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    River Japanese Cuisine

    3.0 (551 reviews)
    ModerateJapanese
    Open 11:30 am - 10:30 pm

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    RIVER JAPANESE CUISINE ATMOSPHERE

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    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Dogs allowed
    Good for kids

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    Jeanette R.

    This is a good spot to go to for ayce sushi and kitchen items as well. The sashimi was fresh and good quality. From the kitchen items include soup, cheese wontons, spring rolls and more. They also have dessert options of fried Oreos, fried banana, and ice cream. The service was quick and friendly. It's more of a casual dining place.

    Spicy Tuna Pizza
    Debora F.

    The sushi and sashimi are fresh and delicious. The service is fast and friendly. The all you can eat menu has a great variety and it's a good spot for groups. The baked cheese mussels are my favorite, and the spicy tuna pizza is a must-try. Definitely worth coming back for!

    Vince W.

    Another day, another visit to River Sushi in the Bayside/Oakland Gardens area. As I mentioned in my previous review, the quality has seriously dipped, but I will still come due to the convenience. Notes from today's visit.. Entered at 5:30 pm sharp on a Monday. There was a table of three seated right as I got in. Rrstaurant was almost empty except for the three guests that jist got seated. Total of three employees on the floor and two behind the sushi bar chefs. All of the staff members see me standing by the door, but nobody approaches or acknowledges me. As I proceed to politely seat myself and a guest at one of the empty tables, a female staffer sees and asks in Mandarin Chinese to the male staffer if it's ok that I'm seated. He appears to acknowledge that it's fine. I'm now seated for approximately five minutes before I politely ask a passing female staffer if I can please order or at least give me a damn menu lol. The female staffer then immediately brings it. I play it safe by ordering my usual nowadays. General sushi rolls, bent boxes, edamame, gyoza, etc. Back in the day, I would order their hot kictehn entrees and all those premium sushi rolls, but everyone knows that their food is a hit or miss in recent years. More miss. The food comes out fairly quick as always, and the staffers were friendly. I also noticed that the three guests that were diining in went with the AYCE buffet option. Their orders came out so slowly that two of the guests were full and appeared uninterested within 30 minutes or so. They left before me. Not worth 120 bucks. Anyways, I will be back for more of this mediocre Japanese cuisine.

    Johnny W.

    I really wanted to like this place. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. The restaurant looks nice and clean; the service is decent, but the food was pretty bad. I got the Japanese curry pork katsu, where the katsu was extremely dry and the curry was more of a mild Chinese curry that tasted very diluted. Although this is a Chinese ran Japanese restaurant, I just didn't expect their Japanese curry to take such a Chinese twist as well. I also got the chicken skin skewer which was extremely disappointing as well; the chicken skin was so mushy and not crispy at all, providing more of a cartilage texture instead, which definitely wasn't great at all. Just a heads up, but they charge 18% tip automatically for dine-in. Thanks for reading and best of luck! (:

    My favorite- Spicy Tuna Pizza
    Jean R.

    I am rating this restaurant based on how it compares to other AYCE sushi places and this place was very good. I went with a group of 6 or so friends. The service was quick and attentive. They have dishes not seen on other AYCE menus such as broiled oysters. Everything I got tasted so good. My favorite bite was the spicy tuna pizza. Plenty of topping on top of a crisp pancake/roti type of dough. The sashimi also was quite fresh for an AYCE place. I also appreciated dessert was included. I had fried Oreos, fried bananas and ice cream. I left stuffed and content.

    Crazy Dragon
    Brittney R.

    I have been on a sushi kick since going on vacation and trying it for the first time. I've never been interested in sushi due to being unaware that they actually had cooked options (besides the California Roll). Now, I know to look for anything tempura. On Uber Eats River Japanese Cuisine was having a BOGO special of the Godzilla Roll and Crazy Dragon Roll. I thoroughly enjoyed both, but favored the Godzilla Roll which was deep fried and reminded me of what I had on vacation. We also had chicken fried rice (good serving, nice and hot) and Rock Shrimp Tempura (they put the sauce on the side so it's no soggy when delivered). All in all indefinitely will order again for the Godzilla Roll. If you're doing pick up on Uber Eats be prepared to wait even after they've hit "ready" on their end.

    Crazy dragon roll
    Shashi R.

    Ordered on Uber eats. Yellowtail tartar was the best part because of the ponzu sauce. Fish was ok and there was a little egg in the middle. Nice presentation. Uni don is worth it because of the quantity of the uni, but the quality and freshness was only ok.

    Inside
    Susana I.

    This location is leaps and bounds better than their Flushing location. We did AYCE Buffet with three people for lunch ($107.85) and a Sprite ($2.50). You definitely get your moneys worth at Rivers. The value and quality food/service is really hard to beat -- it's as good as your average sushi spot but AYCE. Plus if you're not into raw seafood they have a variety of hot kitchen food so there's something for everyone. Just be sure to arrive in stretchy pants and save room for ice cream with their fried Oreos.

    Potato Shrimp
    Chris P.

    I saw a picture of the potato shrimp appetizer plus a buy one get one Rock'n Roll containing spicy tuna inside the avocado and I just have to order it via Uber Eats. Picture 1: Potato Shrimp appetizer - loved it and it hit the spot. Definitely worth ordering, not a lot of places at least to knowledge has them. Picture 2: Rock'n Roll - this is two orders deceiving filling, I ate half for lunch and half for dinner. Definitely will try more of their rolls and even explore the AYCE option!

    Kitchen AYCE Menu
    Lina S.

    STAY AWAY. The food is not great, they triple your order of everything, they drown every roll in spicy mayo, things either taste undercooked or overseasoned to drown out the negatives. Worse, they add a mandatory 18% tip AND add extra charges for no reason. DO NOT GO HERE IF YOU LIKE TO EAT FOOD. You have been warned. Before the bill came this place would have been 3 stars because some of their special rolls are good, but nothing great.

    Yuck
    Raquel C.

    I ordered from here before but never again what a waste of money how you mess up gyoza disgusting that's my face and this sh$t nasty. The sushi is so bland how it's topped with spicy mayo and still nasty like WTF PASS!!!

    Vindo C.

    Food wasn't really fresh, my daughter ended up getting sick after eating here. I believe it was from the soft shell crab sushi. Servers weren't really as pleasant, one of them Literally passed me the big plate of sushi and said "here" as if telling me to take the plate and put it on the table, and note that this was while I was trying to make room for the large plate since there were a lot of empty plates that was never collected. I don't mind grabbing the plate but the manner on how it was passed was fairly rude. This place used to be good but not really sure what happened, but it seems to be going downhill. Sticky tables. Bad service and mediocre food at best.

    Aya E.

    Ordered: All-You-Can-Eat Sushi (~$37 Weekend Dinner) Aya's take: Absolutely disappointing. Over 30 minutes to get basic appetizers and over an hour to get sushi orders. The sushi and sashimi were actually pretty good. The appetizers were mostly subpar. The wait was completely unreasonable considering it wasn't even busy at 6pm when we went. Excessive wait time for AYCE? Come on now. It truly ruined the whole experience. Would not recommend.

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