Sushi Imari in Costa Mesa

Love this place ! They have the best quality fish. Customer service is also great. Thank you for all you do.

Best sushi place. Very friendly staff and high quality sushi and rolls. Love their sweat shrimp. Unless you get there early when they open you have to wait for a while.Update: they moved to bigger place on Harbor and it is easier to get seat but still have to wait depending on the time of the day. Still recommend this place.

One of the best places to get a Blue Fin tuna bowl or Salmon Bowl. A must try also is the Salmon Belly appetizer. The Sashimis are also great because they are bigger portion. When it comes to flavor and portions, This spot it way better than Sugar Fish or that fancy sushi place I went to at the mall.The sea urchin Is a hit or miss so I skip it now

Sushi Imari opens at 5pm for dinner.While I am waiting for entering, I took a picture of the Moon.Salmon, Albacore, Yellow Tails are really tasty.Garlic Edamame is good for appetizer.

Good sushi. Nothing spectacular, but better than most in the area. Ordered 3 different rolls and 2 turned out to be very similar. Cant recall the names as this was our first time. Ordered togo so we didnt dine in. Dining room appears to be much bigger than the typical sushi restaurants and tables were spaced nicely (not too cramped).

First of all I would like to say that the service was quite exceptional. A few hiccups once the place got a little crowded, however I will not fault them for that.Second of all, theres a very nice variety of food options, that will make you want to come back and try everything else on the menu. So choose wisely on your first visit.Lastly, the food was delicious. I had the Tamago Sushi, Octopus sushi, unagi sushi, salmon skin hand roll (wait theres more), Finding Nemo Roll (definitely found Nemo), and baked scallop roll. Everything from A to Z was delicious, with the unagi sushi being my favorite. Like I said, youll want to come back to try everything on the menu!

This place was recommended to me by one of my Elite Yelp friends, I was super happy with this recommendation.Without getting too far off topic, I recently came back from a trip to Hawaii. While there, I ate lots of fresh raw fish and poke. I realized there is a huge difference in eating fresh fish versus non fresh or frozen and thawed out fish. So when I came back from this Hawaii trip, I was determined to find a place with some of the freshest sushi/sashimi. This place definitely has that!Sushi Imari is sort of tucked away at the end of a plaza, it seems sort of hidden to me. The wait time was perhaps 7 minutes on a friday afternoon around 7pm, so not too bad. The place is nice inside, lots of space, enough for larger parties if need be. Immediately upon being seated we were greeted by our waiter Nacho! This waiter was quite the gentlemen. Being that Im new to sashimi, he was helpful and patient with all my questions.I ordered the following:Fresh wasabiBluefin tunaYellowtailHalibutLive shrimpRainbow rollSake bomb rollPlum wineGyozaThe Halibut was my absolute favorite! Then the live shrimp. Following my friends suggestion about getting the fresh wasabi was probably the best thing I could have done, it was definitely fresh, and it has quite the kick, but it certainly does make a difference in taste and flavor. I will continue to do this from now on, thanks Michael! Even their ginger was better tasting than other sushi spots Ive been to. Everything was fresh and delicious, no complaints about their food. The plum wine was WOW! Im not a big on wine, but this was certainly something I thoroughly enjoyed. I enjoyed so much that I asked my waiter where I could purchase it, and I went straight there right after my meal, hahaha yes it was that good! The rolls were great as well, no complaints. I was pleased to have my waiter bring us some Gyoza on the house, not only was it a nice gesture on their end, it was in fact delicious! Thank you Sushi Imari! It was a pleasure to have Nacho as my waiter, thank you Nacho!So I would definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for great fresh tasting sushi. Enjoy!

Services are very good, we have to wait for them to prepare long table because we are large group. Waiting for food come out is not too long, sushi rolls fresh and fish smell good, we are very please with this restaurant, we will come back here definitely.

Honestly some of the best quality fish Ive had in awhile. Im a salmon fanatic but this place made toro my number one pick for the night.If youve never had live sweet shrimp before I recommend ordering that at least one time (its $20 for 2 pieces). Back to the Salmon...we ordered Scottish Salmon (my favorite), King Salmon, and Seared Salmon sushi and all were delish! The Toro sushi my boyfriend ordered was the extra fatty one and boy was it yum! They served it with fresh wasabi on top and it was delicious. I also loved the tamago sushi here! Not many places I go to have tamago so whenever I see it I have to order it and it was yummy.If youre a roll person this place has got you covered. We totally enjoyed eating our rolls but the quality of sushi was just way too good to ever want to eat rolls there again.Service was excellent. The restaurant was a little packed so the waiter gave us some comped appetizer while we waiting for our sushi. We will definitely be coming back for more sushi.

Update 5/9/2010: still the best sushi place in Costa Mesa. Our waiter Jamie was awesome 👌