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you have to go into this knowing that you are going to an all you can eat buffet style place.
The food is pretty good, not amazing, but for the price its well worth it.
I tend to stick to the sushi and sashimi, which is always good.
This place is top notch. Seriously, what is not to like about a sushi buffet? Mizu serves almost everything you could want. A good variety of sushi, sashimi, dim sum, tempura, Chinese food, and MORE. They even have a good selection of fruit and dessert.
My first time here I was very impressed with the ambiance here. It's very modern and clean! YES CLEAN or as clean as you can be with people trying to get as much food as they can.
I usually like to get a whole plate of sushi and sashimi then go for some Chinese food. They also have some appetizer-like item such as edamame, seaweed salad, and shrimp cocktail. Yummy~ As for the Chinese food, I LOVE the orange chicken, teriyaki beef (which is NEW YORK STEAK), and they even have crab legs at dinner.
Don't forget dessert, must try the green tea ice cream. You'll either really love it or hate it. Personally, I like it.
For all the hype, advertisments, and location of this upper echeloned buffet I was severely disappointment for several reasons.
1) The Cantonese staff are unhelpful and seem distant from any customer contact.
2) The entire serving line is messy and ill-maintained. Even though it was a Saturday and dinnertime, there was little effort on the staff to keep the chafing dishes filled and counters wiped down.
3)The sushi was presented very sloppily and many items were deep fried and tasteless. The sushi chefs seemed impervious to the waves of hungry and inquiring patrons. Very ignoring of anything but loud Canonese chatting.
4) Virtually no ambiance. Showing on new flat screens posted overhead CCTV-9??? The only countrywide English channel found in Mainland China and full of propoganda (boring stuff at that)...and moreover the sound muted?
5) Finally the food is worst than any supermarket Chinese food delicatessen and at at $20 a head for dinner, you'd be better off heading over to Continental on Howe Ave. The seafood is fresher more presentable and has a very impressive dessert bar.
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For the price you pay, these are the best sushi in Sacramento, unless you want to spend 2 hr in line at Fuji sushi.
In most places ten bucks would hardly buy you a sushi roll.
The turnover is high, so fish is fresh. There is a good variety of other foods.
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Mizu oh Mizu.... Oh how I love thee!
Love going to Mizu for lunch with friends. Be warned! Make sure it's your day off since your going to want to take a nap afterwards. The variety is great, the seating is plentiful, the turn over for the food is quick and plentiful.
Mizu is very accommodating for big groups. It always has tables ready for big groups, party of two, four, and can accommodate up to a group with 18(lol call first). It's a mixture of Asian foods ranging from Japanese sushi and green tea ice cream, Chinese dim sum and soups, Korean veggies and dishes, and a selection of light deserts. It is one of the few buffets that serve quality Asian food, decent service, and actually have a good variety of options.
Lunch costs $8.50/person which is a screaming deal for the portions and options you get. Drinks do cost extra, but that applies to almost anywhere you go. The only reason I can't give them 5 stars is because the food is just not 5 star quality, and the service could be a little bit better. No complaints though. The food is delicious, and for a buffet, it a wonderful place to go!
Good luck to all new Mizu entrepreneurs, and happy eating to fellow regulars!
Friends and I came here instead of the Davis one due to someone having it reserved after 8, but supposedly this is the better of the two.
The quality of the sushi is not the greatest, but pretty decent and good for the price. Really good if you're craving a lot of sushi though-- it s a buffet after all. Then you leave thinking why did I have to eat those last few rolls?!
There was a big selection, but all the "specialty rolls" all had the same white a red sauce on it. I really enjoyed the edamame...yeah who goes to a sushi buffet to eat edamame? Well I do!
I know all the Davis people say Fuji's is overrated, but I think I like Fuji's more! I wouldn't mind coming back here though.
I give it a 3.5 rounded to 4 because I don't really have anything to complain about.
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I went here last night for dinner with a friend and was pleasantly surprised. For all you can eat buffet style food, I thought the quality of the sushi and other food items was great! They had a good assortment of nigiri- salmon, tuna, shrimp. It looked like they might have run out of a couple items as we arrived an hour before closing. They had some hamachi/yellow fin sashimi, but no nigiri. They also have a decent assortment of rolls (although they had this orange sauce on all of them) and they had some cooked items as well. I liked the tempura veggies and shrimp. Is it possible for anything deep fried not to be delicious? And they had four different ice cream flavors and some fresh fruit for dessert. I had the green tea and mango ice creams, yum! Will definitely go back. If I was closer to the Natomas area I would do the lunch, which sounds like a spectacular deal.
