Vanilla Fish

5225 Canyon Crest Dr #55, Riverside
(951) 777-1950

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Ryan S. Carrigan

Nice place good food however a terrible trend in sushi nowadays is to drown every roll in so much sweet sauces oof always ask no sauce

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Jennifer Myers

Rolls are so good and fresh! Food is great every time and great service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Laura Turner

I gave this place a chance and went here with my husband been sick for days. The service is good the food is good but it made us sick. Eat here at your own risk

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 4

James White

We came here for the 2nd or 3rd time, and I have to say it was horrible šŸ˜ž

The male server had such a dismissing since about him and just rude at time was sad.

Then the bathroom, broken lock, broken toilet seat, what the hell.

We got all you can eat, and the 1st serving was ok, but it took forever to get with only 1 sushi chef. The 2nd and 3rd servings took again forever and were warm and just not appealing.

The female server was as well dismissing at times, but nothing like the male server.

The atmosphere was dinghy and seemed hazy. I thought my glasses were dirty, but everyone in our party said the same thing. It was just a weird experience šŸ˜•

It is sad as this place is always busy and I just don't get it šŸ˜ž

We will never go back. Once again, Canyon Crest used to be the place to go.

The only reason we go now is Handel's Ice Creme šŸ’™šŸ’™šŸ’™

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Leticia Soria

The bathrooms have been extremely dirty every single time I have been there. The food is delicious, but I’ve seen many workers go into the restroom while it’s out of all supplies. It’s gross knowing there’s no soap inside of a restroom and seeing the chefs use it. It makes me wonder how clean our food can be considering there’s no soap for them to use.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 5

Service: 2

kendra livingstone

I don't even know where to start with what a bad experience we had here. We came for lunch shortly after they opened, and First of all the sushi was room temperature, practically warm. Sushi should be cold and refreshing but I literally had to choke down warm salmon. I did notice the sushi chef keeps the door to the sushi open at all times (even when slow) so that is why it's warm. Not sure how safe that is. I asked the waiter if they could possibly put my peices of salmon in a fridge to get them cold. He was very rude and annoyed with this request (which I understand might seem like an annoying request.. but who wants warm sushi??) He seemed so bothered and upset with my request my fiance finally said if it's a problem we can cancel the rest of the food and just leave.. without a word he walked off with my salmon. We saw him and the sushi chef angrily talking about my request and finally put my salmon in a fridge. He brought it back to me maybe 7 minutes later still room temp. Every thing we asked for was greeted with that horrible demeanor. There was only one other table in the restaurant (should have taken that as a sign) so he wasn't busy, but still acted like I was asking for an arm and a leg when I needed a side of Lemons. I was so uncomfortable with his attitude I felt uncomfortable asking for a refill on my empty water and ended up just sharing my fiances water.
Lastly, the bathrooms were HORRIBLE. idk how they could possibly be so bad first thing in the afternoon unless they are just simply not being taken care of. Pee all over the seat, no seat protectors no paper towels. It was so disgusting we held it until we could leave and go next door.
I have never had a worse experience. DONT RISK IT.!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Aaron ā€œObsolete Dudeā€ Non

A place that you keep going back to since the price is good (with the pay w/ cash discount) but hate since the service can be lacking and the food taking forever to come. Their time limit of 90 mins is the entire duration to barely getting your second round. The interior is very cozy but very claustrophobic when they’re busy (which is very annoying). Food and price is good, but having to wait on average 2 hours for your food sucks

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 1

Anonymous

Ate there last night asked for hot tea I was given a cup with lip gloss on it and it wasn't mine told the waitress she offered me another cup I politely declined makes me wonder if they clean the dishes thoroughly

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

David Oh

We had a bad experience with customer service in our last visit. We decided to give it another shot and went for lunch. We went in at 1:15pm with lunch ending at 2:30pm. Unfortunately, when we arrived, We were told that we couldn’t dine because they ran out of salmon and they close at 2pm. Frustrating experience after having driven 15-20 minutes with my family and kids. I highly recommend other sushi places over this one.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

Spectrolyte Support

This rude guy wouldent even let me read the menu bc it was 5 mins closed. It was my first time in the area and I went to Vanilla Fish to just see the menu to see if I like anything I can come back. The rude waiter told me to ā€œget outā€ because they were 3 minutes closed. Insanely rude people and I heard the food is terrible from my friends.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Jimmy Lewis

We called the day of and they said they closed at 9pm. At 7:20pm we got there and they said they are closing early and no longer serving customers since there isn’t many customers tonight.

Atmosphere: 1

Service: 1

Ben Bishin

We order takeout and it’s pretty mid. Not many other choices nearby unfortunately. Usually we get rolls and the Fish portions are very small and they often use the less good parts of the fish. For instance, if you order yellowtail you often get a lot of the brown part of the fish which tastes very different from the good ( buttery) part of the fish. Tuna comes in little slices like it’s a deli cut meat. Just weird. Ordering here is like a roll of the dice. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes not. Often the orders are missing ingredients, (like no avocado on California rolls).

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 5

Omar Garcia

First time I have to wait to be seated. The place is quiet without music, a relaxing atmosphere, the lighting is low. The waitresses are very friendly, the service is quite slow since they only have two sushi men, that is the reason for the slowness when placing your order, I recommend the place, the sushi tastes good and the presentation is good.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sashimi Salad, Calamari Tempura

Keith Henson

They took off the half off takeout. Sushi was mid at best but the 50% off made it worth it. Not anymore

jane doe

Be very careful you do not get sick eating here.
I personally watched the "larger stature" chefs while preparing food...eating food with thier hands, touch multiple surfaces no food prep surfaces, and use the same hands to mix food with fingers.
GROSS!
I was in shock! Normally the other chefs do not display this disgusting behavior.

I'm sorry. But watch.. if you're not seeing hands washing and eating in the food preparation area... get out before you get sick.
If these people are preparing raw food this way. ...OMG!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

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