Post grand reopening Success! We were huge fans in the old location and they didn't disappoint at the new location. Quality is great and the selection beats all the competition in The Fishhawk/Brandon area. Kid friendly and good happy hour spot. They kept their prices consistent, added a full liquor bar and generous kids menu that is priced appropriately. Hanna remembered our roll "the Michele roll" and offered the same impeccable quality and service we had become accustomed to at the old location. Great job and highly recommend ! read more

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They re-opened the store a couple of stores down from the original location and the space is much bigger. Food is amazing still and the sushi is really really fresh. It's comparable to the top sushi places by where I'm from (New Jersey/New York) so I always make sure to eat here when I visit Florida. I noticed they started to do Poke Bowls so I grabbed one to-go for later and it was pretty damn good. Love this place!! read more

Fresh, original rolls and great service. Their takeout has been a lifesaver and my husband and I get it weekly!

If you're in need of a screaming orgasm then Sushi Ninja is the place to go! Not literally(get your mind out of the gutter); it's the best roll on the menu even without rice. Super clean and welcoming environment. read more

Me and my friends are regulars here, normally the service is excellent and the staff are very friendly. I went in today for the lunch special and me and my friend both got 2 rolls and a salad. After we were done I asked for one more roll to take home and she came back with the checks for me to see I was being charged for my whole meal twice. I told her I only wanted one roll to take home and apologized for the inconvenience to which she responded with a smart comment. She went back into the kitchen and I could hear her talking about me and my friends. She came back after 5 minutes telling me the chefs had already made it so I would have to pay for it while calling me "sweetie". I have worked at Yokos (a sushi restraunt) for the past 3 years and I know that just because I put the wrong order in does not mean that the customer would have to pay for it. She then brought out my food and it was wrong and not everything was included. I then told her the order was wrong and apologized AGAIN for some reason and she rolled her eyes and went to grab it for me. I love sushi ninja but I will not be coming back for A WHILE after this experience. read more

This is, by far, the best place in the area for Sushi. The owner is really sweet and works hard. The selection is good but they custom make whatever you want. I have nothing but good things to say about this place. They've even made runner up for the best in Brandon one year. Good quality, a must try. read more

For starters, the sushi menu is one of the lengthier and more colorful ones I have ever encountered. With names such as the Brandon Roll, Lightning Roll, Crazy Mexican, Seminole, Gator and USF Rolls, Tempura Bagel, Volcano, and Screaming Orgasm the list is as interesting to read as it is to experience. From the simplicity of the Boston Roll (shrimp, cucumber, avocado) to the over-the-top Bloomingdale Roll (escolar, krab, cream cheese, tomato, asparagus, spicy mayo, yellow tail, eel on top, eel sauce, scallion, flying fish roe) there is something here to please everyone. My one grievance is that I simply do not understand the Floridian obsession with cream cheese as a sushi additive and that ingredient is pervasive throughout their offerings. Fortunately the chef's do not take offense at requests for individual modifications. If you are uncertain what to try, visit mid-week for the lunch specials as they provide a nice slice of their most popular offerings and the portions are quite nice. But Sushi is not all they offer at Sushi Ninja. The Tempura is fried to a nice golden color and the batter is light and flavorful. Their Teriyaki offerings (chicken, beef, salmon) use a home-made sauce recipe and the Katsu is just like momma used to make in the old country (provided your ancestry comes from the Pacific Rim). Together with a flavorful variety of noodle soups (Udon) served in meal sized portions, Sushi Ninja can be a worth a visit even if you are not a fan of sushi. The traditional Japanese beers, a small selection of wine and, of course, Sake are available to refresh your palette between bites. The restaurant itself is small and can feel a bit cramped when packed with diners. However, their location on a corner within the Bloomingdale Square strip mall allows for a good deal of light to enter the comfortable seating area. The décor is a bit over the top for the suburbs, but once you start dining you probably won't notice what is beyond your taste buds. The menu prices are pretty good, especially considering that Sushi is usually one of the more expensive dining experiences no matter where you go. So, the next time you have a yen for sushi but don't feel like traveling far, give this local Sushi Bar a try. read more

The food was decent. I appreciated the atmosphere with their new renovations. They are way over priced though. I was especially shocked when I found each glass of wine was $10.50. I asked the waitress if that was right and she said all their glasses of wine cost that much. Our tab for table of 2 was just shy of $100. I have been to many sushi restaurants and that is the most I have ever paid. Personally I won't be returning unless I get word they reduce their pricing read more

