Sushi Bistro

Came in during the week to try this place out after getting the itch to get some sushi. Unfortunately, this place fell pretty short of our expectations. Our group tried five different rolls with different types of fish, all which sounded really great on paper. When we got the rolls, I was dying to get some kind of sauce to throw on top of them just to give them some flavor.
I haven’t tried any other sushi places in the St Louis area, but there have to be better spots for me to try next time around!

This place has incredible sushi. One suggestion is to put cucumber in the «Inside roll». It is without cucumber which makes it a bit mushy but all in all, the place is a great sushi house

Super yummy! Wait staff was really friendly and kept our glasses full. Great recommendations in the sushi

I went here with a friend for dinner for the first time. It was a Wednesday night and they weren’t too busy. Their selection of sushi is innovative and impressive compared to other places in the area. I loved their house salad with the traditional ginger dressing. Some restaurants can’t seem to get it right, but they did. It’s a decent size for the price as well. We each had the house salad and shared 3 rolls which was just the right amount. I was pleased with what we chose (Tuna King, Fancy Roll and Paradise Roll) and would order again.

I used to really like this place, I would order takeout if not dine there with my mom. But today was probably the worst order ever. When I got home with my food I could see they clearly didn’t read my instructions for extra soy sauce. Instead of the normal 6 packets they decided to only give me 3. The Salmon roll had a insane amount of fat tissue and connective tissue making it unbearable to eat. Also the Dynamite roll has so much grease on it.
Not to mention if you dine in the restaurant it takes for freakin ever to get anything on your table. Save your money. I’m done with this place.

I was unimpressed with both the service and the sushi… I got a roll that cost $ 16 and found it to have the shrimp on either end… and then imitation crab meat (like for a California roll) in the middle pieces… i found this to be insulting. the house salad was great though…

We have eaten here several times for both lunch and dinner. Always great service and great sushi.

My 10 year old prefers this place to Wasabi and any other sushi restaurant in St. Louis. If you are gluten free it may be a bit tougher.
Paradise, Tokyo and Christmas are OUTSTANDING.

I tried this place out for my birthday dinner, and we were pleasantly surprised!
Food was awesome. I recommend the Godzilla roll and the GGG O’HHHH (sp?) roll. SO good! I am still stuffed!
On top of that, the server was awesome! He was super friendly and very attentive to us. The overall experience was perfect! I couldn’t have asked for a better birthday sushi dinner!
P. S. Mochi is my all-​time favorite sushi restaurant. This place has definite potential to compete for first. I’ll have to go a few more times to be sure.

Sushi Bistro deserves way more respect than its’ tiny strip mall storefront gets. My judgmental self automatically thinks a sushi restaurant in a strip mall is going to be bad. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see how nice the inside was. You could go hear for a casual date, carry out, or any occasion really.
I shared a few different rolls that all tasted pretty good for the most part. We got a Tuna Roll, a Crazy Roll, and a Shrimp Tempura Roll, and one more that I can’t remember the name of. The Shrimp Tempura was my favorite but that’s because I love tempura.
While my experience was generally good, there were a couple things with the food that seemed off. The Crazy Roll was fried and I was into it but I think they cooked it wrong. To my understanding, fried rolls are supposed to be flash-​fried but in this one part of the fish was kind of cooked giving it an odd flavor. That was my speculation but regardless something seemed off. The other food mishap was the seaweed salad. I loveeeee seaweed salad and this one tasted fine but it had an excessive build up liquid. It kind of tasted/​felt like it had been made that morning and was scooped out of the bottom of the bowl. I have nothing against pre-​made food in general, but this was noticeable. Okay, I sound like I’m whining but I’m not. Most of their seating is really nice but we got put at a table that I’m 90% sure is supposed to be lawn furniture. It’s super light weight and uncomfortable. They should just get rid of it instead of trying to stuff more people in there.
I’m sorry to sound super picky, I hate that. I’m excited to come back and maybe try carry out if I’m in the area.

Beautiful restaurant, great service, awful sushi. It made me sick and did not taste fresh. The salad and soup and edamame were good. Even the tamago was sub par. Not going back.

Another good meal at Sushi Bistro… and that $ 25 for $ 50 Groupon that seems to always be available makes it a touch more affordable.
This time we ordered the Pink Lady (one of our favs here), The Fancy Dragon (we love eel), and the 2^nd Base plate. The 2^nd Base gets you 3 different rolls… A rainbow, a tuna roll, and a California roll. The combo plates like this one seem like the best value in that you get 3 rolls for $ 18. But be careful, the Groupon won’t work with all of the combo plates.
The rolls are always prepared nicely. I like that this place doesn’t over do it with any sauces. It seems like more and more sushi spots are slathering every roll with eel sauce and mayo sauce… so much that you cannot taste the fish.
Service was ok… We’ve had better here in the past. One tip… if you are going to get an appetizer and don’t want the rolls until you finish, you’ll need to tell the waiter or hold off on ordering. Each time we’ve ordered an appetizer, the rolls came out at the same time.

