Asari Sushi
Asari Sushi
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
3 reviews
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Why is this place rated so poorly ?
Asari is a sushi spot with a full blown Chinese menu. What attracted me to this spot is the the lunch special! $6.00 for a lunch entree with your choice of white or brown rice, and you get a free soda, soup or egg roll. I find this to be a great value for the portion. I had the chicken with orange flavor and it was good. The Chinese food here is better than the average spot in NYC and the special is impossible to beat in the midtown area.
I'm giving them a 4 because every time I have ordered here they have been fast and courteous. Also because the special is a killer value and the food has always been good. It really is an asset to my lunch options by the job. I see most of the complaints are about delivery time which doesn't matter to me because I stop in a pick up my order my self. I can't stress enough the value your getting here verses trying to spend $6 anywhere else in this area.
I mean…..yeah. It's a place you get a three roll special for lunch and expect basic rolls and miso soup. But in all seriousness, that is exactly what you should be expecting from a place like this–affordable, grocery store quality sushi.
Here's the thing for me: they don't cut small pieces, and they don't charge you for sauces like a bunch of places do when you order delivery.
Finally–with the right expectation in mind, this is a decent meal. If you're walking in here, or ordering delivery, expecting some kind of experience you'd get at Koi or Megu or Nobu…well then. Please reevaluate your expectations!
There is little to recommend this place but plenty to admire. Well, actually, just one thing: it could give a hoot what you think. Yes, this place, I am convinced, is part of a dying breed of Yelp-resistant businesses that exist only for the sake of existing and doesn't even pretend to aspire to more.
So what that mentally disturbed and shady dudes walk in and out when you foolishly choose to dine in. So what the family that owns this place is having a violent fracas with each other, then the delivery guy, then the crazy guy, then with each other again, in Chinese. So what they "retire" for the night at 8 pm despite still staying open, while you wait for the check to arrive because now you really have to run? No worries, their adorable little boy, who was doing his homework all through the ruckus, will put down his math book and check you out.
And, you know what? The sushi was far from the worst I've had.