I've been to this place like 3-4 times this summer take out and eat in. Take out is a better bang for the buck plus the service is terrible inside.
One time eating inside they made one of the rolls wrong and then pretty much refused to remake it. They eventually did and tried blaming it on us. I never order anything different when it comes to sushi so i don't see how that could be.
Last night however was the worst. i tried ordering what i usually order and i'm told that i must be calling the wrong place. i ask "why". He replies. "I'm the manager and i know what goes on here, you have never ordered this before."(lie) pretty much talking down to me. Tells me how he got his fancy system and can see everything and that's ever  been made(lie again). so then i said ok and found one of the pictures i took of that same exact kind of sushi from there and had the date. told him the date and he said that theres to many orders in 1 day to check. i ask about his fancy system and get no reply. i then say forget it and tell him to have a good night and that I'll go to Yoshi Sushi(wayy better btw) instead. and hung up.really annoyed that he called me a liar.
He didn't like the way that ended i guess and starts calling my phone!! not cool at all. i wasn't too happy about that either.
NEVER GOING BACK!
oh dears, all you can eat sushi.
i love sushi - perhaps more than any other food - but all you can eat buffets usually mean the quality isn't the best. Sushi X was pretty decent, actually - good enough to get the job done, especially for middle of the nowhere upstate NY.
drinks were half price and okay (i got a ridiculous fruity thing, so did my mom). the food is ordered on a little sheet with a pencil, which had me nostalgic for all the times i've had sushi in California - now all they need is a little moat with boats going around and the experience would be complete (for some reason, sushi boat has not yet made it to the east coast).
food came out incredibly fast. i am writing this review a few weeks after the fact, and i can't honestly remember much about it. it didn't impress me as particularly bad OR good. so i guess it was passable.
the interior of the place looks a bit like a mid-90s club - lasers everywhere. highly amusing. i imagine this place is hopping in a town like Latham.
I think Sushi X does a decent enough job on sushi. We ordered some apps - one disappointing one was a chicken tempura I had ordered. It was a lot more batter and a lot less meat - not really worth it.
We ordered a few different rolls - one was the winter roll that has mango in it....that was ok. We also ordered a tuna roll....I can't quite remember if it was the regular tuna roll or a special one, but it was very good. There were some others we ordered but they were just alright, nothing that was very memorable.
We ordered ice creams as well, my sister got ginger and I got green tea. I much preferred hers over mine, though the taste on both were spot on. But the ginger just was so good.
The drinks though....stay away, they were not mixed well at all...thank goodness it was only $2 that night.
Service was barely present - not super helpful.
For sushi lovers its a great deal for the price. The sushi isn't top quality but the service and unlimited buffet make up for it. Since the menu is so expansive they include a sort of checklist; Patrons mark off the dish and quantity desired and then waitstaff deliver the  meals.  The food is all you can eat, but this system and decent attention from the staff elevates the experience beyond that of a standard buffet.
As a downside, I didn't really get the decor. Â They seemed to be going for some sort of sleek modernistic atmosphere, but it just didn't work. Â Leave the club look to the clubs. Â I would have enjoyed the food more had the room been better lit
I didn't quite understand the lure of this place. Now I realize that Sushi X is THE place to fill up on tons and tons of rice. For like. 30 bucks. All you can eat sushi in a dimly/barely lit restaurant with blue lights and hints of neon here and there is quite the hit. Fun atmosphere perhaps, but that aside, you're eating plates and plates of sushi in a dark dark place where your california rolls, spicy tuna rolls, salmon rolls, tuna avocado rolls are one in the same. You don't know what you're eating anymore. It's just rice and avocado and fish. And maybe cream cheese. Maybe cucumber. Was that a piece of tempura?
I ended up sticking to a teriyaki dish (entree choices are teriyaki or katsu. A more interesting menu would be appreciated.). I will say that the seaweed salad was yummy, but then again that might've just been my strong affinity for seaweed.
Full disclosure. I don't get the popularity of sushi at all. Barring that, I go into every meal with an open mind, and judge it based on the merits. So..
Paying $20-ish dollars for an 'all you can eat' anything is an interesting idea, but as is the case with any 'buffet', the majority of patrons must pay more than they're getting, otherwise the restaurant would go out of business.
I've been forced to go to sushi restaurants (very good restaurants for business meals) in the past, and while I'm not a huge fan - I appreciated the 'artistry' of the food. The taste was ok too.
This place, however, is like an assembly line of cheaply made, low-quality sushi to be consumed in mass-quantities by people more interested in quantity over quality. Â When it comes to eating anything raw, give me quality any day of the week.
Like any hipster-ish place, the allure of this restaurant is the name (X = cool?), and the peer pressure to think it's a good place.
I'm really just going to focus on the service/experience here, because I don't think I had enough of the food to comment. What I ate was fine, though.
The server wasn't around enough. The food came out at odd times. And they added their own gratuity, which I thought was weird. I guess it said it somewhere, and I would have tipped 20% as opposed to their 18%.
Overall, I just wasn't impressed. I guess the bathroom has heated soap, though, so that's kinda cool.