I give this place 5 stars not because the food is necessarily 5 star food but the price (less then 10 for lunch about 16 for dinner) is AMAZING. And the quality for the price is REDONKULUS!!!! far better in my opinion then the davis sushi buffets, where i can tell the quality is lacking the Fish quality at Mizu is quite good, the selection is also pretty good and the non sushi fare is good also. The cream puffs on the other had make this place my favorite. I would go here every day for lunch if i could....
REMEMBER its 5 stars for a sushi buffet don't go in there expecting top of the line sushi with personal chefs waiting for you to order its a sushi buffet don;t cry about the fact they dont have this or that you paid at most seventeen dollars...so quit crying.
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with Mizu. I usually think "greasy" and "mediocre" when I hear Asian Buffet but Mizu was neither.
My friend, D. Chao, invited me to dinner with one of his co-workers. Being a broke college student, I of course asked "How much?" $15 didn't sound bad for a buffet so I gladly obliged.
The first thing I saw was the sushi section of the buffet. The rolls are all really similar. Mostly variations of California Rolls (add avocado here, red sauce here, etc.) but they had really fresh tasting sashimi. Indulge in it.
Checking out the rest of the buffet I was happy to see they had some veggies like Ong Choy and green beans. They also had snails which didn't taste bad at all! Over all the buffet selection was wide but not necessarily impressive.
Service was over-all OKAY. Not friendly but quick and helpful.
All in all I am content with Mizu. I don't mind eating there for dinner but it won't ever really be my first choice.
I totally forgot to update my review: I went here on my birthday back in June... They asked to see your DL to see if its really your bday...(Birthday dinner is Free on your bday) We came at 845pm on a Saturday. I didn't know they closed so earlier on a Saturday 930pm. WTF! So, I asked if we have to rush to eat, the girl up front said no. You can stay as long as you want but the kitchen stops cooking at 9pm.
I finally got to taste the crab legs everyone was talking about and it was ok, nothing special about them. Sushi was great as normal. I wanted to eat oysters but the way they made them didn't look good to me. So, I passed. Honey Walnut Shrimp was so yummy!!!
I didn't see any mochi ice cream. Green tea ice cream was so good. The fruits were fresh and yummy!!! I had fun!
I went to Mizu today for lunch. I don't know what, I was expecting but I didn't expect what I saw. I… Read more »
The Verdict: "Think I just had a buffetgasmic experience."
Items sampled: sushi rolls, salmon nigiri, sauteed mushrooms, seaweed salad, orange chicken, salted pepper prawns, walnut prawns, eggplant with garlic sauce, green beans, Chinese broccoli, honey dew, mochi ice cream
Items witnessed: chicken wings, dim sum, crab, and so much more!
Pros: For about $16-$17/person for dinner, this is hands down the best buffet I've ever been to; so much selection, good food, fresh with quick replenishment, quick waiter service for drinks, dishes cleared frequently; the best selection of mochi ice cream and sushi rolls ever (strawberry, green tea, mango, chocolate)!!!! So pleasantly surprised!
Cons: Everything was perfect and the price is unbeatable!
Would I Recommend It?: Definitely! Good food, great price, clean facilities!
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What a disappointment. Looked forward to going here for awhile but it's just not worth it. The staff is unhelpful. You almost have to throttle someone to get a drink refill. The sushi is warm and sloppy. I tried to ask questions but no one even answered me. Tried twice and gave up, maybe because I'm not asian. Lots of asian customers being helped, not my family. Outside of the bad service the food was just ok. For the price, it should have been better. Will not go back again.
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It's an Asian buffet. Either I don't get out a lot or I don't get out a lot but I've never heard of this. Pretty neat, because I'm new to the Sushi scene, I do like it, but it's nice to not have to eat a whole roll of something you don't know if you like. And they've got something from every category in the food pyramid. A menu capable of being balanced, and well proportioned. And once in the mouth, it was great on the taste buds.
