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Sushi Go Round
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- Hours:
Mon-Fri. 4:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
11 reviews for Sushi Go Round
I was very pleasantly surprised when T brought me to Sushi Go Round for a relaxing Friday evening dinner. Although the bar (the sushi going round part of the name bar) was fairly full, there were plenty of sushi choices and the volume level was nice - we had our favorite type of conversation - a discussion about what we were both looking at - and thanks to the "go round" part (mentioned above), this conversation is basically endless.
The prices were amazing - a bowl of edamame for $1!; inari for $1.50! an avocado roll for $2!; veggie tempura roll for $2.50!; green salad with two kinds of dressing for $2.50! - and that's where I ended. T had the more creative and interesting looking choices - and Sushi Go Round seems to specialize in a wide variety of very interesting looking sushi.
We will absolutely be back. The sushi chefs were friendly, our waitresses were prompt and nice, and when I requested the avocado roll because none had gone by, the sushi chefs promptly made one and handed it right over.
This is no Blue C sushi, but Dorothy, this isn't Seattle either.
Hit or Miss. Customer service is well, weird.
I've been here a few times and my experiences haven't been consistent. Once the sushi was nice and fresh. On a saturday evening the rice felt like it was cooked the day before. It was dried out and a little hard. The place looks spotless clean, which to me is really important about a sushi place.
The experience with the staff here varied too. Once they were nice and helpful. On another occasion the lady wouldn't let us sit in the booth because it was for "larger parties". It was a slow afternoon and other than me and my gf, there was just one more couple. I can understand you want to save the booths for 4 guests dining together. But whats the problem when there literally is no one in the restaurant?
Be careful of the fried sushi balls. My gf picked up the plate and they rolled towards her like magnets. The dish didn't have a cover and my gf spoiled her dress with all the sauce. None of the staff bothered to help. A couple of them saw what happened, but didn't even bother to give us a couple of paper napkins. Something like this doesn't even fall under service. You witness an event like this, you do something other than look from the corner of your eye, whether its a customer, a guest, your 5 yr old son or your friend.
21/2 stars.
Normally I reserve my reviews for a place until I've been there at least 3 times. But for this place, I'll make an exception, and go ahead and say they're pretty good. I wouldn't call this the best place I've ever eaten, and well it's a revolving belt sushi place so it's not like the most fancy place. But it's good.
The prices are rather good, I thought they were damn cheap. But then again, I'm used to kuru kuru sushi in Japan, and that's just expensive as hell. The most expensive dish was $4, and the cheapest dish was $1.50. (at the time of this review) I was really impressed with those prices, especially since like I said I'm used to the cheapest dish being $4.
The sushi is unlabeled, but that's ok, if you just speak up and ask the chefs what something is, they'll tell you exactly what it is. Most people are just too timid to ask. You can also ask for anything special that's not on the belt, which is normal. I had to ask for Ikura (salmon egg) and they had it right up. My mom had asked for some ama ebi (raw shrimp) and while they had it, the chef had recommended not to have it. It was very nice of him not to decide to serve it, even though he had it. I can only hope that they decided to throw it away and not feed it to anyone else.
They really had a lot of rolls on the belt, and not as much sushi. Which is ok, since I know rolls definitely sell. It's just good to know that I can easily order something from the sushi chef just as easily.
If sushi isn't for you and you like sashimi, you can order that too. Just ask any of the sushi chefs. They give you 4 slices of sashimi, since you don't have any rice at all. Pretty standard, and very nice. some places will not give you 4, but instead give you 2. this really helps in the pricing, since you pay per plate.
The service was pretty good, the waitresses were pretty quick to get things if we needed them.
The cleanliness of the establishment was on par, I'd say it would pass a health inspection. (and trust me, I know, I used to be a health inspector.)
I'd definitely recommend it to anyone.
One of the best sushi places we have around here everyone talks about Blue C and these other sushi places but this is as good as it gets not to mention I think this place is owned by Sushi Revolution another amazing sushi place on another note dont complain and give these places bad ratings just because you as a person didn't like the food if everyone around you loves the place and you dont well that just tells you something now doesn't it
Oh, yeah! What Lacey and Olympia lack in sushi restaurants they make up for in sushi transportation - we have the stuff coming on boats, trains, and now a standard conveyor belt sushi place. It was pleasantly busy on a Friday night, and I'd say that this is the time to be here - nothing like being the only patron of a conveyor belt sushi place. They emphasize the rolls here, which is OK - I'm a fan of the roll sushi. The gold standard (for me) is Mashiko, and everything else is second best - but after a sub-par sushi experience elsewhere in the south sound, Sushi-Go-Round really hit the spot. Prices are good, the sushi is interesting. I'll be back.
Sushi Go Round has been open less than a week. It's generating lots of business. There was a short wait at about 5:30 Friday night. The proprietors are Korean (of course?), but they say a very nice "i-ra-shai-ma-sen" when customers enter. Everything I tried was fresh & yummy. You can sometimes tell which items are the newest on the winding conveyor belt, because the domed cover gets a little condensate on it from warm items.
We tried some unique items, including a Japanese version of a jalepeno popper, and a deep-fried, cone-shaped "Ichiroll." My favorite was the rainbow roll, a california roll prettied up with thinly sliced avocado & assorted fish striped across the top.
