Sat at the sushi bar. It felt like being back in Tokyo. Even when things went wrong (like the power going out for 10 minutes) they handled it with aplomb. Emergency generator to the rescue. Turned my head for a second or two, and when I looked back I noticed the waitstaff had replaced my plate which had some drops of soy sauce from my last bites and provided a new paper napkin. That's very nice service, and they worked as a team. It's pricey compared to my other favorite place in the area. Had the yellowtail, oysters, salmon, hirame, madai snapper, uni, fresh water eel, sweet shrimp, aji and the draft asahi. This was 95 dollars. That said, I'll be back. Will go when I'm less hungry! read more

Soregashi - hama hama oysters. - Japanese Near Me - Los Angeles, California

staff is very friendly, restaurant is clean, food is delicious, prices somewhat reasonable, will return. read more

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7/10. Salmon wasn't fresh which is a big no no. Omakase was ok but nothing special. Prices were affordable but the food felt lackluster at best. read more

I was a bit reluctant to dine here due to the location. Nevertheless, I am extremely happy I did. This is probably one of the few sushi restaurants where the sushi is actually prepared by Japanese chefs. The restaurant itself is very quaint and clean. As for the quality of the sushi, it was superb. I'm pretty snobby when it comes to sushi and this place definitely surpassed my expectations and some. I definitely recommend this restaurant! Two thumbs up! read more

Wow!!! This little spot completely hit the spot and more!!! Was expecting reasonable Japanese dinner when it became exceptionally...the only complaint (maybe?) which I will get out of the way was the order of sashimi followed by hot appetizer than soup then sushi...but realistically that's not enough to take the 5th star away!! Yes that good!! In order started with the sockeye Alaskan salmon sashimi which had deep rich flavor!! Then next was served the eggplant appetizer which had amazing flavor actually!! Next was the clam soup which the clams were so freaking fresh tasting and the broth was amazing!! Then came the octopus appetizer which was so tender and flavorful!! Then a generous order of perfectly cut wagyu beef appetizer that was so good!! Next came out sushi platter of one of the best Spanish toro in LA!! Followed by giant clam from Seattle, hirame, sea bream and ending with uni!! Then had one more order of salmon to close off the dinner!! Also set by a reasonable kikusui sake which you want to get large serving...good for refills for 2...then got hot green tea!! Overall exceptional dinner which was super satisfying!! Must try...in my humble opinion...may come back for my dad's birthday next week... read more

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3 1/2 stars I had bookmarked Soregashi, as they were highly rated, pictures looked great and it was fairly new. My mom was in town, so I decided to check this place out, since it's pretty close to my house. There is a small parking lot. The inside is a bit small, but clean and casual. The sushi bar only seats about 8 or 10 people. We did not have reservation and it was pretty packed around 8 pm. We waited for about 45 min, and even when it cleared at the bar side we still waited as the service was very slow! the waitress cleaned the table but took forever to set it up, the guy (maybe manager) came back and cleaned the table again, this must have taken another 15 min just to set up chopsticks and plate. By the time we were seated it took another long time to place our order as well as get our food. _Shishito Pepper ($5.50) You can smell them making this. The sweet soy sauce smell being grilled, we can hear our stomach grumbling. We ordered this right away since we knew it may take awhile till we get any food. It was good, but overly salty and sweet. _Yellowtail Sushi ($6.50) This was good, but I've had better. Their fish to rice ratio was a bit off. I asked for easy rice but still all the fish we got was smaller compared to the rice portion. _King Salmon Sushi ($6) This was very good. The salmon tasted so fresh and not that fishy or too fatty. My mom, whom is not a fan of salmon, said this was pretty good. _Sweet Shrimp (MP) I get this because I love the fried heads more than the fish. It was good, and the fried heads were nicely crisp. _Sea Scallop Sushi ($6.50) Another great selection. The scallop was big and fresh. A bit sweet and they added the salt that pairs so nicely and adds a delicate touch to the scallop. _Uni Sushi ($12) The uni was good and pretty fresh, although I've had better, this was still pretty good. I wish they gave more uni, It was too much rice and only 1 thin layer of uni. _Fresh Water Eel Sushi ($6) Nice big portion of eel, not too much sauce, which I like. The only thing was the edges were all burnt, I had to take it off. _Negi Hama. This is always my mom's fave. Julienne yellowtail with green onion roll. Simple and pretty good. _Baked King Crab Handroll ($9.50) This took awhile to come out since they mentioned they had burned the first one. This was just okay, they give very little crab and nothing inside. Other places give lots of crab and either sliced cucumbers or avocado. This was okay. All in all the food is good, staff is friendly but service is way too slow! I understand they are fairly new, but the fact that we did not leave till pass 10-10:30pm is extreme! It was so draining, even when we were a bit hungry we just wanted to leave, as we were tired of waiting and getting sleepy. They need to have more staff, someone in the kitchen whom takes care of the cooking and another waiter/waitress. read more

