When in Washington, try the fish. I was excited to try sushi up here, and Blue Fin did not disappoint. It's a little spendy, like most sushi joints, but it's very good quality. Two of us had drinks and dinner for $80 with tip, with one specialty combo plate and several rolls. They're a bit lacking on the sashimi options, but otherwise it was a pretty decent spot. The service was a little slow, but that being said, I wasn't in a huge rush. They were accommodating when we could get their attention, and were upfront that the tea costs $2 per cup. I have many, many more sushi restaurants to try, but this is a very solid option if you're looking for a laid back dinner. read more

I went here for my birthday dinner. I have traveled a lot in my life and have eaten a diverse amount of food. Sushi in Washington has been a hit or miss every time. Mostly misses. Which is kind of weird with how close we are to the water. I do like the amount pf cookes rolls I can find at this location. The Titanic was amazing! The rolls were fresh and my waiter was on point. The restaurant is small and crouded but it has a nice atmosphere. I don't travel to Bellingham often but if I want sushi I will definitely come back here. The prices are comparable to most sushi restaurants in the area. I really did enjoy the friendliness of the staff. read more

Excellent and lots of variety in offerings of sushi. Lots. Incredibly fresh. Yes, Yes, Yes. read more

delish bento box, it may seem pricey but you really get your $$$'s worth! easily 2 or 3 meals. lovely front end staff too and so so speedy!

Great sashimi and rolls. I ordered the sashimi deluxe and the summer roll, both were fantastic. The staff is very friendly and had my order ready to go... just a warning, call ahead at least 30-45 mins to place a pick up order. :) read more

Stopped here on our way through Washington. Very clean interior with efficient and friendly staff. I had the Bellingham roll and my wife had the Golden Cali roll and we also had the Yam roll. All came beautifully presented and were very tasty. The tempura within the rolls were crispy and well tempered. We really enjoyed our meal. Prices are consistent with a lot of other sushi joints we frequent. This place goes on our "short list" of excellent sushi bars. read more

Bottom Line - Probably one of the better places to get sushi in Bellingham; though the service was quite slow when I ate there. Prices were affordable, and the fish was fresh enough. I came for dinner on Monday, 27 February 2012 and ordered the following: Seaweed Salad ($4.95) - This was very normal... same quality as the seaweed salad they sell at Costco. Chirashi ($16.95) - This is something that is not on the menu, but I always order it at Japanese restaurants. The fish that came on top was fresh enough. Chirashi is supposed to have some veggies that come with it, but this one did not... it was more of a sashimi on top of sushi rice. I would have liked some pickled veggies and maybe some imitation crab/mayo in there. Hotate ($4.75) - Hotate is my favourite nigiri, and the hotate here is pretty fresh. Nice and sweet. I'd order this again. The bill came to $26.65 + 2.92 tax +5.53 tip = $34.50 for my table of one. read more

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Always reliable and fresh, best sushi in town. I hope they open a second location one day as they are always seem a little busy but worth the wait. read more

If you want real sushi (and right now, take-out); you came to the right place. And I honestly prefer that you go elsewhere so I can have a little less of a wait for a high-quality food businesses. If you don't want to wait for the food - great. Then it makes the wait shorter :-) read more