The setting was a little disappointing. The space was large and a little joyless. The sushi chefs would only speak when spoken to, and I had to raise my voice to get their attention, as there was a weird buzzing noise in there.
We may have set a record for them, because the seven of us selected a total of 46 color-coded plates of sushi. Our waitress seemed to face a small challenge in computing our tab.
Last week while I was visiting family in Lacey we drove by Sushi Go Round. We stopped by to check out the place and grab a menu. The menu shows many Sushi items and cooked too.
Went there on Saturday around 1pm and the place was maybe 1/4 full. It's pretty easy to order sushi from sushi chefs since there aren't any sushi refrigerators to maneuver to get attention of the sushi chefs to place a sushi order.
The sushi is pretty good for the price. Prices start per plate $1.00 and go up to $4.00
This place is one of my favorite sushi places and the price is right. Ordering take-out usually means showing up and getting the food right off of the belt. Which doesn't sound that appetizing but IT IS and it's wicked fast. Try the firecracker it's nice...very nice.
It's nice to see some more food options popping up in the giant strip malls of Lacey. The interior is somewhere between a trashy conveyor sushi restaurant and a posh one (like Blue C in Seattle.) Sitting down, one immediately notices that the portions are very small; inarizushi with the abura age cut in half not the usual once, but twice. On the other hand, the abura age in their udon is very good and the udon is in general worth eating.
The revolving sushi slightly less so. There is a surprising amount of creativity going on with a number of the items which aren't on the anemic menu, but all are variants using the same small number of ingredients. I was at first almost fooled into thinking they were doing box sushi, but it became apparent that they were just smashing bits of whatever they had laying around onto their maki. Oh, well.
And the artistic streak isn't necessarily a good thing, either, because consistency suffers greatly. Of the tempura veg maki tried, each roll was dramatically different in terms of contents and quality. Moreover, the roll we ordered sat out for so long that it got a bit cold and slimy. Which, really, stemmed from the broader problem with the place: service.
Obviously it's largely serve-yourself, but in the US at least, almost every revolving sushi shop has a menu you can order off since they don't do turnover enough to have everything going 'round all day. And some things, like the soups, wouldn't stand up to it, of course. I didn't have my stopwatch with me, but at one point a waitress (one of two) spent seven minutes without looking at any customers, including me as I desperately tried to make eye contact to order up some udon. There was another long stretch later, and both times were spent on a cell phone. When one waitress did come towards us, she met eye contact, smiled, and proceeded to walk past before gesturing got through to her and she realized that we were trying to get her attention.
The waitresses and the chefs working at the conveyor racked up a number of startling health code violations while we watched. Minor ones, but all mostly stemming from laziness or poor training and preparation. Not exactly inspirational.
Unfortunately, their sushi rice is some of the best I've had in Thurston County. Despite some of their rolls being pre-made they weren't actually awful. They were ridiculously, awkwardly small in many cases, and hardly works of precision, but they weren't awful.
The food actually is kind of edible, and I think it'd probably be fun with low expectations and enough people that one doesn't notice the abysmal service and attention to detail. The portions are small and the prices are reasonable for the portions, but it takes a long time to get a proper serving of food between the conveyor and the wait staff. It fills a niche that needs to be filled in Olympia/Lacey, and that's fantastic, but I'm still holding out hope that we'll get some more clean, well-lit and good Asian restaurants that might actually be interesting -- a proper giant hot pot buffet and a good sushi restaurant ought to be able to clean up, and would fit right in, but I worry that Sushi Go Round might be the face of things to come.
Pretty good, unlabeled sushi on a fun conveyor belt. Prices are small and portions even tinier: a single inarizushi cut in half or half a half-sheet roll. The sushi chefs obviously get to experiment a bit, which is neat. When we were there, some creative chef had constructed a sort of stonehenge sculpture of tuna and asparagus. The creativity does confuse the issue further if you have any sort of food allergies or dislikes: you can't rely on process of elimination with the small menu to figure out what's what.
Waiters are very, very hard to get the attention of for drinks or sushi orders, and your drink ice is likely to melt and your sushi go soggy before they get around to bringing it to you. The kitchen also has some incredibly LOUD, conversation-destroying equipment.
The sushi chefs wear gloves, but frequently do things like wipe their gloved hands on their jeans and then go back to making sushi. The covers are applied haphazardly if at all, and sometimes the waitresses move the sushi with bare hands. Some of the sushi appear to come out of the fridge, and most of it is rolled loosely enough to unravel, but overall it's still some of Olympia's better sushi.
In summary, Sushi Go Round is perfect for people who:
1) Don't drink anything at restaurants in case someone is trying to poison them
2) Think every kind of sushi is equally delicious no matter what's in it
3) Have no allergies to or dislikes of anything, and
4) Hate their dining companions and would rather listen to the sweet, sweet sound of refrigerator buzz, and
5) deep in their hearts want to worship at a tiny megalithic tuna-henge.
It's not too bad for the rest of us, either, just kind of frustrating.
The Sushi is not fresh, god knows how long its been sitting on that converyer belt. Everything tastes the same, same ingredients just presented in different ways. i gotta say that presentation is fairly good here but thats about it. The place is loud and everything echos. from the kitchen the ice maker, refridgerators, and the blair korean pop music.
I love sushi, but i would never recommend Sushi to anyone if i was not 100% sure if it was fresh or not.
