5th Avenue Sushi

Absolutely love this place. I’ve gone several times and cannot get enough!
First, my favorite menu item is the phenomenal sashimi platter. It has one of the best presentations I have ever seen at a restaurant. Thick generous cuts of sashimi are arranged on a bed of ice, flanked by gorgeous dolphins made out of ice.
The sushi buffet is a fabulous deal.
All the fish is fresh, and the service has always been great. I love that they serve edamame as a complimentary appetizer.
I took my picky eater daughter here (she was 8 at the time) and even SHE found something on the menu that she loved. Plus they had Ramune soda, and the waitress very patiently and kindly demonstrated how to open the Ramune for my daughter (I knew how but I wanted to watch my daughter learn something new).

Exceptional service and more than exceptional fresh! A friend and I ordered the deluxe sashimi platter. Wow, the exquisite beauty of its presentation almost made us not want to delve in, but we did! Oh my, don’t think I will ever order a roll again when I can delight in the delicate and unique flavors of the variety of fresh fish that are included. I was especially impressed by a rosette created with very thinly sliced whitefish (I think). Rice was served on the side, and the staff was more than ready to bring us more ginger and wasabi as we requested it.
Marvelous!

I would give this place zero stars. The fish tasted dry, felt like I was eating plastic, not fish. Not sure if the fish on weekends is fresher as I was here on a weekday.
I have been to several different all you can eat sushi places in the city which were great. If you have tasted slightly good sushi, do not go here. I hate to write bad reviews but this place has terrible sushi, probably the worst I had. I think store sushi even tastes better than this. Am shocked this place has 4 stars on Unilocal.—yelp you have failed and disappointed me.

Delicious all-​you-​can-​eat sushi (but not waste) restaurant. A la carte and non-​sushi menu available. Clean and good service. Will be back.

Mmmmmmm.OMG.mmmmm…so good!!! Not a lot of words and complete sentences were exchanged between me and my son because we kept stuffing our faces with roll after roll after roll. I won’t even say the names of the rolls that we’ve had because our choices depend on our tastes but I will say the rolls were all phenomenal! The place is neat, nice, had a happy and welcoming atmosphere, and the service was amazing. All the servers were outstanding. They were giving a 15% off on all AYCE sushi and every Wednesdays and on weekends, wine is $ 3.75 per glass, although the place is BYOB. There is only one TV screen in the restaurant so it is not your kind of place if you want to watch any sports. You’ll be busy savoring their sushi rolls anyway to even think about sports! A cup of ice cream (vanilla or chocolate) comes with the AYCE sushi deal as well. What more can you ask for? Seriously. This is my favorite place for all you can eat sushi now:)

You will find me here at least twice a week! The food is incredible and the owners are the nicest people you will meet! Thank you for your fine establishment, 5^th avenue

My family and I recently moved here from California. I can honestly say that this place is one of the best sushi spots I have ever been to. In California, we had a designated sushi restaurant called Joe’s sushi. We loved the AYCE option. After moving we couldn’t find any AYCE places worth going to and then I found 5^th Ave. The sushi is fresh and the presentations are clean/​aesthetically pleasing. My favorites were the Naruto and the Godzilla. The naruto roll is great to eat in the middle of your meal because it is wrapped in thin cucumber and contains no rice so it makes your food go down. The spicy tuna hand roll was also great, the seaweed was very soft and not chewy unlike most hand roll seaweed. The salmon and tuna sashimi which is also included in the AYCE was very fresh. Clean and welcoming atmosphere. Definitely going to be our new «sushi spot.»

Fifth avenue sushi Is by far one of the best sushi restaurants I have ever been to! What a deal! All you can eat sushi for 21 dollars?! Can’t beat it! The sushi rolls are HUGE! Cocktails are cheap too! Wonderful service, very attentive. Will definitely come back again!