Fantastic sushi wish I could give 3.5 stars here but... To be honest this place was more than surprise. Driving along looking for a place to eat this was the first decent looking place that wasn't fast food. Of course not being familiar with the area, and sort of the middle of nowhere I didn't know what to expect. However despite being fairly small and small on staff the food delivers. Definitely the first thing I noticed was the size however most great sushi restaurants are smaller in size it is the larger ones that tend to falter in quality of food. While they could definitely use one or two more on the staff as when I was there was single waitress, one sushi chef and then the hot line chef in the back. Nevertheless even with the small space and low occupancy creating a bit of awkwardness so to speak, the sushi and other dishes delivered. Starting off with the gyoza appetizer. While the gyoza themselves were pretty good and the dipping sauce wasn't bad either they were plated on a bed of shredded cabbage. What's the problem you ask? Anything fried should never be placed on any green or covered as it will create steam therefore decreasing the crispiness of the items. Also trying the octopus salad. Which while the octopus was surprisingly tender and there was seaweed sesame salad which I've become obsessed with and overall it was rather delicious. Unfortunately there was so much dressing I mean this thing was drowning in dressing. As for actual sushi, I ordered the "Hot Night" roll which was tempura shrimp and cucumber on the inside, then topped with spicy tuna, scallion and tobiko. First of all this is one of my favorite combinations tempura shrimp and spicy tuna which I normally have to special order so to see it on the menu was great. However having the tuna on top I was skeptical because I prefer everything to be rolled within the sushi roil, less mess and more convenience, yet the spicy tuna was prepared in such a way that it was the right amount of spicy and texturallly right that it held to the roll along with the scallion and tobiko. I also sampled some salmon sashimi which may just be the best salmon I've ever had... so far. I do wish I could give an extra half star here but nevertheless like great thing in small packages so holds true to hidden gems and surprises if driving around or in the area Blue Fin has a great variety of sushi and other Japanese dishes. read more

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Never would have expected as good sushi from a strip mall place But this place is awesome! read more

Blue Fin Sushi - Sushi Bars Near Me - Bellingham, Washington

Absolutely best sushi we have had in a while, beautiful presentation, courteous and attentive staff. Can't wait to take the family back to enjoy. read more

Blue Fin Sushi - Sushi Bars Near Me - Bellingham, Washington

Beware...they owners take the tips and last time I was there I overhead them talking about customers and berating the staff, sushi is good but they manages to hit three strikes in one visit will not be back read more

finally tried this place out after a year of living here! everything was amazing! we ordered a blue fin, the alaska, a golden california and a bellingham roll. definitely the best sushi spot in bham hands down read more

Best sushi on Bellingham! Lovely atmosphere, friendly kind wait staff, and most importantly really yummy sushi! It may take a while to get your order if it's busy but it's worth the wait. The Super Tempura Roll and the Crazy Horse Roll were exceptionally delicious! The S.A.T and the T.A.T are a great deal! I'm looking forward to coming back and trying some of the other unique rolls they have here! read more

Blue Fin has the best sushi in Bellingham. Their sushi is always fresh and reasonably priced.

Went here with a group of sushi lovers who said this was their favorite sushi restaurant. I quickly saw why when I saw the extensive menu of sushi selections. We had everything from plum wine and saki to appetizers of edamame and dumplings then sushi (I had spicy chicken teriyaki since I am not a sushi fan). Also had great green tea ice cream for desert. Prices are a bit high. The quality of food and service is excellent. The restaurant was full and customers were flocking in for "to go" orders which displays that this is very popular destination for sushi. read more

Great spot!! Awesome sushi and service! Small place, can get busy around dinner time on the weekends, and they don't take reservations, but other than that it's awesome!! Took maybe 20 min to get a table on Valentine's Day... not bad at all! Cheers! read more

This is my wife and I's favorite sushi place in Bellingham, staff is super friendly and the menu is extensive. I highly recommend the cherry blossom with lemon. They are closed on Tuesday's, and usually very busy during the weekend evening but worth the wait. read more

After reading the previous reviews, I was worried about service. My son and I came in and we are blown away! It's amazing and we will be back many times. The service is exceptional. Our waters were filled multiple times, our order was quick to come, the staff were all very helpful the entire time. The food is a whole adventure of its own. Everything is absolutely delicious. It's impossible to find good sushi in Bellingham...until now. Thank you! read more

Blue Fin Sushi - Bueno bento boxes! - Sushi Bars Near Me - Bellingham, Washington

If you advertise your dinner hours as 4:30 - 8:00pm, don't stop seating people at 7:30. If you stop seating people at 7:30, that means you close at 7:30. You lose a star for not knowing how the restaurant business works. read more

