Itacho Sushi

With an extensive menu and affordable prices, don’t be surprised to find a long queue outside the restaurant at dinnertime. Like most Japanese restaurants, Itacho Sushi doesn’t take reservations so try to avoid the dinner crowd or be prepared to wait up to 30 minutes! But hey, good things are worth the wait right?

You would be pleased to know that they serve uni (sea urchin) and ankimo (monkfish liver) and sea eel (a rare find in Singapore) at inexpensive prices. They also have a promotional menu where you can find soy salmon sushi at only $0.40 each (however, they have limited pieces and usually sold out by dinner time)

Some may say this sushi chain may be overrated and sushi are not that fantastic, well you get what you paid for right? The prices are relatively cheaper than other sushi chains like Sushi Tei and Sakae Sushi. Service is efficient and I wouldn't mind going back again.

I came to Itacho Sushi @ Ion Orchard on a Friday night with my 4 girlfriends, and boy, the queue was horrendous when we reached about 6.10pm. We only managed to get our seats at 6.40pm, and when we went in, the queue was getting longer like a snake. * Do note that at least half of the diners have to be present before they will let you in to be seated.

Itacho Sushi is famous for its fresh and unique variety of Sushi but it also comes with a hefty price tag to it. Most of the Sushi is per piece, unlike other sushi joints in which an order of sushi gives you 3X portion. Each piece of 'normal' sushi can cost up to $3-4. The lucky thing is that they have a menu of discounted items that are changed continuously so we went for food items that cost up to 50% off.

I enjoyed the cold green tea noodles as it was refreshing and filled with tiny chopped scallops. I also enjoyed the swordfish sushi, inari, ebi sushi, lobster shusi. In fact we ordered so much we lost count. They all came fresh and delicious! I also remember my friends vigoriously taking the free ginger at the side table, and they claimed they loved it although i am not a fan!

Overall, a nice sushi joint in Singapore to indulge in good and fresh sushi though some of my friends have commented that standards have dropped slightly as compared to when it first opened.

There's always a long queue outside Itacho's outlets, but it's not hard to see why. The signature dish of salmon skin aburi is worth only 40cents, and it's actually pretty delicious. I wouldn't mind paying more just to have more than 4 pieces of this. The rest of the items are pretty normally priced, but the most of the sushi that I tried did not disappoint.

I'm quite thankful that there's only a small portion of rice per sushi, because it attenuates the accompanying ingredient on top and it's easier to pick up with your chopsticks. Of course, because there's so many people, it's a little hard to get the attention of the service staff, but once you manage to do so, the service is actually pretty fast. I would say I had a pleasurable dining experience at Itacho Sushi, and I would recommend others to go as well!

I visited the branch at Changi Airport. You must be early when you visit because they offered daily special but those came with a limited quantity and if you were late, the items would be sold out. May be I had not visited enough Japanese sushi restaurant so I found the sushi in this restaurant to be refreshing because other than the usual seafood variety, they also served duck and pork sushi.

The dish that I found to be especially different was the rice in crab. The serving came in a shell crab with rice stuffed inside. The rice was mixed with some ingredients and it tasted nice and fragrant.

I needed to mention their ordering system, because the few times that I had visited them, there had always been missing items from our orders. I was not sure what was the actual cause but it can get annoying when you were just waiting for your favorite food and it never arrived.

I always see a long, snaking queue outside the joint at ION Orchard, especially at dinnertime. And I don't get why because their sushi isn't all that great. You might as well go to Sakae Sushi, and you might even get better sushi there for cheaper.

It's really hard to get the attention of the waitresses because they're all constantly walking about from one end of the room to the other showing customers to their seats and shouting at the top of their lungs the Japanese shopkeeper's word for 'welcome'.

Their salmon-themed items were particularly disappointing, sushi included. We ordered a cooked salmon item, which was overly greasy and had so many bones in it that we wondered if additional bones were deliberately planted to choke customers.

Quality of the food aside, it wasn't the best place to dine at mainly because it's so hard to get anyone's attention, and we had to wait quite long for the ala carte items to arrive, and it was so noisy that it was hard to have any conversation without raising our voices.

I'm not coming back.

I decided to try the sushi in this restaurant due to the undying long queues outside the restaurant at ion orchard which i frequently passed.

The sushi was very fresh and the sushi vinegar used for the sushi rice was especially tantalizing. I like their seasonal sushi as well, as they have unique cuts from fish that other Japanese restaurants do not have, for quite economical prices.

However, the service is atrocious. It takes a long time to get the staff's attention, and it took them 15 minutes to serve each dish ordered. The staff also walked around with a black face, as if the customers were indebted to then.

Despite the sumptious food, the service leaves much to be desired.

Itacho Sushi is one of my favourite sushi restaurants of all time. It is advisable to order mostly their promotional items if not other than that, the sushi is rather expensive. However, I really do enjoy the cheap deals they offer in their promotions. The sushi rice is probably one of my favourite parts. It is soft and warm and really enjoyable. The slice of fish on the sushi is also really fresh. I particularly like the roasted salmon sushi and the yellow tail ones. They are really fresh, and the citrus sauce added to some of the sushi really gives it a twist. I really love the place and will be back for more!

I initially had great expectations of this restaurant, given the fact that I always saw long beelines outside the outlet at Ion Orchard. Thus, I finally decided to go down to the one at Changi Airport to find out what made this so popular. I initially also thought that the sushi there was cheap, given that it advertised itself as having sushi from 40cents each. Then I realized that it was only an offer for one sushi alone, and the rest are heftily priced at more than $2 each. The portion is also measly; a few plates alone surely will not satisfy your appetite. Thus, if you go there, be prepared to fork out money or leave unsatisfied.

However, Itacho Sushi can be given credit for its good quality ingredients as the sushi does indeed look freshly made with quality ingredients. That being said, it's no wonder for its high prices. Even so, I don't think it is worth the wait (given the queue) and price. I'd rather go somewhere else with bigger portions, lower prices and the same quality of sushi.