5^th Ave Sushi is the BEST sushi restaurant I have ever been to. The «all-​you-​can-​eat» is my favorite. It includes all of the sushi and nigiri they have on the regular menu, as well as most appetizers and ice cream. Sashimi is not included, but they offer a deluxe sashimi platter with an ice sculpture and led lights for $ 21, and it’s beautiful! This is a regular lunch and dinner spot for my friends and I. The service here is amazing, and you never have to decide if your glass is half empty or full, because it’s always entirely full to begin with.
I’ve seen a lot of people complain about the $ 1 a piece for leftover on the «all-​you-​can-​eat,» and I have to side with the restaurant on this one. The «all-​you-​can-​eat» is just that… ALL YOU CAN EAT. If you order more than you can actually eat, you get charged. It’s that simple– and it says so on the menu. You can’t come in, order a lot, and take it home for later for free… That’s not how it works, and that’s the policy for all sushi restaurant with an «all-​you-​can-​eat» menu. I recommend ordering 1 or 2 rolls at a time, and no more. That way you can more properly pace yourself.
The waitresses are very pleasant, and will take care of any problems or concerns you may have. People with dietary restriction and/​allergies get special attention, and their food is made separate from everyone else’s. If you have any, just tell your waitress, and she’ll take care of you.
The quality of the food is AMAZING, no exaggeration! everything is made fresh to order, with many substitution options (i.e. brown rice, soy paper, etc.). If you ever sit at the sushi bar to watch them make the sushi, you’ll see how sanitary and perfect everything looks! I was in awe.
I definitely recommend this place to everyone, especially sushi lovers! You won’t find another place this perfect for the price!

Our favorite sushi place (NARI) closed earlier this year and we have been looking for a new sushi place. Multiple members of our family have eaten here and raved about it, so we figured we’d give it a shot. I wanted to eat here twice before reviewing this place, allowing us to try multiple different rolls.
Our first visit we really enjoyed the service and the drinks. The rolls were hit and miss. Upon leaving we took a to-​go menu with us to read more about their rolls and keep track of what he liked and what we’d want to try. on our next visit.
Our second visit was similar in the fact that the service and drinks were fantastic. Only the 6 rolls we ordered were ALL fantastic. We loved every last bite and it solidified that we have found our new sushi place!
The only negative about this place is at sundown the right side of the restaurant can become blinding if you’re facing west, They need more blinds…

It pains me to write this review, I was a regular customer and frequented this place many times. But I will never set foot in this place again. We were dining tonight in a party of 7 and ordered the usual all you can eat special. The sushi is decent for an all you can eat and we’ve never really had a problem… until tonight. I saw my sister pull something out of her mouth and to her dismay, it was a chard of plastic. It was about half the size of a pinky nail with quite sharp edges. She was very lucky she had not swallowed it.
She brought this to the attention of the staff and the owner came over and looked like she really didn’t have a clue as to how to deal with this. She said «sorry about that» and that was about the end of it. Because we are very familiar with her, we left it up to her to take care of it in her own way. However, when the bill came, nothing was taken off, no further mention of it was made. I asked for clarification of the bill and the server indeed said that nothing had been done. I didn’t want to make a scene but I was infuriated at this point and said that if there is any foreign object in a meal, something must be done about it.
The server went back to the owner and after about 10 minutes, she came back and said, «we took 25% off of your sister’s meal». Sadly, there is already a 15% discount for everyone that walks in the door so the extra 10% off amounts to about $ 2. My wife and I have come to this place over 10 times and spent over $ 500 at this establishment. Our party alone tonight spent over $ 150 on this ill gotten meal. I was so insulted I could hardly breathe. So in saving herself $ 18 by not comping my sister’s meal, she lost us as customers and any customers she’ll lose through this review and by us telling this story over and over again.
I used to be in the food service industry and it’s a no brainer to comp a meal if there’s something found in it. What makes this worse is that she knows us and we’ve brought in a ton of business as well. This philosophy of the owner reflects how little she cares about the big picture and hints at a culture of cutting corners. Penny wise and pound foolish. What else is she skimping on? How reluctant is she to throw out fish that’s going bad? It’s obvious the bottom line is much more important than the safety of her customers.
In conclusion, for your safety and peace of mind, I recommend not throwing away your hard earned money here. If you look, the reviews here are quite wide ranging which is troublesome. On the fence about trying this place out? No brainer, stay away. If you are a loyal customer, hope this opened your eyes to what can happen to you. My sister was very lucky today but someone else may not be in the future.

