Piranha Killer Sushi

Came by for happy hour and wasn’t disappointed. Started with the dumplings, crab cakes, sashimi roll, and the «forget about roll». Very fresh and perfectly cut/​prepared. Pretty good martinis too. Finished with the legendary Latino roll.

The ambiance and restaurant staff were great! We had the Latino roll and the Vietnamese summer roll and they were great tasting as well. Would definitely come back.

Mediocre sushi bar. Great ambiance and waiter was super friendly and helpful. Very bland tasting sushi with no pronounce flavors. Soy sauce was very week.

Really surprised with the quality of the food. Great flavors and decent prices. Will definitely be back.

First of all we came here for restraunt week to do the three courses for 35 $. Music is way too loud. Waited 40 minutes for our appetizer. The waitress said it was because of a large sushi order they had received, but this wasn’t told to us until she brought out our food. For the main course we had ginger beef, which was very good and sushi dinner that was chefs choice. Dessert was included and was good but after being there for 2 hours we were just ready to go. Overall it was a good deal for the price and the amount of food was good but the wait and atmosphere kinda killed it for us.

This Place sucks. Being a chef for 12 years, and working in restaurants foe 20 years. this place sucks! The service is subject par, the cooked items come. out cold… not once, but 2 times, and what I get back from the server is an eye roll. The rolls I ordered were ok. I had to explain what dynamite was to both ends the server and cooks who didn’t speak english. Maybe I’m an asshole because I came from LA, but this seriously this worst sushi experience I’ve ever had and I look like an asshole in front of my friends for complaining about the food.

Love how convenient this place is. Close to the quarry, very quick on Togo pickup. Come to happy hour and do a sake bomb.

I ordered 3 different sushi rolls. When i ordered the sushi i told the server that i was allergic to gluten and shrimp. When she brought out the sushi, the server tells me that the sushi does contain gluten. So in other words, the server brought me something that i could not eat which makes no sense. One of the rolls was substituted for crab instead of shrimp but you could not see the crab with the naked eye which the crab was an up charge of $ 3. I asked to speak with the manager & told him that i was not paying for something that clearly does not have crab in it. He offers to re-​make it but i tell him no and that i would never eat here again. I also did order hot green tea which tasted like hot water. My word of advice is do not eat here unless you enjoy wasting money and enjoy going into an anaphylactic shock due to carelessness of staff.

Always great for happy hour !!! Many martinis to choose from. I’m a mussels fan and theirs are delicious especially if you like saffron. I always get a bowl of rice to add to the mussels sauce. Favorite happy drink is the peach Bellini tini. Prices are reasonable and have a patio for nice weather days. Dragon roll, forget about it and eel are easy go to rolls

Mango infused tea — worst tea I have ever had. They have mango infused tea at the Madeline and it’s delicious. We traded them in for lemonades which were better.
The Latino — I got mine with out the asparagus and it was pretty good. Very generous portions.
Quail Eggs– ordered two sashimi style — delicious if an acquired taste.
Service — could have been more attentive but pleasant.

Piranha has come a very long way in a couple of years. When they first opened, they were ok. Prob 3 stars, IMO. They’re more like a 4.5 now as the fish is amazing fresh and it’s cut against the grain (similar to fajitas, cutting against the grain lead leads to a much more tender/​melt in your mouth bite).
If I have a qualm, it’s that they don’t disclose on the menu what sauces come on the rolls. I hate sweet sauces, and they’ve «gotten me» twice with these without offering to rectify. It’s a small beef and a practice I will have to remember… i just wished they would disclose the sauces that come on their rolls.
Highly suggest Piranha, but remember the sauce tip if you don’t like surprises.

When I first came here, I would have given this place 5 stars. Subsequent visits have been a letdown. Service and quality have deteriorated a little. There is really only one thing I absolutely love on the menu — mussels and salmon. Everything else is just ok and can be found cheaper elsewhere.
Still, I would come here for the mussels and salmon. This is easily my favorite dish on the menu. The broth is creamy and rich. The mussels (when in season) are plump and swimming in the saffron broth. Once you finish the mussels, pour the sauce over the rice that comes with the dish. It’s spectacular.
My other favorite thing on the menu is the boat for 2. Everyone around he restaurant is impressed whenever someone orders a boat. It comes with plenty of food and is worth it. I would avoid the steaks. They are not that flavorful. Hand rolls are pretty boring and expensive.
Ambience is pretty nice. It’s in the quarry area so there is a lot to do after you eat.

Service was a 3. The server was spotty with checking on us and he gave us a dirty Togo box.
Reviewing the Restaurant Week Dinner. First… It was $ 35 for a 3 course meal. Including a light appetizer, an entrée and dessert. Honestly, even though it was all delicious. Most items we had were found on the menu. So I could’ve had essentially a comparable dinner experience for less than $ 70 (for 2 people)
Now, for the food… for appetizers we had the Salmon Tar Tar and the Seared Peppered Tuna. The salmon Tartar was HUGE! It was kinda too big for an appetizer? Or maybe it had too much rice so it was FILLING, especially if it was an individual appetizer. The peppered tuna was the right portion and it was delicious! Cooked perfectly and full of flavor! Would order that off the regular menu any time.
Dinner choices were saffron yellow curry muscles and salmon. Which I barely touched from being full off the salmon tartar. This was one thing that was on the regular menu (minus the salmon.) from what I had it was super flavorful and rich and the salmon was cooked perfectly as well. Also had the Chefs creation, again… Could’ve come from the menu, it was still delicious.
And the dessert… We got fried vanilla icecream which was wrapped in a cake-​y thing. It was GOOD! Also the chocolate mousse, I would come back for it .
Overall, good food, average service! Would still come back.

