Naru Sushi

Favorite sushi place.(at the moment). Favorite rolls… the must haves:
— sex in the city
— panic at the disco
— millionaire
— Bertha
We also had the seafood udon and cooked hamachi, but it was because we had kids with us. I’d stick with the rolls though.
Can’t wait to go back!!!

Now Old Town Sushi! We loved it as Naru, but for some reason this place could never keep an owner for very long. We are hoping it stays Old Town. The service is tops and the portions are so generous it’s almost humorous.
Sake is a nice price for the riiiice! Sometimes they also bring out things on the house. Their chefs always amaze me. Very friendly and clean all around.

I was in the area with my sisters and we decided to give them a try. I would say that I am quite pleased with the food and service that I got here. They offer the usual rolls and sashimi like any other sushi restaurant.
We ordered a few items.
Grilled baby lobster: Pretty good and it was only $ 6.95. Could use a little more hotsauce.
Lion king roll: This roll was huge and was packed with sauce. Not too bad, a bit over whelming.
Spicy scallop roll– This roll never fails but I would’ve left the cucumbers out.
10 piece sashimi– I ordered 10 pieces but they hooked us up with 20 pieces!
Uni nigiri– a bit more expensive than most places but it was HUGE!
Ama ebi nigiri– This was fresh and the shrimp head was battered and fried just right.
Over all this place is about 3 stars but I gave them 4 stars because of their service and the freshness of their food. Everything came out really fast and tasted great.

This was my third time coming to Naru Sushi, and this time it was CROWDED!
My sister and I had ordered the California roll with baked scallops and i opted out for the avocado, not really a avocado person and it was delish with their special spicy sauce. YUMMY! The crunch roll was also good and The fire in the hole sushi. Even though they were busy our server was still attentive.
PROS: Good food
CONS: Needs more space.

Agedashi tofu. The sauce is the best I’ve had — light but effective in providing much needed flavor to accompany the delicate fried tofu. Sadly, it went downhill from there.
We ordered rolls to take advantage of the 25% off deal.
Red heads have more fun — wrapped tuna with cucumber, kaiware, tobacco, crab, unagi. No rice. 4 pieces. Meh.
Fire in the hall — spicy tuna, deep fried shrimp and snow crab covered with yellow tail, tuna, salmon and tobico with fire. Comes to the table enveloped by flames. Visually interesting until you open the foil wrapper and look inside. Looked a wreck. Tore up from the floor up. Tasted like a typical mayonnaise covered roll. Spicy.
Jack and jill — soft shell crab and crab covered with unagi and avocado. Forgettable. I always love a roll with unagi. Not true anymore. OK that’s harsh. I didn’t hate it. That’s the best I can do.
Mango paradise — shrimp tempura, tuna, mango, crab, mango sauce. It sounded kinda weird. It tasted kinda weird. Mango and fish… Not something to be done twice in a lifetime. Or even once now that you have the benefit of my experience.
Besides the food, the service was… not the most attentive. We had to ask for plates. We had to ask for ginger and wasabi. It’s not like they were filled to capacity. There were two other tables besides ours and one of them was leaving. It also took a while to flag someone down for our check. But I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say they wanted us to take as much time as we need. My cousin was not so kind. She said they were stalling to make it look like they had customers. Hmmmmm…

FALSE ADVERTISMENT… Bad food.
The owner refused to take my
coupon which was bought the same day I went there. My mistake for deciding to eat there since my wife and kid were hungry already.
Foold came after about 20 mins, OMG, the rice had this wired stinky smell in it, too strong that I couldn’t eat it. Tempura was ok, teriyaki beef was burned.
Service is slow, only 3 tables at the time and yet I had to wait for 10 minutes for my check.
So if any of you guys out there thinking about going to this place, don’t. Just feel lucky you find out the reviews before getting yourself stuck with bad food and high bill (due to the false advertisement, they DON“T accept coupons). Go across the street to Newark Buffet and eat as much as you want for cheaper.