Don’t know what all the great reviews were about. I have had this bookmarked for a few months to try, but I was really disappointed.
The all you can eat sushi is pretty lame. The appetizer seaweed salad was barely a forkful. The edamame was cold and the miso soup tasteless. Now for the rolls??? There was so much rice that you could not taste the fillings. The small amount of sushi that was in the roll was by no means fresh. There was no value in the all you can eat as the service was so poor by the time they returned to ask if we would like to order more, we had sat there thinking we should cut our losses. Our server/​manager/​owner? asked how we found the food and when I replied (respectively) that we were a bit underwhelmed and found the rolls had too much rice and the edamame cold the response was «oh» and she walked away.
Later that evening my guest and I both experienced stomach issues – wonder about our suspicions about fish freshness?
With so many other great sushi restaurants nearby, I think I’ll pass.

It is obvious by their business model they are trying to take down Sushi Para. They will fail.
I went in by myself on a Thursday evening for a quick dinner, and the place was empty, maybe two other tables were occupied. Service was mediocre at best for a place that was so empty. The food came out quickly, I will give them that though.
They are an AYCE sushi «buffet» with a large menu and $ 21.95/person. The inside is very modern and trendy looking, and there is ample seating. Their sushi bar was small and had several seats in front of it. When I sat down, there was edamame at the table and I wasn’t sure if it was for me, or if it was leftover from another party, so I didn’t touch it.
Service was not that great for a place that was so empty. I had to wait awhile for someone to come take my order sheet from me, however, the food itself came out quickly.
I was INCREDIBLY disappointed with the food. Probably some of the worst sushi I have ever had, including sushi from Pei Wei and Jewel. I knew if I didn’t eat it, I would still have to pay, and I would rather eat and pay, than waste food and money. The fish was all very fishy tasting, and lacked any palatable flavor besides fish. They put way too much sauce on all of the rolls that required sauce, and the rolls that were supposed to have tempura crunch on them didn’t have any crunch at all. I ordered one roll that had something on top, I am pretty sure it was the Volcano roll, and I thought it was going to have all the ingredients wrapped on top of the roll nicely, but instead, it was everything almost pureed together into some sort of abomination of sauce and fish. Nothing tasted fresh and I had to scarf my food down in order to bring myself to finish. I was so upset because all of the Unilocal reviews seemed great and the menu looked amazing online. Unfortunately, it wasn’t up to snuff. For less than what they charge, I could have gone to Sushi Para and eaten fresher tasting stuff that I would have been willing to wait for. I’m glad I gave this place a chance, but I was very disappointed in the overall experience.

How does this place have a four star overall rating?! Unilocal failed me with this restaurant. I went with my mom. For a birthday dinner and we did all you can eat sushi. Well, that’s what I thought we did. In reality it was more like all you can eat rice. The sushi minimal amount of sushi they put in the roll was not fresh. It tasted fishy. The one time the waitress asked how the food was I told her honestly that the fish I was pulling, out was too tough to even chew. She responded «oh yeah the yellowtail» and just walked away. I am by no means new to sushi and this is not how it is supposed to taste. Since we already ordered all you can eat, we switched to the appetizers hoping they would be better. But they weren’t that great either.
Later that night I had a bad tummy ache and some other symptoms you probably don’t want to know about… So did my mom. It just didn’t sit right. So do yourself and your stomach (and palate) a favor and stay away from this place. If you need AYCE go to Sushi Grove in Buffalo Grove. The same price with a better atmosphere and fresh fish. I should have known by the lack of diners that the fish here would be old.

Even better than any of the reviews mentioned! Super friendly staff, great prices, great food… If you like sushi, and lots of it, this is a place to visit. Btw appetizers are included in the all you can eat.

The rice of my sushi tasted terrible, maybe not enough vinegar? Not sure what had gone wrong. I ordered shrimp tempura for my appetizer but it had 1 piece of shrimp in it and 2 pieces of vegetables. Seriously? there was an option for vegetable tempura, why did my shrimp tempura had more vegetables than shrimp? Also the shrimp tempura was very dry. Fried calamari was not good, too greasy. House salad was hard to finish, too much sauce. The fish was not very fresh here. No sashimi on the buffet. Was really looking forward to some shrimp chips, which they bring out shrimp chips and edamame to every guest to visits but the shrimp chip was bitter. 21.99 with 15% off the buffet because they are new in town.
The only positives here are that nice ambiance and very friendly service.