Soooo...the sushi that we had here was pretty good. The service and ambiance....meh. The waitress sat at the sushi bar on her phone the entire time we were there. She only came to see us when we looked over at her several times.....service is my pet peeve. The sushi that I had was very good though and I was impressed with it. They are over priced as well....like most of the sushi restaurants in the area. I had the crazy ninja roll and my husband had the rock and roll. My roll had tuna on top and it was very fresh. I enjoyed the food. May give it once more to see if the service improves. read more

i love sushi ninja, sometimes. they forgot my sweet potato roll when i ordered to go. instead, i got what i think was deep fried avocados on sushi. it was very whacky, and i was kinda grossed out. but i ate it anyways. i recommend if you wanna take the chance. read more

Best sushi around! The customer service was great and the sushi was deliciousness! Every bite was better than the last. We will definitely be back read more

My wife and I have had lunch here in a couple of occasions over the last few weeks. She ordered vegan sushi, about which she wasn't quite impressed about. I ordered the mussels with grated cheese, which had too much wasabi salt on them. The food has average quality and place lacks ambiance, so typical of many Japanese restaurants. I wouldn't chose this restaurant should I had to take out some of my out of town Japanese friends read more

Avoid at all cost. The absolute worst service that I have ever received. You can get better service from a McDonalds drive thru. There are many other Sushi restaurants that beat this bottom feeding joke of a restaurant. read more

i loose so much money off this place ashley roll rambow roll tuna bombs we went 5 times in one week oops read more

the kids teriyak chicken fills me up so good and the women who takes orders at the front is so respectful I'm one of her regulars and she's so respectful read more

Modern motif, great food ! Went for lunch great selection . Will definitely be back.

Amazing. The freshest seafood and simply the best Wasabi on the planet. Awesome staff too!

Bad service: staff looks like they rather be somewhere else. The spider roll was old and the teriyaki chicken was terrible. When I told the waiters, she had the manager come to talk to us. As I said pretty bad service and just bad service. Too bad, I was hoping for a better experience. read more

Sushi is amazing!!! This place is definitely a hidden gem, the lighted sign outside just says Ninja. The servers are very attentive and helpful if you aren't sure which roll to try. read more

The food and service are awful. For sushi or sashimi the fish needs to be fresh not frozen. I hope the people that work here can visit Japan and hopefully learn the way you are supposed to treat your guest. Please close your restaurant to restore your dignity. read more

Good sushi for the price. Fresh fish and hand-crafted cocktails. We enjoyed the Love Roll, the Godzilla Roll and the South Tampa Roll. They didn't have Toro or Gran Marnier at the bar, but everything else, including the service was pretty good. I would definitely go back. read more

Are they new and working out the kinks or is it just mismanaged? We sat down at 7pm on a Tuesday night and it took 10 minutes for them to get our order even after asking the next tables server for help. We were told "our server is on her way". A few minutes later our server came by and when we said we'd like to order drinks and food then she had to run to get a pen. However she was stopped by another table to return a meal and she never came back. Another 10 minutes later we asked the server for the table next to us for help. She got our drinks and put in our food order and our original server never came back. As far as the food it was ok. Clear soup was cool, as in not hot. The chicken fried rice had a very strange flavor, like lighter fluid on the chicken maybe or something from the cooking process. Gyoza was really good though but maybe not enough to bring us back anytime soon. read more

Friendly staff and owner. I have went a few times the last few months and never left disappointed. Mimi, who is the owner at sushi ninja has the most delicious creations. Their TNT mussels are to die for. Their champong, which is their seafood noodle soup is my bf favorite. Down to sashimi. They give out the fattest and freshest cuts. A little downfall would be their prices. They are not exactly the cheapest, but what sushi restaurant is? read more

One of my all time favorite sushi restaurants and now with the new location they have boba tea and poke bowls. Sushi is always super fresh and plentiful. The new decor in the new location was done nicely as well. read more

We had high hopes for this place after seeing all the rave reviews. We are sushi fanatics and have tried most sushi places in Brandon/Riverview. If you're coming here for strictly sushi, it's decent. Pricey, and not the best in town at all but decent. We ordered crab ragoon and gyoza. Both were not homemade and pre frozen we could tell. Wouldn't recommend. The entrees is where it was a complete failure. I read similar reviews unfortunately after we paid $85 for our meal tonight. I ordered steak teriyaki which according to the menu was a stir fry. Instead it came out on a skillet and the steak was sliced in thick strips on top of mushy vegetables with a thick sauce. They brought out a side bowl of plain stale rice. I asked the waitress if they had any of the hibachi yum yum sauce and she brought me a cup of something tasted like mayo and sugar. My husband ordered the noodle dish per the waitress' recommendation and the noodles were SO overdone that they tasted so gooey. We both ordered ginger salads and for $2.50 I wasn't expecting anything elaborate but the dressing was god-awful and looked bright orange like they just blended carrots in the dressing. Not the type of ginger salad I'm used to. Like I said, sushi was decent nothing special but the service was horrible and our entrees tasted like a frozen Costco meal. So disappointed in this place and not worth the $$$. There are much better sushi options in town. read more