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Wow. This is the best sushi we've had in L.A. The tuna we had is a candidate for the best we've had anywhere. Had to order another round. The staff speak Japanese. Laid back atmosphere. read more

It's extremely unusual that I reach share raw fish with my guy. Actually, scrape that ... allows start over I have actually never ever experienced having my sweetheart enjoy fresh, delicious raw sushi. I indicated to take him to Sugarfishbut last night however when he took a look at the food selection I think he was a smidgen anxious. The photos he saw posted on Yelp did not aid any!!! All he saw were multiple pictures of the Big Eye Tuna Sashimi which was one of my faves and afterwards an entire bunch of various other raw fish which possibly made him tremble a little bit. Anyway, we made a decision to go there because this dining establishment provide a much wider range of food to choose from. Raw and prepared alike so it benefited the both people. Food: Shishito peppers - tasty. It's not really salted so it was rather enjoyable to eat. It's not soaked in sauce unlike some other dining establishments so you in fact reach taste the peppers. Albacore sushi - extremely fresh! I had him taste it as well as he claimed he couldn't even inform he consumed raw fish pot!!! Creamy Rock Shrimp - it's delicious but has way too much "velvety" preference for me. it excelled yet a bit frustrating for me. Salmon Lotion Cheese Caviar - this was really different. The taste pairing was certainly unforgettable. If you like salmon and also you like lotion cheese, this is a must attempt! Tempura Eco-friendly Tea Gelato - YUMMY! i love tempura gelato. it's so scrumptious as well as I rejoice they had it below. This made my night! Overall, I appreciated eating right here and also will certainly be returning. I make certain the other sushi will certainly excel too so most definitely worth attempting! I would certainly have consumed extra but I was surprisingly complete. read more

Wow! If you are in the area this place is worth the stop. Miso soup was great and the sea urchin was like butter. Uni uni uni uni uni read more

I order uni and ikura bowl, kawakagi sashimi . So disappointed. Uni was so bad , and Ikura was old. I can't believe so bad!!!! Not fresh !! They should tell me before I order 'it's not fresh '. read more

Good sushi quality. High price tag. You will get good quality sushi from here except for few items. I was sitting at the sushi counter, saw the chef putting rock hard frozen piece of eel in to the oven to be used for sushi. So i did not order the eel. The deep red colored tuna tasted good. Overall quality of fish were good except for the white ones. And as i was enjoying the food, i see the chef taking out store bought, flavored dashi-soy sauce base using for the sushi. Yup. I will call that cheap and lazy. Have some pride in your cooking. read more

Love this spot even though location not great but once you're in you forget what's outside. Had several things and they were all yummy. You have to make reservations since place is small but you will be glad you did. Will post pics, although pics are dark, check it out a must go. I've been to most sushi spots like Katsuya or Sugarfish or whatever trendy places in LA and I still would rather go here. read more

Soregashi - After about 5 items ordered this was the perfect finish. - Japanese Near Me - Los Angeles, California

A surprisingly good dinner at an unassuming strip-mall sushi place. Ate here with my wife and a friend. The fish was good quality, although not the highest cut, but we really enjoyed the side dishes. Spinach gomae, nasu miso and kinpira were outstanding examples of real homestyle Japanese cooking. read more

Delicious. Great staff. Good vibes. Top quality fish. Try the Firefly Squid while it's still in season. read more

Soregashi - Specials - Japanese Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Recently found this place while searching Yelp for sushi. I am so happy that they opened. The food is great, the service is nice and the prices are reasonable. Couldn't be happier. Lunch specials are awesome. This is one of the very few authentic sushi spots in LA that is not in downtown. read more

Omg! Best sushi I've had in LA! The place doesn't look as good as their food but it's so worth it!!! We each had a premium sushi menu combo. It's said 10 pieces but we actually had 14. The miso soup is delicious too. Totally worth it's price. All the fishes were very fresh, the tuna was def our favorite. So soft and delicious. read more

Great secret spot! Immaculately clean- wonderful host/owner Tsuyoshi, and the food is spot on. Very high quality fish and the preparation steeped in that true Japanese precision. I ordered some halibut sashimi (with salt lemon and yuzu koshi) which was incredibly fresh and delicious as well as their Scottish salmon set for lunch. Salmon was perfectly prepared- crispy where it should be and tender where it should be. Just everything fresh and good- place was empty except for a couple of Japanese women. Great find. Oop, just asked the owner and this place has only been open 1 month! Come before its busy. read more

