Stingray Sushi

Another day, another new sushi restaurant. I was in the neighborhood around here with my co-​worker who suggested going to this place. It was empty when we arrived ~ 2 pm so we had our choice of seats. I had a good first impression of this place with the cool orange color motif and the clear glass under your feet when you first walk in giving you a view of cute fish swimming underneath. They started out playing some cool techno music. After we sat down, we noticed that the table was a bit sticky, which was a turn-​off
We started out with the octopus salad which had nice flavor. It was predominantly acidic with a touch of sweetness and the cucumbers gave it a nice crunch. The octopus, unfortunately, was a bit too tough for my tastes.
Next came the sushi rolls. The morning dew was really good — in general, I am not a huge fan of tempura-​infused sushi, but the amount added was relatively subtle and added a nice textural element. The Hotty Hamachi sashimi was topped with a jalapeño and was fresh and packed a nice punch. The spicy scallop roll was a little disappointing. The spiciness of the roll overwhelmed the star of the dish, the scallops, which I was unable to taste in all of the pieces except one.
We also had the spicy tuna and spicy yellowtail rolls that were tasty as well.
While our server was extremely attractive, they forgot to give us the ginger and wasabi when our sushi arrived. She was very friendly, however.
We paid ~$ 36 per person for the meal and had a good experience here overall.

That’s what I needed. Great sushi, kids loved it. Tatum is a sushi lover too! Apps where awesome. Great spot to watch some World Cup and enjoy some yummy lunch.

While in Arizona I was told by a vast amount of people to eat at Stingray sushi and to my surprise sushi exceeded my expectations! I eat sushi twice a week and out of all the places I have enjoyed eating sushi I will definitely say Stingray sushi is one of the best!

We decided to dine here on default. We wanted to try the original chopshop, but it was busy on a late Sunday afternoon. I mean, the line was insane and I am not a patient person so we decided to go to the not-​so busy Stingray. Now, let me just tell you that I am very picky when it comes to sushi and any types of «asian» food since, well, i’m asian myself.
I decided to get the teriyaki beef bento box with tempura vegetables. I asked for the teriyaki to be put on the side and so without the teriyaki sauce, the beef itself was tough and bland. But of course, if you drenched your beef and vegetables with the sauce, it would be amazing, right?
The salad and cucumber salad was pretty good, but again, it was drenched with different sauces so of course, it wasn’t bad. On to the tempura vegetables — it was good. I like the batter that they use, but the tempura was not even warm. What the? It seemed like it was sitting in the kitchen for quite some time.
Our waitress was sweet, but I think that she should’ve been more attentive considering the fact that there was 2 – 4 customers in the restaurant other than our group. We were waiting for quite some time to order, get our food, and get our bill. I just didn’t understand why the slow service with a few customers.
The bill came and it averaged about $ 15/​person. Honestly, I would’ve been happier eating at Panda for $ 7/​person.

I went back and I still absolutely and utterly think the sushi is great, but the service was absolute crap! I don’t mean because the sushi takes awhile, which is understandable. The lady never checked on our drinks or if we needed anything else… we just had to wait for her to FEEL like she wanted to do her job and then bombard her with request.
I’m still a fan, but perhaps the management should hire attractive ladies who ALSO know how to do what they are hired to do. Just a thought…
On the upside, they sell my absolute favorite drink, what I believe is the nectar of the gods, Aizu Homare Strawberry Nigori:-)

I’ve been here once before and thought it only average. My boyfriend and I tried to go to Shin Bay with a friend a couple of weeks ago but since we didn’t have reservations we couldn’t get in so we ended up here instead even though I wasn’t very enthused about it. It was our lucky night because most of what we ordered was good.
We ordered two rolls, a sashimi plate that came with rice, lobster ceviche and squid salad. I don’t recall which rolls we had but I’m sure at least one involved spicy tuna. The squid salads were much larger than we get at most places and pretty average. The lobster ceviche was fresh and had the right amount of acid for me. The waitress asked if there were any fish we disliked but we couldn’t think of anything so we ended up with five different fish including mackerel. Neither my boyfriend or our friend liked that so I ended up eating it all. It was OK though I wouldn’t go out of my way to order it again. The fish was all fresh that evening so no complaints there.
We also ordered some Nigori sake but unfortunately didn’t specify which one so we ended up with a lot more than we needed. The quality wasn’t as good as what we typically order. I also had a stock exchange which was refreshing.
My boyfriend and I each ordered some ice cream of different flavors. I had asked the waitress if it was just a small amount as I only wanted a scoop. Turned out to be about three scoops each so it mostly went to waste. It wasn’t very good either and I would advise not ordering it.