I have been going to ninja for over a decade, and there is absolutely nothing I can complain about. The service is wonderful, never have to ask for a refill, sushi is phenomenal, and the prices are reasonable for the quality of food. It's been a while since we've been, but I can't wait to go back. Absolutely love ninja. A+++ read more

I usually only leave reviews for places that are new to me. However, I realized that I was neglecting my duty and not letting the world know of my favorite sushi place!! I try to visit here once a month and for the most part I get the same thing. Mt Fuji and Tampa roll, extra spicy mayo. I LOVE THIE PLACE!!!! read more

Sushi Ninja is literally the worst sushi place I have ever been. Dirty seat, dirty dishes, bad service, bad and/or extremely bland food. It was sadly a 100% miss and I'd like to save others the disappointment if possible. When we first walked in, it was unappealing to see half the tables in the restaurant empty but still sitting covered in dirty dishes and napkins. I didn't think too much of it at first because I thought they must be busy with a big rush of people, but as I sat through dinner I realized that they were not busy at ALL... they just weren't bussing the tables. Then we get to our booth and the seats were dirty... so I used my napkin to clean it, and asked the server for another napkin... No biggie... except that I ended up having to ask her literally 3 times for the napkin. She kept coming back to the table without it, even after she brought drinks, and even after she brought food/appetizer. Even worse than a dirty seat is dirty dishes... When our server brought the appetizer, she brought two appetizer plates, BOTH of which were dirty. I took pictures. One literally had a fingerprint smudge underneath a black spot. The other had two crumbs or food tidbits of some kind. We did not use them, or ask for new plates because I was already frustrated at asking for a napkin 3 times, and I knew by the time we would get new plates we'd probably be done with the appetizer. So then the sushi comes. Where do I start?? The server forgot to bring the ginger salad my husband had ordered. The server also forgot to bring the side of spicy mayo I had asked for (and forgot it yet again when she came back to bring my husband's forgotten ginger salad so I had to ask for that another time or two.) My sushi plate literally had no wasabi and no ginger on it... who in the world serves sushi and forgets to put the wasabi and ginger on the plate, the one thing that's on literally every sushi plate ever??? So aside from that, I was confused just looking at my sushi because the description was that it was topped with yellowtail. However, only 3 of the 7 pieces were topped with yellowtail, whereas the other 4 pieces were topped with what looked like a big black nasty chunk of fish skin. I asked the server what that was, and she informed me it was eel. I was mistaken that the roll I ordered had eel on it (I had thought it said eel sauce when I looked at it.) however, it was not just a situation where I could "peel the eel" off and eat the roll I was looking for, because that was literally the only topping on more than half of the pieces. I understand the eel part was something I overlooked, but why was it that a main ingredient that the roll says it has, is missing from half the pieces?? If a sushi roll you order says it has tuna, cucumber and cream cheese, but you receive a roll that had some pieces with just tuna, some pieces with just cucumber, and some pieces with just cream cheese, would you feel like you got what you ordered?? Of course not. Any sushi roll I have ever eaten prior to this has consistency and the ingredients ordered in every single "slice" of the roll. I briefly pointed out the issue of the roll having only yellowtail on a few of them, and only eel/(snakeskin) on the others, and another server or employee walked by and said "oh it's ombré". (..,Ha... ha.... ) Meanwhile the server just basically stood there like I was an idiot and then I eventually just said never mind because I was SO OVER this entire experience!!!!! She definitely did not care about any of this, and of course did not at any point come back to ask how any of it was, (to myself or my husband, etc.) even the pieces that had no eel, that I ate, were just so... below mediocre tasting. Bland. Not to mention the entire roll fell apart every time I picked up a piece- it was basically like a huge joke at this point. Let me also mention how gross their ginger salad was. How do you mess that up, right? It's just ginger dressing and iceberg lettuce basically. I noticed my husband pushed it to the side pretty quickly, but with all the other stuff I didn't ask him about it until the end. I asked how it was and he said it was weird and doesn't think it was actually a ginger salad. I looked at it and thought WTF? #1 the dressing was nothing like any other ginger dressing I've ever had. It was bright orange, like a starburst candy or orange jelly. And it basically tasted like orange jelly/marmalade or something.... it was awful. Tasted nothing like ginger, or any ginger dressing I've ever had at any sushi or hibachi restaurant, ever. If I had been given another napkin I would have spit it out. Don't waste your money, please. Go to Yoko's in South Tampa. Go to Soho Sushi on Kennedy. Go anywhere else. I would not go back to Sushi Ninja again even if it was free. read more

