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Sakura
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
11 reviews for Sakura
Pleasantly surprised by this place. Admittedly, I'm always scared of any restaurant in a strip mall but I thought I'd give it a try. The place was packed but we were able to get a table immediately.
Good quality and good value. The sake list is lacking but I managed to find one that was decent. I will definitely be back!
A good sushi standard.
Good food and very fast service. Decent prices. This is the best sushi I have had in Ohio. Yeah I know it's Ohio, but Sakura is really good.
The best sushi in Akron (including Cleveland area in my opinion). Less expensive than other sushi places in the area. Their maki (rolls) are very creative including:
- spicy craw fish roll
- yellow tail & jalapeno rolls
- lobster tail tempura with spicy sauce roll
- spicy salmon roll with thin-sliced lime
- soft shell crab roll
Their basic items, like, California roll, regular nigiri and sashimi are good,too. Chirashi (assorted raw fish over a bowl of sushi rice) with free soup and salad is also a good deal.
They always have special deals ($1 sushi and 1/2 priced sushi) that rotate every week. Please check with the local media or call them for details. Very friendly service but some staff members are not native English-speakers, so speak slowly when you order.
I hit it up for the lunch specials and monday night sushi specials. Great food. Full tummy. I go at least once per week.
The food is good. I'll give them that. That's where all the stars come from.
However, the service was hella awkward. Some how overly-attentive and alienating at the same time. The layout was awkward as well. I wouldn't choose to go here again, but if someone were to take me there, at least the food would be worth it.
Really, though, Big Eye down the road is both closer (to Akron) and way nicer. Also in a strip-mall. AK needs to get it's sushi joints out of strip-malls. It's just weird...
We heard there was good, fresh sushi in Akron and this is the place. I would agree with that. The quality of the sushi is comparable to House of Hunan, a couple miles down Market Street. But Sakura would be my pick for sushi between the two for one simple reason - the maki roll offering is much more creative and interesting. There were nice, small touches as well, like providing a small salt shaker alongside the edamame instead of salting it in advance. I would have expected the miso soup to be a little better - not bad but very average.
The staff was very good but the ambiance was just a little "flat", although the kids will enjoy the prominent fish tank.
All in all, the best in Akron for sushi in my experience.
Sakura has decent sushi, but not very authentic. The price is average, and the restaurant is clean. However, If you wanna have better sushi and wouldn't mind driving about 25 min to Wadsworth, I would recommend a sushi bar named Kasai there.
the best sushi in akron, hands down.
every time i go there or get take out i am blown away.
i pretty much always get the same things and then try one new thing. i tend to usually go with the same group and we all agree.
rolls i adore:
red dragon
spicy scallop
chop chop
their salad dressing is yum, even though the salad is simple. all the japanese dishes like chicken teriyaki came out looking and tasting amazing - NOTHING negative at all! house sake is yummy and inexpensive.
something i'm really pick about when it comes to sushi is the rice. sakura has perfected sushi rice - not too chunky, not too vinegary, PERFECT. consistency and flavor alike.
seriously, do yourself a favor and pick up some rolls from here sometime. yummooo.
It is an established fact that I am a Fish Freak... I love me some sushi. When I am in San Francisco I eat a hearty sashimi dinner at least once a week. I like to think that I have a reasonably well developed palate when it comes to sushi and sashimi. My friends know this. It is for this reason that the past several times that I have been home to visit, my BFF Tony and my "he came along with the BFF" (herein abbreviated as HCAWTBFF) Andy have refused to take me to their favorite sushi place in Akron (Sakura). Because, as Tony puts it, I am a "sushi snob" and they were afraid that I would be condescending in comparing it to the outstanding sushi they presume I eat on a daily basis in California.
I assured them that I would not be as such, but let it drop on the past few visits (which were shorter in nature) as I knew I would be back in SF soon enough when I could have cheap and fresh fish out the wazzoo.
I have now been in Ohio for... um... eighteen days. After about day ten I began craving sushi so much that at night I was dreaming of toro and hamachi and sake and other fishy delights... in fact my dream of eating mass amounts of sushi was so vivid that I woke up one morning with drool upon my pillow. I have been going through some serious sushi withdrawal. I needed fish and I needed it fast... so when an opportunity arose to go out to dinner with my BFF, HCAWTBFF and their better halves this evening, I INSISTED that they introduce me to their favorite sushi joint, swearing on a stack of bibles that I wouldn't be snotty or condescending about it. That I would take it for what it is: Good sushi in the Midwest.
My expectations were low, I had thoughts of store quality pre-packaged sushi roaming in my head... you just never know.
I was very very very pleasantly surprised.
I ordered a sashimi and nigiri combination dinner - it came with soup and salad - priced $23.99. Pretty good price, considering the location... a little more pricey than I wanted, but sometimes ya gotta pay to get your fish on.
The soup was a little fishy for my taste. The salad was a typical iceberg lettuce salad with some sort of sesame dressing on it.
What really delighted me was the sashimi and nigiri platter. It was beautifully plated and I was pleased to see that I had a very large portion of both sashimi (15 pieces of assorted fish) and nigiri (10 pieces.) The slices of fish were very thick, too. Included were tai, toro, maguro, hamachi, akagai, sake and two fishes which I couldn't identify by taste (though one was really fishy - I didn't like it too much). The maguro was obviously frozen, not fresh (you can tell if tuna has been frozen because it tastes watery and mealy)... However, this was made up for by the OUTSTANDING quality of the toro - it was so good I almost cried - tasted like butter. The sake and akagai were also outstanding... in fact I'd say that the quality of the toro, sake and akagai at Sakura rivaled that of the quality of the same fishes at some of the better West Coast sushi joints I've been a patron at over the years.
The menu also has a great selection of rolls, including a couple of really inventive ones using non-traditional ingredients (such as Frosted Flakes - I know, eww - but, the HCAWTBFF swears that it's a delicacy.) I didn't try any rolls this evening, but the others did and what they had looked yummy. My only objection is that they seem to use smoked sake in a lot of their rolls - I prefer fresh - if I wanted smoked salmon I'd just eat some Lox, you know?
A little pricey, yes, but so worth it for the Fish Freak stuck in the Midwest. I left Sakura with my tummy full and my endorphins flowing from the yum-yumness of good sushi. I is a happy Kate.
If you're ever in Akron, Ohio - check this place out - totally worth it.
Fish primer for those who don't know:
Tai - Snapper
Toro - Fatty white tuna
Maguro - Red tuna
Hamachi - Yellowtail
Sake - Salmon
Akagai - Red clam
Probably the best place for sushi in Akron OH. Good rolls, good sashimi.
