Ani Sushi Restaurant & Bar

One of my favorite Japanese places in the area. Pretty traditional (including going up the stairs to get there) and they serve sushi, ramen, and other dishes. Great vibe with an outdoor area or a great view of the street below. Lunch specials are very reasonably priced.

"This place is amazing! Seriously, not only is it cheaper then what's around, it's also better quality. This place is now a weekly haunt for me."

Great sushi, great fish, great people. Sit at the sushi bar...Nathan will take excellent care of you

Lapin and I read great reviews about this place and thought it would be a good choice for Saturday's night dinner. Boy, were we wrong.

The restaurant is on the second floor and the signs were a bit obscure to navigate which building we had to go up to reach the restaurant. Two flights up, we were hoping this place was worth the trip. The decor was a cute modern theme with blue lights.

We were able to get a seat pretty quickly as the restaurant wasn't very packed. There was another couple on the other side of the restaurant. The servers took our order efficiently and were polite but towards the end the service just fell off. We had to remind them to refill our water, take away our plates and bring the check. Which brings me another point, Lapin and I ordered several small dishes between the two of us but they bought one item at each time. For example, I would get my miso soup and Lapin would be watching me eat while he would get his app would arrive 10 minutes later and then I would have to wait until he finishes before they bring us something else.

Lapin ordered the crunch roll which was tasty. The description was a bit deceptive (inside shrimp tempura, crab salad, avocado, cucumber topped with crunch and sweet soy sauce). Only the outer two pieces actually had shrimp pieces while the other 6 pieces were just a regular California roll. I should mention, the couple I mentioned prior, they ordered a salmon roll and waitress gave us their roll and she looked confused when we tried explaining that isn't what we ordered. Pet peeve of mines is she just took the roll back and gave it to the correct table. If I saw someone doing that to MY order, I would be livid. Lapin also ordered these Japanese sausages which tasted exactly like regular hotdogs but were three little Vienna sausages. He also got something called H.S.T, which was just foul tasting. It was cold and tasted absolutely disgusting...don't even get me started how it looked.

I ordered the chicken teriyaki with chicken karake. My order came with a miso soup and a salad which were okay. The chicken teriyaki was meh (mostly because it was a bit cold) and chicken karake was flavorful except I couldn't eat it because it had bones. But, Lapin ate it and enjoyed it. The potsticker it came with was cold in the middle like they didn't properly thawed it before steaming it or either that it was left around until they finally bought it over.

Ani sushi isn't very expensive but it also wasn't very good. Perhaps, we went on a off day but I am not willing to try again. FYI - if you post reviews, photos and do check ins, they offer discounts...but we didn't take advantage of this as we wanted to leave ASAP.

Delicious and fresh sushi. I don't know why I didn't start coming here earlier! They have a nice outdoor patio too and I love the seats by the window. Service was friendly and attentive.