Overall food was good but the value for money was very bad. We booked a table through open table for Valentine's Day but weren't informed that they would only have a special menu. The special menu was 100$ min per person and in my mind was too much for the experience and food we got. Also charging 22% tip for 2 people and accidentally billing for an item that wasn't supposed to be billed (which was thankfully corrected) all led to a very poor experience.
jinsu ham
Went there with my coworkers at first, and now this place became one of my favorite sushi restaurants near SF area. Really delicious and authentic food, awesome staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lyle Sweeney
Exquisite food and wonderful service. Food is presented beautifully and it tastes even better. We were lucky enough to be served by the chef. Def the place if you want to experience your meal and not “just eat”.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Servers were friendly and attentive. Menu has so many options it's amazing. Fish is fresh. There is an entire section for vegan or vegi options which is special at a sushi restaurant.
We had high hopes to have good sushi here but sad to say we left disappointed. The “chef's choice” nigiri left much to be desired. The sushi rice wasn't properly seasoned. The 10 nigiri pieces comprised of only 5 types of fish, 2 pieces of each type; we - maybe naively - expected all 10 pieces to be different, especially considering the price. Additionally, one of the pieces contained so much connective tissue that it was inedible. This made for an unexceptional sushi experience. The cooked foods, which others at our table had, looked good. The black cod entree, while somewhat petite, was plated beautifully. The chicken “karaage” was tasty but more batter than chicken. We had been curious about I Prive for a while but sad to report we won't be returning.
WilliamH
This is great Japanese food and sushi. Recommend hamachi carpaccio and really anything on the menu. Service is a little disjointed, but still decent. Drinks are great too. Chef could do less guest fraternization, but if he's the reason the food is so good, whatever. The value is really good here, but another annoyance is that the menus and the tables are "sticky" - this is maybe not to say "not clean", but noticeable and shows staff is not instructed properly.
Scott Woodruff
Amazing sushi rolls and specialty dishes. Stan gave great recommendations and treated you like you are the only one in the restaurant. Be sure to sit at the bar. All the flavors were amazing.Favorite sushi dishes were the 007 and A-1 Tuck. The Josh was a superb signature dish.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dianna Bartel
The I Valentino (see picture) was amazing! We enjoyed so much we ordered another.
Dionna Smith
Very relaxing and chic atmosphere. The food was delicious!!! We have been sleeping on this cute and quaint spot but we won't anymore. They are a favorite and we will be back often. The lobster ramen was soooooo good. My lobster was smoked and the ramen was fresh. My husband had the black cod and the kobe beef and he enjoyed it very much. The mochi dessert was also very good. Customer service was also very pleasant. Thank you. :)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kobe Beef Tataki
Kayno Sanera
The server was terrible. Every table had wasabi except us, not sure maybe because we where not the right color skin or we didn’t order enough. When we where ordering the waiter was talking to my wife condescending “you don’t want calamari you don’t want this…..” as if she thinks we can’t afford it….Back to the wasabi my wife was trying to get our waiter’s attention to get wasabi and she kept pretending not to see my wife, after my wife started raising her hand, the bartender saw my wife but she ignored my wife also, she should have at least got our waiter’s attention for us, but no she seemed to be upset at us, or look at us as if we are lower class. So my wife got up and walked to the sushi chef way in the back passing the waiters that ignored us. Funny I saw her blatantly ignored my wife, she could have at least ask my wife does she need anything.She was overly excessive attentive to 2 tables as if she wanted to show us these tables are ordering more, and we aren’t worthy of the same attention. This is my first ever review of a place because of the discrimination we felt. She (waiter) never smiled till she served us the check, trying then to start a conversation, I guess she probably wanted to get a tip from us.We dine a lot in fact we just came back from Hawaii and I was leaving big tips in all the restaurants we ate at in Oahu.Because I usually tip a lot it was hard for me to leave a $1.00 tip. But I felt I had to to make a statement, of how badly we where served and how badly we were treated, causing us to feel discriminated.Not gonna recommend this place, unless you want to support a restaurant that categorized their customers on which social class they belong to. Then treat their customers with discrimination based on their looks or skin color and order list.
This is my favorite restaurant! I love the delicious and creative rolls!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Luke Roberts
My wife and I ate here last night and had an amazing time. The food was top notch, the staff were great and the vibe on point. Really recommend trying it. We'll definitely be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jake C
Amazing sushi, great service, super cool owner. The Omakase is non-traditional and absolutely amazing. Must try.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
WilliamY
Food quality is good but service is very lack of. I have to look for my service person all the time and they hardly come by my table. It is a patio type of seats and we looked at the sun directly around 6.... Air conditioner seems like not working well. A lot to improve.....
