10/19/09

Bad service, fishy fish

by fuskies

My girlfriend and I arrived 7:30pm on a Saturday night and were seated promptly. However, once we received our water it took 15 minutes just to place our order. I would understand if the place was packed, however it was only half full.

After placing our order it took an additional 25 minutes to get our food. I found this unacceptable considering there were only 2 of us and we only ordered a few pieces of nigiri and 2 rolls. In addition, the tuna nigiri was somewhat fishy and very small.

The combination of bad fish and terrible service was disappointing.

• Pros: Great place to kill time
• Cons: Long wait

03/05/09

kindof 'not fresh' and has had a bad Gnat/fly problem

by CSMobileUser

It's an ok place for BASIC sushi, I could be wrong but there is no Nihonjin's (real Japanese) folks in the entire chef or waiter crew. Just a tad under average and cheap as usual. They have no understanding of goysa (potstickers) rice or miso soup. My guess is that it is another fake copy of a real Japanese sushi bar by another Asian family. Yes Asians, we Americans can tell you apart by your terrible attemps at copying real Japanese food

02/23/09

What a wonderful surprise!

by JulesThm

Living so close to I Love Sushi and driving by it often, it never occurred to my husband and I that a sushi place in Beaverton, located in a strip mall, with a hokey name for a restaurant would be worthwhile. So we would patronize other more popular sushi restaurants downtown and on "trendy-third" in Portland. But t his time we were being treated to dinner by friends and I Love Sushi was the restaurant they chose. My husband and I were so impressed by the food. The rolls I had were delicious and the nigiri my husband had was fresh and yummy. I am so excited that we now have a sushi destination in our own neighborhood! We'll be back!

• Pros: Great food, close by
• Cons: None

02/22/09

Pygmalion Bellyflop

by outandaboutinportland

This place used to be the one place I would go for sushi in Beaverton; back when it had bare bulbs for lighting and neo-junkical decor. Hakatamon came along, and I was happy to bounce between the two places (especially for Hakatamon's soba noodle soup). Back then, at I.L.S., the twin brothers/owners held down the fort and the food was good. They have recently undergone a re-vamping that includes fresh paint, cohesive decor, new lighting, increased prices, and new cooks. Visually, the place looks much better, but the food has declined and the prices have increased. I ate there last night with my family, and unfortunately it will be our last time there :-''( . The nigiri fish portions are much smaller. The tako was sliced about 1mm thin, this is laughable given the price increase. The maguro and sake are also much smaller than before. The uni was fresh, so that was a plus. A large Sapporo is now $7.50 if I recall, which is ridiculous. The spicy seafood udon soup was not good. The soup base was very bland. It lacked any kimchi heat or flavor, and had no bonito/kombu flavor. The seafood consisted of poor quality, frozen baby octopi and scallop pieces, 3 small clams, and one piece of oyster meat. But the coup de grace of our final supper at I.L.S. were their new "special rolls". Here is an example of caveat emptor: The new "Mr. Obama" (which should actually be named the "President Obama" now) and the lobster (claw) roll, are priced at $15 & $18 apiece! (yes, I should have asked the price first). Not only are they WAY overpriced, but the quality of the lobster was hypo-sub-par. It was watery, tasteless, and mushy. We did not finish either of the not-so-special rolls. Unfortunately, I can no longer recommend I.L.S., which is a shame because they used to be good. Sadly, Hakatamon is now the only sushi restaurant I have to recommend in Beaverton.

• Pros: Updated decor.
• Cons: Overpriced, meager portions, poor quality.

01/25/09

cute waitress!

by samurai777

There are three different waitresses working night shift. You don't want to order any foods from an old blonde woman because she is the one who gets all the negative feedbacks here. There is this one short girl(don't know what her name is); who is the youngest ,cutiest, quickest, and most friendly waitress here. Make sure order from this girl to avoid dissatisfaction of service. Everything else was just fine for me except for the rudeness of old blonde lady.

• Pros: cute young watress
• Cons: old blonde woman

09/26/08

You cannot imganie how horrible it is

by Ilovesushisucks

Most horriable places I've ever been too. Very bad service with rude attitude. We had only 5 people and they put 20% tip on the bill automatically. Frankly speaking the service is not worth a penny of the tip. But we didn't bother questioning and just leave cash there like 1 dollar less than their bill.

Guess what happened!!!! the waitress followed our car and hang over our window to ask for that 1 buck!!!! Please do not go to this place for your own sake.

• Pros: nothing
• Cons: bad service

07/16/08

Save yourself from a fishy sushi experience

by pisamelisa

I am new to Portland, moved here from Colorado and was very excited about eating fresh sushi. This place had lots of rave reviews so we went there. I've had much better sushi in land-locked Denver. The sushi was very fishy, smell and taste. It was a cold night and they kept opening the side door and leaving it open, burr. I think the good reviews for this place are put in by the owner because there is no way people think it is that great!

• Pros: none
• Cons: food, service, food again

06/18/08

Drive 45 minutes for the experience

by Lindymause

We live in Camas,WA and drive over to I love sushi. It has good service, good food and I highly recommend it.

02/20/08

Great sushi and customer service

by maruba

Really good place to have tasty and creative sushi. It's very informal and very friendly customer service

12/19/07

Extremely slow and poor service and below average food

by nrb3

We had lunch there today and it was one of the worst experiences I have ever had. We both ordered Bento boxes which comes with 3 pieces of nigiri, miso soup, cucumber salad, california roll and 4 pieces of spicy tuna roll. First of all, it took forever before our order was taken. Even though bento box came with miso soup, we decided to order two extra soups so we can have one while we wait and the other with the rest of the meal. But we were served with 4 bowls of miso all at once. Then it was another 25 minutes before bento boxes came out. Three nigiri pieces were 1 salmon, 1 tuna, 1 cooked shrimp. I've never seen cooked shrimp served as part of nigiri in bento boxes. We asked waitress to substitute my BF's shrimp for another nigiri because he was allergic to shrimp and she said no and suggested that we exchange his shrimp for something off my plate (never experienced that before -- server suggesting how to fix situation when the fix should be obvious -- they substitute the item). When we asked for the bill, she made sure to check his plate to see if he actually ate the shrimp and made a comment that it was gone (none of her business, but I ate it). After lunch both of us had horrible stomach ache (but we didn't complain about anything before the food came out so it must be the quality of food). I must say that salmon piece tasted good and miso soup was good. California roll was worse than you can buy in pre-made boxes in grocery store. So was spicy tuna. Both didn't have good flavor and fell apart. I would not go back there again and I wouldn't recommend it to others. Very slow service, strange service and the food quality is not there. The only good thing is salmon but if that is all you are going to eat, you might as well just get it in Uwajimaya. We used to enjoy a quick meal in Sushiland but their quality has degraded so we are looking for a new place. However, comparing Sushiland to this place, I would choose Sushiland anytime.