Been coming here since 2010-ish and wow. It is still absolutely incredible. From the size of fish on the nigiri pieces, to the grilled taste on the baked mussels, and this one time I said "surprise me" when I asked for a hand roll and was, indeed, surprised, this place has never. Never. Let me down (the Reno location did which is why we don't talk anymore) Come hungry, leave fishy read more

Sushi Pier Tahoe - (Counterclockwise) hamachi, salmon, scallop, special scallop hand roll - Sushi Bars Near Me - Stateline, Nevada

I ordered takeout sushi on Christmas Eve for my family while we were staying in Lake Tahoe for the holidays. When we got home and opened the order, the food was completely unacceptable. The rice tasted off, the tempura shrimp tasted like it had been sitting out for a long time, and we ordered two different vegetable rolls that were also inedible. I called the restaurant immediately and spoke with a manager, who said I would receive a call back the next business day regarding a refund. No one ever followed up, so I had to call again. I was then told the owner needed to process the refund. Two weeks later, well after the holidays, I checked my bank statement and saw the charge had fully posted with no refund issued. I contacted the restaurant again, and the manager was unapologetic and unhelpful. Between the poor food quality and the lack of accountability afterward, this was a very disappointing experience. Save yourself the money and the headache. read more

Kiko was our sushi chef at the bar, friendly and skilled, we ate our fill for lunch! This was our first time at this location but we had been to their sister location in Reno. Everything was delicious and the service was quick! read more

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Really enjoyed the sushi selection. We opted for the lunch AYCE buffet which excluded some specialty rolls. Dinner AYCE buffet gives you the full menu but Lunch satisfied us. We got there close to opening and there were folks at the sushi bar, and 2 other tables seated. They have slips for you to fill out and no limit to how many to order. We selected majority of our meal during the first round. Overall it was great, service was quick but I'm not sure if their system would work if there were more patrons. Our waitress was nice to prepare a huge dessert for my husband's birthday! She was very friendly and accommodating. We will definitely come back the next time we are in South Lake Tahoe. read more

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A group of us came here for Valentine's Day. The guys called a day ahead and were told to get there by 4:30/5 as they didn't take reservations. We all did the all you can eat options- I love that you get to order it and then they make it versus having stuff ready and out (self-serve). Everything we got we loved, including the recommendations from the waiter. read more

Not sure what all of the fuss is about on their recent reviews for multiple one stars. I was on a mission to check them out again, it's been one year since my dad and I went in November 2024, where we had a lovely experience. Since this is the only all you can eat sushi restaurant in South Lake Tahoe, we knew this is where we wanted to go on this Tuesday night. We got there early to check out the casino that is connected to the restaurant and so we walked in shortly after 5 o'clock. We chose our seat at the bar, which is the best place to sit, in my opinion. Especially if you want great service, I recommend getting to know your sushi chef. We had the pleasure of meeting Francisco and I think he told us his nickname is Kiko. I started off by washing my hands in the bathroom, which was extremely clean and spotless so to my surprise, I thought, wow clean is a good sign. To make this short and sweet we ordered amazing Nigiri a couple of appetizers, buy one get one free house sake, and we only shared two long rolls because we filled up quickly. My only complaint was that I couldn't find anyone to fill up my water until the very end so Francisco filled it up for me. Sushi makes me thirsty! All in all we had a four star experience and I'll keep it at that for now. read more