F this place, seriously. I had a
certificate and I came for dinner, and while the old lady is trying to seat me she sees my certificate and goes, «oh. we don’t accept those anymore». wtf? then why are you still being listed on
the proper thing to do as a restaurant owner would be to notify
that you do not wish to participate in this program anymore so they can stop listing you and they can give me my money back to use on another place. what a waste of my time! like seriously, don’t put yourself on discounted gift certificate websites to gain business, and then decide on your own that you don’t want to honor the deals anymore. that’s bad business, forreal. shady.
since I was already there and my boyfriend was meeting me, I figured we’d just stay and eat anyway even if I couldn’t use my certificate. UMMM, food was whatever. I’ve def had better sushi elsewhere, and the dudes next to us even said TGIsushi down the street is WAAAYY BETTER. so i’ll have to go there and check it out!
came back again to sake bomb and that was fun only because I was with fun people. cheap alcohol is a plus. but other than that, this place is WEAK as a sushi spot. service is okay. hit or miss. the ladies are nice, but sometimes they’re just clueless… hi… did you forget that we need plates to eat on? yeah.
btw, did anyone notice the rude reply that «jenny c» wrote on one of their reviews? is this how they treat their customers? reading that made me go from 2 stars to 1.

Not really my type of sushi joint, but I ain’t exactly the common crazy roll eater. And they offer the full arsenal of crazy ass rolls. Dragon, Caterpillar, Cherry Blossom, Lion King, OMG, WTF… whatever your roll lovin’ ass could want, you can get here at Naru.
If you get the main sushi chef to do up your order then it is actually presented cleanly and generously. But I think they get busy enough that when the helpers get a hand at the sushi, it is clearly a step below. Also when it does get busy the servers definitely go under and you feel the attentiveness just crumbling, which sucks cuz they are quite nice.
They promo 99 cent sake and sake-​bombs, which also makes me keep my distance. I do know of people who are fans of this type of place, roll grubbin’, cheap sake guzzlin’ types but for me, not-​so-​much. Bad fit for me and that by no means is a bad thing for anybody else.

When your gut tells you to walk away then you should listen. Unfortunately tonight I listened to my fiancé who said we should stay and try something new.
The sushi was bad quality. The tempura type roll was cold. We ordered smoked salmon nagiri, but they didn’t have it so we ordered the white tuna nagiri. It was definitely not white.
This place is so not worth the cheap beer and sake.

WOW… this place has gone down hill!!! I don’t like coming here just for the fact that they stole the menu from satomi and basically copied it and the quality of the fish isn’t all that great (just average if anything). My sisters friends wanted to go here so I joined them just because I wanted to get drunk off their $ 1 sake /​$ 1 beer.
WARNING… the $ 1 beer is BUDLIGHT! WTF?! I can go buy a 30 pack next door for $ 18.99 at safeway. Minus points for that!
When they brought our plates out, they gave me a plate that looked like some one already ate off of it already. It had soy sauce and rice on it… really?! wow
I ordered a sashimi seaweed salad. so tell me, why does this salad come with 80% shredded cabbage, 5% seaweed salad, 5% sashimi, 5% sesame oil, 5% fried tempura batter?! totally disappointing! This place was basically dead the whole friday night so apparently everyone else already knew how whack this place was… gotta go back to satomi to redeem myself! donezoh! not coming back here ever again!

If you want to get drunk, Come here and drink. Food. Not so much. Ordered about 9 rolls, Mostly their specials. Sushi chefs are X Satomi Sushi chefs. All the rolls sucked!!! Either it was too spicy, rice was not cooked properly, Rolls were falling apart, Super fishy tasting. Not a happy customer at all. Basically this place is a Copy Kat of satomi but with cheaper drink specials and sub par rolls. Will not come back again. Sorry Naru.
Btw. Go to satomi sushi. Great service. Andy the owner is awesome! You wont be disappointed.

