Sake Cafe II

Sake Café is the best sushi and appetizers on Magazine street. The inside is more formal and cocktail lounge than you might expect but I think that adds to it because it is a little pricier than your average sushi «café.» The bar is a great place to sit if you are just there with girlfriends or I have also seen a lot of people come to the bar to come and eat by themselves! The sushi is fresh, also flavorful (never any weird aftertaste like you sometimes get with less quality places), and presented nice (not some huge thrown together pieces or anything).
Def a must go if you are craving sushi after strolling down the shops on magazine :)

Extremely disappointed. I came here for happy hour (3 – 6) where certain sushi rolls were only 3.50! Our waitress helped me and a friend out with the menu for happy because it was our first time. Pleasant and helpful, so that was a good sign… so I thought.
The happy hour menu said under sushi: salmon, eel, tuna, etc. I told her I would like a «salmon roll, tuna roll, and an eel roll.» She’s kindly responds «sounds great. I’ll put those right in for you to have your happy hour prices incorporated!» (It was 5:50 so we were cutting it close and she helped us out).
We get our food. Mediocre at best, but regardless I was happy it was cheap and filling.
WELL, we get our check and she charged us both FULL PRICE. We ask her to fix it and she tells us «oh, you ordered ROLLS, not individual pieces of sashimi» WELL MY BAD BUT WHY DID YOU NOT STOP ME FROM ORDERING THOSE WHEN I SPECIFICALLY SAID I WANTED ALL MY FOOD OFF THE HAPPY HOUR MENU
Never coming back here. Oh, she went to Loyola and I go to Tulane. Never trust a Loyola student.

During a recent meal at the Sake Café, I sat admiring their unique glass décor. Already one of the best destinations to dine Uptown. Sake Café is a fresh new take on Japanese in New Orleans.
I had the Nabeyaki Udon and my girlfriend had the rainbow and jazz rolls. It was great! We’ll be back!

So happy to find a great sushi place. our server, Adam, was great. My friend and I went for happy hour and got great deals on our drinks and sushi. definitely going back for a date night soon.

Service is slow, and the food is on the expensive side but of good quality and fair portions. Nice modern atmosphere but almost nothing about this place is Japanese at all. Overall my Japanese and Sushi experiences in New Orleans has been less then desired and if this were Los Angeles would not return but given the limited choices here I would recommend this place only if you were in the area. For Sushi & Japanese food I would recommend Origami on Freret.

This is one of my favorite sushi restaurants. The chicken firepot soup is spicy, tangy and a great start to your meal. The rolls are fresh with great presentation. The ambiance is perfect for a first, second or third date. However, this time I was just with friends which is cool for groups too.

So the food is average, and the service is slow. Every time I’ve gone, the whole process takes over an hour. It’s really not worth it for the food. They do have good happy hour prices.

I used to really enjoy this place. it is one of the better Sushi places in New Orleans, in my opinion, but the bar is pretty low. But if you have had good sushi outside of New Orleans, this place is pretty average at best.
Compared to some of the other local sushi places, the interior/​atmostphere is nice and slightly upscale. I also like that they have an outdoor space. It is very fun to sit at the bar here too– I like their sushi chefs.
The never bored tuna appetizer has been a favorite of mine for a while and it still is. Their sushi/​sashimi is better than other local places, I think. I was here last night and we also tried the Uptown roll and the rocky III rool. I was actually a bit disappointed with the overall quality/​value of the rolls– they were literally filled with rice. The rice was good. The fish used was good. the proportions were disappointing.
The service was terrible. We waited forever for drinks & had to remind our waiter that he forgot about out drinks a few times… he tried blaming the bartender which is not something you want to do (true or not), but the truth was that he forgot. Then as we became increasingly frustrated with the service and wanted to leave… that part too forever too. Probably because our waiter was standing with our bill in his hand having a discussion with another table about vaping. I am kind of snobby about my sushi and this was discouraging experience as far as giving Nola’s sushi scene a second shot.

Here right now. We’ve been waiting over an hour for our entrees and we just finished getting our appetizers. On top of this, one of the people in our party ordered salmon sashimi and got salmon roe instead and want offered to get this corrected (he’s too timid to demand it be fixed).
We ordered two seaweed salads that came out within ten minutes, a pass Thai that came out twenty minutes later, two sushi appetizers that took thirty minutes longer, and Edamame which took twenty minutes longer.
The entrees came out shortly after the Edamame and the food was fantastic. The sushi was great (except for the order that was taken incorrectly), but the service did not match up. We ran out of soy sauce and after waiting ten minutes, I just grabbed it off of another table.
The only time our waters were refilled was when I stopped him and asked for them to be. The restaurant is pretty dead, so I can’t find a reason as to why this service has been so poor.
The food was excellent, but the service was some of the wrist I’ve ever received. I would have asked for a manager, but my party preferred to passively complain instead and not have me make a big deal.
If the service improves, this will be a 5/​5, but the experience brought it to a ³⁄₅. Hire better waiters.