I am back to this place again, and I probably had about 40 pieces without leaving a single sushi roll on my plate. I know how much I can eat so that’s not a problem. :D (by the way, I’m a 5′ 2″ tall female in 20s and I’m not overweight) I should probably change my career as a food fighter and make my own program called «woman vs. sushi».
My husband and I are in DC now so it’s really sad that I can’t go to this place as often as I can, but now I can at least update my favorite sushi place’s review.
I’m pretty surprised that some of Unilocal reviewers here don’t read the rules when it’s clearly written on their menu.
I can assure you all that this restaurant is definitely worth much more than 1 star. And those people who had issues with servers and the restaurant owner, this would not happen if you communicated with them BEFORE it happened.
1. For sushi buffet or any kind of buffet place, you CANNOT take your leftovers. It would be really silly if I went to Old Country Buffet, took 4 of 5 beef steaks and tried to take them for to go. Buffet noobs please read this.
2. I CLEARLY saw «you will be charged for any leftover food from buffet orders.» When I visited this place first time, my husband’s best friend thought we wouldn’t be charged for some chunks of rice but I asked the server because I wasn’t 100% sure. Any leftover food, including chunks of rice that was taken off from sushi, will be charged (this doesn’t apply for non-​buffet orders)
I try to respect people who provide good service and food. There are things that this restaurant needs to fix though. The restaurant’s chefs probably need to make sushi different (much better quality) if they make sushi for non-​buffet customers (as they pay more money for less sushi). Also, they need to find out how to make sushi fast if the restaurant is crowded with buffet people. Since this restaurant’s buffet-​style sushi rolls are not pre-​made and waiting for customers in advance, I would avoid having buffet lunch/​dinner during peak time (11:30am-1:30pm and 6−8pm)

So many all you can eat rolls to choose from! Appetizers are included too. The rolls are great. They don’t cut any corners with the all you can eat. Our sever was friendly and attentive. Not much more to say. Come hungry and leave happy.

5^th Avenue Sushi is a restaurant that has sushi similar to Sushi Para, décor similar to Sun Shui, and plating similiar to Sushi Ai. Its ingredient quality is similar to those of better sushi restaurants in the area (although the vegetables could be a little more crisp and fresher — but I’m probably spoiled by going to Sushi Para) but the flavor combinations are better designed and uses less sauce than most other similar restaurants in the area.
The area in which this restaurant really shines is presentation. Both the plating and the design of the rolls is beautiful. The dining room is also spacious and comfortable with a city-​like feel to it. The thoughtful design even extends into the washroom with modern materials used throughout to give it a chic feel. The service was also prompt and friendly.
The food comes in generous portions at good prices. When my group came here for lunch we got appetizers such as shrimp chips and edamame and then either salad with miso dressing or miso soup and seaweed salad to accompany the meal. It was very nice to get so many extras for a lunch that was inexpensive for Japanese. The frying here is very good so make sure you try dishes that contain items such as shrimp tempura, fried soft shell crab, fried squid, etc.
Overall, this is another great sushi addition to the area and a great place to take friends where I know they’ll enjoy the atmosphere and food as well.

I love sushi.
I also love to eat, a lot.
No, seriously, a lot.
You can understand why all you can eat sushi would be so appealing to me, especially nested right in my backyard.
Brand new, the staff (Angie specifically) were extremely attentive. I took my seat at the sushi bar, and reviewed the plethora of offerings on the all-​you-​can-​eat menu.
The appetizers are very small, like mini tapas plates. I had the house salad, the seaweed salad and the edamame to start, and proceeded to order roll, after roll, after roll.
Volcano, good. Summer, refreshing. Mango tango, yummy! Natoro, fresh and crisp. Pacific, incredible. Spider-​Man, fantastic texture. Godzilla, epic.
I passed on the dessert– though, oddly enough, I could have eaten it.
Angie, my server, was very helpful in making recommendations, though she doubted the elasticity of my belly initially, she now knows. She kept me paced, and made me laugh and kept me nourished. The chefs were fast, but also personable, checking in between orders, and presenting beautiful and delicious rolls
Overall great service, great value, great sushi. I’m so glad I’ve a place to practice my gluttony :)