Awful.
Absolutely awful.
I go in on Sunday night 45 minutes before they close wanting sushi to go. There were still a couple of groups of people in there so I didn’t feel poorly about it.
Anyway greeted by the world’s most unfriendly hostess (a girl) — in fact, my «check-​in» references this. She was incredibly rude. Told me to pick my own menus to use from these three gigantic stacks. I pick the one you write on — because I wanted sushi — which didn’t amuse her and she got snippy with me and told me to just tell her what I wanted already.
I ordered two rolls. One had asparagus… I can’t remember what I ordered exactly… It didn’t really matter because they tasted identical, only one had hard masses of flavorless asparagus in it.
And they both had this taste I couldn’t pinpoint at first… Took me a very long time to realize they tasted like the sauce on a whopper (I haven’t been to BK since 2009 or 2010 /​but that’s a recognizable sauce). Worse yet? The sushi was wet because it was oozing this sauce, like dripping when I picked up a piece.
I tried to stomach through it as with my tip (if I am not adamant about 20% minimum she would have gotten zero) it was almost $ 30 (for a to-​go order), but I couldn’t even eat half it was so awful. I gave it to my dog…
Never again. Café Mochi and Seven have never left a bad taste in my mouth figuratively or literally so they shall be getting my sushi business from now on. Even if the sushi were good, I wouldn’t go as a means of avoiding that hostess.
Two stars just because the environment is cool without being themed… And the parking lot is super easy to get in and out of

After trying Graham’s in Webster only to find it was closed (on a Sunday at 5pm?), we drove over to see if Manila Bistro was open (it also was not…), so we saw this new place and decided to eat here.
Just the high points (which are the entire experience!)
Amazing server and best service ever. I spilled soy sauce on my jacket, she brought me club soda, AND offered to put in a bowl to soak it back in the kitchen. She checked up on us, and recommended what sauces we should pair with which dishes.
Amazing food — the godzilla roll is even better than my old favorite roll (the fried cheesesteak at Drunken Fish). It was fatty and delicious, but you could also taste the fresh fish. The chicken teriyaki was great. And we overheard the people in the table next to us talking about a groupon, and we used it. However, even after the groupon, the bill was still $ 55, so this place is a little pricey.

I am always searching for new sushi places to try and this place is fabulous! The atmosphere is very chic. My friend and I tried about 5 different rolls and they were all very well made. We could not stop eating until everything was gone! Will be back.

I had been wanting to try Sushi Bistro for a while, and when we finally made it by this week I was unfortunately not impressed. Let’s start with the good. The place was gorgeous. The trendy and very up to date look created a great ambiance. The service was friendly and prompt, but we did get the early bird special dining at 5pm with only 2 other groups in the place.
The reason it gets 2 stars is what we really came for… the sushi. We ordered 6 rolls and all greatly lacked flavor. I usually never use soy sauce when I eat sushi and I definitely needed it that night as the sushi was so bland! I could tell it was very fresh and neatly prepared, but it just tasted boring. The best tasting roll was the sweet potato roll as many other reviewers mentioned, but I still wasn’t that impressed by it. The rainbow roll, tuna king roll, and kirkwood roll all tasted very bland despite how expensive and how many ingredients go in to them. The spicy shrimp roll was not spicy at all, and the lobster tempura roll was way over cooked as it was rubbery when trying to chew it.
Sorry to say that Sushi Bistro did not impress. They did everything else but their signature items well, and sadly if you can’t win me over with the food I definitely won’t be a satisfied customer.

Oh, Groupon — how I love you!
We were in the Kirkwood area, so I took a look to see if any restaurants around were offering a Groupon deal… and there was Sushi Bistro!
This place really earns the Unilocal «A-​OK» rating — good food, good prices, nice atmosphere but nothing to write home about.
They have an extensive sushi menu, as well as a robust selection of additional entrees — hibachi, tempura, teriyaki. The service was friendly and timely — everything was clean and tastefully designed.
Seems like a nice place to grab a tasty, reasonably priced menu (they had a really good selection of lunch specials) if you’re in the area — but I wouldn’t travel any great distance to have it again. A-​OK!

Really like this place it hasn’t been open long, but we have been here 2 times now and both times hit the spot.
We had soup, salad, soft shell crab appt. and a specialty roll and one off the menu.
The service was good, but the waiter didn’t space things properly so everything came one after another so I didn’t know where to begin.

I am very judgemental about my sushi, but everything was delicious! My boyfriend and I went for a date night. The restaurant was very nicely decorated. We had Gyoza, miso, beer, house hot sake, the romance roll, the Snow White roll, and the kirkwood roll.
Everything was delicious and well presented. Service was excellent. We will definitely go back.
If it weren’t for the groupon, we probably would never have gone. Our bill also would have been $ 80 instead of $ 40. So it is a little pricey.

Sushi Bistro is a cute little place in Kirkwood. It seems fairly new, but I am not sure how old they are exactly. The people who work here are really friendly and provided great service. I was a little bummed that they were out of a few things I wanted to order, but I made due with some other options – all of them delicious. The sushi was very fresh and the rice had a balanced ratio of vinegar and sugar. Always delighted to find another decent sushi place that isn’t all the way downtown.
For dessert, they brought out a complimentary orange and it was cut very skillfully! I do not know if this is standard practice or if they wanted to give it to me since they were sold out of the other things I wanted. Love the décor here too. Parking was really easy. I’d probably come here again to get the uni, once they have it back in stock. They have a hibachi too, which is a plus if you have non-​sushi eaters in your group. ;)