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Do NOT go here! Like so many reviews from the past 5-6 months, I am also one who used to love coming here, but tonight was simply terrible, from the service to the quality of the food. I made a critical error and did not read the most recent reviews before coming - never again, be sure to check recent reviews for all restaurants you are going to. Food costs are going up everywhere, so the $45 per person for AYCE was a bit of a surprise, but not terribly so. Our server took my order and part of my friend's then stopped and handed us a pre-printed sheet for us to write down our choices. OK, but why take part of an order? 15 minutes later no nigiri and no rolls. The person who seated us then brings part of our order, we ask what the specific items are and she shrugs then walks away as she has no idea. The rest of the order comes a few minutes later and we guess what items are on the plate. The Mountain Roll has a weird sweet taste to it, sauce that just doesn't go with sushi. The smoked salmon nigiri is interesting but wildly aggressive smoke flavor, the BBQ Seared Tuna nigiri is not only not BBQ'd, it is not seared. Our server returns and we are so disappointed in the flavor of the rolls - but we spent $45 each so we order more nigiri, and then again she takes the order, then hands us a paper to fill out the order ourselves and she comes back a few minutes later to take the order a second time. Another 15 minutes pass, only two orders of nigiri arrive, and 15 minutes later the rest still has not arrived. We ask the hostess who delivers the food and she again does not know what we are talking about. The server returns and says they are busy, does not go get the rest of our food, just mumbles on more about being busy - 5 tables of diners the entire time we were there. We ask for our check and let her know both the food and service were not very good, she hands us the check and says we should come back, it will be better next time. Read the reviews from the last few months, it is not going to get better, they still lose orders, they still serve bad food, they need to shut down. read more

My #1 for tahoe. Sushi is awesome here, chefs are terrific. Atmosphere is wild on Fri/Sat nights.

The food was ok but they give you way too much rice as a way to get you full. Ambience is very cool, the rare vintage rock n roll print memorabilia is a nice touch but the service here is not so good. You have to wait a while to order, wait for refills and you have to wait to get your check, so tons of waiting. Kids also have to pay same price as adults so really not worth it when they are just trying to fill you up with giant pieces of rice. We should have known when we sat down that the sushi was going to be mediocre when the ginger came out pink. I would not recommend... read more

Me and my wife have been to the one in reno so we were exited they had one in lake tahoe. The food was delicious and service was good.

The all you can eat rolls were good. My favorite was the Wiseguy and Joey Ramone roll

Surprise fee. Dirty dish. Poor food quality. I was pretty sad about this experience. I had come here in 2019 when my son was an infant, and today I was trying to recreate a good memory. Even my son, who is now 7, wasn't happy with this place. Food prices don't match the quality, the grocery store has better sushi without hidden fees and tip pressure. I won't return again. Even the staff seemed unhappy and burned out, likely because they have to deal with unhappy customers all day. I know that it's not their fault and this is just a business going downhill. Lastly, the iconic sticker wall that was at the entrance is gone. I've worked in a fast casual sushi restaurant. I have a decent understanding of what sushi restaurant etiquette should be. This restaurant is an overall disappointment and waste of my money. As a single mother going out to eat is a rare and special occasion. This bad experience was hurtful. read more

Sushi Pier Tahoe - Dirty dish - Sushi Bars Near Me - Stateline, Nevada

The quality of the food was great. Francisco was our sushi chef and he was amazing. Very attentive! However, we were never ask if we needed anything from the waitstaff, all the girls working sat on their phones the entire time. Not a good look. 5 star food and Francisco. read more

The food here was okay. Not the best, not the worst. Some items like the stuffed deep fried squid and upside down crab were pretty good. I didn't like that the nigiri and hand rolls had way too much rice. There was so much rice, we didn't even bother ordering sushi rolls and we did the AYCE. The rice was also hard. Kids' price for AYCE is the same as adults. For that, I am docking a star. They do have a kids menu to order separately from, but the fact that my two year old only took 4 bites of his food, it would have been nice to have the 3 and under eat free option. This is the first AYCE restaurant I've been to that doesn't have that. I ordered the miso soup and it was very salty. The quail egg shooters were also salty. I ordered the house salad thinking it was going to be made with green spring mix and a delicious sauce like other sushi restaurants. Instead, it was cabbage with a mayonnaise dressing which I did not like. Customer service was good and the waitress came over often. It's a decent and quiet little restaurant. Were I to come here again, I would skip the salmon and tuna hand rolls because they were simple and bland with tones of rice. read more

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Got greeted and seated right away! Ended up doing all you can eat sushi and it was pretty good. The miso soup was really salty but other than that, the sushi itself was good! The place was spacious and lots of seating. All the workers were very nice and accommodating. I love how our orders got taken care of right away. Would go again to try other things. read more