It was completely dead in there when I went with a friend. Awkward greeting as well. And at the the time, I'd never been here so we were taken to a table and she walked away. I was like ummm?? And then I realized it was buffet. My bad. We served ourselves and sat down. The "waitress" came by one time, maybeee twice to check on I guess our drinks. Got us one refill. And then we were under the impression we were supposed to tip? I'm a server so I understand what it's like to not get tipped...but I actually wait on tables hand and foot almost literally from the moment they arrive up until my sincere fairwell. This deserved a one percent tip in my mind. But I knew I wouldn't sleep and tipped accurately although hesitant to do so.
As an Interior Designer, they've got some great structures in there, but along with some unfinished things as well as cheap materials. If only people would spend that much more on design this would be a fabulous environment.
The Dinner Review
The Good:
pumpkin/gourd rolls were awesome, endless pickled ginger to cleanse my delicate palate between fits of face-stuffing, plenty of sushi and sashimi to choose from, fresh-sliced papaya, fake wasabi sinus burn, strawberry ice cream with huge chunks of berries, water was refilled often
The Merely Okay:
Sashimi Helper mystery-fish hodgepodge salad, cold crab legs with tough exoskeletons that won't crack open, seeing that the dinner offerings aren't very different from the lunch ones but it costs 50% more
The Bad:
teriyaki chicken that tasted like burnt garbage, seeing picked-over food from the lunch hour that was put back out, too many deep-fried offerings, most everything in the hot bar, realizing that $15 makes this buffet not such a good deal
The Ugly:
peel and eat shrimp with signs of leprosy, those nasty looking clams again, seeing low budget buffet uni being offered
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THE GOOD: lightly seared tuna steak, nigiri unagi, nigiri salmon, spicy tuna roll, peel and eat… Read more »
Yummmmmmmmmmmm!!
Sushi galore!! Although I can only vouch for lunch, for $9, you get SUSHI SUSHI SUSHI!! and chinese food if u like to waste your stomach space on that. I wasted some for clams. I did not like the pre-scooped ice cream.
But if i were to ever come back to sac, i would def come here! I LOVE jimmy buffet!
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I have never been to a sushi buffet that had more outrageous value for the quality of food that Sacramento's Mizu offered. Restaurants like Todai, as well as other non-chains, who fall in this category fall far short of the experience Mizu has to offer.
To better illustrate my point, I contrast the differences between Mizu and "other" Japanese buffet restaurants:
1. Price: $16 (other) / $9 (Mizu) (lunch, average)
2. Sushi: Mass-produced, bland, sometimes dry (other) / Fresh, tasty, moist, diverse (Mizu)
3. Other food: Lukewarm, greasy (other) / Fresh, warm, varied (Mizu)
Yeah, I know this comparison may not be quantitative. Except for the first category - price. Come on, how could you go wrong? If you're in the area, definitely give this place a try.
The only area of improvement (which would have earned this place a fifth star) was the service. It did take a while for the staff to recognize that our water needed to be refilled. However, such is the sacrifice for great, unlimited food at what basically amounts to a steal.
The five star rating is relative to Davis Sushi Buffets, as this one is clearly better...
Great buffet, the sushis are not bad. The sashimi its a hit or miss depending on when you go. The hot foods are not that great, I usually just go for the On Choy. They have soup and lots of desserts, including ice cream.
It is also cheaper than Davis Sushi and Fuji's. Take that Davis Buffets!! I'm going to Sacramento from now on...
Fist look at my photo which should give you a decent idea of what to expect.
I gave Mizu a 5 not because its the best restaurant... but because its the best at what it is... an Asian Buffet. Nealy every Asian Buffet I've been to is great out of the gates but then they quickly (within a month or two) cut way back on their quality. Mizu's quality has remained the same for the 2 years that I've been going there.
At a very reasonable price; it's got the closest to high end sushi at a buffet that I've had. Decent variety and they will even make special ones upon request. It is in fact the quality of the sushi that sets this place apart. The rest is about what you'd expect with the very big exception I noted above.... which is the quality has not gone down over time.
The quality of the rice and freshness of the ingredients, especially the fish is the key to good sushi and this is the best I've seen at a buffet.
This place is so far the best sushi buffet around Davis area, in my opinion. Their sashimi is pretty good/decent for an buffet. It's not the best as the authentic good ones (the ones that melts in your mouth). But anyways, the rolls are decent. I love miso soup!!! yummm.
