Don't judge a book by it's cover. It is beautiful inside this place. The sushi is always buy one get one free, and it is very good! This our go to for date nights. read more

The food is excellent. No fillers or fakes. Authentic! Very nice portion sizes. Can't wait to try the sushi. Shrimp fried rice has huge shrimp. Great flavors too in all dishes. Miso soup is delightful. read more

I have tried many Sushi Restaurant in town... This is the perfect place to go for your dinning... It's has the wonderful atmosphere... Quick and very sincere services... Very good kitchen food and fantastic sushi... with super low price... I'm quite full with a lot of good food for less than $20... Imagine !!!... I highly recommend for everybody who looking for a place to dine in for yourself and family... Sake Bomb must be a perfect place for you... read more

This place is a hidden GEM! I've lived in the area my entire life and have never visited that shopping center until a friend took me to Sake Bomb for dinner one night. Needless to say, I was hooked! I often order sushi takeout from there. All sushi is buy one, get one free - such a deal, and it's awesome food. I've eaten there quite a few times on the weekends and the place is never filled up, but the atmosphere is nice. I would definitely recommend this place for sushi lovers! read more

Great service, even better sushi!! I'm visiting from PA and chose this place on Yelp because of distance from the Marriott and "Sake" in the name... More than pleasantly surprised by my experience here. The Sake list alone is unreal and takes up a full page of the menu. The sushi rolls took up 3 pages!! Loved everything I ate, the bartender (Jesse) was awesome and the fact sushi rolls were half off today made my night! I'll be back! read more

Sake Bomb - My date for the evening - Asian Fusion Near Me - Durham, North Carolina

Delicious sushi! The love honey roll is so good! And it's always 2 for the price of 1 rolls, which makes it much more affordable.

Food was good, maybe great. Nothing amazing, but you'll be happy after a meal here. Portion sizes are decent sized too. Service was great. Attentive and kind waiter. Ambiance is nice and seating is comfortable and roomy. Place is generally large and has nice decor. Overall, would recommend for a dinner out with friends in a casual setting if in the mood for japanese/thai. read more

This place was a bomb for me! We arrived relatively late, around 9:30. By the time we were half way through the meal they started cleaning. This means they were sweeping the floors around us, and they did something that sent a burning smell through the restaurant (my guess is cleaning the grills). Then they started with some type of cleaner with fumes that were strong enough to burn my eyes (and we were not near the kitchen so I wonder about the folks working there). I won't be going back, but I guess I should comment on food as well. It was okay, not great, not terrible. Large portions for the main course. Decor was better than some restaurants but artificial and cheap if you looked past the first glance. Service was good. read more

The food here is really great but the customer service however is not. I ordered food through durhamtakeout.com and did not receive my rice for the hibachi chicken. I called spoke with the manager asking if they could redo the whole order since I wanted to eat it all together. The woman I spoke with said she was the manager and asked if I had a microwave. Feeling confused I just told her not to worry about it. Being that it was no fault my rice was not in the bag and should have cam with my meal to begin with, I saw no issue fixing it over. I have no plans on ever eating here again. read more

Great food and nice staff! The place isn't very pretty aesthetically speaking, but the food is well priced and the service is quick.

Had a bit of an issue when I ordered today from grub hub. But someone from sake bomb ended up personally delivering my food on time. Amazing customer service! I ordered the shrimp pad Thai, & a miso soup. Very generous amount of food. I'm saving some for later. Will definitely be ordering from here again next time I'm in the area. :) read more

loved it! went with my 12 year old son and sat at the sushi bar. Only sushi for us. The fish was really excellent and fresh. We started out with the tuna tataki app, a fav of ours, which was exceptional. Went on to have a Devil Roll, Green Monster Roll, tuna avocado roll (not on the menu but we asked for it), sweet shrimp sashimi, and yellowtail hand rolls. Later added tuna hand rolls. All were great, with the yellowtail hand rolls and sweet shrimp being standouts. Monster roll was also really tasty. It's so hard to get food sweet shrimp so I was really impressed. And the presentation was beautiful, with fried shrimp heads and a gorgeously carved lemon. Would definitely go back there if we were staying in town longer! read more

I fell victim to the old bait and switch. The food was actually pretty good. My complaint is their dishonesty and sneaky tactic of jacking up the bill. The first server recommended some sake. I ordered a bottle. There was only one size on the menu and it was $15. The server brought out the bottle which we enjoyed. When we asked for the check, the new server explained that the original server mistakenly brought a larger bottle and it was $25. If it was their mistake, especially when the menu didn't indicate that there were two different size bottles, they should have only charged the $15. I would have refused to pay, but I was dining with two guests, one of who I had just met for the first time and I honestly didn't want to leave a poor first impression. Good food but keep an eye on your bill. They will cheat you if they have the chance. read more

Great food, wonderful service. I will be a regular at Sake Bomb from this point forward!

