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Edomasa
2710 De La Vina St, Santa Barbara
Phone: (805) 687-0210
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Reviews by the General Public
Delicious Sushi, 3/6/2013
Reviewer: Brecken
from Santa Barbara, CA
My favorite sushi place in town. Love sitting at the counter, always get my sushi quickly and it's delicious. My favorite rolls are the baltimore roll and the buffalo volcano roll. My boyfriend's favorites are de la vina roll and the santa barbara roll. We mostly come for the sushi so I can't comment of their other dinner foods. Love that it's late night but sometimes I wish I could order lunch from here darn it!
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Good Experience!, 7/29/2012
Reviewer: Jay
from Santa Barbara, CA
I used to come here several years ago and was surprised to see so many negative comments considering that it was decent sushi years ago. All recent comments considered, we decided to take the plunge and see for ourselves just how bad Edomasa has supposedly gotton over the years. Service was great and the food was very good. This place has always had an "iffy" atmosphere... if I was the owner I would definitely spruce it up, but overall it was a good experience and I wouldn't even hesitate to come back. I have dined at some of the better sushi joints all over the country and I would hardly say that this place deserves some of the earlier harsher comments... unless they were having a really bad night. I would say the food is above average.
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What happened?, 7/15/2012
Reviewer: Yvee
from Santa Barbara, CA
Was really excited to eat here because I heard so many wonderful things. I was let down. The service was horrible! I ordered my food and waited for a half an hour. When I asked where it was they had forgot to make my food. I had to leave and I am never going back.
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No good, sorry
Reviewer: Omer
from Santa Barbara, CA
After several unsuccessful experiences at Edomasa, I wanted to give them a last chance yesterday. I avoided to write a review before since it was going to be negative. But this time, I had it.
I have been going to Edomasa since their 1st day, I was even a special guest at the opening night, early 90ies. I have known chef Fujita-san since he arrived to Santa Barbara.
He still doesn't smile, and does not even recognize me, never says hello, that's another story. This attitude is considered very rude in Japan (I lived in Japan for 6 years).
Last night, we arrived around 7, sat at the counter. Another angry looking, non smiling, non Japanese man handed us the restaurant menu. Hard cover menu at the sushi bar? A sticky note on the cover explained that they had to raise the prices because of the fish market in Japan. So the fish is coming from Japan?
The angry looking man (not the owner, he was on the left side of the counter) took our orders and proceeded with cutting ultra thin, almost transparent slices of fish. After a few order, I had to tell him that I want to eat decent sushi, even if I have to pay more, please have them cut properly, I just don't want to eat sticky rice. He didn't react in any way.
The fish taste was below average, some even looked dry and pale, too much shari (rice), no neta at all (presentation). Basic sushi like Hamachi and Magura are tasteless. Salmon and Japanese Mackerel were pale and dry. The rolls I had were not good, I didn't try all of them. The "Edomasa" roll was not good, with some sweet sauce and strange color.
No greeting from anyone, no individual plates or board, the sushi or rolls were served in a service plate put in the middle of us, we were expected to eat from the same dish. When I asked about a service plate, they forgot to bring it, had to ask three times. Then a busboy wanted to take them away, when I said we were eating in them and I want to keep them, he insisted that he had to take them.
The only positive person was the Japanese woman who served us beer, and took our money.
After paying more than $50 per person, I left unsatisfied. Next time I will have to drive to Taiko, in Irvine, about 2.5 hours of drive and 1.5 hour to wait in line to eat decent sushi. Believe me it is worth the drive.
I do not recommend Edomasa even to beginners, go buy ready made sushi at the supermarket, it is cheaper and more tasty, and you don't have to deal with angry looking man.
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Yummy
Reviewer: Amanda
from Santa Barbara, CA
Despite living in SB for 15 years and driving past Edomasa every day on my way home, I had never eaten here before tonight. I got the Curry Katsu Rice bowl, which was delicious! Panko breaded pork cutlet with rice and a very yummy deep colored mild curry with fresh veggies. Would definitely eat here again!