I came here on Sunday for dinner. There were 2 servers for the whole restaurant.
+1 sat right away and its 5 minutes from my house
+1 99cent small sake and beer
+1 decent price sushi that is tasty as well
+1 they’re open all day. Most japanese restaurants close from 2pm and reopen at 5. They actually have happy hour from 3−6pm according to their website
We ordered:
Anarchy: spicy tuna, tempura, and crab inside with 3 different fish on top. It was pretty good. I dont think that spicy tuna is that spicy.
–1: Lion King: It was pretty messy. The pieces werent cleanly cut, so we ended up smushing the roll.
Gyoza: nothing special. Just a quick appetizer
Hamchi Kami: Really tasty. They just give one piece. Other restaurants give 2 cheeks.
–1 service was lacking. I understand its a new restaurant, so no biggy. My rolls came out before my appetizer. I didnt really care, but i know alot of people are bothered by that.
Im pretty sure this place is crazy on weekends for the cheap sake. I would definitely come back and bring some friends.

As Phung N. mentioned, you can buy
coupons for Naru Sushi which makes this place even more attractive as a sushi spot than ever.
I was skeptical at first since again this was another one of those places that served sushi ‘rolls’ more so than they have focus on real sushi and raw fish. Came here on a Friday night with the bf prior to an event in Fremont and found this place packed to the brim with a huge waiting list. After about 20 – 25 minutes we were seated at the corner of the bar area. They have beer and sake specials ($ 0.99 for either) from Tues-​Fri so we took advantage and ordered some beer.
We ordered a variety of rolls, mostly raw fish rolls, and an order of chirashi as it’s become the bf’s favorite dish at most sushi restaurants. The rolls came out fast and their prices were definitely reasonable. (Again with the coupons, even more reasonable!) The chirashi was well prepared and the fish were fresh and delicious! The sushi chefs are fun and interactive and their waiters are even more interactive as it gets later and later at night when they … start to participate in their own alcohol specials and table festivities.
This whole restaurant tends to have a fun atmosphere especially on Friday nights and I’m actually very excited to come back again armed with the coupon for some delicious sushi and a fantastic time.

Dined here twice this month… so far. =P
Definitely happy w/​the food & service but the place does get pretty packed. Naru is a little larger than Satomi so the wait isn’t nearly as long. We were seated quickly the 1^st time and sat at the bar the 2^nd time.
My favorite roll (for now) is the Spicy Rainbow. Think rainbow roll but instead of the california roll filling, it’s filled w/​spicy tuna. YUM! The Crunch roll was just that… crunchy. I really liked their Agedashi Tofu. Pass on the Saba Shioyaki — it was mediocre. I’ll be back to try more rolls.
Naru also has $ 0.99 sake & $ 0.99 beer DAILY. Sake Bombs all around!

With some some average sushi prices, Naru Sushi delivers some good and not so good. I noticed that they have $.99 sake and beer on some of their weekdays and that must be quite a customer favorite (although I made my Naru outing on a Saturday night). The good was the anarchy roll which was like a rainbow roll but with a combination of tuna, tai, and yellowtail on top with spicy tuna, shrimp, and crab filled in the middle. A ton of sauce was douced on top of the anarchy roll which made it very sweet but at times a bit overpowering that you couldn’t really taste the fish much at all.
The lion king roll was just so so as the spicy tuna in it was a bit bland and a lot of the rice stuck to the aluminum foil that it was cooked in so it kind of fell apart when you’d take it out of the wrapping. And finally, the chicken sukiyaki was a sodium timebomb waiting to happen. The broth probably filled your entire sodium requirements for the day and it just wasn’t worth the $ 11 we had to throw down.
Maybe it’s worth going back for the sake and beer specials but for a better sushi quality experience, I’d look outside of this Newark establishment.