Some coworkers and I heard the food was great here but the waitress was rude. We sat during lunch time and was ignored for 10 minutes before we decided to leave. She waited on someone else that came after us and when another waiter told her we were ready to order she brushed him away with a hand gesture. We mentioned it to other coworkers when we got to work and apparently it's not the first time this has happened. read more

This is our go-to sushi place. Not quite as good as M sushi downtown but with the buy one get one free model, we can get four great rolls for around $30. With soft drinks our bill with tax and tip is usually a little north of $40. read more

TERRIBLE BUSINESS, HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE. Ordered take out and waited over a hour and still no delivery. So I politely called the restaurant. The lady who picked up the phone was very noticeably grouchy and blamed me for not picking up my phone (I received absolutely no calls or texts), she told me to call and find the diver myself and then angrily hung up the phone. WILL NEVER ORDER FROM THIS PLACE AGAIN read more

I have enjoyed all of my visits to Sake Bomb. 2 for 1 sushi rolls at lunch ~ the salmon skin roll was great and the edamame was perfect. The Vietnamese Lemongrass and Curry dishes that I shared over dinner were also very tasty. The staff was attentive and eager to please. Check it out. read more

The food and service here are both excellent! Our server was friendly and very knowledgeable, and she made great recommendations on food and drinks. The menu is large and has representative dishes from several different Asian cuisines (Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese). The sushi offerings include both "Americanized" over-the-top rolls and nigiri + sashimi options. I had a Sunset roll and Green Monster roll, and both were very good (Sunset roll was amazing, actually). Others in my party had the Mi Xao Don (Vietnamese Crispy Noodles), which was very tasty and had lots of great shrimp. The drunken noodles were great, as were the sweet & sour chicken and miso soup we had. The exterior of the restaurant belies the gorgeous interior (very stylish wall art, light fixtures, and sushi bar). There is plenty of seating; my party of 4 was seated immediately in the middle of the dinner rush on a Friday. The prices are very reasonable considering the portion sizes (easily two meals' worth of food for each entree, and sushi rolls are BOGO). I highly recommend Sake Bomb! read more

The sushi is very good here I get take out at least once a week. The buy one get one deal on the sushi is even better. The tempura shrimp app and the crab ragoons are very good as well (you can actually taste the crab). My favorite dish here is the Mongolian beef It is cooked perfectly every time I order it, and the flavors are always on point. read more

Looks super sketchy on the outside, but never fear, the inside is very nice and classy. You just can't beat buy one get one free prices. Service was great the first time I came, but the second time, I felt like we waited a while for a server despite the restaurant being half empty. read more

Shiki who? Sake Bomb has, far and away, the best entrees and sushi around. Wasabi Roll and Sunset Roll were great and it's buy-one-get-one. And it's closer to campus with a great bar and awesome ambiance. Run, don't walk. read more

Ordered 22 rolls at an average of $14/roll and 9 quail eggs @ $3/ egg. They advertise buy 1 get 1 free, but since the eggs were only $3 each that's 9 of the 15 items they took off. If we would have ordered 9 rolls instead of eggs the price would have been half of what it was even though they would have given us much more. Bill was $400 instead of just over $150 Lesson learned won't be back read more

Fuck. This. Place. It took one and half hour for my party to get our food. That's the length of three episodes of Friends or a movie. We could have all gone to see a fucking movie before our orders came. My waiter got our orders wrong and interacted with us as little as possible. We waited so long that it would have been more efficient to just go to another restaurant, eat there, and still have enough time to come back to wait for our orders to come. Our server, Lee, after everytime we ask him to do something, would take 10 minutes talking to other servers before using the 37 seconds to complete the action we asked him to perform. If you want to eat dinner here, just go ahead and call at lunch time and your order of subpar Japanese food would arrive precisely at dinner time. read more

Mediocre sushi...at best. Sitting at the sushi bar gave us a view into the dish washing area located behind the bar and off to one side a brightly lit room with a very loud ice maker. The huge tvs behind the bar were thankfully muted but are aesthetically unappealing. The "everyday is BOGO sushi day" is gimmicky. Our server suggested that we order items in "pairs" of pricing range since it's bogo...suggesting that we'd get one of each of the "pairs" as a freebie. Instead the "computer" automatically takes off the lowest price items...regardless of ordering in "pairs". When we complained, the manager did adjust the bill. The whole pricing deal is misleading....set a fair price & stop insulting me with the "bargains"! read more

I've been going to two other sushi places in Durham for the past year and a half, and now i'm kicking myself for not finding this place sooner! I went with 7 people, and five of us got a la cart sushi and got a boat. Two others got the sashimi plates. I think the waitress forgot to put in their orders for the sashimi plates, so they ended up getting them way after we were done with our boat. That was a bit disappointing and is the reason for the four stars instead of five. The waitress felt bad and comp'ed a few drinks, but she acted like she didn't make a mistake and it was just slow, which I'm pretty sure was not true (it doesn't take an hour to make a sashimi plate). Overall, the atmosphere was great! The food was awesome! Definitely some of the best sushi I've had in a while. The prices were reasonable, buy one get one free. I especially like the salmon sashimi. I plan to definitely go back to this place. It looks like a hole in the wall from the outside, but the inside is great! read more