This place never disappoints! OMG best EVER the Buccaneer roll is to die for and Volcano roll as well ! the décor is a little off for a sushi joint BUT who cares when the sushi is sooooo GOOD !! If I could give 10 stars I would !! and prices at phenomenal for GREAT sushi best in the area read more

Found this gem of a restaurant! We decided to try Sushi Ninja for lunch today. My husband ordered a Poke Bowl with all hot ingredients. He was not disappointed. I ordered the Shrimp Tempura and was pleasantly surprised on the quantity of shrimp and the tastiness of the sauce. We had a California Roll and Mexican Roll. The shrimp on the Mexican Roll was warm and tasty. Next time we're in the area we definitely will be stopping at Sushi Ninja for another great meal. read more

Sadly I can only review the sprite and the service of said sprite since we sat for 15 minutes without getting further service. The server greeted us nearly immediately, took our drink order and gave us menus. We took about 5 minutes to read all the special sushi rolls (which looked awesome) and decide which 4 we wanted. We also decided our apps and alcoholic drinks (which also looked awesome). We then watched the 2 servers continue to serve the tables around us (maybe 8 tables in the entire place, including us). The server who brought us our sprite came close to our table at least 8 different times but never actually came back to our table to take our order (we were up by the door so it wasn't like we could just grab her walking by). I watched her serve a new table their drinks, take their order (they arrived after us and were a larger party) then go to the table right behind us and give them their check. She then came back, got their check and cashed them out. Ok, I understand being busy so maybe now that she cleared out that table she would serve us so we waited. YES, she was finally headed back our way and we were going to get to order....then she stops at the now empty table to bus and clean it. REALLY?!? I waited for her to clean it then was going to say something but as soon as she finished, she bolted back into the back. At this point we had waited in excess of 15 minutes after getting our sprite with little more service so I left some cash for the soda and went to Burger Monger. I am very disappointed, I was craving sushi and this place had always had fantastic food but unfortunately that does you no good if you can't get the food from the kitchen to the table. I doubt I'll be back as there are many sushi places closer with decent service. Read before you dine: https://www.myfloridalicense.com/inspectionDetail.asp?InspVisitID=5468222&id=2189886 read more

The sushi is amazing but the service could use some improvement, wasn't even greeted at the door when I walked in and stood there for 5 mins before anyone even noticed I walked in read more

Sushi Ninja used to be hands down the best sushi restaurant in Brandon BUT not any more :( not because the other guys in town are doing any better but because Sushi Ninja has gone down. The service and the food are lacking. Their rolls have always been on the expensive side but it was always worth it because of the quality of food and service. Was. read more

Service and food was pretty good. There's a lot different rolls to choose from. The one thing I did notice, however, is that they have quite a bit of fried fish in most of their rolls. I'm not a fan of that. There's really nothing out of the ordinary with their rolls. But, the service was good and the sushi that I did have was good as well. Not sure I would pick this place over all of the other sushi restaurants in the area...but it's convenient read more

This is a great spot to fill your sushi needs. I have been there three times and each time the service, food and value was excellent. The food tastes great, I love the vegetable tempura appetizer and the rolls. My girlfriend likes the chicken broth soup. The staff is all very friendly and quick about service. The value can't be beat. Sushi Ninja is everything a sushi joint should be. read more

Very upsetting. Quality is going downhill. Took over a hour to get our food and the rolls were tiny. Not happy. Hopefully this place isn't losing its charm and good quality. read more

I've been going to this restaurant for ~10 years and used to love it. I have introduced this place to at least 100 customers. However, it goes without saying that the quality has been on a steady decline while the prices have been on a steady incline. The restaurant is dirty & dusty and the quality has gone down significantly :( read more

We love it here and so fresh!! My family and I frequent this place probably once a week. We love it!!

I was impressed with the establishment's quality of food until I saw my first mutant Roach. When I brought it to the cashiers attention she seemed this dismissive. read more

I just killed a Caterpillar roll, Special Mexican roll, Bebe roll and Ninja lobster roll with my family. It's the best sushi I had in the Tampa area. Supper fresh, full of flavor and superb service. Don't let the outside appearance fool you, you will not be disappointed. read more