Came here for Christmas dinner. Â This place solves one of the problems inherent with Japanese (as opposed to Chinese) AYCE buffets, namely: Â so much Japanese food is fried and does not keep well once out of the fryer. Â Rather than leaving the tempura, katsu, gyoza, etc., to sit around in steamer pans, they make it fresh in the kitchen to order. Â Â
I'd say the sushi is good, if rather tame  In other words, don't expect uni...but they did a very nice shrimp tempura roll.
I've been to Sushi X twice now. The first experience was exactly what the 2 star rating means, "Meh..".. The second, Terrible, hence the 1 star. Sushi X, I hope you take notice...
Obviously, the draw to this place is the all you can eat sushi. Great, I can try new things I wouldn't normally want to pay for. That was my thought, however, if you don't like something, you have to eat it or pay for each piece. Come on.. offer half rolls or smaller rolls especially for people who are there to try new things. The first visit, my boyfriend and I stuffed ourselves so bad we vowed to never go back.
But we did.. a few months ago. On a Friday night it was packed, which is to be expected. We waited a little bit but the big complaint was how utterly slow the service was. We barely saw our waitress and she brought us multiple things that we didn't order- and vice versa. I understand it's busy, but maybe put another waitress or few on during the busy nights.
Also, this time, the sushi was not good whatsoever. We stuck to what we knew we liked so we would eat it and not be charged, but it was just NOT GOOD. For the rolls we got, I don't think it was even worth our money for the all you can eat.
The reason this went from a 2 star to a 1 star is because the waitress, (the BAD waitress) added on a 18% tip to our check. Ok, I am a server, I understand with a big party, but for TWO PEOPLE!? I was honestly so done with this place and just wanted to leave that we didn't even argue it (we probably wouldn't have been able to find the waitress anyways). You should warn people before you do something like that. She knew she SUCKED and saw two young adults and didn't think we would tip her well. This is my BIGGEST pet peeve of restaurants, because it happens to us a lot. We are both in the service industry and we are very good tippers for good and even average service, so I hate when people discriminate just because of our age. We still would have tipped her at least 10% because it was an expensive meal, but I'm sorry, she was terrible. There is NO EXCUSE for adding on 18% for two people when the service was horrendous. Â I am curious if this has happened to anyone else.
Needless to say, we will definitely never go back, and we mean it this time...
This place rocks! Â Great sushi, good non-fish dishes, good drinks, and a fresh atmosphere. Â Group dining with the all-you-can-eat special is a fantastic way to experience the entire menu. Â Only downfall is that it is easy to be spoiled. Â :-) Â Other places just seem blah after Sushi X.
Only complaint is that I am not much of a fan for the dinner mints. Â But the mango ice cream more than makes up for it.
This place is awesome! Like someone else said, make sure you go with the right crowd and attitude. The right attitude being "hey I'm starving lets eat until our stomachs hurt while downing bottles of Asahi". All you can eat is definitely the way to go.
I am a fairly avid sushi eater. I've been to some very nice Sushi restaurants in LA, NYC, and Tokyo (yay tsukiji!) and while the sushi here is obviously not at that level...its EXCELLENT when you consider the VALUE. Lets keep the food snobbery in check.
Sushi is probably on par or almost as good as what you would get from your typical Albany sushi joint. I was pleasantly surprised the wide selection of appetizers included with the all you can eat deal; gyoza, fried rock shrimp, agedashi tofu, crab wontons, and yakitori. All of the appetizers were delicious.
Service is fantastic. They handled a large coupon-waving group of 20+ medical students without any attitude or hiccups, a difficult feat.
I would definitely come back.
Sushi X can be a lot of fun if you go with the right crowd and the right attitude.
The atmosphere varies depending on what time you're there. I've only ever been there for dinner. If you go early, it's very quiet and relaxing, typically with lounge-style piano music you can actually hear in the background, and service is fast. Â As it gets closer to happy our or dinner hour, it fills up fast, and it get a bit crazy and very loud.
I like the fact that everything on the menu is all-you-can-eat, because I usually want more than just sushi. The Asian salad is typical. Other appetizers such as tempura vegetables, rolls, and edamame, are quite good.
I also like the nightly specials, in particular the current deal on sake on weekends - $3 for a generous amount of hot or cold sake.
I thought that many of my sushivore friends would pooh-pooh this place, but a good number of them like it. What they typically say is you won't necessarily get some of the fancier stuff here, but what you can order is good quality.
The thing I like best is if someone accidentally eats your pieces of sushi, or if they screw up your order, IT DOESN'T MATTER - you can always order it again. That's the beauty of all-you-can-eat.
Dessert, typically ice cream, is ho-hum. Then again, I'm not here for dessert.
I consider this place very good for groups.
My boyfriend and I are addicted to sushi x! We love it so much that when we are not in the Albany area we always try to find a place to compare, and have yet to. The sushi is of very good quality and the specialty rolls are delicious! The service is always quite prompt despite how busy they are on any given night of the week. If you are a sushi lover you will love sushi x! For the price you can't beat it!
Review Source:I was pretty disappointed given how most of the other reviews considered this a good sushi place. I think that anyone that has had real sushi will find this to be quite a disappointment. It wasn't so much that anything was bad as much as it was that not much was good and nothing was worth the price.
