Eva M.
Yelp
Miyabi was the first restaurant I ate at while in the area for a job interview. Decades later, the restaurant is still standing strong with a loyal customer base in a full house. While not all dishes were winners, enough are. While I wouldn't drive out of my way to eat there, if we are in the area, it's a reliable restaurant to have a meal. The deco is appropriately Japanese. The service is swift, mid-end hurried style. Not a high-end date place. It's at a strip mall with plenty of parking.
The Food:
Seafood Jumbo roll, $21 - 5 Stars
Menu: Tuna, salmon, albacore, shrimp, crab salad, scallop, yellowtail, shiso, avocado and tobiko
They are not kidding when they named this seafood jumbo. It has loads of seafood! A definite winner.
Salmon Sunrise roll, $19 - 5 Stars
Menu: Avocado, Spicy crab salad topped with seared salmon, honey mustard sauce and tobiko
With the seared salmon on top, this is also a flavorful winner.
Black Cod Kama, $18 - 5 Stars
This black cod collar is a less common menu item, and it was excellent - perfectly seasoned and grilled. Most restaurants only offer hamachi and salmon kama.
Sashimi Appetizer, $21 - 3.5 Stars
The fish options are expectedly ordinary and normal. The pieces are pleasantly thick and good sized. The salmon is however sadly flavorless. I have no clue what type of salmon was served.
Uni Shooter, $14 - 0 Stars
I came close to sending this back the second it was placed on our table. DROWNING in ponzu, the uni is hidden, wasted, and unrecognizable. It looks nothing than the menu photo. Half the ponzu is more than sufficient, and the uni needs to be bigger. The way they made this uni is wasting the uni.
Kaki Fry (Fried Oysters), $13 - 1 Star
I wanted the baked oysters, which would require oysters on the half shell, but they are out. :( Got these instead. It's pretty obvious these are from a jar, and they tasted "aged". Again, I was tempted to send these back, too. Served with tartar sauce, it is rather old fashion. If they had spicy aioli instead, the spiciness may have masked the staleness somewhat. (Rolling eyes)
Salmon nigiri - 0 Stars. Hamachi nigiri - 2 Stars. $10 each
For the price, the fish pieces are disappointingly thin compared to the sashimi. This salmon was also tasteless. Waste of money.