Not impressed. The location and size of this restaurant are promising. I love sushi and I’m not picky. A friend and I went on a rainy Sunday, and the restaurant was not empty but didn’t appear busy.
The wait for our drinks and the sushi was ridiculous. The server told us as soon as we ordered it was 45 min wait for the sushi. Sitting right by the sushi bar, I was confused. The chef was hard-​working but did not appear to feel the pressure of a 45 minute wait for 3 rolls. The table next to us was just as hungry and annoyed. The server did nothing friendly to apologize or compensate for the wait, by the time we got our food we boxed it and left because I was so. ready. to. leave.
If there is a wait, don’t seat tables! Let customers know before you put in the order. It might defer customers, but honesty is the best policy.
I will not be back.

Came for my bachelorette party dinner. This was my first time. One of my bridesmaids suggested it. I love this place! All the employees were super nice. The meal was just the right size. Just the right amount of items. I hate sushi places were the menu gets overwhelming. The portions were large. Everything was tasty and the prices weren’t too bad. The parking was a tad small but hey, at least they have parking. The music could have used some adjustments. At 10:00 at night I want music to keep me awake, not put me to sleep. The tropical roll was amazing! Also, surprisingly we all enjoyed the ribs! I will be back for sure!

Seriously, why have I always walked by here and never even gave it the slightest consideration. I came for dinner with friends a couple of weekends ago and I was totally surprised. First, the hosts were super nice and the atmosphere in the restaurant is really cool and inviting. I didn’t expect a club-​isn kinda feel from outside but I really liked it. Then of course our food came and I am fairly certain that I was licking my chops (not sticks, ok that too) by the end of the meal. Very good! We tried to take the sake as a shot and I about choked so that didn’t go well but I’m solely to blame for that. It really was just a perfect experience and I’m really looking forward to going back soon.

Please please please change the sound tracks.
100 bpm techno keeps the sushi from going down right.
Otherwise, this is our every Friday night «go to» for sushi.
Great wait staff, great food, great atmosphere.
Please change the music.

This is a fancy looking locale with decent prices for the casual sushi lover (casual meaning you ask them out for sushi and they say «I love california rolls»). Service was pretty good as well and PARKING!!! they got a star just for that.

I’m not impressed with this place but I’m also strangely… not not impressed…
I came in late on a weekday night about half an hour before closing and service was pretty fabulous. They were awesome to reseat me after I got attacked by mosquitos and the server was a sweetheart +2 stars
I was looking for a quick bite to snack on so I got the pineapple fried rice and the pad thai. Bang for your buck wise, these «appetizers» are awesome. For $ 5 each, these were huge and I probably should have just gotten one or the other. +1 star for affordability.
Unfortunately, this is kind of where the stars end. Authenticity-​wise, this is not the kind of place I would bring my parents or sushi-​elitist pals or anyone really (but…$ 5 for Pei-​Wei and a gorgeous ambiance? I’m down to make this place my secret snack spot)
The pad thai tastes closer to noodles, chicken, and eggs mixed with sweet and sour sauce. I’m not even sure if there were peanuts. The pineapple fried rice was super salty and you could taste the chicken bouillon granules. Like I said earlier, despite the not so great food, I still enjoyed myself.
I’m definitely willing to give this place another try, but 3 stars is all that I can really ethically give. Props to the service though, they’re super awesome!

Decided to have lunch here based solely on the fact of there being an ample parking lot in a neighborhood known for no parking. But… was very pleased with our experience here. I ordered the Appetizer Sampler and everything on it, especially the shrimp was excellent. We also ordered the Dragon Roll and the Tempura Combo. The Dragon was fresh and great. Wifey loved how crunchy her Tempura was. Our friend had the Yellow Tail Jaw (ew) and he says it was great! (ew). Overall a great lunch, great service and parking!!! Would recommend.

A David Lynch type irritating noise
A sushi chef who didn’t seem to know how to distinguish on the menu the difference between hand roll and cut roll. The same Chef had to ask help from his co-​chefs what «Albacore or Honmachi» was? Nice portions of sushi. Server was very helpful and pleasant. Being from Los Angeles I’m a little spoiled. So… enter at your own risk.

Living in the area, we have tried Sake Café a number of times.
Food & service have been bad-​to-​terrible each time.
Wishful thinking brings us back once-​in-​a-​while, only to be disappointed again & again.
Does anyone know where one could find REAL tempura in New Orleans ?
Rick

Chinese sushi owned place
Flavorless rice, nigiri albeit fish is fresh but real authentic sushi is not about fish it’s the rice
Basic udon tasted like soysauce broth… completely chinese.yuck. Fish cake tasted off and chicken bits tasted semi freezer burn
If you like rolls, with all the crappy sauce, come here. but it’s not even good enough in my book for a quick fix sushi place when you are traveling and desperate for asian flavors.
Good service tho!

I’m a regular. Enough said.
P. S. Try the Ocean Trout appetizer. To die for!