First off, the sushi pieces are quite small, with a very high rice to fish ratio. Not good. You might look at the pictures and think "oh wow, they completely cover the rice with sushi". Well, people completely cover boxes with wrapping paper too and like wrapping paper, the fish is very thin. The rice isn't properly prepared with vinegar for sushi either (or at least not well prepared), it's just regular rice taken out of a rice pot and served warm. Because the fish is so thin, it gets warmed very quickly by the rice and has a lot of its flavor washed out.
The sashimi was a little bit better, but again the pieces are quite small, about the size of a bottle cap. If you can find what you like as sashimi (not all of the nigiri is offered this way), you might as well order them five at a time (someone noted they could only order one piece per person at a time, we didn't have such a limitation).
We also tried some of the non sushi items. The gyoza was actually pretty good but the rest of it was rather uninspiring. We ordered some teriyaki, udon, tempura, and two soups, and all of it pretty much tasted the same.
The all you can eat includes ice cream which was definitely old or not properly sealed as mine was mostly ice. While crunchy ice cream is certainly a novelty, it's not a novelty worth having twice, especially since On The Farm is only a couple minutes away.
The only good things were the service and the ambience. As others mentioned, it's overstaffed so there's always someone to fill your glass or take an order. The club is set up almost like a nigh club, dark with lots of flashing/changing colors. The bar is set up with a laser system that displays patterns across the floor and the dining room itself is very large, it can easily seat large groups. Even so, this is a restaurant and the quality of the food should be the deciding factor in its rating.
While the small sizes could be justified by the fact that it's all you can eat, do keep in mind that you're still paying almost $30 a person  to eat mostly rice (they include 18% gratuity automatically).
I wouldn't really call this a sushi place, so much as a place that serves raw fish. Normally I'd say spend another $10 and go to a real sushi place but this is the first sushi place I've tried since moving to the capital region. If the locals think that this is "good" then I'm afraid that there's not much hope for the other sushi places in the area.
While our recent visit was very good, overall, I just can't quite give them a full 4 stars (If 3.5 were possible they would be there).
We went early on Saturday evening and it was empty upon our arrival but filled in quickly. Service was very good and attentive. The usual issues with having 'floating' waitstaff occurred - being asked about things after giving the info to another person, etc. There was only one instance of an ordered item not appearing or changed so I'd say that was an improvement. Sashimi portions are very small. Quality of the food was good - we did not get any items that might stretch this  such as eel or clam or uni.
One of biggest issues was that the order sheet is in very small font and there is almost no light to read it. We resorted to the light from our cell phones.
overall not a bad visit.
We visit Albany several times a year and have made this a regular stop. Â I love sashimi and while the house requires ordering only one piece at a time of each selection with a party of two you can order two at a time and mix it with some rolls and keep the sashimi coming. Â We made the trip twice this time once a part of two and then a party of three.
Excellent stop. Â We just think that the lighting is a bit screwy in that it is so dark in parts of the place and then they turn them down even more as the evening gets older. Â On our second trip we spent it in an area that does not get darkened quite as much.
We are always impressed with how quickly they attending to taking orders and filling them is handled. Â It is odd that you do not seem to have a designated wait staff person so you have to tell them where you are as it relates to your order. Â We noticed that this past Friday night the staff burned out a bit early and forgot to wait on us with the same attention as usual. Â The food more than made up for it but that is the start of contempt for the customer. Â I know staff can become tired but the 18% that is automatically added makes it a nice tipping situation for them. Â Interesting that 18% is less than many actually tip but you can always add more.
I enjoy the place and will try their sister facility Hibachi X which I understand does not have the all you can eat sushi, which frankly is the attraction.
All-you-can-eat sushi sounds pretty strange. Â On one hand, I love eating sushi, and I love eating a lot of sushi at one time. Â It gets pretty expensive quickly. Â On the other hand, I hate low-quality sushi, and an all-you-can-eat place must be pretty crappy. Â Right? Â
Well, I was surprised both times I visited Sushi X by how good it was. My second visit came a few months after the first, and I almost didn't go, thinking I had exaggerated my thoughts on Sushi X the first time. Â I'd definitely hit this place up again next time I'm in the area.
[+] Nigiri and rolls both exceeded my expectations.
[+] It's an expensive meal, yes, but both times I wound up throwing down sushi that would have cost 50-60 bucks somewhere else for half the price.
[+] The interior lights, decor, etc, are a little bit bizarre but fairly comical considering the location and outside appearance.
[meh] Sashimi wasn't terrible, but I'd probably pass on it next time.
[meh] Service was a bit odd both times. Â First visit: server was really trying hard to push items that weren't interesting to me at all. Â Second visit: server barely looked in my direction
[-] Sitting at the bar (I ate there both times) and, on both visits, watching (white) Capital Region jackasses interact with the Asian servers in ways that were, I'll be diplomatic here, less-than-enlightened.
[-] As mentioned by others, the 'built-in' gratuity is unclear. Â I didn't notice it at all the first visit and on the second visit was told it didn't apply to the bar area. Â ehhhh. . .
Bottom line: Â Come hungry, load up on rolls and nigiri, the quality is surprisingly solid, and you'll feel like you got a bargain.
I loved it here!
My mom and I love getting sushi and this is the place to go from now on. Their food is great and their service is generally very fast. We only go during weekdays though because we hate waiting in lines for anything and it seems like this place would be crazy busy on a weekend.
