The best ramen I had in Mexico visiting Guadalajara, Tulum, Mexico City and here; the staff and…read morechef is actually Japanese and it's an open kitchen. The ramen was great! It's probably only 1 level below an ippudo but even better than some small town USA ramen places. The spicy ramen is the best one; fried chicken is good but the white meat is not as soft as the dark meat

Perfected Japanese food in Playa Del Carmen. Amazing service, consistent flavors and cozy ambiance!read more

OMG! Nothing but good things to say about our time at The…read moreLost Tiki last night. Fun atmosphere, great service, and seriously yummy food. I had the new chicken sandwich, hot honey gochujang of course, and it was crunchy outside, tender inside, and with a super tasty sweet/spicy sauce. Quite frankly, it was craveable. Hubby got an assortment of tacos and the pastor egg roll. He enjoyed it all and we even have leftovers to snack on so I can try them too. We both also enjoyed a couple happy hour margaritas. All told, the bill was 620 pesos before tip, incredibly reasonable IMO. We were there in a group of 11. Some had been before and some not, but all discussed going again. There are many more things on the menu we want to try!

Had dinner on 1/31/25. Service was friendly, fast and great…read more I recommend the tacos I ordered Korean style and bang bang Very tasty and at $2.50 each $50mxn a reasonable priced. I would shy away from the kung pao dish. It's a little too saucy and was just okay. However keep in mind I'm resistant to different twists to the dish so it's a personal thing. Still we finished it up . The egg rolls were good I would recommend this place for the ambience, excellent service and solid food preparation.

I really don't know how long the average person can go without a proper sushi dinner. Maybe for…read moresome it's just a week, others maybe it's forever, but for us it's about 3 weeks. Now we're going on 4+ weeks and it was high time to indulge. We checked out a few reviews from those posts we trust and decided to give the Sushi Club a try. Very close to us at Calle 26 & 10th ave, in a stylish cozy indoor/outdoor setting, the Sushi Club gives you a Miami Beach kinda vibe, but at heart is PDC all the way. With a somewhat loud 80's/90's classic / indie hits soundtrack, the place was comfortable but could have a bit more relaxed scene if they would have started the early evening with more of a Caribbean-jazzy lo-fi sound. Maybe that's just me. However, the service was pleasant, attentive yet non-evasive. I surveyed the well-stocked bar and mature bartender and decided to take a risk with our drink order. As you many of you know, ordering a Martini in PDC is an extremely dicey proposition usually ending in sad disappointment. But in honor of the long-awaited released of the new Bond movie (at a theater near you), I ordered a vodka martini with no olive and my extremely hip and mod wife ordered a Cosmopolitan (she's an Ex-New Yorker, so...) and crossed our collective fingers. Our needs were met with two near perfect cocktails! I'll excuse the random green olive floating in my glass because the drink was so spot on, as was my Profecto-Esposa's Cosmo. While enjoying our smart cocktails, our blissfully smiling yet sometimes tense waiter reappeared with an unexpected complimentary hors d' oeuvre of salmon pate made creamy by chipotle mayo(?) on a small thin rice cake. Wow! Delicious and immediately addicting. We ordered more of that with our dinner which consisted of simply a veggie Tulum roll, a tuna roll and a Cali roll. We shared and the Tulum roll was the big hit, wonderfully tasty, surprisingly and the Tuna was great. The California roll was good, but not familiar as I'd hoped. Overall, not too shabby. We will return to try more dishes off their large, inventive menu, which I'm sure contains some hidden gems. Recommended. Pricing is not too far from 5Th.

Our date night in Centro last weekend included dinner at SushiClub Playa del Carmen, which kind of…read morecame down middle of the road for me. To be honest, I normally avoid places with lots of Philly cream cheese rolls, but with hamachi sashimi on the menu we decided to give it a try. We had: Hamachi Sashimi thin cut-it was really thin, I would get thick cut if going again. But the fish was of good quality and tasty. Tuna Serranito-very spicy with decent quality tuna. A good dish. New York Tuna Roll-basic roll with decent fish, but the rice was very dry. Grey Goose Martinis-tasted watered down. Service however was quite good. Would I return? Maybe. It was a decent sushi meal (I have definitely had worse). But I am hoping there is better out there in Playa.

Everything is top notch here, basically three restaurants in one, sushi, Japanese and a show with a…read morechef who cooks the rice, beef, chicken, fish, squid, vegetables. The whole dinner is a show of the chef performing with the food, fantastic, and very tasty, two soups choices drinks dessert all are terrific.

