Akita Sushi

I’m only giving it two stars and not one because of the value ($ 12.99) ayce lunch. I got nigiri before that was partially frozen. I used to be a weekly
Customer there. I’m not anymore. They are slowly getting more stingy on their sashimi and nigiri. It’s almost to the point were there is way too much rice to fish ratio. Theirs sashimi is a third of the size of average sashimi. The service has gotten worse. Good natured waiting staff, but just slow. Have to ask to get water refilled as they rarely come to refill it. You would think they would try to keep a consistent customer happy but I guess not. One time I wasn’t even done eating and the guy came over and gave me my bill without even myself saying that I was done. This put me over the edge and I will not come back there again.

We love to go and concentrate on ordering off the Sushi menu only! While the other selections are good, I prefer the sushi. Definitely wallet friendly!

Alright…4 stars is only because the food is really really good. I would have given 2 stars if it wasn’t because the service is slow. When I saay slow I mean real slow… and inaccurate. Lol we had to laugh but you get a paper to mark off what your table wants. Then the waiting begins… and stuff starts coming in intervals. Some of the items we ordered we had to put 3 papers in… but I think at this point other tables are tired of waiting and when the waiter asks them if the order belongs to them they just take what they want instead of waiting another hour. The waiter even asked us to please be honest in a frantic display of desperation to bring out the correct food. Overall I would be back for a good laugh and good food. The price is good but be prepared to be patient!

This is the best all you can eat sushi I’ve ever been to! $ 21 for everything. It includes everything from gyoza, tempura, sashimi and maki and so so much more. We came in on a Friday night and it was full, but not crazy. The two for one sake and beer was just the icing on the cake. I’ll definitely be back here when I’m in Scottsdale.

BY FAR, MY FAVORITE AYCE SUSHI PLACE!!! So lunch price is around $ 13 and dinner is around $ 23 and it’s all you can eat! It has the best price for it! Dinner comes with sashimi, lunch doesn’t. Anyway, this place has a variety of food for AYCE! It has fried rice (REALLY GOOD FRIED RICE BTW!!!), udon, soba, fried udon/​soba, fried bananas, ice cream, and I can go on… The service here is really good everytime I’ve gone and I just think it’s such a good price for ayce (especially lunch!!!). My favorite roll here is the Manhatten roll and my overall favorite food here is the beef fried rice. For some reason, the fried rice here is just really good, very flavorful… and I usually end off my meal with fried bananas (in honey or chocolate… OR YOU CAN HAVE BOTH!!) and vanilla ice cream. This is definitely my go to spot for sushi! Would come here on the daily if I lived closer!

I came here for lunch again, but the service this time was unacceptable. We initially submitted a large order but half of the rolls we ordered were lost. After submitting another order, more items were unaccounted for. It’s really frustrating because I was in a hurry that day.
Previously, they gave us too much food. How hard is it to count?
If you have time to burn, you can come here and have them lose your order.

If I hadn’t already been considering moving back to Arizona this place alone would have been enough to put the thought in my mind. My usual AYCE place in the Chicago suburbs is $ 5 more expensive with half the options.
Tempura: A–
Miso Soup: B–
Garden Salad: C (It wasn’t actually bad, it just want the ginger dressing I’ve come to expect from places like this)
Salmon Nigiri: B+ (too much rice but the fish was very fresh)
Volcano Roll: A+
Sweet Potato Roll: A+
California Roll: B–
Rainbow Roll: A
There is absolutely no beating the $ 12.99 price (lunch special) for the quality of sushi.
I would agree with the other reviewer who says stay away from the nigiri. There is a LOT of rice with a very small sliver of fish. But on the flip side of that coin, it’s really really fresh and good.
And speaking of other reviewers, it is absolutely standard for an AYCE place to charge for anything you don’t eat. That’s how it works. So if you didn’t know that already, consider this your heads up.

Super disappointed. The teriyaki, udon, and tempura are good, but there’s WAY TOO MUCH RICE with the nigiri. The fish are super thin and there’s a truckload of rice. Go for the rolls and the other menu items, not the nigiri. Also, the green tea ice cream had this artificial scent to it. We ended up only ordering once. PS — the lunch AYCE price is now 12.99.

The go-​to spot for poor students. There are no other sushi restaurants near that can compete with the pricing of this all you can eat sushi restaurant. The quality of the food is pretty good too. There is a large variety of nigiri, rolls, ramen, udon, appetizers, sashimi (only during dinner), desserts, etc. to choose from so you will definitely leave full AF. My friends and I come here whenever we crave sushi because it is so worth it.