The inside is lit up with different color lights and it makes the atmosphere very fun.
My one and only complaint is that their staff isn't sectioned into specific places so they roam around and ask if you need anything about a million times before you leave.
I like this place. Usually.
There's more detail about the place in my other review, but I have some complaints after a Saturday lunchtime visit with a few friends.
1. Friday - Sunday lunch is the FULL dinner price. Sure, you get to order off the dinner menu, but $30 (including tax/tip) for lunch is way too much. I don't think I'm going to go back on the weekend anymore. The Monday - Thursday price for lunch is about $10 cheaper and the dinner price is cheaper too. Lunch on the weekend is totally not worth it and weekend dinnertime is crazy busy.
2. The not getting what we ordered thing was laughable this time. We had to remind them of our soup/salad appetizer order and then we were delivered only 2 out of the 3 things with a mention they were out of seaweed salad. Meanwhile, one of the other things we got was a spicy seaweed salad. It seemed like if you could make a spicy seaweed salad, you could make a regular one. Maybe they spice it up in huge batches ahead of time? I don't know. Anyway, once the sushi came out, we were missing a roll. Next time we ordered, we reordered the same roll. Yep, still missing. No mention of why it wasn't there from the staff. In addition, ALL of the ingredients for the roll we ordered twice and never got were present in other rolls on the plate. Meanwhile, we were asked if we wanted to order more by waitress X about 10 seconds after waitress Y took our order...more than once. Also, waitress Y asked us if we wanted to order more 2 minutes after she took our order...but she realized that when we looked at her funny.
To recap so far, we were told the weekend lunch was full dinner price, we had to remind them of an order, they were out of something, and didn't serve us something we ordered twice, but they were all about taking our order...repeatedly.
3. The ice cream had ice crystals on top like it was sitting open in a freezer for a long time. Having ice cream offered at the end is nice, but it needs to not be like the stuff I find in my freezer a month or two after forgetting it's in there. By the way, my friends got mango (which strangely tastes like pina colada). I got vanilla. Same issue with both flavors.
Did I mention I like this place? Seriously. I do. They just need to focus on a better system to get the orders filled properly while paying attention to the quality of the food whether it's a "free" (you're paying for it anyway) dessert or a main course item. Also, don't gouge me for lunch on the weekend...I really don't need piles of sushi at noon on Saturday. Next time, a diner or an Indian buffet will be our top options for lunch on a weekend. Too bad, Sushi X. See you during the week sometime when I feel like getting a deal on sushi and some mixed drinks.
Let me begin by saying that I can only speak to my take out order from today- 1 spicy tuna roll, 1 white tuna sashimi, and crab rangoons. I was on my way from job 1 to job 2...
Considering the nice NYC like ambiance of this place, I was expecting to pay a lot more than an $11 total for my 3 items. Not bad at all. Â And I'd give an extra 1/2 a star if I could, just for the ambiance, but my options were limited to 1 through 5.
As for the food.... The spicy tuna roll was good. Prepared in six pieces, it tasted fresh and was nicely prepared, although I wondered if it was supposed to have crunch in it. I had a hint of crunch in my order, but not enough to know for sure whether it was supposed to be there or not. If so, it's a nice add in, but could be kicked up a notch.
The crab rangoons, a little less great. Â Served as an app with four pieces, the outer shell is rather thick. The inside consisted of large shreds of the imitation crab meat, which felt a little overwhelming as a whole. Â
Most disappointing about the order was my piece of white tuna sashimi. Â Clearly, as it is a stand alone item, it needs to be in and of itself, without a doubt, a good piece of tuna. I prefer a nice thinly sliced piece of sashimi. The piece I was served was about a domino in length and about 3-4 dominoes thick. Â I know, it's probably a weird measurement too, but that's the best I could think of. Â I would have preferred that the one piece be prepared and served in two more slender pieces, or in all honesty, one more slender piece, as with that much of a mouthful it's just too difficult to capture the flavor and texture of the piece. Â It could just be my preference, but when I think of good sashimi, I think of it melting in my mouth like butter, not a stack of dominoes...
Overall, not bad sushi, not great sashimi, and an OK app. I could see myself giving it another try but will definitely continue to search for better.
the food is good, even if it's mostly "filler". Â I found the staff to be dissinterested & unfriendly. Â They are probably accustomed to being sneered at.
It is the trickiness of the place that i object to. Â they add a 18% gratuity right off the top. Â Sushi X too stressful to bother with again. Â It feels like a trap that you're navigating the whole time.
The price for all-u-can-eat is about $25, which is more than typically paid per person for sushi experience at a regular pay-as-you-go place. Â Sushi X does not advertise that $25 in any way. Â (My bad for not asking.)
There are rules associated with this all-u-can-eat practice: you are charged a la carte for that which you order & do not eat. Â the portions are small, so you have to get a grip on how much you can eat, lest you be charged. Then you are ordering constantly, & waiting for wee saucers of tiny bits of food, which isn't the most enjoyable dining experience. Â If you order something you didn't like, you either force it down or pay.
Sushi X has what appear to be "sushi police" wandering about, making sure you eat every bite, or YOU PAY. Â They also hope to intimidate you into GTFO.
