Sushi Fix

It is truly a tragedy to see this place gone.
I live in down town and went to this place dozens of times. Mostly because my #1 fav, sushi place is in La Jolla. So the close proximity was a plus, as this is the #1 Sushi place in DT.
(I use to be a huge fan of taka’s but they’ve quickly gone down hill)
Every meal I had here was fantastic. I never ever had a problem w/​the food or service at Sushi fix.
The only negative (if you even want to call it that) experience I had here ONCE was I called in an order & told them I’ll be there in 15min.
As i am typically fashionably late, I showed up almost 40min. later.
Apparently some1 didn’t think about putting my order in a cooler/​frig. Room temperature sushi, Not so tasty.
But I still give them a 5 star because the place was always impeccable, great service & every meal tasty & fresh.
Sushi deli is expanding into new locations w/​que’s out the door & this place closed down.
I can now understand why they’re bringing back the «spaghetti factory».
Come on San Diego.
ps. Now I will have to travel to their north county location for my sushi fix.

They’re closed, and a sign in the window announced the next business planning to open there.

This is a strange place. The moment we walked in, we all kind of did a 360 degree look around of «what did we just walk into?» It’s kind of a cross between a mall establishment and a school cafeteria. You order at the counter??? Whaaa?
Ok so the food isn’t horrid. It was actually surprisingly edible. I’ve been to places that have been much worse. I’m talking about places that try to come out as authentic, but completely fail. Maybe Sushi Fix is on to something; lowering your expectations by looking like a school cafeteria but then surprising you with good food? Who knows.
I don’t remember exactly what everyone ordered. There were 4 of us, with our two kids. Everyone each ordered two rolls, I ordered two hand rolls, the kids shared a teriyaki bowl and each had miso soup. Two fountain drinks and two beers. It all came out to about $ 75. Not bad right? We walked away with our sushi craving fulfilled. enough said.

1 star for the sushi and 1 star for delivery
Im not trying to be a sushi snob or anything but for the prices, the sushi here is slightly less than mediocre. That being said I still come here because of the proximity to where I work and the fact that they deliver. My favorite rolls are the low carb roll ($ 14) and mannys roll with brown rice ($ 16 which includes a $ 2 upcharge for brown rice — seriously?!).
Bottom line: Sushi Fix is expensive for the quality they provide. If you can, go somewhere else.

There we were in Little Italy. We didn’t know what we wanted to eat, but a sign on the corner shop said «Sushi Fix.»
«I could go for sushi… you?»
«Yeah, I love sushi.»
We park in a green zone and have 30 minutes. Upon entering the restaurant we look at the young man behind the counter and look at each other. Is this just a gussied up Micky Ds that sells sushi? I ask him, «Is this fast food sushi?» The young man says no, but then quickly corrects himself and claims that he doesn’t want to quote Jack in the Box, but they make it when you order it. Well, we’re willing to try it.
We proceeded to look at their menu and ordered 4 ½ rolls which were priced from about 6 – 9 dollars. Each ½ roll has 4 pieces. With every order over 12 dollars, you have a choice of a dessert or edamame. We went with edamame.
We sat down.
The edamame was delivered to us in quick time, but the bad news is that it tastes the opposite of fresh. It felt as if the edamame was microwaved, though it came out piping hot, lightly coated with salt.
The sushi came out withing 5 minutes later, not surprising because we were the only people in the restaurant. The food wasn’t that bad. It wasn’t the best sushi I’d ever had, but the presentation wasn’t too fancy, and it was decent. The price for our meal including two sodas came out to over $ 30.00. There’s no waiter service, but they do bring your order to you.
It’s fast food sushi. It’s not that bad. I’ve had bad sushi. This place ranks somewhere in the middle, though the price is a bit high. It just seems out of place, and sushi enthusiasts probably won’t like it. If you’re in the neighborhood and just happen to be craving sushi, don’t count this place out – but who goes to Little Italy for sushi?

I really liked a few things about the restaurant, including the location and the interior design. The only sad part is that it is a crummy restaurant. The food is served on styrofoam, which wouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t $ 12 a roll. The staff is also very casual, while I was there four servers were just sitting at a table and talking while I waited half an hour for the half of my order the cashier took down. I did like their tempura banana, but if they can make tempura banana why can’t they put banana on their monkey roll?
Overall, I wasn’t disappointed so much by the slipshod service or average sushi as much as I was by the price. There is too much sushi in San Diego to pay $ 12 for rolls that are all tuna-​based and poor service.