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Miso soup - 7/10 Elvi's Roll - yummy, 9/10 Pork potstickers - 7/10 Ava roll - 7/10 Korean pork belly tacos - 7/10 Cucumber & seaweed sunomono - 8/10 How We Roll - 5/10 read more

We used to live in the area and went to Sushi Pier regularly. They have gone significantly down hill. The fish was just not good. Even our favorites of Himachi and Salmon tasted as though it wasn't fresh and was poorly stored. The sushi rice tasted old, or just poorly made. Rolls were poorly assembled and lacking flavor. We came for lunch, it was us and another table, and somehow the waitress struggled to provide decent service or make us feel welcome. The final straw was our waitress took our card, and brought out the plates, that was it. Never refilled waters or tended to anything else, and we had a required 18% gratuity added to our bill. The gratuity was added on top of tax, and then had a CC usage fee. read more

I went to eat & get some dinner. I should have just turned around & walked out after just seeing employees in there with the smell of cigarette smoke in the restaurant. If there was a smoking section, cool, i would have asked to sit in it because they were always better ventilated than other parts of restaurants, but obviously those days are gone. After a few hours, something wasn't right. Started feeling warm, next thing, I'm having to pull over to a gas station to get some water so I could puke to make the sweats & watery saliva stop. After I puked up that fish, I was good. That was the only thing I ate that I didn't prepare myself. I use to enjoy this place but I'm not going to be going back there anymore. Not unless they start addressing the issues they have going on there because they clearly have let quality slip & now it got so bad that it made me puke. read more

If you ask me, this place is a replica of Panda Express that sells very expensive, sub par sushi, with the audacity to charge 3.5% for credit card usage. This is my last time eating here, regretfully not coming back... My kid ordered udon, the one dish that you can't mess up but I think they added liquid smoke to the broth. In my many years on Earth, it was the nastiest udon with mushrooms? why? couldn't you just use Japanese shoyu soup base in the broth.. It was inedible and the audacity to charge $19?!!! (Highway robbery) The rice on the rolls tastes worse than my day old rice. In preparation, they didn't soak and cook the rice properly. The beef teriyaki had the sweetest/ thickest brown sauce on it (that is not Japanese teriyaki style). I really felt bad for my other kid eating it and took some excess sauce out bc it was too sweet, thick, and salty. The rolls we ordered weren't the $19 ones but we still ordered several. They looked and tasted sad. The service was simply so disappointing and won't visit again. This is not an authentic Japanese sushi establishment if you ask me. There are 5 servers, and only one server was decent/ nice.. the other server did nothing and acted busy... when my husband asked a simple question about the menu, she responded with a What?! And walked away..???! This place is going downhill, just look at the exterior.. I'm livid my family had to eat here during our Tahoe trip. It was one of those nights where a cup of noodles would've been better with no wait and convenience. And don't worry guys, I think they're charging the 3.5% credit card fee to clean up their mess around the front of their establishment. read more

Sushi Pier Tahoe - Entrance to the restaurant - Sushi Bars Near Me - Stateline, Nevada

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My favorite sushi spot! I love the Mickey and Donald nigiri, and the sushi rolls are amazing as well, especially the Sierra and Spooner rolls. Such a great AYCE spot. read more

Great atmosphere, friendly staff, fresh food. I like that they offer not only sushi, but you can also order burgers and chicken strips. So if someone in the group ain't feeling sushi? They offer other options. read more

Love this place! I remember when they opened. They have changed a bit since then though. The staff was friendly enough. We were seated quickly as they had just opened and they weren't busy yet. We opted not to do the all you can eat this time around as two of my kids don't really eat sushi. We tried to order fairly quickly so we weren't caught up in any kind of Saturday lunch rush. It was weird though, we got some of our sushi before the miso soups we ordered. It was weird though that it wasn't busy and everything we ordered took a while to arrive at the table. As usual though everything was really good. I love the cooked scallops they do here and we usually order yellowtail hand rolls. My personal favorite is the Marilynn long roll. Back in the day the sushi chef would make me a hand roll version but he doesn't work here any more. read more

