A.A. Yawa Sushi
“Salmon teriyaki bento box, great price great food.”
“Delivery is really fast, even late night, in the rain.”
A.A. Yawa Sushi
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
7 reviews
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Great little place where a couple of bucks go a long way. Yes, it's small – so what?! There are only a handful of places one could get good food and eat-in in lower Manhattan & if you're familiar with the area, you'll know it'll be packed for lunch (1-2PM) so if you place on dining in, get there a couple of minutes early! Anyway, on to the real review…
I haven't had anything I didn't like yet. The rolls are perfectly made and are just the right size. The teriyaki specials are also great (for $8, you get soup, salad and a bento box with 6 rolls, rice and your choice of tofu, chicken, beef, shrimp or salmon in teriyaki sauce) and definitely filling!
The servers are attentive & will accommodate their customers. The decor is simple and warm, creating a comfortable atmosphere. If you're ever in the area for lunch and are craving Japanese food, this is your go-to spot.
A lot of time has passed since eating food from here. Take out was the name of the game, and I was on a tear with the stuff, akin to Russell Westbrook against a mediocre PG from a bottom barrel team from the Eastern Conference. Circa Summer 2013, before the end of July (I'd say end of June-ish)… I needed study fuel.
Not one to lose momentum by venturing outside the confines of my study space at NYLS, I quickly commissioned the help of Seamless®. What was open on a Sunday? What place had sushi? What was fast? What was cheap? I certainly found out the hard way that (quality) cheap food options that delivered in TriBeCa were few and far between. Ultimately I ended up settling for this place. Lunch special roll deals in this city are usually a bargain, and this joint was no different. Two rolls of your choice w/ miso soup on the side for under/around $10?! Why the hell not… and throw in an order of vegetarian gyoza while you're at it.
Sushi was serviceable: spicy tuna crunch and a shrimp tempura roll were had. Not the kind of stuff to knock one's socks off, but I finished up; avocado was overripe in the shrimp tempura roll… that I do remember, but I understand trying to add a depth of texture to the sushi, if anything more crispiness is needed though (rice is soft enough as it is). The gyoza suffered from being a tad mealy on the inside as well; if you're gonna have super soft fillings, the gyoza skin best be crispy.
Adequate study fuel, and I ended up passing the big test without any malicious side effects from this joint. You're okay as it stands.
This place does not have good sushi but their lunch specials are cheap, I guess you get what you pay for. I ordered lunch from seamless, and while it arrived in a timely fashion of about 30 mins. The sushi rolls were the smallest that I've EVER seen.
I ordered three rolls and I felt like I only ate two. The crunchy spicy shirmp and salmon were not that good ether. meh. I also had the crunchy spicy tuna which was decent.
Over all I WILL not be ordering from this place again. I'm still Hungryyyy!
I came here with a friend after work because it was local and convenient. I ordered the maki lunch special, and got a yellowtail jalapeño roll and a rock shrimp roll. My friend got a chicken teriyaki bento box. The food was mediocre at best. The rolls were tiny! The rock shrimp didn't really seem that fresh either. My friend didn't even finish his chicken teriyaki because it was lukewarm. Would not come here again in a million years.
I wasn't expecting sushi nirvana but how this place has an above average rating is astounding. The delivery process was efficient (great site + fast delivery) but the accolades stop there. For close to $35 we had two tiny rolls and a seaweed salad, but despite our hunger we couldn't the minuscule meal because the rolls were inedible.
The tuna lover roll smelled and tasty fishy and the other roll which promised crunch was limp and soggy. The only saving grace was the seaweed salad, but since there were like two tablespoons worth, it was more frustrating to have on the plate than not!
Do yourself a favor and just go somewhere else if you're craving sushi, it can't possibly be worse.
We were staying across the street from this place in TriBeCa, so we gave it a try for an early dinner. The interior decor is simple (Japanese style!) and pleasant & the waitperson was understated and nice.
We had beef teriyaki, California Roll, and saki, plus green tea. The teriyaki and saki were fine, but not great, and the Cal Roll was fresh & delicious.
This place has only been open for 8 months and is doing a fine job. It's a solid 3 stars, but just doesn't quite make it to 4, I'm afraid.
I decided to give this place a try based on their lunch specials. Before going in I tried yelping it but nothing came up. Once inside I realize that the name on the awning is different (Akimoto) instead of A.A. Yawa. The place is pretty small and appeared busy which I took as a good sign. I ordered the 2 roll special which comes with either miso soup or salad. I got the safest options in my book, salmon avocado and spicy tuna crunch roll with the salad. The salad was just white lettuce drenched in sesame dressing. I had a few bites and didn't feel the need to continue. The rolls were just meh and really had absolutely no taste to them. If it wasn't for the soy sauce it would of been like eating soft cardboard. It was a bit strange because it wasn't that the rolls were bad or tasted fishy it was just unremarkably tasteless and therefore confusing. I kept eating hoping and thinking that the next bite would be different but sadly that did not happen and the next bite was as tasteless as the first. The service was prompt and friendly but the food did nothing for me.