Kiku Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar

Sushi was really good, volcano roll, spicy salmon crunch roll and lobster tempura roll … Service was great

Easily one of the best sushi bars I have been to in a long time. The sushi is fresh, and most importantly delicious. Go there now if sushi is on the mind

Amazing restaurant little hidden place of heaven traditional Japanese so good don’t miss out on their amazing sushi and fried rice

The sushi was good but expect to be there for 2+ hours. We walked in around 7pm and there were only about 3 full tables. Then the hostess told us we would have to wait 20 mins to order sushi. That 20 mins turned into an hour then we didn’t even get all the rolls we ordered. Over all it was a terrible experience.

Best meal we have had in three days visiting Clearwater. I ordered the Blondie salad and my wife ordered the spicy tuna and tuna avocado roll. Everything was delicious and prompt. Seems like a family only business which we also liked.

Very good sushi. A little nervous coming here after some reviews but have no complaints at all. We ordered the Godzilla roll and the blue crab roll. Both were awesome and we couldn’t pick a favorite. Service was very fast and good.

I had the Volcano and Ocean Rolls. The sushi was delicious and the serving size was generous. Our server, Sarah, was attentive and very helpful. The ambiance was perfect for a quiet romantic dinner or quiet conversation. I highly recommend Kiku and will be back often.

Really great sushi, top quality and so delicious! Their service used to be impeccably slow but has gotten MUCH better. In addition to the sushi the fried rice, tempura, edamame, and chicken teriyaki are yummy, especially the tempura shrimp and veggies!

Let me start off with excitement for a Japanese restaurant in Clearwater. Wife and I were looking for some comfort food. The food was a 2.5…We were told there were no bento boxes anymore. So we decided to pick a basic Japanese dish udon .ok but not a wow factor. sushi was ok. The owner charged a service charge thinking we were not going to tip and asked if it was ok after she tipped herself and said we should tip more. Owner charged for green tea 2.50 and said they could not give us water water issues in the area. seemed like a line of us to spend more money… How is that possible when when I had ice cubes for my bottled water and waters used for green tea lol
note my wife is from japan and I have been to Japan multiple times…

The sushi here is OK. It’s not anything to write home about but it tastes nice. I do think that Jack the Ripper could have done a better job cutting it though. Also, the rice was not sticky enough and kept falling apart. Very frustrating.
The décor is very nice and traditional. I liked it.
However, my biggest issue is the service. The server was very nice but we were seriously the only customers in the place at lunch and it took us 45 minutes to get our order. And they forgot to prepare part of of our order so we had to wait even longer.
Next time I come back to Clearwater I won’t be coming here. I value my time.

I’m a sushi connoisseur & they have the freshest salmon. Im getting hungry thinking about how tender and rich their selection is. Definitely a great protein stop after the gym!

The first time I ate here it was pretty good. Over priced but ok. Tonight I took a friend and it was terrible! The sushi menu was very very limited. They had no children’s menu and when we agreed on an appetizer with rice I was charged an additional $ 2.00 for the rice? ! I was also charged additional for eel sauce. Never paid for eel sauce??! The sushi had very little fish, the slices were tiny and feel apart. All of the food was way over priced and the quality just was not there, not tonight. I will not be returning.

So, I’m going for 3 stars due to the fact that the sushi I ordered was delicious. I’d go back just for that. However, those two empty stars are a real story. My wife ordered the bento box at 12:30and they serve lunch until 2 o’clock. The waitress informed her that they had just sold the last chicken they had cooked and couldn’t cook anymore. It doesn’t take an hour and a half to fix chicken, people.
So anyhow, my wife just orders a California roll, and I got the 2 roll lunch with a couple of simple rolls. No sauce, nothing fancy. An hour later, we got our three small rolls. One. Whole. Hour. Unbelievable. I don’t like to complain about service much, but seriously? I was late for a meeting because of the absurdity of our wait. Good food, pretty bad service.

Quality control time…
Sushi, I’m quite unreasonable about. It’s raw. It’s fish. If you’re too lazy to keep the different fish on different plates in the refrigerated display, or use something higher quality than a disposable ziplock box for the spicy tuna — you shouldn’t be dealing with raw fish. The sushi chef is even Japanese, I asked him in Japanese.
Anyway, I won’t come back and advise people to watch the documentary «Jiro Dreams of Sushi»

If I could give this place zero stars I would we ordered our food and were the only customers in the restaurant and 30 minutes later they hadn’t even started making our food please spend your 50 plus dollars somewhere else!

