Best Sushi Restaurants in Aiea

I was seated at Table 7 (the 7th seat at the bar). There is a board with a QR code, and you order food using an app. I ordered a Sapporo Reserve beer ($6) and started ordering food. I ordered the Special Nigiri Flight ($38), but the chef presented me with the “regular” Nigiri Flight ($26). Five pieces of sushi were seared with a blowtorch, a sauce was brushed on, then presented on a stone platter with the chef explaining the pieces (salmon, Hamachi, and three types of ahi). Each was delicious, though I wish they weren’t all seared (I should have read the menu more closely … Aburi). I ordered three rolls: Blue Crab – Truffle Kanimiso ($9), Hamachi with shiso leaf ($7.25), and A5 Miyazaki Wagyu ($15). The Blue crab came was seared and the texture was creamy, homogeneous in composition. It tasted fine but wasn’t what I expected. The Hamachi was fine. The A5 Wagyu also came unrolled, I suppose to allow you to see the meat. It was terrific. I wanted more, so I placed an order for the 5-piece Hamachi sashimi set ($16). I waited and waited and waited. I finally asked the chef, and he said sashimi comes from the kitchen, he just does the sushi. After an interminable wait, I got my dish and powered through it. The slices were generous but too cold. While I was waiting for my sashimi, I checked my bill on the app and found I was charged for the special sushi flight and the regular sushi flight. I asked a server, who told me she fixed it in the back, but the app never reflected it. Had I not been paying attention, I would have been overcharged $38 (the price of the special sushi). I got a paper bill: $82.98, plus at $17 tip resulted in a $100 lunch. Is it worth the cost? I haven’t been to a sushi bar in ages, so I don’t know what the going rate for sushi and sashimi is any more. What I was served looked and tasted fine. I think my issues with the delivery of food and problems with my check colored my experience. I’ll give Nori Bar a conditional recommendation.

Excellent service; impressively prompt at the start of dinner service. The environment is true to Japanese style. Most importantly, the sushi was exquisite.

Great restaurant! Good service, delicious food and options and nice ambience. Not a place for an intimate quiet dinner but great restaurant to go for excellent food with good company.

Great service, great food. Definitely recommend this restaurant for yakiniku style meats. Exhaust is amazing. You leave there without a hint of your bbq meal. Extremely attentive staff from kitchen to the manager.

It was a great experience. Food was delicious, and service was amazing. Would do again and strongly suggest to any of my friends!