Really wanted to like this place, after all who doesn't like sushi and beer? They had Kirin Ichiban on tap, which was exciting and the highlight of my visit. However, the service was lackluster (had to flag down a staff member for refills and utensils), as other yelpers have identified. The sushi was decent, but will a bill for one toppling over $35, the experience not enough for me to ever come back again. Onward! read more

Awesome! This place is a total hidden treasure! It's in a freaking strip mall next to an autoparts store and looks like it's closed from the outside, but you go in and the décor is modern and comfortable and clean. The bar side has cozy booths, with the restaurant side being more open with a view of the sushi chefs. The rolls are always Buy 1 Get 1 but are honestly pretty darn fabulous, with a ton of variety and consistent quality. I've been here probably a dozen times at least and every time it is great read more

The tuna in the rolls didn't taste fresh. As I was eating it, I was already worrying that I would be violently ill in a few hours.

Meh, service has went down slightly. Last night we ate there and the plates smelled like fish that had gone bad. It didn't taste as fresh either. The appetizers were good though but the sushi I wasn't impressed with. The size was a good portion but the bad fish smell made it not so appetizing for me. read more

Another American Asian food joint. No different from others in town. The decor in the lobby is ridiculous.

My fiancé and I have been trying to find tasty sushi places around the Triangle area and I have to say, from what we've found, this is the best so far. A couple had introduced us to this restaurant and I had my doubts when first looking at the exterior of the restaurant (blackout windows and next to a Dollar Tree in a strip mall type of area). I'll eat anywhere but I did not have the highest expectations when first seeing this place. Then...you walk through the door and there's a chandelier and tons of dining space, a beautiful bar, and clean dining area. I was blown away. BOGO sushi is a major plus as well. The couple, myself, and my fiancé ordered 10-12 rolls that night and they were wonderful. We've dined at Shiki Sushi before and when we bit into the rolls at Sake Bomb, we all had a look of amazement. There was no way we were ever going to eat at Shiki again. Our favorite that night was the Poseidon roll (bits of seaweed salad on top). Service was great and child friendly. This is currently my go to place for sushi. I haven't had a bad experience yet. I recommend this place to everyone that asks me about sushi. read more

Used to come here all the time for the buy one get one free roll deal when I was in Durham. Don't let the location turn you off, you'll quickly discover that this is a great place for sushi + a night with friends. read more

This is one one of the best restaurants in Durham the food is great the curry is out of this world. The workers are very polite the food comes out hot an on time I would ask for a better vibe to be around during dinner time read more

This was one of the worst dining experiences I've had in a long time. Service was unbearably slow. No one greeted us when we walked in and we ended up seating ourselves. It took 10 minutes for anyone to acknowledge us and bring water and eventually menus. There were 6 dirty tables when we walked in and those were not cleaned off for the whole hour we were there. We were never brought silverware or napkins and got them ourselves. One of the 2 servers clearly had been drinking, slurring words and reeked of alcohol. Food was average and not worth the high price point or such an unpleasant experience. For a $50 meal I think this was ridiculous and would not recommend this establishment to anyone. read more

We arrived at this restaurant at a non peak hour with very few other customers. We waited over an hour after our sushi order. We finally asked how much longer it would take to get our order. We were told flatly and unapologetically that they were busy with take out orders and it would be awhile. No attempt was made to help us get our food in a timely fashion. read more

This place looks like a hole-in-the-wall, but once you walk through the door the atmosphere completely changes. It's constructed nicely and looks quite trendy inside with sleek walls and decor. I ordered takeout and was happily surprised to find that they still offered BOGO free sushi for takeout orders. The sushi tasted great and was comparable to larger, more upscale sushi restaurants and the bun thit nuong noodle dish was good too. I'll definitely be back! read more

This was my first visit here. Nice place in a drab strip mall. Big dining area with good lighting. We got there around 7:45 and waited a long time even to get our order taken but then even longer to get the food. Left at 9:30! It wasn't overly crowded and 3 sushi chefs. Eating took no longer than 20 mins. I have a bad back so sitting for that long is painful so that was a problem. We got sushi - all raw fish types and it was all pretty tasty and fresh. I thought I had ordered a diverse set of 6 rolls but they all had similar flavors instead of varying from roll to roll. Overall not bad but not great either. I might try again another time to give it a second chance. read more

I stand by my previous review, but here's a tip: ask to be seated in the bar area. You will be served by one of the bartenders, and I have had much better experiences with them than with the other servers. read more

Like all the "dragon" rolls. Blue devil was not as good as I expected. Order it just for I'm a duke student. lol. All the "rice" entree are good, especially the shrimp. read more