I’ve been twice now with a friend and I must say I am a fan. I like that for $ 12 you can get all you can eat sushi including seaweed salad, tempura, etc.- basically it’s a buffet freshly ordered and prepared.
I will be honest and write that I was initially skeptical at the quality of the sushi for the price. And I was pleasantly surprised! The nigiri is tasty and fresh, not on giant pieces of rice as it sometimes can be.
I usu get the miso soup, seaweed salad, yellowtail, salmon, tuna, California roll and that’s pretty much all I can eat before becoming full.
Next time I need to bring some more friends so we can order more sushi and rolls together for me to taste some of the speciality rolls.
The clean rolls Bao H. described sounds wonderful. I will have to order those next time I go in.
The only minor comment I will make is that despite the fact that the interior is nicely decorated, the now defunct conveyor belt for the rotating sushi is a distraction. It makes a poor impression upon initial walk in.
I’m not sure what they can do about it since I am sure it was expensive to install & will be expensive to remove.
Aside from this minor distraction, this place is great for an all you can eat sushi joint!

I’m legit obsessed with this place.
You really can’t go wrong with their lunch deal. Order whatever you want from the menu, as much as you want, and get it made fresh to order for $ 12. WORTHIT.
I’ve brought so many friends here and converted them for life.
Honestly, you can’t go wrong. This place is my go-​to when I’m trying to get a little sushi food coma ;)

I have frequented this place the past few months. As I was finishing dinner with my mom an employee walked up to us and informed us we had ordered too much food and that there would be an extra charge.
I was completely taken aback. At an all you can eat restaurant there is a penalty for having leftovers?
He continued to explain that they discourage people from ordering too much food and that next time I should pace myself because there are third world countries… I politely cut him off and asked him where the notice of this extra charge was.
I have been in the food service industry for almost 6 years I have never experienced more disrespect and outright terrible service. I was embarrassed (everyone in the section looked over at us) and I will never come back to the restaurant ever again.

This place is affordable, I feel like I make money when I come here. Food is incredible.

I always like all-​you-​can-​eat sushi places because it gives you the opportunity to venture outside your comfort zone with minimal risk. Akita was great for this reason. Good quality, good variety, friendly service. Tempura was too thick, but the zucchini and shrimp were the best of what I tried. The red snapper and tuna were my favorites as both nigiri and sashimi, but that is likely just preference. The unagi nigiri was nice too. The rolls are small, but that’s nice, because you have room for more variety. I always like rainbow rolls and Akita’s were delicious. My hands down favorite was the special roll with spicy tuna and avocado topped with with cracked black pepper crusted tuna, tempura flakes and eel sauce. So good, one of the best combos I’ve tried.
If you’re looking for the finest sushi in Scottsdale, this is not your spot, but you want a nice meal out with friendly staff and delicious sushi, Akita is a great spot.

I came here for dinner last night craving some good AYCE sushi. When we got there it seemed like a nice environment and was pretty full. The wait was only about 5 – 10 minutes and we were seated right away.
After ordering several rolls, my girlfriend and I were anxious on seeing how these would turn out. When we got them, they were a nice small portions compared to ones I’ve been too, which isn’t so bad. You can order a bigger variety and still be able to eat them all.
But the rolls where I wanted to add crunchy tempura flakes were just awful. We couldn’t immediately tell these flakes were hard and just straight up stale.
The Salmon sashimi (on my second order) seemed slimy and just fishy. All the fried tempura (crab leg, mushroom, sweet potato) tasted pretty delightful.
I had a better time eating some of the appetizers than the actual house special rolls. All in all, it was a decent place for the price!

I’ve been here a couple times now and my only regret is that there’s so many good items my friends and I always over order which results in us stuffing ourselves to we hate ourselves! I’m not really sure how a ayce sushi place can only be $ 12 for lunch and still remain open because the sushi is actually surprisingly good!
With the lunch buffet there’s a menu of 100+ items that you can order including many tempura items, nigiri, pork/​chicken cutlet, soba/​udon/​Ramen, sea weed salad and a myriad of both regular and specialty rolls! And to top it off you can get mango, green tea, or vanilla ice cream to finish off your meal!
The price and quality definitely can’t be beat and it’s a nice surprise that there’s so many appetizers/​sides you can order as well (in comparison to mido sushi in Chandler). Unfortunately it seems like they do mix up orders quite a bit cause the last two times I’ve gone, we’ve had some repeat on rolls and even rolls arrive that we didn’t order. On a side note, check out the bathroom, it’s pretty cool!

