Isushi - Castro Valley

Extensive menu with many roles selection. Great, friendly staff as always. We had a big group for a Friday night and they were small enough to hold a table for our party of nine. We eat here a ton so was happy to do it with a larger group that we have not yet done. We're coming back...

I love this small restaurant, great sushi, good service. Right among a lot of fun shopsFood: 5/5

Delicious and fresh every time I've gone here. Definitely worth the price.

We came here on a weekend afternoon and found it to only be occupied by one other group when we walked in. Service was not the best. Waitress didn't seem happy to be there and seemed irritated at times with us, especially my young kids. We ordered a chicken ramen for the kids (they substituted with miso broth since they only had spicy ramen broth available). The chicken was cooked well, but the ramen was soft and overcooked. I ordered a sashimi salad for myself. The sashimi was not fresh and so disappointing. It was equivalent to supermarket sushi that's been sitting there the whole day. The color also looked off, and the fish had a leathery taste. Fish should not taste like this. Salad was mediocre and drizzled with heavy cream dressing, which I didn't like as it washed out the flavor of the fish. I guess in hindsight, that might have been good since the fish was the worst part. My husband got a chirashi bowl, which had the worst sashimi he has ever had. He let me try the sushi rice, and it tasted very off. It was almost like they put only vinegar and little mirin to balance the vinegar flavor. It also tasted a little old. We paid a whopping $75 before tip. Definitely not worth the price. Also the restaurant was very rundown with part of the front broken wood covered by some cardboard. I will not eat here again and don't recommend it given the much better options in the area such as Tancho.

In this place looking for dinner with a friend from the state so glad that we tried the place! GREAT food! Staff and service. Her tempura is sooo yummy and not fat. We had to order another article that we have because it was just delish!