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    Sake Cafe

    4.1 (154 reviews)
    ModerateSushi Bars
    Closed 11:00 am - 9:30 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Quiet
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    Boston roll

    Shrimp shumai- delicious Eel roll & shrimp tempura- delicious Boston roll- lacking. I included a photo below, but it was mostly cucumber and lettuce. Typically I'm used to a Boston roll having a larger piece of crab, avocado and shrimp. Seems like they have a different rendition of this roll! It was still tasty, just unexpected.

    5. Sashimi Deluxe
    Helen Z.

    Came here for dinner and enjoyed the sashimi deluxe (I think) and my boyfriend ordered the spicy beef ramen. The sashimi was pretty fresh and there was one white fish that they wrapped around shiso which I thought was a nice touch since I love shiso. The "ramen" was really very good, but they should consider renaming it, because it's not what we expected at all. When you see beef ramen on the menu at a sushi/Japanese-ish restaurant, you aren't expecting clearly Chinese style noodle soup with mala flavoring, which is what we got. It's more like a beef Mala noodle soup, which was really good, but that's because we happen to like that too. Service was attentive and started us with ice water as soon as we sat down. They did say it was $6 extra to switch out tuna in the sashimi combo for something else since we don't really like tuna, which was ridiculous, but I think there was some sort of miscommunication going on. Some of the special rolls looked a little overpriced but interesting. 3.5 stars and I would come back to try other things for sure

    3. Green Paper Roll

    Awesome place with excellent attentive service! Had the best chicken satay served with a delicious peanut sauce, a green paper roll, and tofu pad Thai ( I wanted to try everything!) Everything was amazing, not greasy, fresh. The pad Thai was probably the best I've had! Cannot wait to return!

    1. Sushi
    Luke H.

    Excellent sushi. Best black pepper chicken I'd ever had. Prompt service for a Saturday evening. Wonderful presentation. Menu was a touch spendy for my taste, but the food was worth every penny.

    Maki: spicy salmon, eel cucumber.  Nigiri: maguro, hamachi, hirame, saba, toro; unagi, tamago, ikura. 2019 01 03. S23.
    Jeremy C.

    I returned to this small dimly lit restaurant for a seat at the sushi bar / alcohol bar (photo). The specials menu on the back wall listed an extremely good price for toro - not sure if it was going to be ohtoro or (more likely) chutoro, but I'll order it either way. Despite other reviews you may have read, Sake Cafe has had their liquor since at least December 2017. Behind their bar was sake, beer, wine and a few liquor bottles. The official website to check any NYS liquor license is: https://sla.ny.gov/public-license-query (usually good within about 30 days). I looked through the menu while Japanese pop music lingered in the background over the muted television news. The music was appropriate, considering the cartoonish sushi mural along one entire wall. The staff was changing from lunch menu to dinner, so I watched the servers change over all the other place settings from paper to cloth napkins about five minutes after I ordered a couple of small rolls and eight nigiri. The servers were attentive enough, and pretty quick, but the restaurant was barely occupied. This meant that the one chef had no other distractions when he had to finish the piece he forgot to make, just as I realized it was missing. Small mistakes might be forgiven during a Saturday night rush, but not if there is only one order ticket to prepare. The soup was presentable, and the rice was well flavored, but the overall presentation of the main was uneven. I never did like artificial decorations, such as the drink umbrella and little blue neon light used on my plate under the shredded diakon. The maki were pleasant, but the nigiri needed some work, though the taste was acceptable, even without wasabi under each piece of fish. For the individual pieces, the slice of mackerel was broken into several unappetizing pieces atop the rice (photo). The very small scrap of nori seaweed around the nigiri of the egg custard and the tiny grilled eel did not wrap all the way around to secure the item to the rice. But at least it was decorative. These may seem like petty concerns, but presentation and interaction with the chefs has always been a huge part of my experience. I am sure I'll return soon, but it seems as if only a few very small things are holding them back from their potential. 2019 01 03. S23.

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    I love this place! Always delish and everyone is so friendly. Great sushi every time.

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    I'm so glad they're open again for delivery soon we'll be able to enjoy a dinner inside

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    Wouldn't deliver to me because i didn't give a tip to driver, only ordered from them once.

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    Drunken noodles are the best! They used to have delicious fried fish on the menu but not anymore.

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