Wabi Sabi Sushi Cafe

Great little café oriented sushi bar. Perfect for lunch. The sushi is always good, however I’m giving four stars instead of five because they don’t allow the option of rice paper rolls without rice. In other words, they only have seaweed to wrap or rice to wrap the rolls.
If you’ve never tried a rice paper roll, which is exactly the same as any other wall you would order except it’s made with rice paper and no rice, you don’t know what you’re missing. It’s delicious and very low carbs.

Come on down guys if you haven’t to this place! The new owner is wonderful, very friendly and the food is great, absolutely amazing!

One of the best in Tampa Bay Area. Everything is excellent! I try to get there once a week! They have a very diverse menu and can do just about anything!

This place is so cute! The sushi is absolutely delicious and made just perfect! Fixed exactly how you order! Service is phenomenal! And, Happy Hour specials are awesome! Definitely will be coming back!!!

I had a craving for sushi, didn’t know any recommended places in the area, and came here by chance with my boyfriend for lunch. AMAZING food, phenomenal prices and outstanding customer service! The staff is extremely friendly and truly gave us a great dining experience. We will definitely be back! Also, try their godzilla roll! One of the best I’ve had!

Really good sushi, very fresh & very well priced. My husband and I ate lunch for $ 20. He had miso soup & two rolls and I had a house salad and two rolls. Highly recommend the Tampa Roll. We are in town from Alabama, but would eat their more if we were local. A must visit for lunch if in the area.

We’ve eaten here 4 times now and enjoyed sashimi, nigiri, tuna tataki, and a few of their rolls. Everything has always been fresh. The location is convenient and it’s our new favorite spot for sashimi and sushi in the Dunedin, Palm Harbor, and Tarpon Springs area. They offer a happy hour with 20% off on liquor and specialty rolls until about 7 pm.

This place is great! Service is always good. The sushi is really good, and it taste fresh.

In town for the night for a concert, craving sushi! great little place, great sushi, friendly staff.

My family loved this place, would go back in a heart beat when in the area again. I got sushi, and my mom got habachi chicken which were both so good. My 2 year old son loved the way his meal came out, which was the Crabby Roll, tiny imitation crab maki with a glowing cube in the center of his plate. Normally he doesn’t dive in unless it’s chicken tender’s and fries, hot dogs, green beans, or a peanut butter sandwich. So I was happy I didn’t have to convince him to try something he isn’t used to eating all the time.

So I would give this place a 2.5 starts. This place is average at best. The staff is friendly and the seating is ok. I tried one of their specials called a heart attack (not really sure why it’s called that). It is their version of a jalapeño popper, a pepper sliced lengthwise and filled with cream cheese, spicy tuna and crab, lightly battered and fried. If you can eat jalapeño poppers, you can easily eat this without having a heart attack. It was interesting but I could not taste the tuna or crab. I got seaweed salad, the seaweed was put over lettuce, I hate when places do this.
The specialty rolls were disappointing, over 90% of them contained cream cheese. I like cream cheese on bagels but not in my sushi. The entire reason for enjoying sushi is to experience the taste of fresh fish and the other ingredients that compliment it’s taste, not too much sauce and definitely not cream cheese. I was told by a Japanese sushi chef that most places that make sushi this way are not Japanese and they do it to please the American palate as well as to mask any inadequacies of the roll.
I found a couple of rolls that did not contain cream cheese which I ordered. The sushi was not packed properly, felt very loose and I was afraid it was going to fall apart when I picked up each piece. Rice to fish ratio was rice heavy, lots of sauce on top and the spider roll had over-​battered crab.
All in all I was not impressed. Won’t be coming back.

SO SO SO YUMMY. I love Wabi Sabi. Always great and fresh sushi

My husband and I were just visiting the area from out of state and were craving sushi… we stumbled upon this place and are so grateful! The food was delicious & prepared right in front of us at the sushi bar, the price was great, and the service was amazing! People were coming in and seemed to have quite the positive relationship with owners and staff. It is always great to see regulars at local finds like this. Thank you for the fabulous experience!

