Mickey’s Place
“I have been coming to Mickey's since a little girl when it use to be in Forest Hills and I still come at least once a week.”
“Always my go-to sushi spot in Queens 🙂
PS, I highly recommend the avocado bomb and kani-su”
“The SAME supplier that supplies all of the best sushi joints in Manhattan and Mickey's is the ONLY restaurant that they supply in Queens.”
Mickey’s Place
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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1) This is NOT the best sushi restaurant in NYC – not even close.
2) I am ONLY rating one dish: The avocado bomb with salmon. That one dish deserves 5 stars and is the only dish I would order in the future. Having said that, we want to go back just to eat the avocado bomb. It was really THAT good.
3) The rest of the menu is meh – 3 stars at most. Sushi is ok – the rice was bland and the flavors are not exciting. The udon soup was average – I would not order it again.
Good sushi spot, IF you can get past the ambiance and cleanliness.
Ambiance is.. lacking for sure.
Cleanliness — while I don't want to say I saw "dirt", things just look "dingy", worn out.
Rolls were fresh though and great, don't think I would hesitate to order out.
Loved the customer service! Patrick was a very professional waiter and made us feel welcome. After reading the reviews I decided to try this place out. The sushi was in fact fresh and tasty. We tried the avocado Bomb and it was the BOMB. Also had a few rolls and they were awesome. Old school Japanese ambience and its lighting is very smooth. Mickeys is honestly a bit pricey and I was disappointed they didn't have any tempura rolls. Also didn't like that they didn't accept discover credit cards or American Express but there was an ATM not too far. Bill came out to about 40$ for 2 rolls and the avocado bomb with a soup. Like I said I thought it was a bit pricey for Queens but the quality was good so u can't really complain.
For me, a trip to NY wouldn't be complete without stopping by Mickey's. Each and every time, Mickey fails to disappoint. This most recent visit was no different. In fact, it was the best out of the previous times I've been. Everything tasted super fresh and was on point. It was crazy busy too. A big thanks and compliments to Mickey and his crew!
I'm a huge lover of uni and my friend had not tried it before. He loves it now too, especially after we did the uni with quail egg. I definitely recommend that. It's hard to go wrong with anything you can get here so enjoy and don't skip out on some sake. Kanpai!
Good prices, fresh sushi, pretty quick service. Came in for takeout during the dinner rush and still didn't have to wait too long for my order to be ready. The portions are pretty huge. The udon is a bit disappointing, though. I'll definitely be back to try their other stuff.
Looks like the sushi joints in the village…. Decoration is pretty authentic looking. The sushi is pretty fresh… Had the chirashi and it was delicious!!! Their salmon rolls are very fresh and full of salmon YUM!!
This is a small restaurant, yet it is cozy. Worth visiting over and over again.
After so many years, I'm still a bit of a fan. One of the owners is from Taiwan, the other is from Japan. Cool! Good, fresh sushi/sashimi restaurants are becoming more difficult to find. Over-fishing and the terrible commercialization of sushi/sashimi has dragged quality down all around. This place is quite good for Bell Boulevard. In fact, this place might be your best choice on Bell, period.
Food: I recommend the Hamachi Kama, which is pricey, but the quality is definitely there to justify it. Many of the rolls on the menu represent the "Americanization" of sushi, with heavy sauces made primarily with salt/sugar, but it's probably just what this market wants. I suggest you look for more authentic options, or ask whether there is an Omakase option. Red bean ice cream for dessert was incredible!
Service: extremely responsive and accommodating people work here. This earned the establishment one extra star.
Decor: everything appears very clean, which is important for any restaurant, but especially important for a Japanese restaurant.
Very interesting place.
Sushi in Bayside is sadness wrapped in a teardrop of despair falling from the face hopelessness. I would rather eat my own butt smothered in guano and garnished with industrial waste than eat at any Bayside sushi establishment.
Mickey's is an interesting exception to that.
Do you know what a inductive reasoning is? It's a statement that you can't prove is true, but you've never seen an exception, so you take it as truth. For example, the statement "Every time it rains, my lawn gets wet, so if rains, my lawn will get wet." Not necessarily true. I can spread a tarp over my lawn, for example. But inductively, it's true until I see a counter-example.
I gotta say — inductively, whenever I have sushi made by non-Japanese, it sucks. Whenever I have sushi made by Japanese, it's wonderful. That's true of Mickey's, but with a twist.
I literally walked out of Sushi Bell and Mr. Wasabi without finishing my sushi. In both cases, My rolls tasted of rice, vinegar, avocado, wasabi — everything except for the fish. So I ordered sashimi, only to find that the fish is low-quality, tasteless, and suffered from freezer burn. So when I walked into the Mickey's, the first thing I did was order green tea and sashimi along with a few other items.
Before I get to reviewing, you should know that I spent a year living in Japan, so I'm intimately familiar with quality Japanese food. Mickey looks Japanese to me and I had a very short/quick interaction with him in Japanese. The waiters looked Chinese and Hispanic. The non-sushi chef I saw was obviously Hispanic. I didn't get a good look at the sushi chefs (I think there were two) but as I left the restaurant I yelled out 御馳走様でした and they yelled back 有難うございました just like chefs do in Japan, so I'm guessing they're Japanese.
Keeping the previous paragraph in mind, here's the punchline of this review:
* The fish is great — the best I've had in Bayside, and rivals fish I've had in Manhattan.
* The non-fish dishes are terrible.
All the sashimi I was given was excellent, and Mickey's gives you very generous cuts.
Gyoza: B
Completely average, meaning, the filling was bland. I would've liked to have tasted more ginger and garlic. They might have been frozen gyoza.
Sake Sashimi: A
A very generous cut of salmon. It had a natural red coloring, indicating it was probably caught using 活け締め. Very buttery, meaning it was fresh. Nice balance of fat and meat.
Hamachi Sashimi: A
A beautiful generous cut of yellow tail tuna. Super buttery with a wonderful mouth texture. Hamachi is one of the stronger tasting fishes, so bad hamachi can be slightly fishy. This hamachi was strong but delicious. One of my favorites.
Unagi: A
Hands down the best unagi I've eaten in Bayside. The unagi I've had from other sushi places in Bayside had bones that I had to pick out of my mouth, meaning they're much older eels. The bones were soft and chewable, giving a classic unagi experience. Unagi is my favorite meal at Japanese restaurants, so I'm pretty sensitive to flaws in its flavor. This was excellent.
Tonkotsu: D
Unacceptable. So dry I could barely choke down a single piece. And flavorless. The tonkotsu sauce should *enhance* the tonkotsu — it shouldn't serve as esophageal lubricant for hopelessly dry food. Besides, I've never been fond of tonkotsu sauce… tasts like cough medicine to me (not the restaurant's fault — it actually tasted quite authentic. I just don't like this particular sauce.) In Mickey's defense, I've NEVER had acceptable tonkotsu outside of Japan.