Malulu Sushi

Sub par quality for the sushi. Not worth the price.

Judgy local hot spot. If you're not recognized or acknowledged by staff they will attempt to get you the check early by speaking japanese or signaling to waitresses to hustle you out the door to make room for locals (couples) who do not make reservations who in turn expect staff to elbow you out of the sushi bar. The locals (couples) will give you dirty looks as if you're a nuisance taking up their precious space. (Talega)

My time, my money ! Semper Fi ✌️

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Great menu selection of fresh fish and tasty rolls with specials - lots of no rice and soy paper options. Plus: They have Orion beer!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great sushi, friendly service, cozy atmosphere.

Hind (sp) is a great chef with a lot of experience. Strip mall, which is fine.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was ok. Problem is that when I paid. I know what I tipped on a 44$ meal. 6$ cause I round up to the nearest ten. They added more tip to the bill than what I did on the credit card recipt

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 1

The sushi was incredible. Fresh ingredients and tasty flavors. Highly recommend!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

When we searched for the best sushi place in San Clemente, Malulu Sushi came up first on the list.

Good things come in small packages, right? Well, this is a small place, but it doesn't matter because the food & service are excellent.

To me, service is very important!!! At Malulu, the Japanese hospitality is on full display. Then, the food came, and we realized that we had found our favorite sushi place in SC.

Everything we ordered was tasty. And to our surprise, the female sushi chef made the best spicy yellow tail handroll. It reminded us of a sushi roll that we could only get at a sushi restaurant in Laguna Niguel (sadly, the chef moved to Japan).

We are already planning to go back this week & bring some friends along.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I have no idea how this isn't 5 stars, still a very good rating. It's the best sushi around. The sushi burrito is maybe my death bed meal!! They are very friendly, the place is loaded with regulars including us. We just love it.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sushi was super fresh!!

Hide was super friendly and patient, he explained all the menu items and made the sushi quickly.

Highly recommended : )

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The sushi is so fresh, and I love the lunch special!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Had a great meal here. By far the best sushi we’ve had in south Orange County. We ordered omakase nigiri and ended up reordering so we could try all of the different fish they had to offer. The bluefin, cherry salmon and toro were standouts but all were great. Hide (the sushi chef) prepared all of our sushi, apart from clearly knowing what he is doing he was a delight to chat to and we ended up letting him pick everything for us. I doubt we will go to any other sushi restaurant in south OC as long as Hide is there and they bring in great fish like we had today.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We love Malulu! Everyone is so friendly and the food is great. Try to Omakase and sushi burrito!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great small 'mom-n-pop' kinda sushi restaurant.

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very good Japanese restaurant

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amazing food would recommend it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5