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Solid.
Reviewer: Scott
from Santa Barbara, CA
Had my first dinner tonight at Edomasa and had a really good meal for not a ton of money. We sat at the bar and had a mix of nigiri and specialty rolls. Everything was made right away, tasted really really good, and everyone we interacted with was very nice. Not sure what else you could ask for.
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Food-Midrate; Service was great for me!
Reviewer: M.E.L.
from Santa Barbara, CA
You don't go here for an amazing life-changing experience. You go here to get basic rolls, beer and to satisfy late-night sushi cravings. I've had some horrible rolls (was too curious and tried to explore-mushy unappetizing), and have had some fishy suspicions regarding the spicy tuna roll(old?)... Never again. Stick to the basics- basic rolls, cooked things & nigiri. That said, I enjoy their ikura (salmon roe/caviar) appetizer (on grated radish which is really yummy) and FRESH yummy uni by the traybox -18$- the BEST deal you'll ever get for true Santa Barbara uni. Owner (strict with a perpetual frown) does not smile but he handles the money end, I'd have to say traditional angry Japanese man. My Server - older short-haired Japanese woman was very attentive and very sweet- motherly too. VERY good service from her. She actually impressed me so much, after reading so many negative reviews, that I felt compelled to write.
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great service!!!
Reviewer: richelle
from Santa Barbara, CA
last visit there was a nite ago,food was delicious as usual,still falling for the tempura icecream,very good service,our waiter is really friendly and helpful,very kind and knows everything about our questions,and patient to expalin the menu,the big warm smile on his face was definitely making the dessert even sweeter:)we love it there!
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worst japanese resurant ever
Reviewer: leo
from Santa Barbara, CA
The food was horrible, and while I and my six friends joke about there will be no worse about this restaurant, their service proved us wrong. Because we had more than party of six, according to their manager, we were mandatory to pay 15% tip. so instead of be grateful about that, they take advantage of that may or may not rightful law. Their servers were acting them recently lost a relative, everybody was long face and mean. When we ask them question about food or drink they will simply ignore you. and worst part was, their manager is aware of that and refuse to do anything about it. And I always though Japanese owners' are tough to their employees, i guess this one is not a true Japanese
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awful experience
Reviewer: lilmt
from Santa Barbara, CA
My friend and I went to Edomasa last Statuday, and the experience was awful. I don’t normally write negative reviews. Usually, if I don’t entirely enjoy my dining experience at some places, I’d just avoid going there. However, my dining experience at Edomasa last Saturday sucked so bad that I feel it is necessary to make a note of it. The food was bleh, and the service was terrible. We sat there for 15 minutes and waived twice to finally have our server to take our orders. Our server was not attentive at all, and it was not even a very busy night. We had to constantly ask the busboy to have our sever over. Later that night we asked the busboy (since we couldn’t get our server over) if he could be a sweetheart and go ask our server if our order comes with a complementary dessert, we were left sitting there with no replies for 10 minutes. When our server finally came over, she cavalierly told us that we should read the fine prints on the menu carefully ourselves. By that point, we were just all so disappointed and really to leave the restaurant. On our way out, we informed the owner that there’re issues with the services. The manager/owner replied that if we want a discount we need to inform him that there’s a problem before we pay, since we had already paid, there’s nothing he could do. After we made it clear to him that we weren’t looking for refund or discount, rather we just wanted to let him know, he kept saying that there’s nothing he could do at that point.
I mean, what does he mean there’s nothing he could do. The least he could do is to train his staff treat the costumer nicely with respects. Their attitude toward costumer absolutely repels me. It is so sad to see the food and service at Edomasa has sunken to this level, because it used to be one of our go to places for Japanese food. I guess it is safe to say that Edomasa is officially on the list of restaurant I refuse to patronize.
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Bad Curry(Pork), WORSE service
Reviewer: Jimmy
from Santa Barbara, CA
i love curry and thought to try their curry donkastu the other night.
#1, i ordered "Large" size, and from what i can tell, it plate is pretty large, but not so much for the food, and it easily could be the worse curry in this area.