Fresh clean and authentic Japanese sushi. Honest people running this restaurant truly a gem in a city where honest authentic sushi restaurants are few and far between. read more

Hidden spot in a small center (PINK BUILDING should be your hallmark to where to park). Inside is a small place with about 6 tables and half a sushi bar. Sushi was delicious, fresh and the portions were surprisingly filling. The only problem with this place is the slow service. It took 45 mins to bring us 1 salad. Then finally after sitting there for a full hour 2 rolls came out. We were starving after work and it was just a shame. read more

The fish here was so fresh! And the prices were very reasonable. We thought with the amount of dishes that we were ordering and the drinks that the bill would be above $200 but were pleasantly surprised to learn that it was much less at $150. The restaurant wasn't crowded and the dining experience was very peaceful. It's located in a strip mall but it feels like a neighborhood experience. Highly recommend and will come back! read more

Been here twice and everything we've had is AMAZING! Having traveled to Tokyo for work a number of times, I can tell you this place is legit. Hard to find a truly authentic Japanese dining experience like this. Staff is very friendly and the service is impeccable. Don't let the strip mall location fool you. So happy to have this new addition in the neighborhood. My wife and I will be back often, and we're bringing our friends. My only concern is that too many people will catch on... :) read more

This place is a hidden gem! So delicious! Incredible quality and taste, and loved the service (very traditional Japanese). For all of the wonderful things above, it is very well priced. Loved the uni, salmon, sea scallop and baked crab hand roll. I recommend sitting at the sushi bar, the chef is great and makes for a dynamic sushi eating experience. Finished off with delicious green tea ice cream. Definitely coming back! read more

Everything is nicely done from hot plates to sushi. Price is reasonable for their quality. Parking is easy Defiantly coming back! read more

Discovered this wonderful restaurant on Yelp and hoping that increasing their number of reviews will give them more well-deserved visibility and staying power! Strip mall parking (love it), attentive and polite service, super cool high tech bidet in the women's restroom, impressively clean ... The food was as I expected from reading the other reviews - excellent. I am a sushi purist. And presentation is just as important to me as quality and craft. Soregashi delivers on all. We had shitake mushroom and green onion miso, yellowtail nigiri (lovely), albacore nigiri, spicy tuna roll, vegetable roll, shrimp tempura handroll, nasumiso eggplant (amazing) ... and unfortunately no room for the cold zaru soba noodles. Will have that next visit. Prices are very reasonable and the quality is A+++++. Look forward to going back! read more

Very traditional place with high quality sushi. Staff is friendly and polite as well!

Lovingly crafted dishes in excellent proportions, master sushi chefs in their element, affordable price points - all in all, the five star rating is a no brainer for me. We had the nasu (eggplant) appetizer, salmon sashimi, spicy tuna on crispy rice, the freshwater eel roll and the spicy yellowtail roll. Easily, perfection. read more

We loved our meal here tonight. Many excellent dishes. Pressed rice sushi with mackerel (off menu), pork in broth, black cod. All SO good. Nice sake, lovely atmosphere and excellent service. read more

My family was in town from Tokyo and they were missing familiar foods since they had been on heavy meals like steak, Italian, and French. Made us feel like we were home in Tokyo! So happy to have an authentic Japanese restaurant that I don't need to travel to the South Bay or West LA for! read more

It was good but not good enough for the increased price. I would go to izakaya on Beverly or go downtown and save 50 dollars or so.

First of all, the restaurant is in a plaza not so fancy, yet I like how it was simply decorated with black/white fonts and background at the store front. It almost feels like a sparkling rock in a pile of sands.. ha ha There aren't many parking spaces available so good luck, or there may be some curbside parking available. I guess now there is always the uber/lyft option... I have eaten at the restaurant more than once and I always have pretty good experience. The quality and taste of the fish & other seafood is all pretty good either raw and/or cooked. The staff is pretty quiet but very polite and friendly, and very good with my green tea refill. What is special about the refill is that they don't bring the tea pot to fill it, they give you a new cup of green tea. And, it's a bonus that it is not with green tea bag, instead it is made with green tea powder, which is quite different for me and I like it a lot. The reason I gave it a 4 star is because the price is on the med- to high-side and I feel the experience can be improved, at least compare to some place I've been to in New York. However, it is a much better, authentic Japanese restaurant around in Los Angeles for sure. There are also some in DTLA, which I will probably write about in a later time. Ah! Another fancy surprise to me is... the restroom! You'll have to visit to find out yourself! read more

