Beautiful experience of carefully prepared food with delicious flavors. You are greeted at seating…read moretime and taken to your table. Limited reservations make this a cozy and intimate setting. The atmosphere of the dining area is like you are in someone's home. The sake included in the meal was so smooth and balanced, great way to start everything off. Each course is well thought out, beautifully presented and explained. Flavors were fresh and layered, uniquely different from things we have tasted before. We ordered a couple extra glasses of sake to have with our meal, one aged and one just finished a few days before. Both were delicious. Definitely a splurge but we enjoyed it very much!

This was a treat, very personal. The sake was very very good, I enjoyed being able to try all the…read moredifferent kinds at once. The food was also very good! My favorite part was being able to learn from the owner though, and learn about the sake.

Loved our visit to Sushi Sam's! I recommend making reservations as it is a smaller restaurant and…read morevery popular. I ordered the deluxe chirashi lunch set and it was delicious! The fish was all very fresh and it came with miso soup. We also ordered some appetizers for the table and every item was a hit. Service was top notch! They are located in a smaller complex so parking can be tight.

Great service, even better quality sushi!…read more Highly recommend making a reservation. They do take walk ins. But may push you to finish faster than you'd like, so the table can be cleared for an incoming reservation. Would like to see a Omakase style of offering for those sitting at the sushi bar. Overall very good food, and service.

We went with a friend for dinner a month ago and the food was excellent. Started with some gyoza,…read moreand tempura, chicken karaage and then sushi which was fresh and beautiful, and black garlic ramen was superb. We had leftovers that were great the next day for lunch as well. This is a popular place so be prepared. We ate inside not having a reservation but I'd suggest calling for a reservation outside. Also keep in mind that rents are high in Kona, it's a challenge to find people that can afford it and work in our restaurants, so be kind to them. Parking is also a challenge but patience and determination will get you there. Currently if you are a Costco member you can purchase gift cards for $80 that will get you $100 at the restaurant, so effectively a 20% discount. Those discount cards seem to rotate in and out at Costco so that will probably change. We've gotten two takeout dinners since then and it's a definite favorite of ours. Mahalo.

We got takeout and had the Vege Tempura, Vege Ramen, Vege Roll and Avocado Cucumber roll…read more This seems like a lot but it's good for 2 adults. Food is very light, tasty and well made. We also had the Matcha Shiratama Zenzai for dessert. It was awesome. Great combination of flavours. Everything is reasonably priced. I would definitely recommend it. Parking is street side and based on availability.

It had a nice ambiance in the restaurant. Very modern and good place to have a date. Service was…read moregreat and always asked us to fill out waters. Food was delicious and presentation was beautiful. Would come back here to eat.

The food was delicious with excellent service. We got to try their mango soufflé and it was…read moreamazing; the texture and flavor were incredible. The inside is cute and calm. This was a super great first spot to try in Kona.

Fish is from Japan. So fresh so delicious. Small intimate place , Very kind owners who gave us…read moredessert on the house. Miso soup made in house , had these very tasty mini button mushrooms. They also had a matcha IPA. So cool.

This spot is such a gem! We got a reservation and there are maybe 5 tables in there so we wouldn't…read morehave been able to eat there without one. The owner is lovely and helped us with decisions on the menu. Everything is incredibly fresh and it's a nice quiet spot. The vegetable tempura was great, we had some good rolls and sushi/sashimi. Great spot if you're in the area!

CUTE VIBE. GREAT STAFF. DELIGHTFUL FOOD…read more I reviewed the pics online and saw the chirashi bowl. Honestly, such a great choice. The food was so refreshing and good. Truly thrilled we found this place. 10/10 going again.

Dinner was excellent. The hamachi crudo was bright and fresh, the fried octopus legs were perfectly…read morecrisp, and the miso butterfish was rich and tender. The yellowtail roll was simple, clean, and well‑made. Service was a standout -- Tati took great care of us and made the whole experience feel effortless. Highly recommend.

I went here for lunch on my second day in Kona. It's a little Japanese restaurant tucked away in a…read morecluster of shops, but we were greeted warmly when we came in. There isn't a whole lot of seating inside, but we came early so there wasn't any difficulty getting a table. There are fans inside but no A/C, so it wasn't remarkably cooler inside than it was outside but still much nicer than being out in the sun. The waitress gave us a menu and also showed us some specials that were written on a whiteboard in the store. I thought the prices were incredibly fair and would have ordered more food if I was hungrier, but I ended up getting their special rice bowl and my husband ordered a tempura udon. The service was fairly quick and we got some ice water at the dispenser at the front of the store, which was very refreshing. The tempura udon my husband had very flavorful broth and the shrimp tempura was nice and juicy inside. My rice bowl was very substantial and was quick to fill me up. The fish was incredibly fresh, the rice nice and fluffy, and the green onions and seaweed salad were refreshing. The wasabi added a good kick and the ginger was a wonderful palate cleanser in between bites. I had such a lovely time here and the entire kitchen staff bid us goodbye when we left. I would love to come back another time when I have the chance!

Sushi and tempura udon are both very good, and the value is even better! Menu items are very fairly…read morepriced, my wife and I had 3 rolls and the tempura udon, and two teas, and were very full afterwards. The bill total was just under $50 before tip. The server is friendly and their instagram page is actually very active. It's cool to see their fresh catches that are probably in the sushi you're eating right now. The inside is nothing to write home about, it's perfectly acceptable, and they have multiple high chairs for kids. This place was almost empty when we walked in around 6:30, by the time we finished and left it was full inside, so expect service to slow down around there as there was only one server.

Small, cute Japanese restaurant . Very polite . The sushi was excellent! The owners are really…read morefriendly and accommodating. Been too there cute restaurant many times.

The food is very expensive for what we got and the fish didn't seem super fresh. We have been…read morewanting to go here for a year and we were very disappointed. The place is cute, but felt rushed since they were on a time line of the next reservation. Overall very disappointed, very expensive and won't be going back