Sushi Boat Restaurant

Gung hay fat choy!It is a Cantonese phrase that means "wishing you great happiness and prosperity". We celebrated The Chinese New Year in heart of San Francisco Chinatown February 16, 2025 at Sushi Boat Restaurant. During this festival commemorating the "Year of the Snake" my wife and ai strolled down Grant Street's Annual Chinatown Festival with booths, shops and thousands of visitors from around the world. What made this weekend very special was the Chinese New Year parade with dancers, floats, fireworks, marching bands, drones and performers.Also, for the first time in 25 years the NBA All Stars Games was being held today in the city a few blocks away. After the street fair we decided we want sushi and being that it was nearly 5 pm the timing was perfect!The restaurant was on Grant Street and its revolving sushi boat theme was enticing. We grab an open seat and began "on boarding" our choices. There was a good variety of very fresh pieces. We selected salmon and tuna nigiri, a special California and other rolls. It's a fun place for a couple, a family or a group. Good hospitality, vwey clean and great ambiance! High recommend.

Truly disappointed as a whole with this place. From the customer service, pricing, food and cleanliness of restaurant. The server which Im assuming is the manager and/or owner does a horrible job. Makes no eye contact and is super short when you ask her questions. Got seated and told her I wanted the $12.99 special they have outside posted on a sign... time to pay it was $31!! INSANE INSANE INSANE... i asked for a receipt and she just wrote $31 on a servers notepad and put it down, did not ever say thank you, look up at me or anything at all to represent customer service. I get it... you get what you pay for but paying a higher amount than posted with no taxes or receipts is crazy. The food is mediocre!!! No flavor and SMALL portions! My friend asked for chili sauce and was ignored... later we saw some in the kitchen. That being said to use the restroom you MUST pass by the kitchen and where they store ingredients for the food. HORRIBLE place 0/10 recommend.

After performing at the Autumn Moon Festival in Chinatown, I was really hungry. I saw this sushi place and looked at their menu. Everything on the menu looked really good, so I decided to eat there. The service was alright. They forgot my order so it took a while for it to come, but that's okay. The sushi itself is pretty good! I really liked the combination of the sushi rolls. Every single one of them was good. I love inari and seaweed salad so this was perfect. I also drank a miso soup and it was quite good as well. I like the amount of vegetarian options they have here. They have more rolls and I will definitely try them in the future. My parents and I really enjoyed the food here and we will most likely come back in the future.

Avoid, avoid, avoid! Awful sushi that is super stale! The rice is dried up so you know everything is OLD. Service was awful too. In the end, we had to go up to pay and felt like they just made up some number since we didn't get an itemized bill or anything. We ate 4 plates and it came out to $22+. Some of the plates didn't even match the plates & price guide so beware, they may just be charging whatever (a 2-piece stale sushi roll was $6+? robbery!) It's Awful, awful, awful. Avoid this place!

In the heart of ChinaTown. Came at 6pm, it was dead inside. They were very attentive, sushi that was revolving had been there a while and wasn't the freshest. They had Pepsi can that was at least cold and refreshing. The best thing they had was Gyoza, it was fresh made to order and homemade, that was my favorite thing. I didn't feel like I got too much, but my bill was $45. Probably wouldn't return again.

In San Francisco with the wife visiting the kid who lives in SF. She had to work one afternoon so the wife and I walked from our hotel to Chinatown to cruise around and maybe get something to eat.Honestly, I was not expecting us to walk into a sushi place in Chinatown and have a meal. Especially a sushi bar that had sushi floating around on boats in front of you as you sat at the sushi bar. The reason I chose it was the sign outside that had a lunch special for 11.50 of miso soup, a couple rolls and some other stuff. Sounded like a great deal especially after spending so much money in SF for food. Crap, the wife and my breakfast yesterday morning was almost $100 with tip. $100?!Anyhoo, we walked in to grab this great deal. We sat at the bar and as the boats carrying all types of sushi, salads, tempura floated by, we thought we should go for it. We said hello to the sushi chef who prepared the items and put them on the boats for transport to unsuspecting customers. We chatted with him as we ordered our beers and settled in.We were ready to dig in and we were shown the "menu" of the offerings coming past our seats. The items were identified by the color/design of plates they were on. Each one being a different price point. It was pretty easy to identify the plates, thus the cost of each.The wife said she was not very hungry when we were walking in, but she sure took a liking to the sushi and was pulling plates off the boats as they went by. Mostly sushi, with some tempura. I did a variety including seaweed salad, Tamago (egg), sushi, hand rolls, other salads, etc.. Most of it was very good and tasted fresh. BTW, the act of getting the plates was a feat in itself. The boats move quickly and a couple times I almost sank the boat and my sushi would have gone overboard. Slow those dang boats down!The chef was very nice and kept letting us know when new items were being placed on the boats and that happened right before our seats so we were the first to see the new stuff. He asked if I liked octopus (tako) and I said absolutely. He said that he guessed that and handed me the plate and it was great tako, not chewy and not fishy tasting it was great!When we were done, I was a bit shocked by the number of plates the "not hungry" wife had piled up. She said that she was surprised that all of these were only $2 each. I asked her what she was talking about, most of her plates were the $5 or $6 items. She was shocked, as she thought that the size of the plates indicated the pricing, so she went nuts thinking all of her stuff was $3 each. Nope. Guess she did not notice that the different colored plates were all the same size. Different size plates? Oh, the guide (see pics) does show different size plates, but it is based on the color/design, not the size of the plates.So, our potential for two $11 plate lunches turned into another $100+ meal in San Francisco. It's all fun and games until someone does not pay attention to the pricing scheme!We had a blast, had some good food and enjoyed our time with the chef.Go. Eat Well. HAVE FUN!

We had a great time here. Nice selection to choose from. The price was very reasonable and we watched them make each selection. Had much fun!

We stopped by for a quick 4th of july bite to it! The waiters were really attentive and the food came out quick. The edamame came out cold which was a little unusual as I usually get it served hot other places. Everything went really well until we got our check we got asked about a tip. Which I found extremely annoying. While I do think that good service should be rewarded I don't think continuously poking your clients about it is a good look either.

Very bleach clean restrooms which was a pleasant surprise. Cute sushi boats (so hard to find floating sushi anymore.). Service eh, but it's on a lovely street. The Godzilla Roll was

Its empty and I can see why. 20 dollars for 8 pieces of complete frozen sushi. Even the egg/tamago was frozen.