The bento boxes are less than appealing. I doubt they can get clean properly as they are pours. And we know that to clean that… You can’t. Water gets In there and bacteria grows. We got two bento boxes and this one look better than the other one.

It’s my first time here and I got the chicken yaki udon. It was so good :3
I think I would eat the sushi too cause everything looks amazing here.
But the services sucks. Got one refill and getting the check took too long.

Disclaimer: I was here a little under a year ago so it might have improved since then.
I went here with my boyfriend for lunch once and haven’t been back since. I didn’t have a «bad» experience per se, but there was nothing about it that made me want to return. As someone else mentioned, a lot of the food is fried which is disappointing as I think a lot of people who are coming in for sushi want something light and refreshing. The food portions are small and pricey for what is average quality. H-​E-​B sushi is seriously just as good.
On the plus side, it has a great atmosphere and vibe inside. It feels hip and like a pretty neat place to be. If you’re more interested in being at a place with a cool environment and less worried about food, then you would probably find this place just fine.

Much better service this time around and «ok» food, but definitely not close to being the best. I would’ve rated this 3 to 3.5 stars, but the management went the extra mile to reach out to me and offer another chance to change my experience. That deserves at least a ½ star upgrade.
We had the shrimp tempura with vegetables, shrimp tempura maki, chicken teriyaki bento (for my non-​sushi loving friend), and a chirashi for me. Everything was great until we got to the chirashi. Why ruin a chirashi’s mound of rice with a brush of sour «strawberry» (??) jam? Each bite of rice was detestable. With the chirashi, I received farmed salmon, dyed and anemic-​looking tuna, and some average-​looking escolar… three each to be exact. I also got a limp piece of shrimp and a «deconstructed» piece of kani (fake crab). Maybe it’s the sushi purist in me? Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been spoiled in the best sushi destinations around the world. Or maybe I just know when restaurants are being pretentious. I will never know.
I’ll leave the 4 stars up for my fellow Unilocalers to judge for themselves. I’m sorry if it misleads you.

First impression was the fairly elegant, yet modern atmosphere that is upbeat and in a great location at the Quarry.
Service came quickly for water and our order. I tried the crab cakes, that was tasty and fresh. It included some mangos, pineapples, which a splash of wasabi and possibly sirarcha or spicy ketchup. It was a good portion to be shared among three.
The sushi came out fairly decently sized and with great presentation. I ordered off the happy hour menu, that was $ 2 per sushi and about $ 9 rolls. My only complaint was that the rice is slightly overly chewy and seemed a bit undercooked. Therefore, I would not give it a four star review. The flavor was on target and fresh.
This place is definitely fusion food and I wouldn’t recommend it to someone seeking authentic, simple sushi. It was pretty quiet when we came in around 5:30pm, but was bustling by 6:30pm. A great place for a couple or a group. Reminded me a lot of Kona Grill.

While living at the Artessa Apartments, Piranha Sushi has won my heart and favor. The Artessa Discount and Military Discount really make this establishment hard skip over among the many restaurants at the Quarry, which is conveniently located across the street. Piranha Sushi has a romantic ambience and affordable prices. The Reverse Happy Hour and Regular Happy Hour seems to draw a steady crowd and the staff has always been respectable and friendly.
I have dined at the restaurant several times and have sampled the Fried/​Steamed Dumplings, Curry Mussels, Sushi and Crab Cakes with Mango Salsa. While the Mussels were very fragrant and delicious, I was not pleased with the small size. I would definitely return to P. Sushi again and again.
You won’t be Disappointed ~

Had it not had a Groupon I would have rated these guys just 1 star.
Not much of anything was right with this meal. From the selection to the taste, it was just wrong. For starters, literally as I’m referring to the appetizer, you can’t sell «tempura» shrimp that isn’t tempura shrimp. It’s just flat out false advertising. What you served is called fried shrimp (ebi fry — as the Japanese would say). As far as fried shrimp goes, it was ok. The highlight of the entire meal was the tempura asparagus. These little things were tasty but I’d have preferred larger pieces as these were tiny. The honey wasabi dipping sauce was good but could have used more wasabi.
OK, so now we get to the meat of the issue and the reason for my displeasure. Piranha Killer Sushi has an entire page of «specialty» rolls but don’t be fooled; all of these special rolls are basically the exact same roll with a very slight variation. I’d say 2/​3s of the rolls are «shrimp tempura» rolls which really means they’re fried shrimp rolls. Then, roll 1 has avocado AND cream cheese but roll 2 has just avocado. OK, so I’m oversimplifying things a bit to help you understand the point. Virtually all of their specialty rolls are the same thing with either X or Y added or subtracted. Not a lot of creativity.
As for taste, the rice is supposed to have vinegar in it. Now many of you may not know that but it’s true. The amount of vinegar isn’t sufficient to impact the taste but it helps with the taste and texture of the rice. Speaking of rice, the nigiri sushi rice pieces were huge. My Japanese wife ended up throwing nearly half of each piece of rice away. The taste and texture was just not good. In addition, she stated that the fish itself was bland — no taste really, to use her words. Not sure this is typical as this was my first time here.
In all, this place is a whole lot of sizzle and very little steak. It the presentation is nice, psychologically that could influence their judgment of the food. This food is worth a miss. So, if you’re looking for sushi and you’re nearby and it’s rush hour and you just want to get home, kick off your shoes, open a beer or a bottle of wine and eat some sushi… well, I’d recommend extending your misery and going somewhere else. At Piranha Killer Sushi, you’re paying a premium price for a lot of nothing.