Well where to start? I was the only person in the place and it took 20 minutes to prepare a chirashi bowl. And when I say prepare, I mean it was chunks of too-cold fish on a desperately small amount of tasteless rice- none of the fine knife skills or seasoning you might find elsewhere. Can't hide poor skills behind a sliced avocado and an edible flower. Turns out the person working- there was only 1- didn't get to work early enough to check what needed to be prepped, as they were out of seaweed salad and he didn't know until it was too late. I didn't really want miso soup but it was the only other option to go with my $30 (!!!!) Lunch "special." It must have been very special indeed because I got less than 6 oz of it. It was bland and bitter and i did not eat it. What a terrible waste of my lunch and my money. Instead of importing Japanese fish, you'd think they'd take some lessons from the Japanese about crafting their cuisine. It's a no from me.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 2
Michele Flores
I was craving sushi and we ordered pick-up from Sushi Leo. I've never eaten here before but had heard it was good so I didn't think I would be so disappointed. The sushi was decent, but not great. Eel rolls are usually a safe bet at any sushi place, but this one was not good. The chicken yakitori was *very* dry. The bulgogi was $15. The serving was so small it was insulting, and it didn't even come with rice. I took a photo of it with my hand for reference. For 3 rolls, yakitori and bulgogi it was $70, plus tax and tip, so $90 total. I feel like I wasted my money and won't be going back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Connor Plant
I called this place without a menu, asking for recommendations. I ordered three simple and small sushi rolls - playboy, spicy salmon, and a red dragon roll. I also ordered karaji. The total over the phone was $60, which I thought to be about 2-3X what I should pay, but whatever. Expectations were high. Expectations were not met in quantity or quality. The karaji was oily and nothing I had ever recieved before. There was also a smear of some type of left over on the bottom of the to-go container. The chicken seemed old and it honestly felt like they grabbed someone's leftovers and sent them to me. The sushi was extremely small and it seemed rushed because of how they were put together.I live nearby and love sushi. You lost quite a bit of money in your greed and lack of quality. I expect a response of "sorry you had a bad experience - use our menu sometime," but I know enough to know when a business is taking advantage of opportunity.
Food: 1
Tony Apuzzo
Good strip mall Sushi. In something of a reversal of expectations, the fish was excellent, although only adequately prepared and served. High prices make this a tough recommendation when there are options nearby that get the intangibles right at a similar price point.Service was ok, but not great. We ordered a gluttonous amount of sushi, they decided to serve it in 2 rounds but probably should've served it in 3 rounds as our appetizers came quickly yet the first sushi round took over 30 minutes to arrive, which is too long. The server didn't ask to refill drinks until after the first round of sushi. With more care, they could've balanced out the arrival of our food to reduce "dead time" at the table. To be fair, they only had 1 waiter working and about 5 or 6 active tables, so the waiter was pretty busy.The nigiri was well done and mostly excellent. Specifically the red snapper and yellowtail were superb. Red snapper was firm with some toothsome snap to it. The ahi was also very good, not mushy nor metallic (common Colorado flaws with tuna). The salmon was slightly less great, still very good, but a half-step back from their other fish.Where they lose a star is for their freshwater eel (unagi). It was cold and uniform in texture. Ideally the unagi should be fresh cooked with some crispy bits around the edges by a torch or searing station.The rolls were OK but nothing special. Nice quality of avocado but they were overfilled with cucumber and carrot and had tiny amounts of fish.The restaurant's choice of soy sauce is unfortunate as it is very one-note and too salty. They should at least use low sodium soy by default and if possible switch suppliers.Finally, a subjective issue -- their wasabi was too mild for my palate, perhaps this was an attempt to mimic 'real' Japanese wasabi, but most western sushi restaurants use the spicy horseradish wasabi which I am used to and prefer for mainstream sushi.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Chris Hauck
Easily the best sushi in Colorado that I've had. Really fantastic. Every piece perfect. The Playboy role, with gently broiled salmon with spicy mayo baked in was so good we had it for desert too. Really fantastic. I'm telling everyone I know.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Pamela Aiello
Such a neighborhood gem! Staff was very friendly and knowledgeable about fish and flavors of the dishes. The sushi is delicious, high quality, very fresh sushi! I highly recommend!!!Kid-friendliness: Kid friendly atmosphere
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fish
Tiana Mandrigues
The chefs and food were AMAZING!!! this is a hiiden treasure in Longmont!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fish, Deluxe Sashimi Platter
Steve ..
