Sakura Japanese Cuisine

The sushi here is always fresh, the delivery is fast, and the lunch special can’t be beat!

My favorite sushi spot in Astoria. The food is fresh and delicious and they have great mochi ice cream! My partner and I go there quite frequently. I wish they had outside seating or a patio.

Great every time! I order sweet potato roll, yellow dragon (soooo good). All sushi I’ve had is delicious and also give the wasabi shumai-​if you like heat like I do. Def give this place a try if you’re there – and order pick up/​delivery through Unilocal if you’re in a rush! Very convenient

Great place, great food, and great atmosphere! My boyfriend and I had dinner Wednesday night. We ordered miso soup to start of, which was really yummy (just wished it had more tofu) I ordered a spicy tuna roll and a shrimp tempura roll, I even ended up ordering a second tempura roll. Our was waiter was very nice and talkative (maybe a little to talkative) overall it was a great experience.

I ordered at 11:30pm on a Friday night and was scared the food wouldn’t be fresh (they close at midnight). Not only was the food fresh and delicious, it came 5 minutes before midnight and the portions were huge (I got the chicken teriyaki dinner box). Will be ordering from here again!

Our favorite go to for sushi. Very reasonably priced, friendly staff and great quality sushi. Can’t beat their $ 1 sake bottles! What can you get for a dollar these days?! Sushi was super fresh. Everything was good but may skip the miso soup next time. Toro tartare was on point!

I like the sushi. This place is really nice’. Excellent food and service. My finicky family lived it…

Rice-​to-​fish ratio for hand rolls is off — too much rice.

Excellent place! My first visit was an amazing experience here. The service and food were amazing! My waiter Lucas was really patient with us because we took a while to order. He was funny as well.
Food: We had the Shrimp Tempura Roll, Astoria Roll, Ditmars Roll and an order of a Boston Roll. Everything was delicious. And as for dessert we had Green Tea Fried Ice Cream and Fried Bananas. Really good again.
The Service was good. I definitely recommend this place, and I will be back the next time I’m around :)

My gf and I went to this restaurant this afternoon.
The waitress was a bit slow greeting us and asking for our order, but I think she was alone and had many tables.
The soup & salad came with our lunch special orders, and both were delicious.
The specials, 3 rolls for $ 10 and the sashimi special, we’re both fresh and were presented very well.
There was a soft melody playing in the restaurant that set a nice tone for lunch.
Overall: nice place and I’ll come back for more sushi!

Tried them again. Spoke with a woman on the phone, as they were out of two types of sushi I wanted. She was very nice and apologetic, offering a substitution for anything I wanted on the menu «within that ballpark price».
They made a point to get me the order quickly.
Rolls still very solid. Good sushi. Gyoza was nice. Beef negimaki was quite good.
Primary reason for this update: avoid the beef fried rice, unless you like your sweet, and with chewy, almost jerky-​like beef. Still in the fridge… though still on the possible «chuck it» train.

Everything was perfect! From the service to my dinner box and my fathers chicken teriyaki along with shrimp tempura. The only thing that was a problem was the dessert, we had a green tea cheesecake with vanilla ice cream. The cheesecake itself was probably big enough for a mouse but it was also very powdered in the green tea powder, their ice cream was delicious though.
I would definitely have dinner over here again but next time walk down to Martha’s county bakery for dessert.

So I love my sushi and this place has great special rolls! We got the dragon roll and wild girl roll. It was delicious. Only thing that made me lower this rating was the attentiveness of the staff. There were hardly 3 other people in the restaurant and they still weren’t attentive. I had to wait for water and whenever the waiter came by he wouldn’t even ask if we wanted water. It was just not the best dining experience because of the attention but the food is definitely up there.

Today, it seemed the service was a little off… not the regular servers. Male server pleasant enough, but slow to clear courses and even slower to bring check. He seemed to get involved with something at the cash register. Only 3 tables occupied and I saw 2 of the 3 having to signal the server for service.
Also, the windows were open at front and every time the moped delivery driver took off, it was very LOUD!
The food was, as usual, excellent… just service issues.
We skipped dessert because of the slow service.

