Taka Sushi

This restaurant seems like a very authentic sushi place with high quality food. The customer service was great and would definitely recommend this place to friends.

Waitress was wonderful, kind and attentive. The food was just average, but they do have great happy hour pricing.

Seriously! !! Do you want to eat the best sushi in the state? I have tried dozens of sushi restaurants in Washington and by far this is Top Class. Taka and his wife have been running this restaurant for many years and the food is excellent. He always brings new menus and specials every day I love it because it’s so fresh

I have been craving sushi that wasn’t priced liked the downtown huge restaurants or a mall conveyer belt. This is a little spot in a quiet strip mall. The waitress was quick and friendly and my sushi was prepared fresh to order. The prices are equal to serving size. I enjoyed my food and relaxed. I will come back maybe next time with a friend.

Great place to eat. A little sushi reataurant with an old school feel. I was really craving sushi one night. Although this place was a little harder to find. It is one of the best sushi places in town. I ordered off their happy menu and got the mini sashimi and nigiri b set. Although it was nine o’clock the fish were all very fresh and tasty. He also put wasabi in all of the nigiri like old school japanese chefs. The bill came out to just under 20 dollars. Very affordable for sashimi and nigiri. Overall a great experience. I’ll keep coming back and maybe one day try out their rolls.

Little bit pricey, but really liked their food and service!
I guess their price deserves it.

This is one of the best sushi restaurants that I have been to and I have sushi at least once a week. They do not have the cutting edge fusion type sushi, but they do have excellent quality for the dishes they do have. They use high grade fish at this place and that is why I keep coming back.

Came here once, and that was more than plenty. The prices do not match up with quality. We should have known that something was amiss when we were the only table on a Friday night.
Apparently, they put wasabi in all of the rolls, but don’t tell you. My girlfriend does not like wasabi and was not pleasantly surprised when she took her first bite. The server’s reaction when my girlfriend complained was, «You didn’t tell me you didn’t want wasabi! It is in all of our rolls!» If we knew somehow or had been here before, we would have let you know.
I ordered 2 rolls. One was the shrimp tempura. It was mostly just the fried tempura with a tempura shrimp. It was falling apart at the nori and mostly tasted like grease. The other of my rolls that I ordered didn’t show up. No mention of it, except when the bill came. She said we didn’t charge you for that roll. Uhhhhhhh, thanks I guess.

Nestled in a strip mall, this place seems like it’s been there forever. It’s got a well-​loved interior, and a few tables with a sushi bar and Taka himself working hard behind the bar. My husband and I visited on a date night, and we were very pleasantly surprised by the quality of fish and taste of each dish put before us. We liked it enough to bring our three children (ages 15,3, and 2) with us for a second visit. We sat at the bar on a very busy Friday night and, again, were not disappointed! The servers and Taka interacted with all of the members of our party, and he even treated the youngest ones to complimentary ice cream bars for dessert. We love this place, but would recommend going on a week night and expect to spend some time.
Try the spicy scallop California roll — it is amazing!!!

I love Taka Sushi, because taste like Okinawa all the food, it’s delicious and wonderful

This place is small, though quite quaint. The service is awesome! The lady that serves us is always so attentive and extremely polite.
The food is delicious. I usually venture there with a few of my girlfriends.

Service was friendly and speedy. Sushi was great. They use brown rice instead of white rice, it looks a bit different, however, it is still very good. I actually wouldn’t have known had I not seen it.
I look forward to going back.

I still like it here but the switch to brown rice is a turn off.
The presentation is such a big part of sushi abs brown rice makes it look dirty. The rice taste fine though.
The pprtions seem to have shrunk as well

I make the trek every year on New Year’s eve for Okinawa soba. Make sure you call ahead since last year I got the last order :) Was so good!

Great food, cozy and a very nice staff.
I was so happy to find a place that serves Okinawan soba in Seattle, and I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was. The menu was simple but they still had a good variety of things.
If you want great Okinawan soba and good sushi this is the place to go!