Wabi Sabi is really cute inside
I loved the vibe of the place.
I was feeling pretty hungry
And needed sushi to put in my face!
I tried a few specialty rolls
The Crazy Yorkie tasted strange
I tried just eating the shrimp
Till I saw it still had the veins!
I figured the Wabi Sabi roll
Must be good, it’s their namesake
But the «marinated filet» on top
Gave me a tummy ache.
They were oversauced
And not that great.
I kinda regret
The few pieces I ate.
I only came here
Since Mike’s sushi was closed
I learned my lesson
So now I know.

Ate here for the first time, close to home, I like to support local privately owned businesses, I ended up in the ER 2 days later with an extreme intestinal bacterial infection, the gastroenterologist said the bacterial infection was common to bad seafood, after CAT scans, blood work, missing 3 days of work and being put on 2 strong antibiotics, Cypro 500 mil and Flagyl 500 mil for 10 days, it ended up being quit expensive, oh and hydrocodone for pain and I don’t normally take pain meds. needless to say, I would not recommend

Just tried this place for the first time and the sushi was so fresh! I had the Japanese Bagel, Volcano, Spicy Tuna and snow crab rolls split between two people. We ate every last piece, it was that good.

Very fresh and the rolls are huge! The waiters and waitresses are extremely friendly and make you feel at home. Will be going back for sure!

I really wanted to love this place it’s so close to my house and they are fast. I went about 5 times before I gave up. The first time was great I got the wabi sabi rolls which are crab fried in egg rolls and a few specialty rolls. Everything I got was cooked very important to point that out. Next time cucumber salad which was delicious the rolls and a few other things still all cooked. Oh I got soup the third time and cucumber salad man I love that stuff. The fourth time I finally had the balls to get something raw that was the end of my love affair with this place. My husband wanted the egg rolls one more time so I gave in. That night with cramps in my stomach I said goodbye to wabi sabi.

I’m astounded by the dismal experience we had compared to these rave reviews. I even took steps to confirm that we were indeed in the right place. It seems we were — based on address and name. We tried this place based on reviews but we won’t be back.
Everything was so salty — and slightly below average. Yes — it was cheap. That much was true.
On top of the disappointing food, our service was terrible. She was singing and humming along with the Top Hits music blaring from speakers while the TV was on BayNews9. It was just a terrible meal all around.

I stumbled across this little hole in the wall today on the way to get my hair cut. I’m always looking out for sushi places to take the husbeast. So when I got home, I told the Husband where we were going for dinner and he perked up. I just hoped that they had something I could eat.
We arrived and they weren’t too busy, but the first thing I noted was that the place was CLEAN. Nothing was out of order, everything was spic and span, and there was absolutely NO fishy odor. This was a huge plus for me. We were told to sit where ever we wanted, so we chose a place across from the sushi bar, and watched the Sushi master at work, rolling for the other patrons.
The waitress came over and asked us what we wanted, I opted for one of the nonfish options, which actually even comes with Sushi. The Teriyaki beef dinner (comes with House salad, rice, fruit, goyza and half a California roll) and The husband chose a Wabi Sabi Deal (pick 3 rolls and a soup) plus an additional Dragon Roll. We also ordered edamame & drinks. All of this came out to be about $ 40.
The food was absolutely fantastic. My dinner, in particular, was very tasty. I’ve never had teriyaki that tasted so tender and good. The goyza (think pot sticker) was tasty, and the california roll was actually really good! The husbeast said he loved his sushi. I even ate part of his! Well, truth be told, he made me eat some, one of them, the Tampa roll, was made with chicken.
This little place is a gem. They’re new in town and they’re gonna be hopping. Get in now while they’re not packed to the walls. Once the bar down the plaza opens, he plans on staying open late so that he can fulfill hungry bar goers needs. The owner also said he was thinking about making Sunday a $ 1 sushi roll day and plans on having a happy hour from 4 – 7 or 4 – 6 very shortly. These changes will be very welcome!
We plan on being very regular customers there!