#2, the service. i checked comments here before i went there, hoping i would be lucky to get good service. but now i regret that i didnt LISTEN!!!!the service was worse than the curry, at first they forgot to take my order, and then later leave me waiting forever. the waitress just kept ignoring me, even when i was waiving at her.
Please do yourself a favor and go to other Japanese restaurants.
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Friendly service
Reviewer: Eric Johnson
from Santa Barbara, CA
I love Edomasa sushi. The food is pretty good and friendly service there too. I had a birthday party on Friday night, the waitress was so nice, she took good care of us and sang birthday song with us. I don't understand why so many people complain about the service, as a waiter i knew how hard work at restaurant. Sometimes we really need to have more understanding than complaining. Edomasa i love you.
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California Roll from Hell
Reviewer: John
from Santa Barbara, CA
I've been going to Edomasa periodically for years. I had their California Roll last night and it was terrible. It tasted like it had a blob of salty mayonnaise in the middle of each piece of sushi roll. And the wasabi was extremely weak and didn't even taste like wasabi. I had ordered 2 rolls and left half my food on my plate. I literally drove to Arigato to salvage the rest of my dinner date. I doubt I will ever go back.
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WORSE SERVICE EVER IN TOWN
Reviewer: Stephanie W
from Santa Barbara, CA
Seriously.. this is by far the worst service I received in Santa Barbara for the past five years!!
Last night, my friends and I (party of 7) decided to eat at Edomasa because it WAS one of the best and affordable sushi in town, however, not only their food quality got worse, there waitress is extremely rude and irresponsible.
the waitress brought miso soup and entrees to the wrong person and she gave me attitude when I ask her a question. I understand that for a party of 6+, tips will automatically include in the final bill. But seriously, she doesnot deserve for those tips. we tried to get her attention so many times, she never/rarely comes over, pretty much we have to call other waitress/waiter to call her come over to our table. she left our table without finish taking order from everyone, and the worst part is I asked a waiter to ask her if our food include and mochi ice cream, she didn't even border to come to the table and tell us the answer when she grab our credit card. I have to walk up to her and ask her, then she gave me attitude and told me that you should know YOURSELF that it is not included.
My friends thought that the owner/ manager should know about this. So after we paid, we tried talk to an older asian guy (seems like manager or owner), his answer is even more shocking..... he said:" if you want to complain, you need to do it before you paid, there is nothing i can do after you paid." so we tried to tell him we dont want refund or anything, but you seriously need to consider about that waitress and watch out for her attitude. He doesn't seem to care, and he said:" it's okay if you guys dont want TO COME AGAIN." WOW... I am pretty sure this is not the way to run a restaurant in Santa Barbara.
Overall, the food is alright, although the quality went down, if we still receive the same service, we should still be fine..
NOT RECOMMENDED to anyone who thought Edomasa still had there good service like before.
P.S. three of us ordered Beef Sukiyaki don, the beef is very dry and not a lot of flavor in it.
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Not even a glance!
Reviewer: Greg Lopez
from Carpinteria, Ca
I am going to keep this simple and clean! My girlfriend and I were there around 11 last Saturday night and the place was not even that busy. For over five minutes we were perhaps ignored by every person who worked there! It was the most horrible experience I have ever had at any dining establishment! You won't catch me eating at this poor excuse of a restaurant again.
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Worst Japanese Food I've Ever Had
Reviewer: Barbara Ratliffe
from Thousand Oaks, CA
Came here and got the Kou Special:Spicy Tuna was filled with gristle. "Skewer" of shrimp (more like toothpick of shrimp) was the dryest shrimp I have ever had! It was like shrimp jerkey! It was so dry the skin would not peel off. So disgusting!
The teriyaki beef tasted foul! My gut told me to stop eating it after one bite which i did.
Chicken skewers were tasteless and dry.
Service sucked. He was way too sassy and kept making weird faces when we had questions. The guy who filled our waters was very good though!
Verdict - I would rather eat at a fast food sushi joint than this place! Never again!!
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