This is one of the six restaurants available at the Valentin Imperial Maya. Mind you, this is the…read moreonly restaurant that takes reservations and I can see why. Similar to a Beni-Hana, we arrived early for our seating but when we made reservations, I wasn't aware that it was for the Hibachi. We were seated amongst three other couples and it's the same routine as if you were at a Beni-Hana. We liked it so much we came two days later and had the restaurant side with sushi. The sushi and Japanese dishes were quite good. Overall, I highly recommend dining here. The food was better than any of the other restaurants at Valentin.

Good sushi is challenging to find in Playa del Carmen. While this is not the best sushi I have…read moreever had, it is better than good and the presentation is phenomenal! You will not find an extensive menu here but the choices they offer are delicious. I love people watching from their second floor terrace while listening to retro pop.

This place is closed. I was bummed as I really wanted to go there and even took a taxi from our…read morehotel only to search for them and realize they are no longer there. :(

This was probably the best restaurant we had out of the three that we tried while staying at the…read moreresort. They have an a la carte menu and also a hibachi/twos Yaki style seating. You have to make reservations before coming and we made ours same-day, so the hibachi wasn't an option for us. There were still great options on the a la carte menu though, and we enjoyed all of the sushi options that we selected. The dessert was my favorite part though. I wish I ordered five of those fried banana spring roll desserts! The coconut sticky rice dessert was also yummy but it needed some mangoes or more fruit. The mango sorbet was very refreshing and a great way to end our meal. We shared a teriyaki chicken for the main course and it was okay, a bit on the drier side but none of the other main courses caught my eye. If you're hungry though, make sure you order individual dishes since everything is small portions, including the dessert! Service was probably the best at this restaurant too. They were very good at explaining what each dish was, versus other restaurants with family style where they dropped the food and left (and that was for prix fixe menus where you really don't know what's being served!). They even brought special welcome drinks at the beginning of the meal. They also have a kids menu with several options including American food which was perfect for our son who was in a chicken tender and French fries mood that day.

So we originally thought we would be able to also get a sushi/sashimi for appetizers prior to our…read moreteppanyaki but the sushi was next door to us, but our server brought our whole table rolls for appetizers and they were yummy. The chef did a great job of tossing his utensils and singeing our eyebrows. The mahi-mahi was flavorful as was the fried rice and tenderloin.. recommended fo sure....

So so so so so so good! The food was great too. Anahi's service really made us feel welcome. We…read morewere fresh from the back- sandy, my 6yo was wrapped in a towel and Anahi said have a seat and you can order take out. She could have not wanted to get the table dirty/sandy. She could have thought anything but did;t. We are here to serve you, she said. The fried shrimp with a lemon sauce!!! The tiger roll, the combo fried rice. It was all good. We tried to come a second time but the clock ran out. Will come again.

Sorry to say please avoid. The worst sushi and service I've ever had in my life and I'm 50. Even…read morethe tempura was burnt. Only the edamame is edible. Please eat anywhere else that you possibly can even if you're sick of Mexican food anything is better than this. Place is clean and the servers are nice.

This restaurant offers a blend of Japanese and Thai cuisine. The service is unmatched. The sushi…read moreand sashimi are simply out of this world. The lemongrass soup and pad Thai or the best anywhere.

First time trying Azia on our last night during our stay and we were not impressed. Since the days…read morewe arrived everyone asked when walking into into the restaurant about food allergies to make sure they were careful . Azia did not ask , the server nor the person at the front. In which we were not happy about. Very limited choices for Gluten free and I had to be the one to tell the server about my allergies. allergies. We felt rushed also. The food lacked flavor. Not just mine that was Gluten free but my friends who had a regular dish. The chicken was very very chewy and tough. I was looking forward to it because I was reading these positive reviews. We did sit outside since they were full inside. Ambience appeared nice with the music . Relaxing . Some of the dishes I posted are my friends and myself. I just had a sushi roll and GF pad Thai with GF fried rice .

I wasn't feeling too satisfied after eating here. The Japanese food was purely a misnomer. There…read morewas a touch of Mexican-Indian taste, didn't taste the authentic Japanese cuisine. The staff weren't too friendly and a bit slow with their service. Not coming back on my next visit to Playa.

Terrible food. Do not recommend Too much rice on the…read morerolls... heavy breading on the shrimp.. you can't even taste them.