Going here twice in a week is what I call worth it!!! As in $ 11.99 to eat all the sushi you want during lunch from 11am to 4pm. I mean seriously, if you are planning to spend more than $ 12 for sushi, you need to come here. It is definitely a «Your money’s worth» situation! Two specialty rolls at other restaurants cost more than this.
It’s all you can eat on anything from appetizers such as shrimp tempura, seaweed salad to dessert such as fried bananas and green tea ice cream. You also have chicken, beef, salmon cutlet, ramen, udon, maki rolls, hand rolls, nigiri pieces and so on. The drinks do cost extra money though. I usually stick with water.
The pieces are decently made and they are not overstuffed with rice. I’m glad the owners are respecting the customers in that regard. The fish is decently fresh as well. So for moderate pricing and decent sushi that is way worth your money, you need to come to Akita.
I think I ate about 30 – 40 pieces of sushi every time I went not including the seaweed salad, shrimp tempura, miso soup, friend bananas and other random things. You can also order their specialty rolls which include Las Vegas, Manhattan, Rainbow and 3 other specialty rolls. Usually I always eat about 6 – 10 salmon nigiri pieces first because salmon is just that good. :)
This place is awesome, but it could use more than 2 waitress since everything is made to order (not buffet style) and then brought to your table. I also had several instances where they just forgot what I ordered and didn’t bring it. Or they got the order itself wrong on certain sushi pieces. They could put more specialty rolls on their menu too.

For an AYCE place, Akita blew me out of the water …
Not only does the interior surpass expectation, the sushi, service and price point were all very good!
$ 12 for lunch and $ 20 for dinner for good quality fish and AYCE– someone pinch me I’m dreaming!
I started with nigiri, typically I go with Sashimi to evaluate how good a sushi place is as it shows the quality of their product without the smoke and mirrors. The nigiri were portioned well, fresh fish/​seafood and the rice was great. My biggest pet peeve with sushi is cold, over or undercooked sushi rice. The nigiri was on the money.
What I ordered:
Nigiri: Tuna, Salmon, Red Snapper (Tai), Shrimp, Mackerel, Yellowtail, White Tuna, Red Clam, Masago, Tobiko
All were good, though I did not enjoy the Masago, Tobiko or Mackerel as they left more to be desired.
Rolls: Eel Avocado Roll & Tuna these were simple and yummy, came with 6 pieces
Fried: Shrimp Tempura, Calamari Ring and Fried Banana (with honey)
They do tempura very well here, crisp and light! Pass on the calamari, the shrimp is amazing! I did the fried bananas with green tea ice cream and found the bananas good, but a bit greasy and the green tea was too artificial and tasted overly floral.
I love the fact that there’s no limit per order– as long as you don’t waste. Also it’s awesome that they do single item orders, so you can try a little bit of everything here. I’m excited to come back to try more of their appetizers, rolls and nigiri. The ramen they have here I would pass on as they come in small bowls in simple ramen broth and straight noodles.

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Sushi buffet time!
I came on a Friday night with my group. ALL YOU CAN EAT sushi/​sashimi for $ 20 — count me in! I went for sashimi; mackerel, tuna, salmon, tempura vegetable, and the Volcano Roll. The sashimi to me was pretty good and basic and so was the tempura vegetable. The Volcano roll came with tuna, crab, cucumber and deep fried while drizzled with chipotle mayo, siracha, and a brown sweet sauce I couldn’t make out. I would say this combo worked well.
Things got more interesting when Chef Sam came out to speak to us about what he can do and make for us; so I was like well show us what you can do! Thus, he made us some specialties; Smoky Roll, Nanuto Roll, and Ninja Roll. The Smoky roll was crab meat, seaweed salad, topped with yellowtail, salmon roe and doused with mayo and brown sauce; and yes you can taste the smoke, which was the interesting part. The Ninja roll was a clean roll; no rice, just wrapped with seaweed was tuna, crab, avocado, and topped with wasabi aioli. The Nanuto roll, my favorite of the night, was again a clean roll; wrapped with cucumber, salmon, tuna, roe, and drizzled with ponzu sauce! Overall the experience took a 180 once Chef Sam came out to speak to us and show us is specialty!
Service overall was on top of things and the place was clean and welcoming. In the end, gotta thank Chef Sam for making this a wonderful experience! — Enjoy!

Went for lunch on a Saturday from the recommendation from friends that have had their all you can eat for $ 11.99.
Big selection from appetizers to entrée to Ramen or Udon Noodles to Sushi to desserts.
All orders are small like tapas but you can order as many as you like.
It is good to order in small quantities so you know if it is something you really want or like and then go back and order in «mass quantity».
I started with the appetizer and got the tempera shrimp, deep fried scallops and gyoza. All 3 were prepared very well so I reordered in larger quantities.
Also ordered the Teriyaki Chicken and Teriyaki Salmon. Both were excellent so I asked for another order of each. Keep in mind all orders are small.
I also tried the shrimp tempura sushi which was also very good.
I ordered the seafood Ramen which comes in a very small bowl and was probably one of the least favorite dishes.
The best dish was the teriyaki salmon which had a good consistency while having that crispy edge.
The soda drinks were also endless.
That people waiting on us were very good however some of the dishes took some time where we could not remember whether we ordered them or not.
Now keep in mind the restaurant states any uneaten food will be charged on top of your regular buffet bill.
Overall I was impressed with the overall concept and $ 11.99 lunch price.
I look forward to returning to eat here again.
Arigato!