Akimoto Sushi
“The delivery is quick, the fish is ALWAYS fresh and generously cut, price to portion ratio cannot be beat!”
“I love their specials with the salad and miso soup.”
“The yellowtail jalapeño roll is my favorite but I recommend to get it with brown rice because for some reason it has a larger fresher yellowtail chunks :)”
Akimoto Sushi
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
6 reviews
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No, no, no – definitely NEVER again!
This is the story of how I ordered Seamless from Akimoto and silently consumed a truly unsatisfying lunch.
I ordered their lunch combo of 3 rolls for $11.95. It's a few buckaroos cheaper than Soho Sushi, so I thought I'd give it a ago! I mean, everyone can save a few bucks!
I received my order in a timely matter. No, that's not why I'm in the most complaintive mood ever. It's because of the following:
1. You charged me an EXTRA dollar for a side of spicy mayo. You and I both know it doesn't cost an extra dollar for a side of spicy mayo. Also, Soho Sushi gives it to me for free. AND, if I make an adjustment to an order they'll call me and let me know they'll have to charge me more.
2. No, no, no. You didn't add enough crunch. What gives? Did the crunch monster gobble up all the crunch? Did you want me to write extra crunch in the notes so that you could charge me for something else?
3. Uh, did you seriously microwave the miso soup in the same container it was served to me? If not, a plastic container? Because boy oh boy, I definitely had some plastic aftertaste.
4. Also, I've noticed that this particular spot is probably cheaper because they give you less fish than anywhere else. It's like chewing on rice, mostly rice. A big no-no in my book!
I will permanently be going elsewhere. BYE!
Definitely didn't expect the size of the lunch special that I received, but was definitely very satisfied with my order. I ordered the lunch special with two entrees and you'll receive more than enough food. The size of the salmon terriyaki was bigger than most regular dinner entrees.
The food was good and they delivered the food in the estimated time per seamless. For a quick japanese food option, this is the place to go. It's definitely my new delivery place.
This is the 3rd sushi restaurant I've tried in the area and honestly its by far not my favorite. The lunch menu comprises of an ample amount of options from 2 or 3 regular sushi dishes (comes with either soup or salad), bento boxes, fried rice and some more for about $12-$16. I tried 2 sushi rolls (spicy crunch tuna & avocado and shrimp) with salad as a starter. The salad was your typical iceberg lettuce, 1 grape tomato and 1 cucumber slice with ginger dressing. The sushi rolls had A LOT MORE rice than seafood – bummer. The spicy crunchy tuna was missing the crunch. The avocado and shrimp was bland. The dish came with tons of slices of ginger which was not too strong in taste. I normally get specialty rolls since regular rolls tend to lack flavor, but I did not see any specialty rolls in their lunch menu. My suggestion is that they re-work their sushi rolls to have an even amount of every ingredient and include specialty rolls in the lunch menu.
Good sushi! Nothing mindblowing, but solid food nonetheless. My Crystal Roll was definitely on the tasty side, though the crab wasn't spicy as promised and there was only mild crunch and very unnoticeable eel – I didn't even realize there was eel until I happened to read the description again. Radish oshinko was good and slightly sweet, while the red…beet? carrot? oh, Google tells me it's called tekka – while the tekka was incredibly salty. Despite all the shortcomings I'm surprised I came up with, I have a fairly pleasant memory of it all. I'd order again.
You get a decent amount for what you pay for, when it comes to the lunch sets. This place isn't run by Japanese (or even Chinese for that matter), I think they're Hmong or something. Anyway, don't expect super authentic sushi, but hey.
I might seem strange that a sushi restaurant in the middle of Manhattan would only have two reviews here on the site, several months after opening. In this era of food blog mega-coverage, it's not uncommon for places to be at 100 reviews by this point in a restaurant's life.
There's no conspiracy afoot, however, this is just mediocre downtown sushi for the Seamless set, and there's simply not much to say here.
A lunch combo, with two rolls (I went with Philadelphia and the Salmon) came with white rice and miso soup for just over eight dollars.
The salmon pieces were smaller a traditional maki roll in the city, with just OK pieces of fish. The Philadelphia roll didn't have enough cream cheese to which I say, c'mon. This isn't the most expensive ingredient, so there's no reason to skimp.
The miso soup arrived just lukewarm – it took around 30 minutes to arrive, too long for the thin styrofoam container offered.
This isn't offensive, but there's no reason to order from this place. (Akimoto is a common Japanese surname, so unfortunately there doesn't even seem to be an interesting story behind the name of the place.)