SaSa Japanese Restaurant

Good food, bit pricy. Still would recommend to go in and eat some!
Don't know if it is the best sushi of San Francisco, but it's really good.

Restaurant is inside the mall.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Lovely sushi, amazing recommendation by staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We had omakase and a bottle of sake. For the price, the courses were tasty but a little monotonous and the decor was pleasant but not memorable.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Not a bad experience at all, but just felt like a good version of the same experience I get with any decent restaurant in the area. Service was great, though. Wish the food owed me a bit more.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Best place for affordable omakase in the city.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent and fresh all around

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Overall, I highly recommend the restaurant. Very traditional spartan decor And the only two reasons why I hold back the last atmosphere star is 1) in announcing we wanted omakase. We were led to a dining table which is not how you should experience omakase, and 2) haven't been seated at the sushi bar, we took notice that you cannot see the chefs working due to a high top wooden bar covering the fish and their fine work. Omakase should be viewed much as well as served.

Still one of the best throughout our travels.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Decent and fresh sushi.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Absolutely perfect! Beautiful ambiance, amazing food, and friendly staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Located on the 2nd floor of the East Mall (above the Daiso), the interior is just a little larger than it looks from the outside. I've always seen this place packed during the meal rush times on weekends and got a reservation for my visit on Saturday for a 6pm dinner, which worked out as a good idea in hindsight.

We were seated quickly due to our reservation. Service was incredibly spartan with the staff swinging by the table only for the essentials (what's the order, bringing food with a quick intro of what the nigiri are, and dropping off the check). No questions on how's the food, if we need anything else. I wish there was more on the service side, especially as our tea went cold, but understand they're in the thick of the dinner rush.

Food was hit and miss. The soba-cha was just okay as the teapot arrived less than hot to begin with, and was cold far before we finished eating. We got the spicy salmon tataki too start which was great! Good flavor and fun as an appetizer. The unagi kabayaki was also good, with the eel flavorful, miso hot, and chawanmushi silky. It was plenty large for an entree. However, the 10 piece sushi tasting was a huge disappointment, as each piece was loaded with far too much wasabi. Big green blobs sandwiched been the fish and rice, resulting in the whole tasting having just an overwhelming flavor of wasabi in every piece. We were hopeful it was just the first few pieces, but the amount was consistently too much on all ten. Peeling apart the nigiri and scraping it off didn't help the wasabi menace as it had permeated all the slices of fish by the time we decided to give it a shot. The fish looked visually great, but they all had far too much wasabi. We were successful with getting wasabi off one tuna piece, and the fish was alright flavor-wise once it was mostly wasabi free.

If I do go back, I would stick carefully to only some items on the menu, and the avoid nigiri/omakase. As there's plenty of other fantastic spots in Japantown I'm okay with passing on Sasa.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3

Pretty solid location. We tried eating somewhere else first but the place just never opened. We thought it opened at 5 and then waited till six thirty. Never ended up eating there so we went to this place. I forgot how cool Japan town is. Definitely a great spot to hit if you are in town. Anyways this place was solid. I liked that they just hung sticks on their wall as decoration. The food was great. They had a diverse menu in terms of sushi items. Got a few rolls which were good. Nothing super spectacular but none the less a very solid place. Service was good. Atmosphere was great. I liked the set up and feel of the place except for the table we sat at. The chairs were set up somewhat difficult to get into the inside of the table. Not sure if that makes sense but it was still hard to get into the inside of the table. Overall great spot but I am bias towards sushi I think. It’s just too good you know. Also I’m planning on starting a cooking club at school so maybe I’ll do a sushi night if we get it approved. My Beli gave it a 8.7 which is pretty high to be honest. I think in terms of sushi spots it a little more than average, like a 7.2 but overall great spot.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Delicious and fresh fish. We had the Uni Spoons, Truffle Hamachi app, red miso soup and the Kaiten Roll.

Spoons were big and flavorful. Hamachi also 10/10. Kaiten Roll was simple and I wish I ordered something else.

The service: terrible lol she could not be bothered with any questions or recommendations. They avoided eye contact and ignored us multiple times. Although the fish was good.. there's plenty of other places that give a better experience, so we won't be back.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 2

The food was decent but extremely overpriced; there are far better quality fish options in the city at the same price. The service was terrible, waiters were inattentive and unwelcoming, making it impossible to get their attention.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

SUPER SLOW SERVICE LIKE CRAZY SLOW

Service: 2

Our waitress encouraged us to order way more than was reasonable for a company dinner. We thought it was because she understood the portion sizes, but it turns out it was because she wanted a big tip, and 20% was automatically added for a table of our size.

The food was decent, but we ended up with so many leftovers (enough food came for 15 people for a table of 9 people).

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 1