Sakura Bistro Tapas & Sake Bar in Oakland

I love this place. Best rolls: Sake toro roll (salmon belly), Angry Fish (spicy tuna, escolar/walu, tuna, shiso), negitoro. They have a happy hour from 5-7pm, $5 draft Sapporo and Asahi, $5 small hot sake, and $6 apps.One of the servers here is trilingual - Spanish, english, and Cantonese. The prices are on point, and their fish is always fresh. If the sushi is good, I order alot, Ive never spent more than $60 here on myself, and I always get full. They are so friendly, they love basketball and are always happy to put your favorite game on tv. Dont sleep on this place. A japanese restaurant in Chinatown, but the cooks put alot of love and good energy in making these rolls and sashimi. They are also open to your preference in the ingredients of rolls. Ask for real wasabi.Si solamente hablan español y quieren probar el sushi aqui es un buen lugar donde tienen un mesero que habla español y les puede explicar todos los platillos. Vengan a comer esta buena comida.

The food here is seems to be decent and priced well, but could be better.I had the chicken katsu and ice cream for dessert. There was salad and miso soup before the chicken katsu and rice. The salad had way way too much dressing. About a third of what I got wouldve been plenty. Also, the dressing was like a syrup. The miso soup was as expected. The chicken katsu was really tender and came with some sauce. It was delicious and there was a big plate of it. The rice it came with was cooked well. They ran out of cheesecake and my server said ice cream is the only dessert they had. It was average vanilla ice cream.The whole restaurant, including the restroom, was pretty clean. They seemed a little short-staffed and I did have to wait about ten minutes between dishes. My total was $26.35 before tip and seemed like a fair price. Overall, my experience was pretty good, but couldve been better.

Wonderful food. Wonderful service. Great location. They have generous portion sizes. Big shoutout to Alim for making my night.

I was doing a videoshoot in Chinatown and my colleague and I decided to stop in for lunch. The place wasnt packed and the service was speedy. The menu was vast and had a non expensive lunch menu. I went with the 3 category meal which is a lot of food. I was unable to finish in one setting. Aside from the food being fresh and tasty, the atmosphere and ambience is calming yet has a smooth jazz culture feel to it. It also happens to be a bar. I can see myself coming back to this place in the future. If youre in the mood for sushi and are in the Chinatown area, I highly recommend you stop by.

All the dishes were tasty, soup dumplings were a little disappointing and there was no julienned ginger in the vinegar dip😅We also ordered the dry pot dish (extra spicy, my husband said the spice was not unbearable and just right) which the most memorable! Lots of options to mix and match:) and meat was fresh, as well as well sized piecesThe third dish we chose was the mouth numbing fish fillets, very light in flavors (not very numbing at all)All in all we would come back for the dry pot dish but will try new dishes also! Sushi choices also looked plentiful and fresh👍🏼

We got the spicy beef noodle soup and the soup dumplings and both were absolutely fantastic. The soup was perfect for a cold blustery day. Tasty, spicy, and warming! Would absolutely go here again. Also love that its a weird restaurant-inside-a-restaurant situation.

Food was so yummy and customer service was excellent! Def a place to dine in when youre craving some good Japanese or Chinese cuisine!!!

Two restaurants in one. Japanese and Szechuan. Interesting combinations. I tried the spicy chicken wings. They are indeed spicy but quite tasty. Good services.

Super glad the were open on November 24. Staff was friendly. I ordered a sake toro roll and Golden Scallop Roll. They were both bland and no spice. The scallop roll was mushy. The place seemed popular, maybe I just ordered the wrong thing but I would not give it another try. I used the restroom and it had a plastic ring on the toilet, the machine to change the plastic was broken....

Excellent food and service at this fine establishment. We got the chef special 16pc sashimi and the meat quality is very fresh. Sushi rolls are excellent especially the crazy dragon roll. Portions are fair for the price point. I also recommend the seafood fried udon.