They have icecream and fresh fruits!
Stay away from those rangoon (fried wonton with imitation crab). They taste stale =[
The steak bites are pretty chewy for my taste.
The service however, sucked. There was plenty of people working, but they all seem to avoid picking up the used plates on the table. We had to flag someone down to just get a refill.
Also, clearly there wasn't enough napkin for everyone, and I guess they seem to avoid that problem. We had to reach over to another table to get more napkin and another set of utensils.
What can you expect, it's a buffet after all. Good thing their cheap prices and food keeps me coming back.
Walked in to take a look around and very unimpressed with the quality of the food and sushi. Something about sushi under lamps just sitting on a plate buffet style, kinda gross to me. If they had sashimi I might have given it three stars and a chance to come back and eat there. Saw lots of redundant variations of the same sushi roll. I told the girl I was going to walk to my car to get my phone to call my friend (to tell him not to come) and as I walked back to the restaurant they had locked the doors and closed (would have been intelligent and considerate of her to tell me they were about to close).
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My dad loves this place; hence I get dragged out every time I go back to Sac. It's a nice place, just busy as hell. The quality of sushi is good, but some of the rolls are just SO big that they fall apart when you pick them up. Still the wait staff are pretty nice, though getting refills can occasionally be difficult due to the amount of people crammed into the building. Best come early.
Mizu, Mizu, Mizu...finally sets a list if rules of their service charge (look at my previous review update) in response to my yelp review.
Ha! A change to tame their ghetto south sac clientele. 10% for big parties of 8 or more NOW IN WRITING. Finally no dubious arguments, just point to the sign!!!
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Davis may be known for Fuji's, but why not drive an extra 15 minutes to come here for a better deal! YES, it is only $8.95 on weekday lunches as my brotha brian wrote below. However, do not make the mistake as I did thinking it is always 8.95. Weekend meals are more expensive. Dinner is almost 17 dollars on the weekend, although I would say this all you can eat is more worth it than other chains.
What's great about this place is that the sushi is fresh and they offer various rolls (rainbow, fried california rolls etc). You can also ask for plates of whatever you like (plate of unagi or sashimi). They take it out of the fresh pile in the oven type thingy.
This place also offers hot foods (such as chicken terriyaki, dim sum, soup, fried things, veggies, various chinese dishes). When you come for dinner, they have crab/lobster/steak/fish etc.
This place is good for large parties who are fat like my friend greg and are always hungry for more!! mmmm, suushiii. Nice, clean environment as well with waitors that always fill your water. They also give you yummy japanese candy as the dessert.
One bad incident: my friend Cyrus just finished his meal and suddenly found a fly in his water. This is what he said: "Ate 80 bucks worth of sushi and finished my meal. Then I found a fly in my water. FML." LOL.
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We went here yesterday for dinner since Jusco's phone was being a little strange. The service seemed to be fine--we were seated right away and they got us our drinks. If you're Cantonese, you can catch tidbits of amusing conversation.
Being the salmon-lover that I am, I immediately piled half my plate with salmon nigiri. The pumpkin rolls were also awesome. The sashimi was really fresh. I've been having a love/hate relationship with unagi these days, so I only tried two pieces. They were good, although I managed to stab myself with a bone. :[
Unlike the sushi buffet restaurants in Davis, this restaurant also offers Chinese dim sum and other dishes, as well as a bunch of seafood and all kinds of fruit. Seafood is somewhat of a waste on me since I can't eat anything other than fish, but there were enough choices there that I definitely didn't go hungry. I'd like to refute the comment about the teriyaki chicken tasting like garbage. It was pretty good. :O So was the NY steak and the vegetables.
I just about cleared their pineapple population, and I gotta say, they're the sweetest pineapples I've had in awhile. *-* They also had strawberries, honeydew, papaya (which I hate, but to each their own), and a variety of different pastries. Apparently, they also had ice cream, but I sadly did not partake in any because I forgot it was there. :'(
All in all, the food was great. The place was clean. So why am I subtracting a star?
The staff has a tendency to stare. It's mildly uncomfortable to have people constantly staring at you when you're trying to eat. There was this one lady who was walking behind us as we were returning to our table, arms crossed, exact same speed as us, and just...glaring. Kinda freaky. :[ After that ordeal, we came back to our table to find out that everything had been cleared. (I guess they thought we'd left...? But we couldn't have been gone for more than 5 minutes.)