I went with my parents, & we made fun of the stringency of the place for the entirety. Â Here come the cops, making sure chopsticks travel from plate to mouth only. Â We did have a few yuks discussing the business model.
I can only imagine a bit of alcohol would inhibit your ability to abide the rules, & leave you in desperate straits when the bill arrived. Â We were sober & had trouble keeping it straight. Â This was far from a relaxing dinner.
The bill was a shock, even without extras. Â Dad was confused by the unmentioned 18% gratuity AND the place on the bill to tip...in case you wanted to tip MORE for next to no service. Â My brother later texted me "I heard you really hosed dad for some sushi." Â This was not my intent.
The joint is impressively tacky: what i imagine a kooky Tokyo nightclub is like inside, with neon rainbows & such. Â It was Saturday evening, pretty packed & very noisy.
Sushi X is not far from Yoshi, which is super fine.  Bonus, you're not being watched  like a criminal the whole time.
My fiance and I really enjoy this place. Â Do not the outside fool you. Â It's overgrown and kind of scary looking. Â I was very reluctant to try it, as all you can eat sushi can be disastrous, but it really is great and fresh. Â It's not a buffet, but rather table service where you can order as many times as you want. Â
The specialty rolls are where you are really getting a bang for you buck. Â It ends up being about $55 for two people to eat (gratuity is included). Â For sushi rolls that really is not bad, especially when a member of your party can easily eat 8 or 9. Â Its a couple bucks cheaper during the week and on Wednesday nights it's all you can drink saki for $10, which we love.
The inside is pretty hilarious and not what you would expect from the outside. Â There are an enormous amount of LED lights, but otherwise it's nicely done for a lounge type atmosphere.
So maybe it's not the best idea for me to be writing this review considering the state of mind I was in. My mother and I had just been out attacking the annual kid's clothes consignment sale from hell that we always do. We were both exhausted, sore, and taciturn.
We showed up for the lunch service, and were dead seriously the only people in there. The decor, as many have said, is a peculiar mix of Asian bordello and glittery Las Vegas, but the staff was plenty friendly enough. We were at the tail end of the lunch service and got to see the dinner staff coming in to have their pre-shift meals. One young man was toting a massive plush crocodile with him, which had me laughing pretty hard. Hilarious, slung over his shoulder by the tail. They should always have that guy around.
Lunch is still All-You-Can-Eat, but with a smaller selection and, as such, a slightly cheaper price! ($14 instead of the $20.) We ordered six different "vanity" rolls, all of which seemed fresh, if not as flavorful as some other sushi I've had (see also Sushi House on New Scotland in Albany.) It wasn't perfect, but ~$75 worth of sushi for $35 after tip? You can NOT beat that with a stick.
I've had better sushi, I'm not going to lie, but I'm certainly curious to try their dinner selection, as I hear it's much better. This review will be one to come back and update, for sure.
This is a place that depends on the mood and your expectations. Â I ate lunch here today to find out what it is and what to expect from it. Â My reference is Yuka, on the southwest corner of 81st St. Â I sat at a table and had a go around with the waitress to learn from the second waitress that there is all you can eat sushi for lunch at $13, but no sashimi all you can eat for lunch. Â I could, however, order whatever I'd like for the dinner menu price of $21 for all you can eat including sashimi. Â I did. Â The sashimi was a mix of very good white tuna, flying fish roe, squid and yellowtail, good tuna, red snapper, Spanish mackerel, and poor red clam, and sea bass. Â The ginger was terrible with a metallic aftertaste. The seaweed salad was the usual suspect and the sushi was 1 1/2" long and the tuna, kinda flat.
I will return to see what a not-all you can eat lunch is like. Â At Yuka it's a killer good deal and different from the all you can eat fish.
I believe that sitting at the sushi bar will make a difference.
I hope it does.
And the place is nice to look at.
Its hard for me not to like a place I go to. Â Especially if its sushi.
I hear a lot of complaints about the amount of rice but I'm not sure what those people expect. Â If you don't like getting so much rice, then don't order fish with rice. Â I myself have been there a handful of times. Â Each time we go, we make sure we start with some hot food from the kitchen, sashimi, and some rolls. Â After that, we stop ordering rolls because they become filling and just order sashimi. Â The sashimi is adequate and worth the money if you eat enough of it. Â
I can say that the service there has gone slightly down every time I go there. Â The food will sometimes take a little longer and sometimes we will miss some stuff from the order. Â Because of this, I give it 3 stars. Â As long as they stay in existence, I'll keep coming. Â Don't forget to eat the candies at the front when you leave. Â Those are great.
it is just an ok restaurant. Â In their webpage there are a menu you can order but when i sit there we were told we can only pick all-you-can-eat menu. we went there at lunch time but they said they only provide dinner. there is not any notification in their website or on the door. and the food is just soso.
for all you van eat menu, there are not too much choices.
and they even sent us something we did not order to forget to send the food we ordered.
service is just soso
We loved Sushi X. We'd been regulars there since they opened this summer. We used to go just about every other week. We would rave about Sushi X to everyone. We celebrated three birthdays there and Christmas. We know our sushi. This place was the best. We eat sushi about once every other week. I have said on more than one occasion that we are "sushioholics"
When we walked in to the restaurant on Thursday night, January 12, 2012, and were seated we noticed a fishy smell coming from the sushi bar. We should have recognized that red flag. Nonetheless, we went ahead and ordered. We love eel, it's our favorite sushi ingredient. Now, the last time we were there the eel was rubbery. Â However, we didn't complain. We figured it was a bad night.