Came here yesterday on a Friday night and like others have said, it wasn’t that busy. A couple came in before us and got seated right away and we didn’t, so we waited even though I saw an open table. The waitresses completely ignored us and didn’t seat us until an older lady saw the table and sat us. A waitress then came to us to give us the menu and I gave them my certificate from http://
. She took it and several minutes later, she came back to take our order. I ordered the desperate wives and the OMG. My husband ordered the Fire in the Hall, Bertha and an Asahi beer.
Several minutes later, we got our water and complimentary edamame, but no beer. We got our food and still no beer. I grabbed a waitress and said we ordered a beer and it still not here. She looked like she was confused and didn’t really want to help us because she wasn’t our waitress. So service wise, not the greatest and it wasn’t even busy.
Now the food was great. I definitely give them at least four stars except for one item that my husband didn’t like too much. The rolls were really big and you can get full easily. The OMG was as the name described.OMG.a couple next to us said it looks like a sushi nacho. LOL. All the food was good except for the BERTHA roll. I don’t know why for some god reason it would be name Bertha. It’s not even an attractive name and it didn’t taste good. Sorry to all the Berthas out there. Anyway. the Bertha roll was way too sweet. The sauce that they had on it was way overpowering all the other flavors. You couldn’t taste the fish, the rice, or the avocado that was on it. All you can taste was the sauce, which I got sick of after two pieces.
Summary: Service, not great. Food, very good. Décor, could use a little sprucing and more tables needed. I’ll definitely come back here because I got another certificate, but next time, I’ll probably bring people so I can utilize that certficate to it extent.

99 cent sakes & 99 cent beers Mondays to Fridays: 5 stars!
Service: 0 star!
Our table was next to the kitchen and I happened to sit at the outer side of the table. My whole night consisted of turning around in failed attempts to locate our server.
The two of us arrived late. As we joined the rest of our party, we ordered a large sake and a large beer.
5 minutes later, sake arrives. Where’s the beer? We want to sake bomb! 5 minutes later, still waiting.
Server walks from the kitchen.
Me: Excuse me!
Server: Are you ready to order?
Me: Yes, but we also ordered…
Server: *walks to another table*
Me: …a large uhhhhh…
Couple minutes later, server walks to the kitchen.
Me: *waves arm to get her attention* We ordered a large beer!
Server: *zooms by*
Don’t think she heard me.
Another couple minutes later, server walks to our table.
Server: Are you ready to order?
Me: We ordered a large beer. And I’d also like a…*looks down at menu* *looks up*
Server: *gone*
Where the f did she go? Seriously?! Ugggghhhh!
Finally after waiting for what felt like eternity, we were able to get enough of her attention to tell her about our beer and place our order. Not sure if we got the right food since the roll that came out was baked, and the menu did not mentioned it being baked at all. Still ate it since we didn’t want to go through the whole ordeal again. It tasted good. Or was it good because we were starving and have been drinking on an empty stomach?
The place was busy with only 2 servers, but that’s no excuse for the poor service. Jumping from table to table like that was inefficient and just plain rude. I rather wait for her take care of the other table first, than having her run out on me mid-​sentence.
Should I come back for the cheap sake and beer and put up with the rude service? I don’t know.

Came in a bit early I guess, as they looked surprised as we entered the restaurant. They have a very impressive menu with a ton of spicy rolls and something called «Monkey Brains» (fried mushrooms filled with spicy tuna) which was the best stuffed mushroom I have ever had.
That’s where the magic stopped however. Ordered a traditional scallop sashimi (hotate), and what I got was a pile of unseared scallops that were grainy and lumpy, definitely NOT sashimi grade. It was a beautiful presentation and I felt terrible sending it back, but I could not force myself to eat my favorite sashimi…
I asked for a tuna sashimi instead and what I got was a few dark pink spears of very cold tuna that was not fatty at all. It had good flavor but horrible texture and was not buttery smooth as I had expected it to be.
I’d like to come back and order some spicy rolls and some more oddly-​named fried items.

99 cent beer and sake! Unheard of! It’s Tuesday through Fridays. It’s so cheap you can’t turn it down.
I went here for my friends’ birthday dinner and it was so fun. The chefs are super cool and will take shots with you. The sushi was good but maybe that was because I was a tad inebriated. Woops.
I will definitely be back.

Fantastic Quality, Service, Décor from people that care. Open for a few months after a expansion and a make over they are set to dominate the sushi bars in the region.
There is NEW sushi cheff’s and you may recgonize them from somewhere else. See photo
They have a 99 cent Sake deal Mon — Fri. A happy hour until 6pm has great deals.
This is a must see if you are looking for a Great Meal.