When we told one of the waitresses, they were really apologetic. They immediately seated us at another table and brought our drinks back. Anyway, besides that, it was good stuff. I'd still definitely want to go back again. :D!
For me, this place was good during college when I wanted to stuff my face for a very reasonable price. Most sushi in Sacramento is nothing to get excited about, so you might as well eat at Mizu, where the sushi is comparable and plentiful.
I tend to pick the sushi that isn't a complete mess of sauces and oils from deep frying. The salt won't overwhelm you afterward as long as you drink enough water with your meal.
What's disgusting is how they try to pass of the dishes in the hot food section as "food." It's a bunch of poor quality meats and vegetables that taste like old oil and salt. What's even more disgusting is how so many people seem to like this type of "food." The oysters that everyone raves about is so gross. I'm the furthest thing from a picky eater, but I can't even swallow that stuff!
The calamari tastes like salt and nothing else. The miso soup tastes like dirt. The beef is chewy and really cheap. The vegetables have absorbed way too much oil therefore making them very unhealthy and not tasty. All of the dim sum is of the frozen variety, which is ok because it actually tastes better than a lot of the other items. Oh, and the crab everyone is always attacking has a weird texture and is often too salty.
Needless to say, I mostly just stick to the sushi. The fresh fruit is also very tasty.
Service is not good, but this is a buffet so you can't really complain about that. The girls at the front desk are incredibly rude. After they put up the signs to pay at your table, we were ignored for a long time after finishing our meals so we went to the front to pay, but they made us go back to our table and wait even longer. Later on we saw a party paying for their meal at the front. So ridiculous!
Oh, and the location in Roseville is better, but it's not worth it to drive out there unless you really can't stand the clientele in Natomas.
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Show the server your ID on your birthday and you get a free meal. That's what I did!
It is a buffet, the food is not going to be outstanding quality. But it's the 2nd best buffet I've ever been to. The best was in Reno and that was $29.99 but that's a different story...
I love the sashimi they have out. It's pretty fresh and tasty. The nigiri is good too. I don't care too much for the rolls, they smother it in sauces. The fried tempura shrimp, carrots, broccoli are very good. Clams and scallops are good. Their crab legs with drawn butter is DELICIOUS!!!
For about $16 for all you can eat...this is probably one of the better seafood buffets you can eat at.
If you love sushi and buffets then you should go here! My fav was the fried california rolls (i ate 8 of these suckas). All of the sushi's are pretty big. They also have chinese food but I didn't really eat it b/c I was eating sushi the whole time.
This is the first sushi buffet that I love! They need this retaurant in SONOMA :)
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Let's start with some numbers.
$8.95 !!! Yes, single digit lunch buffet on the weekdays. Well when I went on Thursday it was good. I'm giving this 4 stars on the basis of a buffet.
They have nigiri, big piece of fish on a small piece of rice. Also, there is the good young ginger, in its natural color, not the pink.
Along with that, there are special rolls, already precut. The spider roll does not have sufficient crab, but neither do any other buffets.
They have soups, dimsum, both of which I didn't try.
They have cooked foods as well. Chicken teriyaki, calamari, clams, beans were great. Also Foster Farm ice cream, with green tea, mango, strawberry, and vanilla.
Selection of fruits including the cantaloupe, honeydew, kiwis, and pineapple.
I'd come here again. : ) Course had my osiris, gha and muy...for the good times. ambiance was good, comfortable chairs.
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One word. SUSHI! I love the sushi, so many to choose from! The food is exquisite and fresh. I tried almost all the sushi I think. My favorite by far is the unagi ones. I also like the dim sum and Chinese food they had. The fried eggplants might give my a heart attack, but it's worth it. If you're a health nut, there are lots of veggies and fruits to choose from. The ice cream I had in the end was ehh, not the best I've had, exceptional I suppose. I come here occasionally if I'm craving yummy sushi while still on a budget. Haha careful not to stuff yourself too much, it's easy to do that at this place.
HOWEVER, the only thing I disliked was the review. I agree with previous reviews that the waiters in the place aren't that nice and efficient. They seemed a little annoyed too. But I do like that there are people going around collecting done plates of food so that I can get fresh new ones again. But still I give the service here a thumbs down. But who cares about them.. I go for the food.