This sushi is horribly presented. No wine selection (one white wine option).
Looks like something made by a first-​grader!
Forget about it!

Lunch special is awesome.
My Favorite sushi place in Lynnwood.

My family and I have gone to Taka Sushi for years. But I most recently went last week, after spending two and a half years in Japan eating authentic Japanese food. My family is Japanese, and I had just returned to the states only to go out to dinner to a Japanese place, I wasn’t stoked, but it wasn’t my choice (it was for my brother’s birthday so it’s not like I could request something different). I was pleasantly surprised by how much it tasted like what I had been eating in Japan. This food is the real deal. This time, I had the saba (mackerel), and a spicy tuna roll. The saba was delicious. Their tea is my favorite kind of green tea, genmai (it’s green tea mixed with roasted rice). And from what I can tell, their happy hour is a great deal! I will definitely return just to try their sushi at happy hour!

There is both good and bad, but given the bad, and the abundance of sushi restaurants in the area, I have no reason to go back. First, the bad: horrible service. Normally I focus on food, but the service was so poor that it was disruptive. For example, while service was slow — nobody seemed interested in getting our order — after the food arrived, things were whisked away, uneaten, if you blinked. The place is very small and at one point, people had come in and were standing in the doorway. The waitress, within a few feet of them, studiously ignored them, and ultimately they left, and if I had been the owner I would’ve been miffed. Even if she is busy, she should at least have acknowledged them (and there were some empty, though not yet cleared, tables).
As to the food — here is the bad. The two nigiri sushi items we ordered — tamago and salmon (sake) — had serious problems. There was so little rice attached to the tamago that it would have been better if there had been none, as it was almost insulting. The salmon was badly cut — it contained not only «pink» material but also brown along the edge — and a string running through it. That is an «F» in my view. I have attached a photo to show the miniscule rice and the brown edge along the sushi. However, there were two items which were quite fine — the tempura appetizer, and the rainbow roll, which was not on the menu (a «minus» as well) but was available when we requested it, and was very well-​prepared.
This is not the only place in town where I can get a well-​prepared rainbow roll and tempura appetizer, so since the problems outweigh the pluses, there is no reason to return.

In twenty years, finding a place like this will be like finding an Obama supporter.
This is one of the last, truly small mom-​n-​pop Okinawa-​centric Japanese restaurants in the region. This isn’t so much «Japanese» cuisine as it is Okinawan-​influenced Japanese cuisine. While there is the gratuitous Japanese essentials we come to expect here, like «teriyaki» and generic sushi, the real menu is handwritten and posted on the wall, away from the sushi counter. Look over the listings and you will notice a pattern. And, that pattern is cutting-​edge creativity.
While all the items on the standard menu are winners, real adventurous diners will go for the «omakase» sushi where Taka-​san diverts to two paths. One path, that for the newbies who dare accept the challenge and call a day ahead to place an order, is greatly rewarded with off-​the-​beaten path sushi and non-​sushi concoctions that will test your limits. The other path is dependent of many subtle factors, mostly whether Taka-​san has the time and, if you are a regular, does he have the ingredients handy to go all-​out and create some museum-​quality sushi artwork.
I have been to both lands and can tell you with supreme confidence that there is no other current sushi master in this region that can create the quality of sushi that Taka-​san can whip up on short notice.
But, back to what’s extra noteworthy. For lunch, try the sashimi salad. It is a mound of fresh, crisp veggies dressed with cuts of maguro, salmon, and shrimp topped with a sesame/​soy dressing that is simply divine. As an alternative, go for the Okinawa soba (sonki soba). The chunk of tender, marinated spare rib swimming in the savory broth will leave you breathless.
The beer to order here is Orion (Oh-​ree-​ohn). It is brewed in Okinawa, unlike the Sapporo bottle that is brewed in Guelph, Ontario. This is the best Japanese beer in large format.
And, if you are lucky or can remember, try the dessert that used to be standard at dinnertime. It is a square-​cut of dark coffee-​and-​cream gelatin bathed in condensed milk and is a great finish to a fabulous meal.
Highly recommended.