Having grown up in Los Angeles and having visited Japan, I have always loved Japanese food--all of it--but especially sushi and other raw fish delights. Just visited Blue Fin for take out and all I can say is this is the real thing! Dishes of wonderful Nigiri sushi (tuna, mackerel, yellow fin), kapa maki (cucumber roll), fried and flavorful tofu, and a lightly battered shrimp tempura that was so lovely in its crispness. Also tried two rolls: the spider roll (crab legs sticking out!) and a rainbow roll with assorted raw fish atop the rice roll. Everything was so fresh and ready to go when we arrived. Bought a couple of bottles of sake to go with the dishes which were more than filling for two people. Be sure to call in your order about 24 hours before you want to pick up. Everything was ready on time and everyone was masked and quickly attentive. This place is the perfect place for take out during these stressful times. Wonder if they do turkey sushi for the holidays? read more

I have been to this restaurant more times than I can count and it never disappoints. I would say it has the best sushi in Bellingham. I would give it a 5/5 stars but their building is quite small so during peak hours waits are long, there is no where to sit while you are waiting, and they don't take names down so it's a first come first serve system. I also think the service slow here and find myself waiting a very long time for refills on drinks. If I was going to recommend my favorite dishes here I would say the Lion King roll, Money Brains appetizer, Hummingbird appetizer, Las Vegas roll, Titanic roll, spicy/regular teriyaki, salmon teriyaki, California roll, Gyoza, tempera, seaweed salad, and miso soup. A helpful tip: They have an amazing happy hour menu and it saves you lots of money read more

Loved this place! I've only been to one other sushi place but this by far beats it. Definitely coming back soon to try alllll the different kinds of rolls. I got the Seattle roll and it was delicious!! The service was quick and the staff were super friendly. read more

Blue Fin Sushi was our favorite Japanese restaurant in Bellingham and they are not closed. I am so happy that I was wrong. We just had dinner there tonight. So on to the review. I ordered the salmon bento with tempura and a jalapeno popper. The popper was good but not great. But the bento box was a delight, as it always is. Their service is OK but not great, but I still think of this place as my first choice in Bellingham. read more

My favorite sushi restaurant in Bellingham, but you do pay for it. Would say it is twice if not three time more expensive then any other sushi place in town, but OMG amazing good. My mouth is water thinking of the food here. Service is always OK, not great. Seems you always need to ask for a refill and it is hard sometimes to reorder anything after the server leaves. Would be 5 stars regardless of the cost if not for the long wait and the just ok server quality you get from start to finish. read more

The best sushi place I've found in Washington. Prices are a little high, but what you get is worth it. Big rolls, with fresh fish and ingredients. I can't wait to come back and try their tuna tataki. read more

I'm pretty amazed the rating for this place only 3 1/2. Their sushi is very good and their price is pretty reasonable. The servers are attentive unlike many places with college kids working as servers. When I'm up here I'm definitely going to make a point to come back here... read more

The food is pricy but worth it. Possibly only pricy because we order so much, but we have trouble containing ourselves. My favorite is the salmon slammer with a side of ponzu (which they are happy to oblige) and my husband is keen on the crazy horse . The place is clean and service is timely. If it's busy, expect to them take longer (you know, because they are busier), it's all freshly made and it's obvious there is care put into their dishes. Would highly recommended. read more

The Husband and Wife team are fantastic, quick to to help and serve. When it is a little slower, (Lunch times) their conversation is humorous and sincere. This can be a busy place, due to its always fresh fish, wide variety, larger than normal portions, (not paper thin fish cuts) and many menu options. Lunch times are a little more laid back, with hardly any waits. The sushi bar is always the more entertaining seats and quicker more personal service from the owners. The owners run a tight ship and it shows in their manor and their respect to customer service and their lively hood. I so appreciate Them and their staff! Their Toro, Yellow Tail are especially delicious and hard to come by in Bellingham. The time spent finding and picking up fresh fish and seafood starts in the early morning hours and continues with their Top Shelf restaurant and service. If You love Seafood, Super Fresh Fish and a great vibe, than you have found the spot :) read more