It was so much better than that i expected. Their service, food and music were dope. If you wanna hang out with your friends with good cocktail and sushi, you will love it! read more

Amazing food and service! Haven't had sushi in so long and it was my fiancé birthday and they made it so special. Thank you guys read more

Sushi Pier Tahoe - Amazing food, amazing place! - Sushi Bars Near Me - Stateline, Nevada

Decent sushi, but awful service. Came here at lunch on a Sunday. There was only one other table in the restaurant but instead of being attentive we had to get up and hand them our all-you-can-eat sheets every time we wanted to order something new. Also, they just let the dirty dishes pile up. They'd drop off a new plate and run away without offering to remove anything. Four of the employees sat behind the sushi bar on their phones while we tried to get their attention. read more

No longer a good place to go... Been going for years maybe once or twice a month until recently when they change, Notice baby(1yr 6month) got charged for all you can eat Ask if this was a mistake it was not read more

Always always always AMAZING! Fernando was awesome. Such good food and all you can eat! Fresh, with great presentation Love it! read more

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The service is very quick and the workers are very friendly! I saw a few low reviews, not sure if it's from previous workers or just people who complain about everything but this place is great. They are very generous with their portions. And I like that they allow me to do Ala cart while my husband does AYCE as I don't eat as much. We're visiting from Hawaii but we've come here a few years ago and still love it! read more

Not the fresher or best cuts of fish, lots of cooked/fried options... not bad for AYCE. Decent service, price and a classic read more

Great little sushi spot in South Lake Tahoe! We sat at the sushi bar and had a great experience -- friendly service and a chill atmosphere. Tried several rolls (the Joey Ramone and Sushi Pier Roll were standouts) and some ramen, which was super tasty. Our non-adventurous kids were happy with the California roll, so it's a win for families too. They offer an all-you-can-eat special, which we skipped, but the sushi quality was so good it's probably worth it. Full bar and a solid happy hour. Definitely recommend! read more

The food was good although the service was very sloppy and poor and they do not communicate with each other at all and we asked to speak to the manager and waited almost 30 mins for him to come speak with us to solve the issue but the issue was never solved and overcharged us on poor service and we missed so much food while we waited 2 hours for our food because they lack a proper system for there ticket system. DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE FOR SUSHI FIND ANOTHER SPOT WOULD NOT COME AGAIN read more

Honestly if I could, I wouldn't even give this place a rating. We were a big group and decided to divide us into 2 tables for AYCE and they got our orders mixed up. One table had all the food and ours didn't and they didn't know which food belong to which table. So their system needs improvement. The servers were nice but some didn't understood us. We asked for paper to order more and didn't come back til 30 mins later. The fish quality was not good, the salmon wasn't a bright orange color and Tuna had a bad taste, pretty bad quality. The octopus had a suspicious sauce on top of it and we didn't order the sauce!! They didn't come to our table to check on us. Only once the entire time we were there. This place is not worth $45 per person. Post-dinner, we got our bill and paid $655 and wasn't happy with it at all because we didn't receive all of our food. We were there for 2 hours waiting and we asked for manager but waiters come back with the same excuse. Manager made us wait an hour to just talk about our issue, poor communication and accountability. Blaming us for not ordering and telling them we did not remind them our order but we tell them and our order is marked on the sheet. So how could you miss our order. We didn't get our food because they have different chefs and they switch out but that's no excuse to follow the sheet order and get it out to us. They are definitely not ready for AYCE. Automatically 18% gratuity, they don't deserve it. Service was terrible and never coming back or recommending this place. An addition charging 3.5% card usage is ridiculous! read more

Honestly the sushi was totally fine and the prices were pretty good. Service was okay. I think the thing that's the worst for me they can't really help. There was loud music booming from the casino they are connected to and an extremely strong smell of cigarette smoke (assuming from the casino as well because there are doors connecting them and people constantly walking between). If I came back I'd sit as far away from that side as possible and probably not bring my child with me. read more

After a full day of skiing, the group worked up an appetite. We decided to order the AYCE sushi for $45 per person. This AYCE option included appetizers, nigiri, long rolls, dinner long rolls, and even dessert. Keep in mind that they have an excessive waste fee, so don't order more than you anticipate being able to eat. For the sushi, you make tally marks next to the sushi that you'd like to order and the server comes back quite promptly with your orders. We ordered quite a bit, though my favorites included the rainbow hand roll, mariner roll, and items with unagi. read more

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Not the friendliest staff. The food is good and at a good price. Maybe not a lot of space to sit except for the bar.