This place blows. I don’t know how they manage to maintain a spot like theirs in Little Italy, because the only redeeming thing about this place is the sauce station… but even the ‘wasabi sauce’ is really just green mayo. I think they use about 8 ingredients total on their menu to churn out some grocery store quality special rolls. Oh, and the gyoza tastes like white castle dumpling. I fed them to my dog.
When I went with my boyfriend and roommates they had about 6 people milling about in the back, and yet they forgot to put in half of our order. I guess it must be pretty nerve-​racking serving an empty restaurant.

I don’t understand how $ 10 a roll equals fast food prices… and you have to pay $ 1.99 extra for them to include real crab instead of imitation. Portions are small. You know it’s a bad sign when no Japanese people are working nor eating there. One waitress/​server wasn’t even wearing a Sushi Fix uniform (a T-​shirt and whatever bottom). She was wearing men’s gym shorts and a YMCA shirt. I hope she didn’t come from working out.
EDIT:
Did anyone else get a message from the owner offering a gift card? I never got mine…

Damn, Unilocalers are ruthless! I think people may be overthinking this one a bit. They are quick, inexpensive and best part yet, you can drench anything in a number of various unhealthy sauces waiting for you in a ready-​to-​go pump tub. Fatty need cake.
Great place to come early on a weekend night to tune up before going out. Grab quick bite with a couple friends, Get your fix and get out so you can talk about how terribly awful your hairstyle is or simply to discuss the Archetypes Of Man. Even the owner is a good guy, who I can tell you is a fan of good rolls. So take her easy and have a Lrg. Sapporo – f*ck, you can even watch reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond or Girl’s Roller-​Archery down in SE Texas – I dare you to name another sushi bar as unpretentious as that.
Fuck Sushi Deli 1, 2 and any other subsequent location

I was walking around Little Italy the other day and saw this place. I looked in and noticed the lack of a sushi case.Huh.
I walk in to check it out a liitle more and saw people in the kitchen behind the cashier.Interesting.I also noticed the lack of plates. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that this «concept «may not work.
People go to a sushi restaurant because they expect a certain experience, not «# 5 your order is ready ! «
Theres something about interacting with the sushi chef, admiring his array of pristine (hopefully) seafood in front of you, not to mention the comraderie that may develop between you, the chef and the people sitting beside you.
I dont know, maybe I just dont get it and I’m way off base here. Maybe the owner is completely clueless.
You decide.

The only reason I give this place 2 stars is because it is literally around the corner. I can order take out, walk about 70 feet, and be back home in like 3 minutes.
I must be a sushi addict to get my «fix» at Sushi Fix. Foods a bit over priced, the guys can’t construct a decent roll, the seaweed wrap for the hand rolls are never fresh, and they use FAKE «krab» in almost all their rolls. Unless you want to pay extra for real crab.
Yes, I give this place a bad review but I’ll keep going every blue moon. Hey? it’s around the corner and if I want sushi but don’t want to drive, Sushi Fix is how I get my «fix».
EDIT:
I just read Jeff J.‘s review and I came up with more.
What’s up with the dipping sauces? 911 sauce, some kind of wasabi/​mayo crap? They give you little plastic cups for your soy sauce? What’s with that?

I am so fucking sick of Sushi Deli. If I have to stand out on the sidewalk next to 50 dumbass hipster kids for more than an hour I might just prefer to throw myself under a bus. When I heard about a cheap sushi delivery place in Little Italy I got all excited that I could finally stop torturing myself waiting next to some emo dipshit talking about MisShapes in NY like they were some sort of inspirational force in music and style. I hate fucking MisShapes. I’m a better DJ with my iPod playing nothing but Arcade Fire songs over and over again. They’re overcommercialized sellouts and the fucking hipsters will just never GET IT. MisShapes, that is. Not Arcade Fire. I like them. This isn’t the point.
I’m in a cranky mood today.
Yeah, anyway, no. This place is just as expensive as the more upscale sushi restaurants, except the sushi isn’t as good and the ambiance blows. If I wanted to pay $ 29 for two rolls and a beer, I could do it at Sushi Ota, which is probably the best sushi place in the city. For $ 29 I want a REAL plate, and I want a REAL soy sauce bowl, and I want little FISH drawn on both of them. Don’t you dare give me styrofoam. I can’t even recycle that.

When I think of a fix, I think of a heroin addict… MUST HAVE IT NOW! I will die if I don’t have it… it’s sooooo good I’m shaking!
Well, Sushi Fix does NOT serve ‘must have now’ sushi, that’s for sure. In fact… it could be like a heroin addict denied their drug. Period.
The only time I eat here is on the way home from Yoga when I haven’t eaten for 4 hours and am ravenous… and feel bad after the healthiness of Yoga to eat anything that seems unhealthy. As I am on foot and live in the area, I will opt for basic rolls take out style. I’m usually so hungry that I eat and and don’t have time to taste it. I have difficultly with sushi served on styrofoam. So 2 stars based entirely on location.
What I really should do after Yoga is shower and hit up Harney sushi.
In fact, a bowl of cereal would even do.