I went here for the first time on a sunday afternoon, and will never be back. POOR Customer Service and DIRTY first impression. When we walked in the hostess first tried to seat us at a table which obviously was not clean, missing a chair with food debris all over the floor. Seriously, are you kidding me? Duh, of course we dont want to sit there, mind you there were many open tables. Anyhow, we sat down ordered water at first and went to get some food. NOthing impressive at all. The food is ok. Their deep-fried salmon rolls were fine, and a few other rolls were just ok. Nothing that I couldn't find anywhere else, it is a buffet after all, so i didn't expect much. So why the one star? Blame it on the rude food waiter. Just the worst customer service EVER. So here's what happend. The food was a bit greasy, so my sister ordered a pepsi, and i was fine with my water. THe pepsi arrived by way of the busyboy. Mostly ice, mind you. Like I said i was fine with my water, but i did take a few sips of her pepsi, whatever, big deal i do it all the time, because I normally don't drink that much soda. NOw just about every place I've been to offers free-refills. So when my sister asked for a re-fill, the food waitor, gave us a speech in her difficult to understand broken english about how we can not share, and that she won't give us a re-fill and than walked away rolling her eyes! WHAT?!? I had a few sips! And if sharing of a few sips of a soda is forbidden, then a more proper way to have handled the situation is to let us know of their policy, give my sister the re-fill she had asked for, or asked us if we wanted two sodas to be chared to our bill. Instead she WALKED away, rolling her eyes and never came back. I have never been mistreated like this in any business establishment. I asked for the manager, but they said there was no manager on site. The managers should be aware of how their empolyees are treating customers. I will not be back to this business establishment becuase of their F-grade in customer service. I am not a picky or hard to please person. I can look past medicore food ( it's a buffet). I can look past dirty tables (they were busy). However, poor customer service, I can not forgive. I work hard for my money, and I will not give this business another singel cent. There are hundreds of resturants with great food and even better customer service, I will vist them instead.
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After hearing from friends that Mizu was the cat's pajamas, and due to the fact that I had to return a cheap piece of crap VGA Y-splitter to Fry's, the Missus and I decided to give it a shot.
First impression was "wow, they have a ton of sushi up in this piece"! Also it appeared to be quite clean, and fairly crowded for a Thursday evening. Upon inspection, we found a huge variety of sushi that was being continually replenished with more freshly-prepared items. The hot food selection was also fairly extensive, consisting of Japanese and Chinese dishes.
We started with sushi, including a very tasty fried salmon roll, spider roll and some assorted pieces of nigiri. All of it was quite good and seemed fresh, without any old fish smell.
From the hot food, we sampled an excellent grilled salmon, very sweet honey shrimp, sauteed baby bok choy and some mixed vegetables, as well as BBQ pork, spicy shrimp and a few assorted siu mai and other dumplings. Most of these items were really good, but some (vegetables, a couple of the sushi rolls and the spicy shrimp) were grossly oversalted.
The excessive saltiness brings me to the other negative thing about Mizu. The service was sorely lacking. Although it is a buffet, and you have to get your own food (duh), little things like beverages, removing used plates/bowls and bringing the check still must be performed by restaurant staff. Our water glasses were never refilled and no offer was ever made to do so. We went to the register to pay, and found a number of signs directing patrons to pay at the table. Well hey, we'd like to do that but your peeps never came to our damn table! To their credit, they did "allow" us to pay at the register - w00t!
Since this is a buffet, you know that I stuffed my face - not like Mr. Creosote, mind you, but stuffed pretty thoroughly! As a result, I had some pretty weird dreams, but I'm all better now.
Mizu is definitely worth a repeat visit, but I'll remember to be vocal about getting water refills... I'll bump this up to 4 stars if they do better next time around!
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Have dined here 5 times since it's opening, the last time being a week ago. After receiving my first beverage, the service was slow with refills and collecting dishes. The food was just a good as it has ever been. The fried calamari and seaweed salad is to die for. I especially like how fresh the steamed rice for the sushi is.
In terms of taste, Mizu still remains a close second place to the Oriental Buffet in Citrus Heights.
My uncle once said about an all you can eat place in NYC, "its not that good, but they sure give you a lot."
