Sakana Sushi & Grill

Phoenix, United States

3.5

Closed now

20 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards

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Telephone:
+1 480-598-0506
Website:
www.sakanasushi.co
Address:
5061 E Elliot Rd, Phoenix, AZ, 85044
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
No
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Dinner
Parking
Private Lot
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Casual
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
Full Bar
Outdoor Seating
No
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
Yes
Dogs Allowed
No
Waiter Service
Yes
Caters
No

Today

Today 11:00 am – 10:30 pm
Closed now
Local time (Phoenix) 06:09 Friday, 30 May 2025

Business hours

Monday 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Tuesday 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Wednesday 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Thursday 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Friday 11:00 am – 10:30 pm
Saturday 12:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Sunday 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Description

Specialties

Fresh sushi, sashimi, and teppanyaki. Home of sakana lunch, sashimi lunch. Serving teppanyaki with fresh vegetable with certified angus beef for steak.

History

Established in 1994.

First sushi place in 1993by chef name nobu sawai, who is from kushu island of japan. sakana is known for freshness, great taste, fun, loving family oriented place. now with four location greater pheonix area. Awhatukee location is managed by Taki who has 12 years of sushi chef experince. if any one want to have best sushi in AZ, sakana is place to be.

Meet the Manager

Yoneuchi T.

Manager

Since 1994, sushi chef, now became a manager. Always so great to work with awsome people, customers. Come and see me sometime.

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20 reviews of Sakana Sushi & Grill