Sakura is, without a question, the BEST japanese restaurant in Astoria. I found this place a few months ago and have been coming here every week since.
First, let’s talk about the food. The sushi is very very fresh and tasty, I’d recommend the ditmars roll but they are all delicious. The chefs really do know what they are doing, and it’s always beautifully presented. Sometimes they even put the sushi on a boat for large orders! If you’re not into sushi, they have really good entrees as well. I really like bento box because you get to choose not one but TWO main items and it’s only $ 16! They give you so much food sometimes I can’t even finish it. The fried rice and hibachi dinners are very good and flavorful as well.
Now let’s talk about the customer service. I live all the way in elmhurst and coming here often is pretty out of the way for me. There are a few japanese restaurants by my house in elmhurst but the food is mediocre at best and the customer service is nonexistent. At sakura, the servers are always very attentive and happy to give recommendations and are very friendly. The owner is especially sweet, you can tell she genuinely cares about her customers and the quality of her business. I’m always greeted by a warm smile whenever I come in.
The prices are another reason I keep coming back. They are very generous on their portions and the prices are very reasonable, it’s practically a steal for all the food you get! If anyone is in the Queens area, I’d highly recommend coming inside for a bite to eat.

Hands down my favorite sushi spot in Astoria! This is a place that caters to great, fresh sushi and amazing customer service. My husband and I discovered this gem a few years back when Watawa had a 30 minute wait and we haven’t gone anywhere else in Astoria for sushi since.
Our usual rolls include: Spicy Girl, Ditmars, Astoria and Fashion though in the last months we’ve tried to eat healthier and the K-​Naruto is a refreshing change. They also offer brown rice as an option. Their hamachi (yellowtail) sashimi is always fresh and tender. Shrimp shumai is also very good.
Once your order is placed, they bring you a warm towelette to wash your hands and edamame to snack on while you wait. Their house sake is also very good.
A must-​try if you haven’t been there yet. Oh and they have a reward card… for every $ 300 you spend (you get stamps with each purchase) you get a $ 30 gift card for a future purchase!

One of my favorite sushi restaurants! They always have fresh sushi and their service is on point and friendly.

I have been here twice and both experiences have been positive. The food is pretty good. The pricing is reasonable. Both times the wait staff provided us with on the house edamame which I really do appreciate it.
I have eaten at pretty much every sushi restaurant in Astoria and this is probably the best one. So if you’re a local I recommend giving it a try.

Came here with a friend before 4PM for the lunch special (3 rolls for $ 10). There fish was fresh and the rolls were well put together. We also had the shumai which was okay (nothing special but still good).
In addition we tried the Godzilla roll. Personally, I thought the sauce they topped this roll with overpowered the salmon and eel. The service was good and for the two of us the bill came to less than $ 30.

Ambiance is A+ as is service. The people who work here are attentive, very polite, helpful and just otherwise wonderful. The restaurant is beautiful, sexy, and clean.
Please note my comment on the freshness of the sashimi. I posit that «freshness» comment based on rolls, or even sushi itself, may not be giving an accurate assessment. First of all, you can’t detect freshness in a roll because the nori invariably overwhelms all else. If a roll tastes unfresh, you should be contacting the health department, not writing a Unilocal review. As for sushi, sushi is often prepped ahead of time on the assumption that sushi has a high turnover rate. An assumption that is not always accurate. Sashimi is a good measure of freshness since it’s almost always made to order.
A comment about the brown rice. You have a brown rice option at Sakura, and boy is their brown rice great! Normally, brown rice is much too chewy and savory to be eaten along side raw fish. This brown rice is extremely short grain, extremely tender and extremely light. However, make no mistake: it is brown rice. One taste and you’ll have that faint brown rice flavor which in no way diminishes the fish.
Chicken Katsu: C+
Chicken was MUCH too dry. Katsu was too sweet for my taste. The breading was flavorless. I was hoping there would be a hint of ginger or something to make it complex. Alas, it was dry and not very savory.
Pork Ramen: C–
An awful, horrible ramen. First off, there’s way too much of it, and I’ve learned time and time again, when a restaurant gives you portions this big, it’s always bad. The broth is liquidy and flavorless. It smells like Chinese food. The noodles are too long and tangled to be eaten along side the other ingredients. The whole dish was like throwing lo mein noodles into a flavorless hot broth. The pork was the only good thing about the dish. It was fatty, so when you took a bite of noodle+broth+pork it actually tasted very good, but it should be good without the pork as well. Like Hinomaru, a few blocks down.
Sashimi Regular: A+
Unusually good sashimi. Please do note my comment about the rice. The fish was fresh, and by that I mean the individual flavor of the sushi is detectable. The hamachi tastes like hamachi. The toro tastes like toro. The sake tastes like sake. You get the picture. The fish was obviously not thawed from being frozen in their freezer, nor was the flavor stunted by refrigeration. The fish was obviously not stored thrown on top of each other (which is why you’ll sometimes taste yellow tail that tastes like salmon) I was given sake, hamachi, ebi, tuna, and a 5^th fish which I didn’t recognize.
Fried Ice Cream: B
Your typical fried ice cream. Very good (my wife didn’t like it, but I did.)
Next to try: Hamachi Kama and Chilean Sea Bass