Fast food + Sushi = Yuck
You know it’s not going to be good when the ‘chefs’ are stoned white guys and the flatware is plastic and styrofoam.

NOOOOOO!!!
How could you muck it up so badly???
I was so excited to see that a sushi place had sprung up within walking distance of our hotel.
I have a few problems with their «concept’ so I think I’ll pick it apart…
1. They love sushi.
If they truly loved sushi they would fire all those incompetent surfer dummies they call employees (more concerned about daydreaming tasty waves than mastering the art of sushi or service for that matter) and hire a tried and true sushi chef that takes pride in the history that is behind the idea of Japanese Sushi.
2. They don’t have the time or the money to eat sushi like you do at a conventional Japanese restaurant.
Ha! really… conventional. makes it sound so trivial. Most Japanese restaurants let you take out if you don’t have the time and some even deliver. We had to wait longer than 20 minutes to get 3 rolls and at other sushi restaurants we have gotten them within minutes of ordering them. We ordered an additional roll that the cashier (Jeff Spicoli) told us would take less than 5 minutes yet 10 minutes later we still hadn’t gotten it. Money. I’ll get too soon.
3. Direct quote~“Premium quality sushi designed for take-​out and delivery as much as for dine-​in. All this for a substantially lower price than at full-​service restaurants. We accomplish this by lowering both overhead costs and profit margins and pass the savings on to you, the customer.»
OKeee…so let’s just see how low their prices really are. So I’ll compare them with a «conventional» Japanese restaurant that I know and love:
California Roll– Sushi Fix– $ 5.00
«conventional” — $ 2.50
Spicy Tuna Roll– Sushi Fix– $ 5.00
conventional– $ 3.00
Philadelphia Roll– Sushi Fix– $ 6.00
conventional– $ 3.00
Spicy Albacore Roll– Sushi Fix– $ 10.95
conventional– $ 3.00
Spider Roll– Sushi Fix– $ 8.50
conventional– $ 7.95
Hawaiian Roll– Sushi Fix– $ 7.75
Mexican Roll– conventional– $ 3.00
I could go on and on but you get the gist.
There was nothing extra to the sushi we ate. No Pow, no Zing. It was almost hilariously generic. Not bad, just nothing special. I gave them only one star because we can’t give zero stars and I think the wasabi merits a star, at the least. It was spicier than most.
I will not be back.

My wife and I use to love this place, But I must say, THEY SUCK!!!
The attitude of the workers is terrible, and while they advertise that they deliver downtown, they don’t, unless you live less than a couple blocks away. They are rude.
I think they fired the rude people, because I’ve gone back there a couple of times and its not as bad. Gotta admit, they’ve got pretty good, quick, sushi for the price. Up to 3 stars…

Sweet! I live on top of a sushi joint!
Snap! The food blows.

Good for what it is, and that’s a quick, average-​quality sushi joint. It’s nothing fancy, but it does feel very comfortable. Service is to-​the-​point and efficient; you order at the counter and they bring the food to you.
That being said — for fast food sushi, prices are a bit on the expensive side. During happy hour and lunch, prices are about average (I wouldn’t call it «cheap.»)
I like that they have a dispenser of spicy mayo.

I live in the neighborhood and have given Sushi Fix a very fair shot.
I’ve hit it for 2 lunches and a quick dinner. This may be redundant,
but the Sushi you get from your local grocery store is better. Friday,
I swung by and got an order of California roll. How can you mess
up California roll?, it’s Sushi 101. It was awful. Expensive. The rice,
was the worst yet, overcooked, watery, tasteless. They use imitation
crabmeat mince and the miso soup was salty and tasted like it was
out of can. The staff, mostly grungie, funky, tattooed up types
make you wonder about food handling — am I in fact risking
food poisoning? I’ll give it to them for location, but what you read here
is true, the food is awful and it amazes me people are still eating there.

Normally, I’d be against a place like this. Why?
1. It’s a chain. Puke.
2. It’s fast food sushi. That sounds gross.
3. It’s a sushi joint in Little Italy. Inappropriate.
4. It’s got a large screen television inside that plays baseball and other sports. I hate watching sports, especially when I’m eating sushi.
That said, I really dig Sushi Fix. Why?
1. It’s cheap.
2. They have a sauce bar that includes the really, really spicy mayonnaise sauce that I absolutely love.
2. It’s cheap.
3. It’s fast. You’ll get used to the idea.
4. It’s cheap.
5. The sushi is actually not that bad.
6. It’s cheap.