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Place rating: 5
Las Vegas, NV
Evert time I come in from Las Vegas I eat here. .the quality of the fish is exceptional. …the only thing is they take a while to bring the check… but I still love them… YUM!
Place rating: 5
Casa Grande, AZ
Absolutely the best service and food I have had in south Phoenix. Service was almost too fast. We went early (5:00) and it was awesome. Fair warning portions are huge.
Place rating: 1
Tempe, AZ
I wish I could give this place more than 1 star, everyone constantly recommending this place so I finally went with a co worker for dinner and ordered a rainbow roll and a salmon dynamite roll and seemed ok, nothing to rave about but portions were big and service was good. Well 5 hours later my my coworker and I had food poisoning. And so did her boyfriend who ate the leftovers. Been sick for about 12 hours… Never going there again. Beware is all I have left to say.
Place rating: 5
Mesa, AZ
Super delicious! I love how low key and casual it is. My friend and I sat at the sushi bar and everything we ordered was really yummy. She has a shellfish allergy and unfortunately their Krab meat mix does have shellfish in it so FYI if you do too. Thank goodness we said something otherwise who knows how the night would have turned out for her, since one would normally assume Krab mix is always artificial… BUT they let us substitute the Krab mix for Krab stick in almost any of the rolls (except the dynamite ones). The atmosphere is more divey-​sports bar than the typical uppity sushi place-​which I love! We had a fun night and the sushi chefs were super helpful and very friendly.
Place rating: 4
Tempe, AZ
Service was unbeatable. Very quick and attentive. The food was just ok. Not a lot of taste, but I would go back to try other selections. It could have been my bland selections that gave it the bland flavor. I’ll give it another shot.
Place rating: 4
Long Beach, CA
As another review said the service here is great. As for ambience it is a bit dated and could use a refresh but perhaps that’s why they keep their prices so reasonable. I had a couple of basic sushi rolls and they were good but not outstanding I have had better. That being said I would recommend going here as this place has a good vibe and great people. I will be back
Place rating: 1
Tempe, AZ
Why does this place have such good reviews? Upon sitting down at the sushi bar, we realized that none of the sushi chefs were Japanese. Now this isn’t always bad, but it’s certainly a red flag. We got 4 rolls — Alaskan, rolly polly, spicy tuna and Vegas roll. First of all, it should be illegal to mix fake crab and salmon — that’s typically NOT how Alaskan rolls are. The general quality of the fish was sub-​par, but that’s okay since there was way more rice than fish so I didn’t taste much of it. When we got the spicy tuna roll, it was pale. That’s not how spicy tuna is supposed to look. We didn’t even touch it because it looked gross. The waiter brought us a to go box anyways but we just left it since we didn’t want to ever eat that crappy sushi again. I need to drink enough alcohol to forget ever eating at this place.
Place rating: 2
Tempe, AZ
Went in for a few sushi rolls and some seaweed salad. The seaweed salad wasn’t bad but there were a few pieces that looked like they were on their way to being spoiled/​old. Only a few though, so we basically picked them out and set them aside. The sushi that we ordered was mostly just OK. The ingredients seemed fine but nothing was particularly good. Sushi is one of those things where a bad experience could be because of what you ordered though so maybe there are better rolls to get and we just chose poorly. Not sure if I’ll hit them up again, but maybe I will to give them another chance since there are mostly good reviews. Our server was very nice, helpful and kept on top of everything.
Place rating: 3
Chandler, AZ
We tried this restaurant out for dinner on a Wednesday night. The parking lot was packed, we ended up getting a spot at the gym nearby. We were seated immediately and our server brought our drinks and took our orders right away. I don’t eat any meat or fish, so I ordered the firey edamame and a tofu appetizer with a couple veggie rolls. My husband got quite a few different kinds of sushi. My appetizers and about half of his sushi came out fairly fast and everything was delicious and good sized portions. Then we waited for about 35 minutes for the rest of our food. Our server even asked if we wanted dessert, then realized we were still waiting for our food. Finally my husband had to flag her down and tell her we were still waiting. He also had to ask for water and she didn’t fill mine when she filled his and acted put out because mine was empty too. Good food, but very poor service.
Place rating: 5
Mesa, AZ
Simply the best without question. I’ve been to Japan at least 20 times so I know what I’m talking about.
Place rating: 5
Santa Cruz, CA
Love going to this place when I fly into Arizona from California. Best deal on fresh sushi in the entire country. This place is one of the absolute best parts of coming to Arizona. The service is excellent and the lunch special is the best. I highly recommend the Sakana Lunch for lunch specials. Pretty sure it is only $ 10 and fills even the hungrier person up!
Place rating: 4
Ahwatukee, AZ
The sushi is good and they have a great happy hour. Most of there rolls have some form of tempura. Tempura Shrimp or veggies. I like the ambiance, doesn’t fit a lot of people, and it does get packed. They do have Hibachi grills as well, but I have not tried anything from the gill yet.
Place rating: 2
Chandler, AZ
Stopped in last night about 45 minutes before closing for a quick bite after about 2 years. The food was great like I remembered but the service was terrible. Our female server was unfriendly and impatient, as if our order was an inconvenience to her. She rarely checked in our table except to collect the bill, we had to ask the host to bring us utensils, soy sauce, etc. We were greatly disappointed and will definitely consider other restaurants over Sakana.
Place rating: 4
Phoenix, AZ
Love this place! one of the best if not the best sushi place in Phoenix
Have never been disappointed with anything I’ve ordered. Sometimes there
can be a bit of a wait but that’s due to them being very busy most of the times
Place rating: 5
Phoenix, AZ
I’ve been coming to this place for years. Tried other venues but always seem to be coming back to this place, no other place comes even close, quality & price wise.
The bad: Employee turnover, and with that comes the inevitable drop in customer service quality. They used to greet me by my first name, unfortunately it’s no longer the case. It was nice while it lasted. Not a huge deal, after all it’s just the way it goes nowadays, isn’t it?
Place rating: 1
Chandler, AZ
If I could give this a negative review, I would! I am so disappointed! We had worms on our table. I thought maybe it have fell off our bowl or while he was cooking in front of us. Two worms on our table! The manager apologized for it but this was just gross. Where there are two worms there are more. People lined up for this place and its filthy like this?! Never going back. Will write an in depth review on my blog.
Place rating: 5
Chandler, AZ
Great food, great service, great time. Huge portions… enough to share and we still took some home. Mike is a super waiter. It was our first time here and he was very helpful and patient.
Place rating: 3
Phoenix, AZ
I recently tried Sakana with some coworkers for ‘happy hour’ which really isn’t happy hour at all. Sakana has some specials on sushi during the week and also offers discounted apps when you buy a 20 oz beer. I tied the gyoza, which were your standard, probably frozen, gyoza, but they tasted fine. I also tried a couple rolls, their vegetarian jungle roll was alright, though it was not rolled tightly and mostly fell apart. I tried the roll with salmon skin which was odd. They had some more imaginative rolls on the menu, but they were really pricy. I would possibly come back, but it wouldn’t be my first choice.
Place rating: 4
Houston, TX
I met some friends here for lunch. I thought the lunch specials were varied and reasonably priced. I had a lunch special – the Sakana Lunch which was a tuna roll (with about 8 good size pieces) seven pieces of sushi, miso soup and salad. Needless to say, I didn’t finish the tuna roll. My friends ordered off of the menu, and their food looked good.
I rated this four stars for these two reasons:
#1 – from the outside, the place looks a little scary. It’s in a strip mall, and the windows are dark, and there’s a neon side that says «open». Once inside, however, there were lots of customers, a welcoming staff and an open table or two to choose from.
#2 – the other reason for four stars was we asked for separate checks. I paid cash – the other two paid with credit/​debit cards. It took forever for the waitress to come back with their cards and my change. Evidently, what she had done was charge my food to my friend’s card. Then she had to figure out how to credit the card back. In my opinion, an error like this is inexcusable.
If you check in on Unilocal,you get free edamame. Be sure to show the check in to the waitress.
Place rating: 1
Los Angeles, CA
This place is very disappointing. I should have suspected that it was not going be as good as Los Angeles’ sushi places, since Phoenix is no where close to the ocean.
With a solid four star, this place stood out from my Unilocal search and I decided to give this place a try on my first day in Phoenix.
The Good:
They have great value sushi specials. Good portions! Good prices!
Friendly service
The Bad:
My bf ordered the teriyaki chicken lunch special. He found some of the pieces raw — still not cooked enough. After he and I saw that, we could not eat anymore. We did not want to make a scene, so we just left the pieces on the plate.
I ordered the sashimi plate. The sashimi were not fresh. The salmon pieces tasted salty and had a rubber like texture.
After lunch, my stomach felt funny. I learned my lesson. I will not be coming back here.