This place was so disappointing that I felt compelled to write my first Yelp review to deter others from making the same mistake we did. Honestly, I think the other who gave this place over 3 stars have never had good sushi. We drove from Vancouver to Bellingham to shop and checked out Blue Fin Sushi while we were there since all the reviews raved about it. We arrived an hour after opening to a nearly empty restaurant only to be told by the sullen server that all their sashimi was sold out (toro, blue fin tuna, etc) except for salmon and tuna. How can a sushi restaurant not have enough sashimi when they just opened??? And plus, their name even has "blue fin" in it.. How do you not even have your namesake fish just an hour after opening?? We ordered some salmon sashimi along with the tuna combo. It was very very mediocre. I don't know how much I can emphasize the mediocrity of the food we had. It was like cheap crappy sushi anywhere, but at a higher price. The fish did not taste fresh, and the tuna was too cold (probably taken from the freezer shortly after we ordered). The service was lacking - the waitress clearly did not want to be there and did not crack a smile in the whole time we were there. The food wasn't cheap either: for the same quality, we would have paid much less in Vancouver (and our cost of living is pretty freaking high!). Overall, this was a HUGE disappointment. I would NOT recommend this place for anyone who has sushi regularly. Let this be a warning for anyone from a place with lots of sushi options - this might be "good" in terms of what Bellingham has to offer (as we originally thought from the other reviews here), but if you are a regular diner of sushi, this place is definitely not worth the trip given the price, crappy service, and the barely passable food. read more

We left after the waitress wouldn't let us seat three people at a four-top table, instead making us sit at the bar: "It's rush hour, and we might need these tables for other people." Oh, you mean like us, who just came in? Three of us. For a four-top table. It's not like one person for a ten-top. Customer service was bad right at the start. Move on. read more

Best sushi in Bellingham, hands down. I never cared for eel until I had it at Bluefin. Huge variety of amazing rolls, nigiri - just yum! Everything is so good. Great service and friendly staff to boot. read more

Blue Fin Sushi - Cherry blossom roll, unagi and maguro nigiri. - Sushi Bars Near Me - Bellingham, Washington

I kindly asked the owner if he knew anything about the products he used (i.e. if they were organic, fresh, local, non-GMO, etc.) Long story short.. he didn't know and then hung up on me. I've eaten here before and it is nothing special, but this came as a suprise that the owner had NO IDEA where or how his products were made. Kinda sketchy. read more

I'm normally the pickiest, biotchiest person ever at a restaurant for a few reasons. Mainly because I was a server for YEARS, but also because if I go anywhere and spend any kind of money, I expect to be treated like my money's appreciated. When I leave a good tip, I leave a damn good tip, and I have no problem leaving little to nothing when people hardly do more than take an order. I usually leave a note too. With this visit, I left a note. The note said, "I just wanted to let you know that today was the best service I've received at anyplace where the bill was less than $50 in a very long time. i really appreciate it and I hope you keep this up." Then I tipped $30. The sushi was good, nothing super special that you can't get any almost any other place, but I liked it. I'm not one of those picky ass people who want all organic or some dumb ish. Organic fish? really? They had a really nice selection of rolls for a very decent price. I'm a little bummed they didn't have hand rolls on the menu, lobster (not joking), or maki/sashimi plates that didn't require the purchase of random rolls. Why do places always pair the good stuff with the bad rolls. California? Really? Horrible place, horrible roll - usually. Oh, and the green tea was really really good. I think they put toasted rice it it. Strange but good. Kind of nutty. read more