Well, the yummy roll was almost unrecognizable. The other rolls weren't nearly as good. As it was the sushi was falling apart. Not just the seaweed was unattached, the contents were falling out. We couldn't tell the difference between the mango/avocado roll and the avocado/cucumber roll. We love eel and the eel was once again rubbery. When I went to eat my eel/avocado hand roll I could smell the eel and it didn't smell good. My husband took all of the eel out of his sushi. The sushi rice was warm on the second plate. I talked to the manager and he said "I'll tell the chef". I left it at that, but when the bill came it was full price. Granted they didn't charge us for what we left behind, we never leave anything behind on our plates.
I talked to the manager once again with the bill in my hand and money in pocket. I wanted to see what he might do to compensate us for our horrible experience.As it is, they have a mandatory 18% tip in the bill. He spoke to the waitress who had waited on us many times in whatever language they speak. Her head was downcast and her eyes were looking up at him as though she was afraid of him. He turned to me and said angrily "one minute please".
He came back from the table pretty ticked off and yelled at us because of the food we left behind. I told him it was horrible and we couldn't finish it. There was a confrontation between us and the manager. He never once apologized or said that he appreciates us as customers. He did say "You come here many times and leave happy and now just because of this one time?"
I was not expecting a free meal. I was just looking for a acknowledgment more than "I'll tell the chef" and maybe a "I'm sorry" or "We know you come here all of the time and appreciate you as customers" or at least a manager that was more even tempered and empathetic. We might have been able to forgive our horrible experience if the manager had handled our concerns better. I've read some reviews online and it seems like  a least one person had a run in with him, for no reason at all, and one was even denied access when they wanted to complain. We paid that night and it wasn't worth it.
We will never go back.
Read any recent review of Sushi X and you know the deal. Unlimited sushi and other soups and hibachi-esque items, tons of rice, small amounts of fish, rushing waitresses, etc. etc.
The fish that we did have was very good, thus the extra star, but it comes in limited amounts. Their "fancy" rolls are packed with rice and crispies, filling you up faster than you might think.
The service style is more bothersome to me than anything else. I hate feeling like I'm on an assembly line. The waiters and waitresses seemed irked by any sort of questions as though we were interrupting their flow.
But hey, $19.99, unlimited mediocre sushi. It's an ok spot depending on what your priorities are.
You either love this place or are traumatized by it, seemingly.
First, I should say that I didn't find any glass in my sushi and that I did look for it. That would have ticked me off.
Second: I really want you to get just the fried rolls. The fish is really suspect in the nigiri and sashimi. I am almost 99% certain that their "Red Snapper" is anything but and their Yellowtail is not fresh, to put it kindly. The fried rolls, however, like the Crazy girl and Sakura are fine. The tempura is fine (skip the sauce, though). The Saba is from a tin. Everything comes from a tube, tin or bottle. The Miso is instant with a ton of MSG.
If you have to drive 40 minutes to get there: STOP! DON'T! Do yourself a favor and go to Ala Shanghai for real Chinese in stead. Heck, the sushi from Hannaford is better quality, though more expensive... it's a little more classy too!
Yeah, this is not a classy place. The vinyl booths and 1980s disco lounge aesthetic are bizarre... I have yet to figure out this association with asian food in Upstate NY. It's very weird. The clientele is mostly young guys filling up on a budget. I saw a lot of tempura chicken fingers going around.
Also, the cocktails are between 10 and 20 bucks a piece and I'm pretty sure they are more sugar than alcohol... so have tea or beer in stead.
This place is not Celiac friendly. Even if you have a handle on what you can and cannot eat, the way the food is prepared makes it impossible to have a safe meal here. I won't do it again, I can tell you for certain, and it's going to take a while to recover fromt his trip.
Overall, I would say that this is the Golden Corral of Asian food. The quality is edible, but why would you do that to yourself?
It's not really very good, but it's the only sushi I'll buy in land locked Upstate New York.
If you want to buy me sushi that's only a little bit better and a lot more expensive, I'll gladly come along. But when it's my money on the line, I'm going to save it for something more worthwhile.
In the case of Sushi X, $25 will get you a bacchanal of crispy fried treats, green healthful things like seaweed salad, raw fish with or without rice, tea and dessert. And even though nothing is all that great, if you arrive hungry and are adventurous, it's a solid value for the price. Perhaps that's why even late on a recent Thursday night, the parking lot was filled and the place was hopping.
The spicy fried rock shrimp are pretty darn tasty, but I love mayonnaise. Actually all the fried things were well done, including the deep fried banana that I miraculously managed to squeeze into my dessert stomach after a mind bending number of earlier dishes from the kitchen. The banana mind you, could have done without the chocolate syrup and sprinkles.
As other reviewers noted, the green tea ice cream did have a lot of bitterness to it. One small nibble was interesting, but I wouldn't want more than that.