This is a review of Happy Hour (runs from 3 – 7) at Stingray in Old Town.
A really good experience with and easy on the wallet to boot!
A number of great choices and some really good drink specials. We had the Gyoza (pot stickers), shrimp shumai, dragon roll and the Las Vegas roll.
We were seated on the patio, which was a nice high top overlooking Scottsdale road.
Service was very good. The gyoza and shumai were a good appetizer size. The sushi rolls were good, but I would say great. The happy hour pricing still puts the whole experience at a solid value.
I would go back for Happy Hour again!

We ordered ours to go and they missed one order of sashimi plate and there was no wasabi in any of the other entrees/​rolls we ordered :(Now who forgets wasabi???
Fish was fresh though and sushi rolls were delicious. We got spicy tuna, spicy crab, and some California rolls in addition to entrees.

I was craving sushi and had some time to kill between work and a concert at the performing arts center, so I popped in. Despite it being a Friday evening in Scottsdale, and me being dressed in my nurse scrubs, I didn’t feel any snooty vibes, which is what I stereotypically expected.
The dining room is calming and zen. And like I said, being in scrubs (and alone!), I was treated kindly and seated in the middle of the dining room (after being asked if I wanted to sit at the sushi bar).
Happy hour is from 3−7pm, with half price cocktail and an assortment of half price apps, sushi etc. I had the seaweed salad (a little vinegar-​y for my taste, but a good-​sized portion), a «special roll» whose name I forgot, it had salmon, tuna, yellowtail and avocado wrapped in cucumber, served with ponzu sauce (only five pieces tho, for $ 13), a spicy salmon roll (good), and since I was still hungry (nurses don’t have time for lunch!), I had two pcs of tuna nigiri and two of tamago, for something sweet.
I washed it all down with a «Kiwi Collins» from the cocktail menu, and it was great. However, when the server came by to ask if I wanted a second one, and I declined, she took my glass away before I noticed!
Overall, a nice, not too pricy ($ 37 at happy hour) dinner. I wasn’t rushed, the food was good. I’d go back.

I like this place. They have a great patio overlooking Old Town, bonus. They have a fantastic Happy Hour menu where you can get specials on rolls and drinks. Ranging from $ 5 and up, you can’t beat that. Now, their main menu is average as far as price and you do have to pay an extra $ 2 for real crab, rather than «krab». So I find that a bit shady.
They have a wide variety of speciality rolls and your basic hand rolls as well. I have had their yellowtail sashimi a few times and I find it always to be fresh.

We came here on a fairly quiet night and had a nice expereince.
Great sushi, cute atmosphere, and good service. We rarely come here because there’s a really excellent sushi place closer to home, but these folks served up great stuff. We tried a cucmber-​wrapped roll (love when that’s on the menu!) and sashimi, as well as a fun roll, and it was all really well-​prepared and tasty.
The décor is really funky and trendy, plus they have a really nice patio. It’s a bit dark and trendy for my taste, inside — however, lots of people love that in an old town sushi joint, plus that’s what they’re going for and they’re succeeding :-)

We had dinner here last night and was only going to rate them 4 stars because of the delicious sushi, but weird backward service. It was strange that no hostess seated us, and no server took our order! So we just went in and sat at the Sushi bar. We just handed our order to the Sushi Chef at the counter, and he made our sushi in a jiff. Excellent! That scored him a $ 10 tip from my friend Nicole. Then our server finally came after we finished our food. We told her we just want our bill and then she asked us if we still wanted the complimentary soup and edename appetizer. It was bizarre! She was very nice and we assumed she was new, so we forgave her. The quick thinking and very cute manager Nick, however, managed to resolved the issue. He was very apologetic and comped our dinner for the inconvenience. Nice! That bumped up their score. I’ll be sure to come back again. lol