I need to point out I am writing this review from the point of view of someone with celiac disease. That means I can't eat anything with gluten (wheat/barley/rye) at all, or face some dire consequences. I have been going to Bluefin Sushi for about 6-8 months now. I have heard the rumors that they were not very good at one time, but a waitress told me they had changed ownership a while back. Perhaps that is why we had such a good experience. Eating out is always a bit nerve wracking if you have celiac disease. You just can't do it at all if the wait staff are not willing to answer questions about the food. At Bluefin, we always tell the wait staff (even new ones) about my issues. Every time I have gone, they listen, and take it very seriously. You have no idea how grateful I am for that. This last time I went, the gal that served us was quick, and took my order. I had to ask what was in the miso soup. The sushi chef answered, by listed all the ingredients for me, and helped me. Most miso soups are gluten free, but I want to make sure there is not soy sauce in it, just in case. After you find wheat flour in your ice cream's ingredients, you just ask about everything. My husband and I ordered quite a bit of sushi. Their Philadelphia rolls are made with salmon, cream cheese, and cucumber? Anyways, they don't use fake crab, which always has wheat in it. We ate ourselves silly, and it was all very good. I can't eat my sushi with soy sauce, so I can really tell if it's not up to snuff. This stuff was great. The mackerel was mouth watering. The tuna just melted in my mouth. The Philly rolls, had so much flavor! The service was also outstandingly quick. I didn't even have time to pull out my sketch book because the food was there so fast. I can't recommend them enough. The staff was great. I spent $32, and left them $40 to keep the rest in tips. (I know wait staff hate folks with food allergies, etc, so I tip like all get out, when they help me.) The prices are mid ranged, in my opinion. I would pay double that at a worse restaurant, just to get the staff to understand I can't have gluten. It was a great experience, and next time I drive up to Bellingham, from Seattle, I will be eating there. read more

I was in the area looking for a place to eat, and saw that this place had great reviews on Yelp, and thought I would give it a try since I had yet to find a good sushi place in WA. I am still stuck wondering if I ever will... I was very disappointed by my entire experience here. The place was no where close to what I would call "packed", however there were a good number of tables filled, and the ambiance looked promising. The service was not bad, the waitress was pleasant, but nothing completely spectacular (water was never filled, waitress didn't clear the plates and hastily brought the bill without us even asking for it, and then continued to rush us by asking, more than once, if we were done with the bill). We ordered 3 rolls, and 1 bento box. We waited 45 minutes. At this point, we were beyond just regular hunger, we were to the point of starvation. However the food still tasted subpar. You could really taste that the raw fish was not fresh (Tobi-Hama Roll), and the other rolls (Golden Philly & The Lion King) were both disappointingly mediocre. I was expecting much more. Especially considering the raving reviews of this place, don't be fooled! Normally, I wouldn't be one to complain so much, however this place is very pricey. For everything our bill came up to $40 USD which is a little over $50 CAD. In comparison to the quality that you can get in Vancouver for a fraction of the price, and the amount that we actually ate, this place stands no where near. I dare to say that some of our "fast food" sushi in Vancouver beats out this place in both quality and service. Judging by the other reviews, I am guessing that this may be one of the better places for sushi in terms of Bellingham. However if you are visiting from Vancouver, or are a regular sushi connoisseur, steer clear of this place and stick to enjoying sushi in your hometown or favourite restaurant. read more

I guess I am kind of picky. My friends liked their sushi, but I was disappointed. Their selection of vegetarian sushi was very limited, and I looove any rolls that contain smoked salmon (or any cooked fish) - of which they had none. I got some Edamame and Tea. The Edamame, was alright, I've had much better, and the tea was, well, tea. The service was good, and the ambience was nice (there was only one other couple there, so it was very quiet) but the seats were really uncomfortable, and it was hard for me to share my edamame because there was so much other stuff on the table, even though I was only with 3 other people. read more

Pretty good for Bellingham sushi. But I must say, a wee bit expensive. Pros? -Tasty combinations -Friendly service -Pleasant atmosphere for a date Cons? -Price -Often very busy read more

I ordered Oahu roll and sushi regular combo. The color of Oahu roll is pretty. The sushi regular combo has variety of Nigiri and a tuna roll. I can tell the fish is fresh and well prepared. The waiting time to get my order is about 1 hour. I think it is worthy to wait for 1 hour for having a great sushi dinner. read more