The staff was reasonably friendly and efficient. I had a lot of fun with the paper slips. And it was a great place to go with a group.
The only thing I had that was truly awful was the tamago, and the one thing I regret not trying was the shrimp and veggie tempura. But in another few years, when the memory of this escapade fades, I'll be able to get back and try those too.
Sushi X would be getting downgraded a star if it wasn't for their wonderful 20$ all you can eat special. The quality of the sushi was decent. A few of our rolls I wasn't crazy about, but not because of the quality, but personal preference. They have an amazing atmosphere if a Tokyo party is what you are looking for. Shining, sparkling lights, interesting sculptors, a bar area to drink while you wait... and so on. If you are looking for a classy, quiet, impress your snooty new girlfriend or mother in law type of place, this is NOT it. If you are with a group of friends, or want to take someone on a fun and energetic date- I would definitely suggest Sushi X.
Their proportion size really doesn't matter considering it's all you can eat, so don't let any negative comment on that convince you not to give it a try. As for serve, 99% Asian ethnicity. Which also comes with the attitude that may come off as rude, it's most likely not. They do their job well, you might not get the most chatty waitress, who cares.
I am picky about Sushi, this wasn't the very best but it was still really good, as I said earlier- their 20$ all you can eat deal makes up for the above average but not amazing quality.
Probably this is more like a 2 1/2 stars. Â I certainly could say I've had better, but the variety of soups, salads, appetizers, sushi/sashimi, entrees, and deserts that are offered AND prepared to order, compared to the first all-you-can-eat sushi place I went to 20 years ago in Long Island, the value here is far superior. ($19.99/person, Mon-Thu; $21.99/person, Fri-Sun)
I like the atmosphere, it's a fun and bold environment. My Mom and Dad would never have recognized their old favorite Ponderosa Steakhouse. Our piped-in music for a Monday night was piano. Â I felt like it was calling out to me to sit in the bar/lounge area.
This being our first venture here the hostess explained how the ordering process worked. Â Write down how many of each item you would like on the separate Kitchen and Sushi Bar menus. Â Give the completed menus to any staff member and they will provide you with more blank menus whenever you ask. Â A large colorful drink menu describes the wines and cocktails available, but nowhere is there a list of the bottled beers that are available.
We started with a Lychee Martini ($10) and a 22 oz. Asahi ($8). Â My wife declared the martini was better than she expected; I declared it not potent. The condensation on the filled-to-the-brim glass caused it to stick to the table top each time it was picked up resulting in a spill before that first sip. Â The napkins provided are not very absorbent and tend to spread the spill leaving you with a sticky table. There was no problem getting another napkin from a server.
Our first order of food was for:
From the Kitchen menu - Red Snapper Jalapeno, Pepper Tuna, and Miso Soup.
From the Sushi Bar menu - White Tuna sashimi, Pepper Salmon sashimi, Â Spicy Crab sushi, Yellowtail sushi, Seaweed sushi, Spider roll, Crazy Girl roll (crunchy spicy salmon & avocado inside topped w/ pepper tuna & honey wasabi sauce), and Butterfly roll (lobster, mango, crunchy and avocado w/ mango sauce wrapped in soybean paper).
The Kitchen menu items never arrived. The sashimi items came first, each sashimi order was 4 very thinly sliced pieces of fish in a soy-based sauce with a small mayo-like dollop on top. The fish was nice and fresh.
After we finished our sashimi, a large plate was brought with the rest of the Sushi menu items. Â Let me first point out that the Spider roll does not have a whole soft-shell crab in it and the menu doesn't tell you what is in it. Â It had a stronger fish flavor and was the least favorite of our choices. The crunchy in the Crazy Girl and Butterfly rolls seemed to have lost a bit of their crunch as if they had sat for too long before they were served. We didn't notice any lobster flavor in the Butterfly roll but the mango flavor helped to make this one of our favorites. Â All of the fish tasted fresh.
We decided to resubmit our Kitchen menu order that never arrived and add an order of Edamame to it. Â We also submitted an additional Sushi Bar menu for Alba Core (sic.) sashimi, and a Salmon Skin roll.
The red snapper jalapeno, was 4 very thinly sliced pieces of fish with a thin slice of jalapeno on each. The miso was the stronger flavored variety, neither creamy nor sweet, it might have had more dashi than I typically prefer. Â The edamame was not the freshest but it was not overly salted. Â The albacore sashimi was two small, thick chunks of fish. Â The salmon skin roll lacked the crunch of the skin.
A server recited the desert list for us and we ordered green tea ice cream and red bean ice cream. Â The server promptly returned to say they didn't have any green tea so that choice was switched to ginger. Â The ice creams were not very creamy and contained ice crystals.
As I said at the beginning, you can go here for value considering quality and quantity. Â We had what would have been at least $80 of food off their a la carte menu for less than $40 and all the fish was fresh.
While I would normally tip a minimum of 20%, I didn't feel obligated or the desire to tip beyond the 18% that was added to the bill even though I had no complaint with the service. Â I think it would have almost felt awkward adding a buck and a quarter or two bucks to the credit card slip.
My dreams of neverending sushi have finally been realized.