This is what happens when you're late to having a say on dinner.... Ordered our food on the phone for take out. Came in and the host was super nice. Place looked unsanitary so my hopes on the food weren't too high. Seen how the food plates were coming out and seemed sloppy. Finally to our order..... they forgot my wife's Sashimi order so that was really upsetting. Heading back there now.... Asked for medium rare on my steak teriyaki (which is a pretty thick cut) and it's freaking medium well to well done... smothered with some store bought teriyaki sauce, side of slaw and edamame. Ordered mixed tempura dinner and it came with 6 pcs of shrimp not tempura, coleslaw and edamame that they didn't bother seasoning. So many little things can be fixed and adjusted in their menu but it just looks and tastes like they don't care. Only reason for the 2 stars is the nice host. I just stopped taking photos of the rest of the food... you guys are the only sushi spot within minutes of these hotels and food is just not that good. Please do better and turn it all around. So much potential with the area. Super disappointing Editing stars.... Back to 1 wish it had zero stars....cane back and they said here's your $16 back for the sashimi..... we just closed and can't cut up Sashimi.... The inconvenience, lack of customer service and the way they wanted to handle the situation without making anything right.... Just wow.... Horrible restaurant. read more

Sushi Pier Tahoe - Beef Jerky Bento - Sushi Bars Near Me - Stateline, Nevada

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Omg please avoid this place!!! We have been to Sushi Pier in Reno and Heavenly pretty much every year for the all you can eat sushi. However, this time the food was very very horrible. The rice is undercooked and very cold and sticky. You can actually tastes the powdery in the rice. To be honest, if you have a rice cooker at home, you can probably cook better rice than this. Sushi wasn't very fresh at all. I feel like I can get better sushi at Safeway for like $10 a box. Service was okay. They served everything very fast and always coming back to ask us if we want to order anything more. However, when we first tried to tell our server that the rice is under cook, she only simply replied we cook our rice every day. Ummmm okay. So we continued to eat, but then we still couldn't eat the rice in the roll. We couldn't even finish the first round of nigiri rolls and hand rolls. Therefore, we decided to give another try to let maybe one of manager know that the rice tasted undercooked and powdery. Once we told her, she went back to discuss with other workers. We were expecting some responds back but no. No response until we pay the bill. No discounts, no explanation, nothing. I don't know what to say more but just hopefully they can go back to the same standard as before but most likely we will not come back anymore and would probably wouldn't recommended this place to anyone anymore. read more

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The staff is always very pleasant. The only thing that is stopping me from giving this 5 stars is some times the food isn't that good. We've had tomes where the fish is super fresh and very high quality and others where it's not that good. Still one of our favorite places to go in town. read more

All you can eat buffet is expensive. The rolls are giant, but with much higher rice to sushi ratio. Too much rice. Not only does it not taste good. You have to finish the plate before you can order more. Dishes were dirty. Tea pot was missing a lid. 3.5% surcharge on credit/debit transaction. You guys are already expensive and cutting food costs. As a business owner, I would raise prices and eliminate the card surcharge. But I don't know how much more you can raise. Best of luck. read more

Sushi Pier Tahoe - Sushi rolls - Sushi Bars Near Me - Stateline, Nevada

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Family is cravng for some sushi while on vacation in Tahoe. Found this place and thought they are good. They charge for extra fees if you use your credit/card. After we left couple of hours later my son had an upset stomach. He had Salmon Sashimi and sushi, which we think that the sashimi made his tummy ache. We will NOT come back to this place. read more