I really recommend this place, but unless the food is great, I don’t hand out four stars and above. Go for the atmosphere, the atmosphere is probably the best I’ve experienced in all of Phoenix so far.
The great thing about this place is the atmosphere. It’s hip, and modern with an Asian influence.
The best thing about this haunt is the staff. We sat at the bar, and the manager, the bartenders and most of the rest of the staff circling about were friendly and very helpful. I drink shoot loads of water, I can get through more than 5 glasses in one meal. Not once was my water glass empty. She just kept filling it up. Also we wanted to watch the game (Sunday Football) and turn on the closed captioning, they spent a good 15 minutes figuring it out, just for us. Awesome people, plus they were chatty but not intrusive.
The second best thing is the bartender. Her cocktails, we had a Geisha a Go Go and Kimono Dragon. The Kimono Dragon was great (being sweet) while the Geisha a Go Go was not as sweet, more alcoholic and tasted like watermelons as it should.
Unfortunately, the food wasn’t the best. I had the Vegetable Udon. The flavor was good, but it was so salty. I have to agree with another Unilocaler that they use way too much Soy Sauce.
We also had a variety of sushi’s. We had sashimi and some other raw fishes and no one got sick, a big plus in the Valley. The flavor was ok, but it didn’t leave my mouth watering. We had some spicy tuna, some sashimi, some fish eggs, and this and that.
I wouldn’t go hunt this place down and make it a place to go to when I’m wanting some good food, but if I’m totally down on the atmosphere. It’s really somewhere I’d go and just sit around for two hours or so. The food isn’t great, but the great atmosphere and the staff is well worth the bill easily racked up. Lastly, we had the chocolate cake, it was definitely chocolatey and relatively moist.
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When you are out of town and in Scottsdale Stingray Sushi is one of my go to places to eat. It is a great place to meet friends and have an awesome lunch or dinner. Stingray Sushi has this very hip vibe going on when you first walk in and it can be a bit overwhelming but once you are seated the service is great. They bring you warm wash cloths to prepare for your meal. We ordered a few rolls but the Mango Tango and Lava Rolls were my favorite.
The service was good but when all the hostesses and waiters are very young they tend to socialize with each other and get caught up in drama that is going on between them so for this reason I gave them 4 stars. I will say that I plan on eating at Stingray Sushi again once I am back in Scottsdale, it’s good eats.

This is a great fun spot to meet up with some friends!
Right when I walked in I was blown away by the atmosphere here! The lighting, architecture, and theme are awesome!
When you get seated you’ll be handed a couple moist towels to wash your hands. I thought this was pretty fancy for a sushi joint. They have a regular menu and a sushi menu.
Staff here are very up beat and casual. The music here seem to be mainstream pop, pretty cool I guess. The area where we got seated was a little to dim in lighting for my taste. Guess I would like to see what I am actually tasting.
I ordered several things from the sushi menus. Spicy-​Tuna Roll, Godzilla Roll, and Philadelphia Roll. All the food was good. Rolls seemed to be cut pretty small though.
My overall experience here was entertaining and the food was not bad at all. I will more than likely be back here again in the future.

I came here for my best friend’s birthday dinner. She made a reservation for 8pm and we didn’t get seated until 9:30pm! We had a fairly large group, about 8 people, and we were just awkwardly standing outside while someone would come outside every 15 minutes to tell us our table was ALMOST ready. After an hour of this nonsense our group was ready to go somewhere else because we were so hungry. However, we decided to wait it out. Apparently we were waiting for people to pay their check and finish their meal. What was the point of making a reservation?
Once we were seated our food came pretty quickly but our waitress seemed less than enthused. I ordered the salmon roll and spicy crab roll which I would say were pretty decent. I don’t eat sushi much but my friend who also attended the dinner and eats sushi said that it was just average. Needless to say I will not be coming back here again.

I went here for a special occasion on a Wednesday and brought in a homemade ice cream cake, specifically told them to put it in the freezer and when it was brought out, I had a pan of melted ice cream.
On a more general level, Stingray has always been one of my favorite places to go because of the ambiance and design. The floor has a little fishy pond at the entrance and even their restrooms have beautiful sliding doors. The service here can be spotty, but their happy hour makes up for it. Happy Hour is Monday through Friday: 3 – 7, honestly the only time I go because the prices are cut almost in half.

They have reallllllly hot miso soup!
I know that because the last time I was here, our waitress poured half of my miso in my lap. With no apology. And no offers to comp the soup that probably has left my ovaries unable to function.
But hey, she and the other staff are pretty so that’s all that matters, right? Nobody cares about service or basic manners anymore, right?

Not bad.
I wasn’t necessarily impressed with Stingray, but I didn’t hate it either. Not horrible; not phenomenal. I’d say it’s by and large very average — right in that meaty part of the curve, not showing off, but not falling behind either.
The Godzilla Roll was pretty delicious, I must admit. If you’re reading this review from inside the restaurant, then order it immediately. The rest of the sushi I had that night didn’t stand out. Even the spicy rolls seemed a bit bland.
We were a really big party, so it’s tough to accurately gauge the staff; but from what I can tell it was also very average — not overly attentive and helpful, but not rude or invisible either.
Overall, I’m in no hurry to return, but I wouldn’t protest vehemently against it either, should someone suggest going to Stingray again. It is exactly what 3 Unilocal Stars says: A-​OK.

Given the choice, I would give Stingray 3.5 stars for this dining experience.
Sushi is good… but not great. I always rate my sushi experiences based on the complexity of the rolls, freshness of ingredients, and taste of some of the more complicated rolls on the menu… and they were just ok here. Maybe I just dined at the wrong times… but I wasn’t overly impressed by the sushi at Stingray.
On the positive side of things, the appearance is very hip and cool… and the cucumber martini was excellent! Also, the location is a great spot to hangout and be seen (or to do the seeing). And the patio is heated on those chillier nights.