Pacifica Cuisine

The pineapple fried rice with chicken was amazing!!! I am excited to try more of their dishes.

Great little place with fresh food and sushi. The egg rolls and spring rolls are to die for!

I rarely review places but the sushi here merits taking the time. Cheap lunch menu and the sushi is wonderful, difficult to find anything comparable in this area, and cheaper than most. Worth a visit for sure!

The food is OK, but, like others, I also found the staff to be rude. I came on a Sunday with my daughter, a friend, and her 2 daughters. We were the only customers there. My friend’s youngest daughter was 5 and didn’t plan to eat. Because they didn’t have the lunch menu on Sunday and we would thus have to order large, expensive meals, we decided to get 2 meals for the 4 of us and share. When I placed the order, the woman started yelling at me because we would only be spending $ 20. So, we decided to leave. Then, she started screaming because we were leaving, and we had tracked a little water in with our boots because the parking lot was snowy. Trying to be nice, I apologized to her for the inconvenience. She began yelling at us in Chinese or Japanese and threw quite the fit. There was a man working there, and he seemed to be trying to calm her down, but she just kept on going. I have never seen anything like this before. We won’t be patronizing that establishment ever again.

The food is amazingly fresh. I had such fresh veggies in my curry. And the amount of shrimp given was extremely generous! The boston roll was not bad. I overall gave them 3 stars because for this area, to find fresh ingredients like this in a Chinese restaurant is not so usual.
However the following are just nitpicky things I noticed as someone who’s had pretty authentic food all over and others may not notice or care about: I think the rice to make the sushi was too dense; maybe made with Chinese rice rather than proper sushi rice? On the plus, it was good in a pinch and this is the first place in the area I’ve been that offered natural ginger rather than fake pink ginger with the sushi. The Thai curry was strong and thick and had loads of fresh veggies, but I can’t say it tasted much like Thai curry in Thai restaurants – didn’t even have any basil. It wasn’t bad, just not what I was expecting. Definitely more like a Chinese curry dish. Also it came with Chinese rice; not jasmine rice. But hey, this is what you get when you order Thai in a Chinese restaurant.
Addressing the «rudeness» some people talk about here: a lot of this is cultural and I am not sure anyone should take it personally. Depending where in China people are from, their mannerisms and way of speaking may appear harsh or rude to westerners. Not saying you have to like it (it bothers me too), but just know it’s unlikely them being personally rude to you. I’ve been to Chinese restaurants where I couldn’t understand why the waitress was dismissive to me and my husband yet smiley to the person who came in for takeout. I think it’s just that these people are regulars. I felt the guy there was more friendly than the woman but the woman was never rude to me.
Would I return? Yeah probably for takeout and I’d probably stick to Chinese food. It’s a small dining area but perfectly pleasant and clean. I think most of their business is pick up so don’t be deterred if no one is occupying the seats.

Honestly, the food here is pretty good but the staff is horrifyingly rude. It seems like every time we go in they are having a huge argument. The wait staff tends to take the argument out on the guests. I’d go back but I’m afraid I’ll do something wrong and get banished for life.

My go to Chinese/​Japanese restaurant! Love the sushi and Chinese options. Prices are average but you get great food for what you pay for.

Came here craving sushi after living in NYC for many many years and having delicious options mere steps from my apt. The service was not great… Server wasn’t rude, but they definitely were not very friendly, didn’t ask us if everything was okay after serving our meals, or ask about drink refills, and we generally felt like the server didn’t like/​care about us or our experience.
Another time I ordered for pick up, they told me 20 minutes, but it was a busy Sat. night and I ended up sitting IN the restaurant waiting for another 20 minutes — for sushi and soup.
Can’t really complain about the food, it’s decent for the prices, and seeing as there really aren’t any other options around here I will probably end up going back.

One of those where you wish you had 3.5 stars as an option. Good food at a decent price. The service needs to be a little friendlier. It’s not a big deal when getting take-​out but when you combine the poor service and the lack of any background music in a very small restaurant it takes away from the overall dining experience.

