Michael X.
Yelp
Musashi's has been on my to try list for quite some time, and I'm always on the look out for some bomb Japanese food! We decided to swing by on a Wednesday around 6pm, had no wait time, and received our food in about 10 minutes.
The atmosphere of the restaurant is busy and there were a steady stream of customers coming in and out. Ordering was done through a waiter, and the service was decent and pretty standard when it comes to trying a restaurant of similar quality and cuisine.
I got the chirashi bowl and we shared two rolls of sushi which I'll review down below:
Fresh Salmon ($5) and Fatty Tuna roll ($5.95) : These rolls were good and the fish was fresh, but they were also pretty textbook in terms of how sushi rolls go. Wished that there was a bit more fish in the rolls as you can notice in the photos, and as you are paying $5 per roll only to get a small amount of sushi that wouldn't get use to filling you up.
Chirashi Bowl ($17.95): This bowl is presented quite nicely with how the fish is laid out and how fresh everything looked! The tuna slices were meaty, the salmon slices were luxurious in their taste (they were my favorite), and the overall texture of everything was pleasing and refreshing. There is a thin layer of sushi rice beneath the fish as well. If you are looking to get that fresh sushi fish craving out, this is a good pick. But the downside is, if you are looking to get full, sadly this isn't it - the bowl is a deceptively small from the photos. After finishing this delicious bowl and the rolls I described above, I wasn't even close to getting full and I've pretty much spent almost $30 for something that only gets me quarter full.
Overall, I would say Musashi's is a solid 4 stars - good tasting food represented with fresh fish, but definitely more on the pricier side in terms of quantity. There definitely are other sashimi bowl options on the Eastside that are roughly the same price but give you more fish and rice. Everything that you see here adds to up $30 just for one person, and my thoughts are usually if I'm looking to spend this amount of money at a restaurant, I'm looking to get full.