Mitsu Japanese Restaurant

JAPANESE SANFORD & SON POSING AS A RESTAURANT:
I went into this place for the first time last night at 5:30pm. By the looks of it, it is filthy. I mean either they had there Christmas decorations up still from last year and had a bunch of camping gear strewn out all along the entrance of the place. It looks like someone lives in there. The place is over loaded with storage and crap, it looks like a garage sale in there.
A sweet 80 year old woman came out and told me she had cataracts and was having surgery soon and that she was alone and could only cook a couple things. She was actually a darling lady. I decided to order the one thing she could make Teriyaki Chicken. The very slow almost blind little lady took 45 mins. to cook my take out dish while I sat there looking at how funky the place was. Funky, and not in a good way.: o
I paid $ 17.35 for half of a dry over cooked chicken breast with some bottled teriyaki sauce squirted on it, white rice, a small container of a Costco pre-​packaged salad mix out of a bag and store bought Italian dressing, and a cup of Miso soup. The chicken tasted like it was on the edge of going bad. I was afraid to eat it and too tired to go back to complain. She was all alone. She did the best she could.
WTF?
I hope the ladies eye surgery goes well on Dec 19^th… and I hope her family or whoever else runs the place or works there closes the business and try’s something else for a career, maybe a consignment store or antique store. DON’T GO THERE EVEN FOR TAKE OUT.

Some restaurants like to pretend that they have great ambiance, but this restaurant has perfected it. I have never been so relaxed while eating a meal. This place is meant to relax you as you dine.
Do not come here looking for a quick eat. That’s not the purpose of this restaurant; it’s about letting your stress fade away and enjoying a full meal.
The miso soup is amazing. Simply put, it is the best one I have ever had and I go to 5-​star sushi restaurants fairly often. Their hand-​rolls come with the usual setup of cucumber/​avocado, but it also has some green onions mixed in to give a satisfying crunch while avoiding the issue some restaurants having with shoving too many cucumbers into the roll. The hand-​roll was also my favorite.
The tonkatsu might be the best I have ever had as well (bear with me, I’ll say some negative things at the end). It’s crunchy and juicy. The accompanying sauce is also perfect.
The service is slow, but it’s something worth waiting for. The salad was average but it was free with the bento. That’s all I got.

Don’t wanna bash this place so much since the ladies here seem like nice people but I have to be honest — this is the worst sushi place I ever ate at in my life, literally. and probably one of my top ten –or top 5– worst restaurants. I wouldn’t come back here if you paid me, I would never give it another chance.
Besides everything tasting like refrigerator, the biggest thing was they tried to serve something that should have been tossed out a while ago. No, I’m not trying to being a picky little b$&ch, but this is raw fish and you can’t be messing around like, and that’s not even mentioning the fact that they try to pass it off like it was all good. When it was VISUALLY bad (yes I tasted it too, bad!!!)
I’m sorry to have to leave this review for a mom and pop shop, but I would give negative stars if I could. Never going back.

I was in the area and found this place on Unilocal.Saw that it has 4 stars so decided to try it out.
I ordered the Sushi Deluxe, which has 8 pieces of nigiri and a maki roll for $ 19. My meal came with miso soup and a salad.
Miso soup: Was a pretty large bowl and tasted good. The tofu was silky smooth. Nice and savory.
Salad: Standard, nothing special. Dressing was a little tangy.
Maki: It was a california roll. The first thing I noticed was the large amount of rice. I’m talking about half an inch thick layer of rice around the seaweed. The avocado was actually nice and fresh, and this place uses real crab. The roll could have been very good if there were less rice. The rice was also too hard.
Nigiri: Disappointing. I could tell the tuna wasn’t fresh because the texture was stringy and it had a strong fishy taste. The salmon also tasted like it was lightly smoked, which is strange and not very appealing to me. The tobiko was dry and had no flavor. The ebi was too tough. The rest of the fish had the same stringy texture. Like the california roll, a LOT of rice for each piece. So I was definitely stuffed at the end of my meal, but not particularly satisfied.
Service: I read reviews that it’s slow, but that wasn’t my experience. I’m sure that had a lot to do with me being the only customer though. The waiter is a young guy who seems very eager to please but obviously has very little experience. The lady who makes the sushi seemed nice enough, although I caught her watching TV while making my sushi. So definitely not the care you would want from a sushi chef.
Will likely not visit again unless there were no other options.

Another great Unilocal find. FRESH, cozy, and attentive service. What else can you ask for in the middle of nowhere Pacifica?
Super friendly service that constantly refreshed my great green tea on one of those fog