This place does give you a lot and I would say it is a tad above average. The 2nd time here, I came with 5 other dudes. They all loved it. Disclaimer, they are older married guys who aren't as high maintenance as me about my sushi. That being said, the maguro was good, the hamachi was good, and i really liked the stir fried veggies and the seaweed salad.
Service. ALL BAD. But it is a buffet so other than drinks, what do you need?
I know this review is all over the place but in a nutshell, if you want to eat a very cheap above average meal with the worst servers, this is the place.
5 stars for cost, 4 for food, 1 for service.
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Best cheaper end buffet I have ever been to!
I'm from SF, so this drive is extensively far for myself, but compared to all the SF/Oakland/SJ cheaper Asian buffets there are (Beijing Buffet, Melaka, Buffet Fortuna, and all the other ones you see in my reviews around this price range), this is definitely the best OFF TOP! We came here on a Tuesday night and were charged 14.95 for dinner. The place is definitely much more cleaner and classy looking than all the rest of the $15.00 average price range buffet restaurants I've been to, as I said before. Everything tastes fresh, and also does not look like it's been cooked with the same oil.
It looks more like a Moonstar(Daly City) or Hokaido(Redwood City) status type of buffet restaurant. They offer different kinds of rolls for the taking, and also offer chicken teriyaki, beef steak, snow crab, rock cod fish, etc.
Different rolls they had consist of the soft shell crab roll, dragon roll, vegetarian roll, etc... Can't even remember haha. They also have regular nigiri rolls too on the left side of the sushi bar.
I wish we had a Mizu in SF!
Ahhh back in Sacramento--Natomas to be exact.
Mizu, I am pleasantly surprised. Good buffets are hard to come by especially when being critiqued by someone that comes from the land of buffets-Vegas.
Mizu had FRESH food. Wait huh? Fresh food at a buffet?? Yes! It's not your typical "ew, food's been sitting out there for a few hours and looks like something I remember from my school cafeteria way back when". They have their Sushi chefs on deck packin' and rollin' fresh sushi all night long.
We went there for Friday LENT dining (no meat allowed!) and I thought to myself "hmm, they won't have enough non-meat items to fill my tummy"---WRONG. For $14.95 you can blow yourself up as big as Octomom's belly.
Amazed that this place is actually better than most Vegas buffets and cheaper. Puts Todai to shame.
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So you better come here on an empty stomach! I came here with my cousin and his family last week. I've heard several positive reviews of this restaurant from friends, family and coworkers, so I had to try this place for myself. If you are a seafood fan, this restaurant definitely serves a lot of seafood.
So they serve a mixture of Japanese and Chinese entrees. I stuck primarily with the Japanese sushi and sashimi. Their ice cream was good. Not bad for a buffet... decently priced, clean, pretty large selection, and friendly waitstaff.
I'm kinda debating whether to give this place three or four stars, but since yelp won't let me do that, I'll stick with four. I came here with about ten of my co-workers yesterday, and was prepared to eat a boat load of sushi, which is exactly what I did. Originally it was just four of us who walked in, but we told the lady at the counter we were expecting six or seven more people, and she made this weird face like that would be more people than they could accommodate. However, the place was pretty much empty, so we didn't see the big deal.
It was $8.95 for the lunch buffet, which is a pretty damn good price if you ask me. Sure, the sushi wasn't top-notch, but it wasn't bad either, and they had a huge selection which included sashimi, three different kinds of soup, Chinese food, and four different kinds of ice cream. I took full advantage of what they had to offer there, and by the time we were ready to leave, I think I had gained about twelve pounds.
The only thing holding me back about this place was the service. They seemed kinda snippy and standoffish. When it came time for the bill, the lady brought out one big check for all of us. I asked her if I could have my own separate bill, and she complied, but she seemed kinda pissy about it, like it would be some hard to achieve special favor. It wasn't like they had much else to do. And after that, they started cleaning up to make room for the dinner buffet, and told us "you guys have to leave soon, we are setting up dinner now!" WTF? can you at least pretend to treat us with respect?
So overall, the place had it's drawbacks (the service), but the food was pretty decent, and the price was great for the variety and quality of the food they serve. I'd most likely go back if I'm in the area.
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The bottom line - if you can't eat seafood, or don't like it, this is not the place for you.
