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    Ahi Sushi & Grill

    3.7 (291 reviews)
    Closed • 11:15 am - 9:15 pm
    Updated over 3 months ago

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    The is the sexy roll
    ERIKA L.

    Everything!! Our waiter was a very sweet and attentive young man. We got the pan fries Gyozas and lord they were perfect. I got the sexy roll and Fire of Love. We've had a lot of sushi in many different places and this will definitely be one of our to go places on our way to San Diego.

    Electric roll
    Melissa R.

    This was mine and my husband's first time here. We walked in and the host greeted us and said he was cleaning off a table and it would be just a minute. While we were waiting, another couple came in to place a to go order and he helped them. We waited about another 10 minutes, awkwardly standing there because there was no seats by the entrance. We finally got seated in the back area that looked like a converted outside porch area. It was very chilly out but we made do. The server came by to take our order, he said his pen ran out of ink but he will remember our order to relay to the kitchen. We ordered an order of pan fried gyoza, an electric roll, a Philadelphia roll, a tempura shrimp roll and a spicy yellowtail roll. We waited what seemed like 15- 20 minutes for our food to come out. They brought out the electric roll first and did not give us any chopsticks so my husband couldn't eat his roll. We had assumed the gyoza would have come out first, since that was an appetizer. The server brought out our other 3 rolls and then went back to bring us chopsticks, plates and napkins. The two rolls that has eel sauce on them were completely drenched in the eel sauce that you could not taste any other flavor in the rolls. The Philadelphia roll had the tiniest piece of salmon in it and was disappointing. We finished our 4 rolls and still no gyoza came to the table. I let the server know that we never received the gyoza so I'd like to cancel the gyoza. We waited a while and got our bill. He let us know he did take off a discount due to the inconvenience about the gyoza. We were sitting next to this obnoxiously drunk couple, the man burst out into an inappropriate song at one point and the wait staff didn't blink an eye.The prices were pretty reasonable here with their 50% off discount on some of their basic rolls.we went up to the counter at the front to pay our bill and informed them about the obnoxious drunk guy but the server only said " more tips for me", youd think they would cut the guy off on the saki and send them on their way but they didn't. We both felt the sushi was very underwhelming and we most likely would not return here.

    Hold for ever and never picked up
    Me I.

    Holy cow.... On hold for 15min, no pick up AGAIN!! Every time we have tried placing a phone order no one answers and THEY ARENT BUSY! We walked in and there was one couple seated outside and three people waiting for pickup. No one at the front desk, guy was just standing around. He come to us and we say yea we've been on hold for 15min no one answered. And he takes our order and we wait 40min for food. Two couples came inside and left after a while of no service to them. There was a family of four outside and a dad and kid at the sushi bar. They had to flag someone down for more water and waited a fat minute and still never got food by the time we left. Horrible service, empty and no one inside to have an excuse. Three sushi rolls and a noodle bowl for $70?? No tip for sure. I think we're done trying this place. If the foods bad I'll be pissed.

    We enjoyed every bite

    The food was amazing it was my first time but I will be back.. I had 3 ingroents meal..it was so good best by far, my friend had Kung pao and we also had salmon sashimi every was awesome

    Steven C.

    Shockingly good. My partner in sushi and I decided to give this a whirl. I've not seen super good food anywhere in this town. We are the poster children of culinary mediocrity. This place broke that. Great nigiri, some rolls and super service. Not sure the kids who took care of us were knowledgeable but they made up for it in kindness. We'll be baaack

    Crispy Gyoza
    Sarah S.

    We haven't been here in a long time , but decided to give it one more shot. Well, that was a mistake . We ordered chicken curry and salemon roll . Came out fairly quickly ... salemon roll seemed ok . Not as good as I remember , but we worked hard all day and were hungry . However the chicken curry came with white rice ( as we asked for ) the rice was hard and crunchy . We told the server and she came back after like 5 minutes and said " the kitchen is too busy and can't make you rice " . So I'm in a sushi shop where rice is pretty important, they have hard , crunchy rice and they can't make anymore ? We canceled he order we had put to go , I can make better rice at home . Most of the curry sauce went to waste .. and the server just set the bill down and walked away . She could've at least comped the curry , but didn't even try . We go to check out and the owner is cashing us out . We tell her about the rice , she apology and gives us 10 % off ... no , I'm not leaving a tip .. which is something I very rarely do ... but this is the straw that broke the camels back ... we should've went to Marietas Mexican food place which has become our new go to .. we definitely will never be back to this sushi place ... do not waste your money or time .. go elsewhere ..

    Scallop handroll
    Tuan B.

    Just got back from Ahi with my coworkers for lunch. We used to come here often because we work nearby but the quality definitely went downhill. We noticed the water tasted funny and wasn't clear. The miso soup was very salty. Maybe leftover from the previous day and the rice wasn't fresh or good.

    Great sushi and also Chinese food. There are 2 rolls that don't have rice. Good service.

    House special, with chicken.

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    Good customer service and good sushi. I usually get to go but I ate inside the other day and had a good experience.

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    4 months ago

    Very good meal. Delicious! Will recommend. Clean and very attentive. Friendly and respectful

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    1 year ago

    Service here is always welcoming and the food never misses. I loveeee there cheese burgers!

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    6 months ago

    another update to the horrible service. I don't understand having people wait on hold if you never plan on picking up the phone again

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    11 months ago

    Best sushi in town! Love this place I come down from San Diego just to eat this sushi! Great service and staff

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    2 years ago

    Great food, great atmosphere, great service. This place has the best sushi in Alpine.

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    1 year ago

    Has yet to disappoint. Friendly staff, BEAUTIFUL food that tastes better than it looks!!!!

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    Great sushi, tried lots of things and everything has been good! We've never eaten inside. We've always done takeout.

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    Always good! Fresh sushi!!…read moreThe parking is pretty easy here since most of the businesses nearby are closed down. This has been our go to place for sushi for about 1 year.

    Based on our recent visit, I'm struggling to understand how this establishment has an overall score…read moreof 4 stars. We were not greeted by an employee at the hostess stand and finally sat ourselves. It took 15 minutes for a server to greet us and ask for our drink order. Once he arrived for our drink order we put in a small food order to test out the quality of proteins. It took 40 minutes to get two hand rolls and one albacore sashimi order. The order took so long to arrive that once it did, we quickly put in a specialty roll order before trying the hand rolls. The specialty roll came out in two minutes flat, I did see a roll sitting on the sushi bar before we ordered. I believe we got someone else's roll because I asked about the long wait times. After the roll was delivered a server came over to our booth specifically to make a snarky comment, he said "you're lucky this was fast, people wait 1 hour for this on Fridays." The restaurant was clean, had a neat wall painting and the parking was free, those are the only positive experiences from our visit. The sashimi was dry as if it had been sitting out not properly stored. Hand rolls were mostly rice, the only protein is what you can see in the pic - gone in one bite of a 4 bite roll. The specialty roll was average. This was a very unpleasant experience, we will not go back and will not recommend to friends/family/yelpers. It should also be noted that we went on a Sunday afternoon and there were 3 sushi chefs behind the counter, 3 servers on the floor and 1 host. Hard to understand why the wait times were excessive and service was poor. Our server did acknowledge that the service was slow, however, he did not offer any apology, he just shrugged it off.

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