Marquis Marq
Delightfully great experience at I Privé. Food was beautifully presented and deliciously prepared. Both Riley and Nancy were first rate servers. Will definitely be back!
Overall food was good but the value for money was very bad. We booked a table through open table for Valentine's Day but weren't informed that they would only have a special menu. The special menu was 100$ min per person and in my mind was too much for the experience and food we got. Also charging 22% tip for 2 people and accidentally billing for an item that wasn't supposed to be billed (which was thankfully corrected) all led to a very poor experience.
Went there with my coworkers at first, and now this place became one of my favorite sushi restaurants near SF area. Really delicious and authentic food, awesome staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Exquisite food and wonderful service. Food is presented beautifully and it tastes even better. We were lucky enough to be served by the chef. Def the place if you want to experience your meal and not “just eat”.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Servers were friendly and attentive. Menu has so many options it's amazing. Fish is fresh. There is an entire section for vegan or vegi options which is special at a sushi restaurant.
We had high hopes to have good sushi here but sad to say we left disappointed. The “chef's choice” nigiri left much to be desired. The sushi rice wasn't properly seasoned. The 10 nigiri pieces comprised of only 5 types of fish, 2 pieces of each type; we - maybe naively - expected all 10 pieces to be different, especially considering the price. Additionally, one of the pieces contained so much connective tissue that it was inedible. This made for an unexceptional sushi experience. The cooked foods, which others at our table had, looked good. The black cod entree, while somewhat petite, was plated beautifully. The chicken “karaage” was tasty but more batter than chicken. We had been curious about I Prive for a while but sad to report we won't be returning.
This is great Japanese food and sushi. Recommend hamachi carpaccio and really anything on the menu. Service is a little disjointed, but still decent. Drinks are great too. Chef could do less guest fraternization, but if he's the reason the food is so good, whatever. The value is really good here, but another annoyance is that the menus and the tables are "sticky" - this is maybe not to say "not clean", but noticeable and shows staff is not instructed properly.
Amazing sushi rolls and specialty dishes. Stan gave great recommendations and treated you like you are the only one in the restaurant. Be sure to sit at the bar. All the flavors were amazing.Favorite sushi dishes were the 007 and A-1 Tuck. The Josh was a superb signature dish.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The I Valentino (see picture) was amazing! We enjoyed so much we ordered another.
Very relaxing and chic atmosphere. The food was delicious!!! We have been sleeping on this cute and quaint spot but we won't anymore. They are a favorite and we will be back often. The lobster ramen was soooooo good. My lobster was smoked and the ramen was fresh. My husband had the black cod and the kobe beef and he enjoyed it very much. The mochi dessert was also very good. Customer service was also very pleasant. Thank you. :)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kobe Beef Tataki
The server was terrible. Every table had wasabi except us, not sure maybe because we where not the right color skin or we didn’t order enough. When we where ordering the waiter was talking to my wife condescending “you don’t want calamari you don’t want this…..” as if she thinks we can’t afford it….Back to the wasabi my wife was trying to get our waiter’s attention to get wasabi and she kept pretending not to see my wife, after my wife started raising her hand, the bartender saw my wife but she ignored my wife also, she should have at least got our waiter’s attention for us, but no she seemed to be upset at us, or look at us as if we are lower class. So my wife got up and walked to the sushi chef way in the back passing the waiters that ignored us. Funny I saw her blatantly ignored my wife, she could have at least ask my wife does she need anything.She was overly excessive attentive to 2 tables as if she wanted to show us these tables are ordering more, and we aren’t worthy of the same attention. This is my first ever review of a place because of the discrimination we felt. She (waiter) never smiled till she served us the check, trying then to start a conversation, I guess she probably wanted to get a tip from us.We dine a lot in fact we just came back from Hawaii and I was leaving big tips in all the restaurants we ate at in Oahu.Because I usually tip a lot it was hard for me to leave a $1.00 tip. But I felt I had to to make a statement, of how badly we where served and how badly we were treated, causing us to feel discriminated.Not gonna recommend this place, unless you want to support a restaurant that categorized their customers on which social class they belong to. Then treat their customers with discrimination based on their looks or skin color and order list.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Restaurantji Recommends
This is my favorite restaurant! I love the delicious and creative rolls!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My wife and I ate here last night and had an amazing time. The food was top notch, the staff were great and the vibe on point. Really recommend trying it. We'll definitely be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing sushi, great service, super cool owner. The Omakase is non-traditional and absolutely amazing. Must try.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food quality is good but service is very lack of. I have to look for my service person all the time and they hardly come by my table. It is a patio type of seats and we looked at the sun directly around 6.... Air conditioner seems like not working well. A lot to improve.....
Delightfully great experience at I Privé. Food was beautifully presented and deliciously prepared. Both Riley and Nancy were first rate servers. Will definitely be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5