I went here for lunch with a co-worker who loves cheap sushi. I am allergic to seafood, but went because every other sushi place in the world has some sort of vegetarian roll, grilled chicken or beef, Yaki Soba, or at least a limited selection of things I can eat without having to have my dining partner give me a tracheotomy with a Bic pen. I was happy to see that it said "Sushi and Grill" on the sign when we pulled up. I now call bulls!t on that.
There was no non-fish sushi there whatsoever. No cucumber roll. No veggie roll. Nothing. Just a ton of fairly fresh-looking large messy rolls, most of them dripping with sauce. Sushi looked better than edible, but I can't eat it. (If you are thinking, "Why can't you eat a California Roll? It's IMITATION crab!" Stop reading now. You are a mouth-breather and will not understand some of the fancy words I use below.)
Then, there was the hot food area. This area is obviously something of an afterthought... or, just something thrown together to appease little kids or people like me. It was just not good. Everything seemed old, undercooked, or overcooked. Also, half their stuff was in the wrong place. A sign that said "clams" was over the broccoli beef. Another that said "general chicken" was over the fried rice. (I mean, really, how difficult is this?)
I ate a couple of things, but decided I wasn't a fan.
A couple of months later, a friend's 11 year old daughter wanted to go there for dinner to celebrate some trivial accomplishment. She is Chinese, loves sushi, and is basically a human garbage disposal. I figured maybe they had a better spread at dinner. No luck. They did have crab, which I can't eat. But, it was funny watching a bunch of rude old Asian people throw elbows at eachother trying to get to the steam table every time a new tray of crab legs came out.
There was something that appeared to be strips of vulcanized beef boiled in gravy in the hot area, along with "teriyaki chicken", located under the sign for Chow Mein. It appeared to be 60% grizzle and cartilage, 30% dark meat, and 10% beaks and @ssholes. Nasty. And, someone had spilled a bunch of clams in the Chicken Chow Mien, so I couldn't even eat that (and I couldn't get the lady to change it out because it was "still full").
My friend's daughter, between shoving mouthfuls of sushi in her pie-hole, noted that the restaurant was segregated. There were Japanese people on one side, Chinese people on the other, and a mixture of "none of the above" in another area. I couldn't tell who the Japanese people were, or who the Chinese people were. But she was quite confident in her assessment, and it was probably accurate.
There is nothing worth eating here but the sushi, and it's clearly just ok. The waitresses are surly, and a lot of the patrons are pushy and inconsiderate. If you are 11 years old and want to shove 20 sushi rolls down your throat for a reasonable price, I'm sure this would be a 5-star experience for you. For me, they earned their one star for serving large Asahi.
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An inexpensive buffet with a decent selection of food. However, as mentioned previously, the service sucks. We walked in, were shown to a table, and literally five minutes later, our bill was brought to us. After receiving our bill, we never saw a waitress again. Dirty dishes piled up, people went thirsty, and we waited forever to pay our bill. Finally, we got fed up and tried to pay up front, where the girl told us we had to pay at our table. After informing her that we would have paid at our table had a waitress actually stopped by, she rudely pointed across the restaurant and said (with a pretty big attitude, might I add), "THE WAITRESS IS RIGHT THERE!" My father, who was with us, commented on the crappy service, and the girl begrudgingly let us pay up front. What the heck? Do these people want to get paid or not?
Anyhow, the food is decent for the price and quantity.
Im feeling this place! all you can eat and such a decent price!!! they have so much variety its mind blowing!! they have poki salad crazy rolls and best of all the sushi is fresh!!!! We got here 15 mins before they opened and the crowd was already gathering. THis place fills up pretty quick so get here early and be prepared to Grub. They have other food besides sushi too, like stir fried stuff and stuff but why would you eat those if you all these fresh sashimi waiting to be devoured? this is defnitely a sashimi lovers paradise!!!
I have to say tho, waiters are a hit or miss...some of em look miserable and some look like they're too eager to help...so yea.....
One good thing is that they don't kick you out and you don't have a time limit to stuff ur face. parking here is cool too.....and u can do a lil shopping
I love their pices! =) me happy
Happy Hour
Sacramento, CA
$40 Happy Meal for Two
Sacramento, CA
Roseville, CA
Category: Japanese
Sacramento, CA
Category: Japanese
Sacramento, CA
Category: Buffets
Sacramento, CA
Category: Buffets
Sacramento, CA
Category: Japanese
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