This is superior sushi! I've never tasted such fresh fish. It literally melts in your mouth. This is such high-end sushi in such an unexpected place. If you love sushi, you have to try this place. It takes sushi to a whole new level! read more

Soregashi - Small but attentive service - Japanese Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Thank you Soregashi for a top notch take out birthday meal. It was one of the best meals I've had in a very long time. The sushi was all outstanding, especially the omakase, which was perfectly selected and prepared. The Japanese tapas was also terrific, like the miso eggplant, miso black cod, lotus root, and spinach with sesame. Also thank you for packing the food so carefully for take out. As soon as possible my wife and I will be eating in-house and enjoying your wonderful hospitality. Thank you again. read more

I've ordered the chirashi, sunomono, miso soup and miso cod. The chirashi didn't taste as fresh as I'd hoped, I was disappointed that the sauce with the sunomono tasted like pure soy sauce without vinegar, and the miso soup was a bit more on the salty side than I would have liked. That said, the miso cod was soooo good! It was delicate and fresh with a delicious miso glaze. Big fan of the miso cod and I hope to find some other favorites on Soregashi's menu. read more

The sushi here was OK.. nothing that was good enough to make me ever want to come back because it was quite bland and the portion size is way too small. Also, one of the sushi chefs made the sushi while another grabbed it (with his dripping wet hands..) and reached over the bar to put it on my plate. I was a little disturbed by this. You can imagine my horror when I observed Mr. Wet Hands coughing into his hands and freely coughing behind the sushi bar. Unfortunately I had already eaten the food, I wanted to puke. read more

Soregashi has a relaxed, casual environment, a few notches below the sophistication of its sushi. I had the premium sushi combination for dinner. That night, it was served with chawanmushi, a savory steamed-egg custard, which I enjoyed very much. The combination came with an assortment of sushi: fatty (very) tuna, clam, octopus, among others. It was delicious and very fresh, easily making $45 seem worth the price. Service was excellent, but be aware that food comes out as it's ready. This means that my combination was served after my partner's assortment of small, non-sushi dishes. Nevertheless, I highly recommend this restaurant. I have also had the chirashi at lunch time, which was good, but not notable either. The chirashi was served with homemade tofu, which was delicate and subtle in flavor. Service during lunch was attentive and excellent, as it was at dinner. If I go back for lunch, I would opt for the premium sushi combination. read more

Definitely a gem. I have had a range of sushi experiences starting from the crazy roll inventions, to sashimi and of course my go to nigiri. If I could choose, I would always go for omakase, where the chef chooses an array of sushi to his or her liking. However some sushi places don't even have omakase pretty much rating that restaurant based on the ability for the chef to accommodate such a delicacy. So you can probably figure now that me and a couple friends chose the omakase menu because they are also frequent and savvy sushi eaters. Oh man, we all agreed it was the best sushi we ever had. One friend of mine was a little picky and the chef chose items that all of us never tasted. We had abalone, conch, a medium AND a fatty toro, mackerel that tasted like amberjack and of course Uni. There were a couple others but every bite we kept looking at each other in complete awe. The service was excellent and the waiter suggested we try their seasonal mushroom soup and talk about topping to the experience! It was served in a tea pot and we drank It in little tea cups. It was a bit pricey $16 per soup but since we were already down the epic path of satisfaction, price really didn't matter at that point. Each came out to about $100 per person but if anyone knows omakase it's a special experience and I'm so glad we did it here. We are definitely going back. We could go for the one by one sushi but I feel It might add up to the same price and we were able to experience fish we never tried, hence the chef's choice. But regardless, quality fish, quality service, and a memorable experience! read more

I tried to order takeout from this place. I placed the order and waited an hour, only to find out that they hadn't received my order and that the restaurant had closed. If you're trying to get takeout sushi, go somewhere else. read more

This place is a new authentic Japanese restaurant in Hollywood. I went to the place around 9 pm on Saturday and I was able to park right in front of the restaurant. It was a very relaxing atmosphere inside and I took a counter seat. The manager was very friendly and fun to talk with. Both chefs were pretty nice too. The food were amazing. They have a good selection of sake and wine. I would definitely come back again. read more

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Really great. Wish I lived closer so I could be a regular. Reasonable prices (for the quality you're getting). Great halibut, hotate, snapper, salmon, bluefin, baked crab hand roll.... would love to try more. read more

I LOVE this place! The customer service is nice . Its a small little simple place , nothing fancy but the food is good service is good .