I'm not apt to give out five stars to a sushi joint too often, but this place just rocked. I'll admit...the decor is pretty corny. I don't usually want to feel like I'm in an undergrad-esque night club when I eat my seafood, but somehow the corniness works (e.g., the cheap crystal chandeliers, the lights, the slippery floors, etc.).
I came with a group of people, and the service was actually really prompt for such a large order. Essentially, since it's all-you-can-eat (which also normally turns me off), you can sample just about anything for the very reasonable price of $25. We were able to try miso soup, seaweed salad, calamari, oyster shooters, rock shrimp, ribs, crab rangoon, egg rolls, and potstickers, IN ADDITION to enormous plates of rolls and sashimi. We were all stuffed by the time we were done.
Also, since it was all-you-can-eat, I got to try sushi that I wouldn't normally order. Everything I tried was tasty, even if I had no idea which roll was which.
The only thing that's a bit wonky is that they charge you a la carte prices for food that you do not finish. I don't think we had any problems with that, but it definitely made me mindful of how many rolls we ordered.
I will definitely be coming back. I've been to several other sushi restaurants in the Captial Region, and spent far more for far less. This is definitely the best bang for your buck, in my opinion.
2.5 Stars.
Went here tonight to check it out. We parked and walked through the overgrown bushes on the side of the restaurant to the front double doors that had a taped piece of paper with an arrow suggesting to use the other door. Upon walking through the door I tripped on the rolled up door mat.
Once inside we were greeted by the hostess and sat in the corner right behind the waiter station. This was a horrible seat being bumped by carts of dirty dishes and banging of stuff constantly behind us. The decor was that of a bad acid trip. It felt like something from a bad sci fi 80's movie. I was waiting to be called up to sing karaoke at any moment.
We ordered seaweed salad and edamame, tiger roll (salmon, tuna, and yellowtail wrapped in soybean paper), spider roll, spicy tuna hand roll, salmon skin hand roll, and nigiri pieces: tuna, salmon, yellowtail, eel, tamago, red clam.
The seaweed salad had a unappealing spice to it which I did not care for. The tiger roll was not that bad pretty mediocre. The spicy hand roll was just a food processed glob of tuna that did not taste good. Salmon skin was pretty slimy they did not crisp the skin enough. Nigiri was just ok as well some of the fish was edible others we choked down to not pay extra $$ for wasting food (all you can eat policy). The quality of the fish and price is nothing that puts the idea in my head for me to return.
Not a fan.
I fully admit I'm spoiled in terms of sushi. Â But... tasteless, poorly cut fish, and rice that varied from over-vinegared to bland and was sometimes warm... this is simply not good.
I ordered from the kitchen menu as well and was similarly less than impressed.
Also not thrilled with the way everyone at the table's orders were merged together. Â I understand why they do it, but if you have a crowd, you may not want your specific order being dropped off at the other end of the table, where you may not ever see it.
The decor reminded me of Vegas, and that's not a good thing.
Value for the money isn't terrible, but isn't great either. Â At $25 a head after included gratuity and tax you might be getting a deal depending on how much you eat, but you can get much better sushi elsewhere in town.
I went here for the all you can eat sushi option because (I'll be honest) I can eat a literal boat load of sushi if I'm hungry (my record is 7.5 rolls). The price is appropriate for the quality and quantity (if you're able to eat a lot of sushi that is). Today :
Round 1
Pink Lady--good
Yummy Roll--the eel was sparse but the roll was otherwise a nice balance of flavors
Avocado peanut--meh, nothing special and I almost choked on a peanut
Sweet Potato--its kinda hard to screw up a sweet potato (unless you're Bomber's Burritos) so it was good
Round2
Tuna avocado --good
Mango avocado --sounded better then the combination actually tasted
I'm not sure what the folks on Table Hopping were saying about the rolls being really big; they are average sized rolls. The presentation of the food is fine, but the assemble of some of the rolls was a little sloppy. The dinner price is $21 for all you can eat BUT they add 18% gratuity (I don't mind this if its for large parties, but I think its bad form for solo or two-tops. I do routinely tip at least 20% (usually more like 25-30%) I just don't like being forced to "tip" as it takes the entire "to insure promptitude" out of play). The freshness is consistent with places like Sake Cafe and Koto. I wish they had a brown rice option for the sushi. If you don't eat all that your order you will be charged the a la carte price (I think you can leave a piece or 2 but its in their discretion as to whether you're being wasteful).
I dislike the location next to that seedy motel...strange I don't notice the seedy motel when I'm one door over at the diner, but here, I "noticed" it. There is a bar in the front part of the space. The drink menu gives away that this a chain (they have scorpion bowls for $15 and there aren't any unique or seasonal drinks offered). Service was fine. Nothing remarkable.
The interior is something else. I want to say ridiculous, but its not. I'm not sure what the word is. There are multicolored/changing color LED string curtains on one wall. The center of the dining room is "illuminated" by cut glass fixtures with multicolored LED lights, one side has rows of frosted orange, yellow, or white ceiling lamps, and the other side has canvas shade hanging over the booths.
There was piped-in acoustic guitar music and I even heard a rendition of Ava Maria. Interesting?
Conclusion: it is not the best sushi in the area, but it is good and the fact that i got $35 worth of sushi based on the a la carte prices for $27 is good. If you're hungry and want sushi go here. If you just want sushi....take your pick.
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