I’ve been meaning to try this place since I moved to the area a year ago. Sunday seemed just as good a time as any, so I ordered a Sushi Deluxe (9 pieces nigiri, 1 tuna roll) for takeout. They told me 25 minutes, but it was ready when I arrived in 20 minutes. I grabbed my food and headed home.
So, first up, I tried the miso soup. There was a ton of tofu and some plant matter. Honestly, I don’t like miso soup. Still, this was some of the more tolerable I have tried.
So, a couple slurps of soup, and I’m on to the sushi. Now, I love sushi. I could eat it for every meal. Yet, I hadn’t had it in a while, and was really looking forward to the feast before me. Right away I found it strange that the fish was so warm. Not even room temperature warm, but gum you’ve had in your pocket all day warm. I take a bite, and it’s not bad, but then the second half goes in, and it’s sweet. Not fresh awesome fish sweet, but we dropped something on your food by accident sweet. No clue what that was all about, but I was scared. Next up was the big slab of octopus. After a minute or two of chewing I gave up and spit it out. I’ve had beef jerky that was more tender. Next, I spot this interesting piece of grey swordfish-​like meat. It looked like swordfish, and the taste definitely assured me that it was fish. Never have I eaten a piece of sushi with such a strong fish taste. I promptly spit it out.
I have witnessed my dog eat another animal’s poop she found in the woods. Yet, I hesitated before dumping this sushi in her dish. I see good reviews on here, but I have never had sushi like this before. The presentation was great, but the fish was not anywhere near fresh. This will be my only experience with Pacifica.

Had a terrible time there for lunch. The service was terrible, and the food was just mediocre. When I asked for another glass of water, the waitress took over 30 minutes to bring it over. I will never dine there again. I’ve been there 3 times and each time gets worse and worse. There’s a place a couple miles up the street that always has fresh food and excellent service: Izumi, it’s in Windsor Locks and is so worth the drive from Suffield.

Went there for the very first time for lunch today. Wow, was I blown away.
Lunch menu is very inexpensive — $ 5 or $ 6 for Chinese choices or $ 8-​$ 11 for the Japanese choices.
I went with the Chinese menu, because I saw a Panang Curry choice buried at the bottom of the list. I had a choice of soup or egg roll and a choice of 19 specials served with white, brown, or fried rice. I went with a H&S soup, and a Shrimp with Panang Curry with Brown Rice ($ 5.95).
I knew this was a cut above the rest when I started with Pacifica’s reinvention of Hot and Sour Soup. It was piping hot served with bits of shrimp and crabmeat. The broth had a clear seafood undertone to it, something I honestly have never run into anywhere before.
The entrée was somewhat smaller than some of the lunch specials you have had over the years, but this was absolute light-​years ahead of the ordinary in terms of taste and quality. There were 5 perfectly cooked good-​sized shrimp, all plump and firm and not dried out or overcooked. The veggies were zuchini, onion, celery, peapods, asparagus (!!), scallions and green pepper. The Panag Curry was just amazing– on equal footing with the best I have ever had at the Elephant Trail in Avon. Superb flavor, modest heat, just amazing.
So when I look at the value, the unusual twist on the soup, the beautiful preparation of the shrimp, the excellent taste of the curry, and the attentive service, I am giving them 5 stars without hesitation. Simply put, this was one of the best lunches I’ve had in a while and it came when I really didn’t have high expectations.
Pacifica is a little tricky to find, it’s in a retail/​professional complex named Suffield Village. You see Pacifica’s sign from the parking lot, but the restaurant space and it’s true entry door is in the interior of the building (reminds me a little of the Glen Locken Mall in Glastonbury).

100^th review!
I looked at the reviews before coming, and I went here fairly late — a little after 9 and they close at 10, so I was interested in seeing how they would handle us, since they seemed to be kind of wrapping things up when I walked in. We were the only ones in there, and got some sushi and drinks. The service was kind of abrupt but I wouldn’t say it was bad, and I enjoyed my meal quite a bit.
We started with drinks and edamame, which was fine, and I got the sashimi regular (which was supposed to come with soup or salad, which I didn’t get but didn’t realize it until after I got home). The sashimi was very good. I also got the orange blossom roll which had a different, sweet brown sauce on it (their version of eel sauce I think) and I enjoyed that as well.
I would get sushi from here again, for sure. Can’t comment on the other menu items yet, however.
The entrance is weird — when I first walked in the, uh, main entrance I wasn’t sure if I was in the right place. It’s kind of like a place within a bigger building.

Pacifica used to be a great restaurant, however it apparently had changed ownership. While the menu is identical, the food is subpar. Greasy, heavily salted, no flavor. The broccoli in tonights dish was not fresh and had carmel colored buds. Chicken was grizzly and several pieces nearly raw. Garlic sauce was greasy and grossly over salted. A similar chicken & mixed vegetable meal was no better. Despite the height of the fresh farm vegetable season it looks like the ingredients being used are very old. Really too bad — we were regular customers — but no more.

Decent sushi and the price isn’t too bad. Service is really dodgy here. I gett he impression that they’re understaffed, but our waitress didn’t seem particularly attentive.
It’s a small place, so definitely don’t bring your fourteen frat buddies and their girlfirends
Eh, not bad overall but you might have a bit of a wait on your hands.