We recently dined here while on vacation. My wife and I had the sushi for 2 while my daughter had the boolgogi entrée.
Pros:
— Location
— Decent sushi
Cons:
— Terrible for kids, no kids menu, no apple juice, no orange juice, no milk
— The sushi part of our meal was actually ok. The 2 specialty rolls (godzilla roll, crunchy eel roll) were aweful. The godzilla roll is fried so that the tuna ends up cooked… yuck.
— Like others have said the service is aweful. They seem to just not care… and oh, we did get a refill of our water… when we were paying the bill.

Dark and dim lighting. Not what you’d expect for a mid level sushi joint at Clearwater Beach. Came at lunch for the lunch special (2 rolls for $ 9.95) and I was told that due to my roll selection, I would be paying $ 1 extra and that my menu was just old. Seriously, that’s terrible service. Sushi was decent but a very small selection. I wouldn’t recommend this place.

My problem with Kiku’s isn’t their food, it’s actually very good food. The sushi is very fresh and well prepared. Probably the second best sushi joint in Clearwater.
My problem with this place is the SERVICE. I’ve been coming here for YEARS at occasions few and far between, because each time I’ve gone there I’ve had such an AWEFUL experience with the service that I tell myself I’m never going there ever again. They are just so SLOW. I’ve had three different times going there that it took over an hour to make our food. I just don’t understand how they can be so slow…

Food is soso, but service is reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly slow…

Best Prices within 15mins of Clearwater Beach…
Top Rolls:
Crunchy Spicy Salmon
Dynamite
Godzilla
Tekkyu
Rainbow

Really!!! Some people actually gave this place 5 stars? LMAO.
That’s the problem with Unilocal.The fact that this place received 5 stars from anybody mystifies me.
Pros:
Location — if this place were in a different location, it would have gone away long ago. If you put this so called sushi bar in a sushi hip city such as San Diego or NYC, it would flop around like a dying codfish on a dirty New Jersey beach.
The Ocean Roll is the only other pro I can come up with for this place, although at $ 14.95 for a roll filled with fake «krab» and topped with tiny slivers of tuna, the actual taste is the only positive here.
Cons: where do I begin,
Tiny, lethargic pieces of sushi. This would have been a total joke in any of our usual sushi haunts (Harney in SD or Tazu in Denver)
Pathetic service (no water refill, ever, during the whole meal and water was my ONLY drink; our order was incomplete; a major portion of our order never was made by the sushi chefs. We sat at the sushi bar for god sakes. The sashimi appetizer was 40% of our order and they just overlooked it I guess, although you can bet it was on our check. When I finally flagged down the inattentive wait staff, and received my check, I had to let her know that it never came so she could take it off the bill (Another 15 minute wait for them to correct it and take it off of the check). If anyone had ever, once came to check on us, we would have told them about it.
The sushi chefs never acknowledged our presence. When we were seated, they never even looked at us. I thought this was odd after eating at probably 200 sushi bars all over the US and Canada.
One was Korean and the other looked Peruvian or South American to me.
I put the sushi list on top of the sushi bar after we ordered. The older korean guy looked at it and summoned the waiter over after he had nonchalantly pitched it back to the other side of the bar and almost onto the floor. Lol.
Waaayyyy overpriced for the quality and quantity. The fish wasn’t bad in flavor, but itty bitty slivers of fish and fake crab, or rather «Krab» don’t justify $ 6 for an order of tuna and $ 4.65 for a tiny order of salmon.
YOU CAN DO WAY BETTER SOMEWHERE ELSE.
–E The Genius

This is the worst sushi restaurant I have been to. the food is mediocre, the plates are greasy, and my daughter got food poison. Think twice before you go there.

Went here with a large group including children — service was very accommodating. Had the chirashi entrée– surprisingly delicious! Enjoyed the meal. Restaurant is located on the upper level of the commercial plaza-​did not see an obvious elevator so call ahead to inquire about any options if you have trouble with stairs. Otherwise you need to use a long staircase to access the upper level entrance of the restaurant.

Being the only sushi place I know that’s on the beach it already gets the best stars. This place looks pretty secretive on the outside because there are no indications that it’s sushi restaurant or even a restaurant at all. The food is good though, the prices? I can’t seem to remember if it was pricey or not but I guess when is good sushi ever cheap?
If you’re looking for sushi and you’re on Clearwater beach this is the place to go. I’ve gotten sushi to go from here no problem and I’ve sat down and had my dinners here before. It’s a pretty standard Japanese/​Sushi restaurant. There’s not much that’s too impressive but they are the only place you can get sushi on the beach~