar.
* (5) Food & Drink — How well the food tastes, their selection of drinks
This location does not serve alcohol, but allows bring your own. I do generally enjoy sake with my sushi, but that didn’t change the course of the meal at all. I went with a Japanese soda, melon flavor. For entrée I went with gyoza which looked made in house and some al la carte sushi which most places don’t serve such as tamago and inari. Tamago is egg omelet and inari is bean curd made into a pocket, filled with rice; very delicious. My entrée was sushi and sashimi deluxe. It was served to me beautifully and very delicious. Dessert at a Japanese restaurant in America would not be complete without tempura ice cream and Mizu Sushi has a flavor I hardly see anymore — Ginger.
* (5) Price — Here I am not grading my cost, but by the quality of the food I get for the money I spent. (Example: I pay $ 5 for a hamburger that I could make myself.)
The quality of food was outstanding.
* (4) Presentation — How things are presented. Food, Drink, Staff, etc.
There were no uniforms, just the simple black. I would hope they get some type of logos on their shirts. The food was presented excellently. As many times states before, «we eat with our eyes first» — my eyes were pigs. ;)
Overall Score: ²⁴⁄₂₅

WOW… what a hidden gem! Why haven’t I found this place before?
Great service, beautiful décor, large portions, reasonable prices, best Yaki Udon that I have ever had, BYOB. I see myself being a regular. This was by far, one of the best sushi restaurants I have ever eaten at and I love the intimate, casual setting. Highly recommend..

Had a great lunch here. Very large portions and reasonably priced. Sashimi was so fresh it melted in your mouth. Would come back again.

I picked this sushi restaurant solely based on proximity to my friends house and the reviews on Unilocal.I live over two hours away from Albany but travel here on a regular basis to see my friends.
I ordered sushi for five people and called it in. I arrived earlier than their estimated time to pick up so I waited for about five minutes. I got to speak to the girl at the front and she was so pleasant and polite! She made sure we had all of our food and everything. They even gave us a California roll and sliced oranges! I was so in love.
The sushi is spectacular! We got several rolls — veggie and fish, along with a gyoza appetizer and a (huge!!!) avocado salad. Everything was delicious and fresh. I couldn’t have asked for anything more, it was absolutely superb. If I could change anything — and this is purely a tiny detail — I would just ask for less tobiko on my salad. It was a little much and other places don’t usually add it to avocado salads, so I was a little surprised. But that’s not anything that I would have known, and not something I would deduct a star for, because seriously everything else exceeded my expectations.
I was so pleased to score a great meal at a well kept, clean, and cared for sushi restaurant. I will definitely keep coming back to get food for my friends when I visit again. A+!!!

How is it we didn’t find this place sooner, given it’s practically in our backyard? Perhaps its obscurity in a sideways-​to-​the-​street strip mall featuring a nail place, a pawn shop, and a «spa» open at suspiciously late hours had something to do with it. Or maybe that calling it a «hole in the wall» probably implies far more space than it actually has, making it impossible to take twitchy kids.
No matter — having ditched the kids someplace last night (can’t quite remember where, I am sure they will make it home eventually), we dropped in and had a great little homestyle meal. The sushi we had as an appetizer was surprisingly saucy (Hawaii roll and Spicy Girl) but pretty decent. Great miso, the usual disappointing green salad. Fabulous and unique udon and mountainous eggplant with chicken that was unusual for Japanese cuisine but still obviously of the genre.
The proprietors seemed to know every customer other than ourselves, and it felt more like a little home-​based sushi bar in a small rural prefecture than a Ginza — Schenectady strip mall. Very welcoming and warm service. As noted, it is TINY — six seat sushi bar and a half dozen two-​seater tables crammed together that ca be combined for larger parties. They had a birthday party with a dozen people during our visit which took up most of the place.
It’s BYOB although I have a vague suspicion that if you’re known to the management a sake bottle can be made to appear from some magic spot.
Way up there on the hidden gems /​Schenectady cool list. Looking forward to trying out more of the sushi, which is a difficult row to hoe in this region, but it’s obvious you can’t go wrong with the hot entrees.

Mizu can be hard to find, but worth the effort. It’s a tiny place in a tiny strip mall across from Mohawk Commons. The sushi is top notch, the service is friendly, and the prices are reasonable.
Food may take a while to come out when it’s busy, but they give you a small complementary appetizer to munch on, and do a great job keeping water and tea refilled. The oranges they bring out with the bill are a nice touch.
You can tell Mizu cares about their customers. That and the food keep bringing me back.