Excellent and fresh food. Great service and atmosphere. A must to try and not just once. Check it out...you won't regret.
Stephan G.
OVERPRICED. BAD SERVICE. Average quality. Overpriced:An order of yellowtail nigiri here is more than Sushi Den, if you can believe that.Three average size pieces of yellowtail nigiri with a tiny side salad is $15 here!! That makes it $10 for an order, which is traditionally two pieces in most every sushi restaurant I've ever been to, but for some reason here it is three pieces. $15 for three pieces equals $10 an order. Ridiculously expensive. There's high and sushi restaurants in New York that don't charge $10 an order for yellowtail. Yellowtail at Sushi Den in Denver is around 8 to 9 dollars for way better quality fish. How do you justify charging more than Sushi Den? Good luck. I'll come buy the fixtures from your restaurant when you're out of business in six months. Service:After three visits to our table to drop off food, the waitress just looked at the stack of dirty dishes on our table and just left them there. I angrily moved the plates to the empty table next to us and slammed them down. Nothing is more irritating than eating in front of a stack of dirty dishes when the waitress has been by two or three times and had plenty of opportunity to pick them up. We were one of only two tables in the restaurant at the time as well, so they definitely were not busy. It's insulting. We had to ask for water refills as well. How tacky is that in a sushi restaurant?Chicken Teriyaki bowl:One of my kids had the chicken teriyaki bowl. This was a joke at $16. There was about four or five tiny little strips of chicken teriyaki over a giant pile of white of rice with about a half cup of vegetables for $16. This felt like a complete rip off.Nigiri:Octopus nigiri was average, but overpriced. The 2 orders of tobiko were decent, but the rice cups fell apart as soon as they were picked up. The yellowtail roll was $11. Really? A $7 roll pretty much ANYWHERE else is $11 here?! Why?HORRIBLE SERVICE and EXTREMELY OVERPRICED. We will DEFINITELY NEVER RETURN.
Jessica Barber
At Sushi Leo, I truly feel like a special guest in the chef’s kitchen. The vibe is classy, yet cozy. The Nigiri is fresh, there are seasonal varieties of fish, quirky sushi rolls, and excellent customer service. This is my go-to restaurant for special occasions with my partner. If we sit outside on a chilly evening, we are seated by a heater and are handed clean fuzzy blankets to wrap up in. This place is simply the best! ❤️
Wow!!! Decided to try this for the first time with a large group so we got to try just about everything on the sushi menu and it was over the top. Sushi was amazing and the presentation added to the experience. This place is a must.
traveleverywhere2020
Excellent food quality and pleasant atmosphere. The sushi was delicious, the choices excellent and the presentations creative and appetizing. A definite must! The staff, and owner are very attentive and pleasant to deal with.
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AWFUL! The sushi "Chef" ( dude with huge gauged ears and a beard) made rolls that fell apart the second you touch them. They had scales in them, my sashimi had fish bones in it. He prepared them awfully, and had some stupid excuse about how the scale must have accidentally gotten into one of the rolls when he was cutting it, but it was in every piece of the rolls, and then he remade it. yep in every piece of that too. Just their attitude and lying about the sushi made it very untrustworthy. 60+ bucks down the toilette. Avoid at all costs.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
Gunnar Frodigh
My girlfriend and I have gone several times and usually end up getting more sushi than we planned on because we can’t get enough. Nate and Alan are phenomenal sushi chefs and provided excellent suggestions and fun conversation. We are have become regulars for sure.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Soup, Eel Sauce, Shrimp Tempura Roll
Debra H
Completely obliterated their menu, namely their rolls. Fair warning: some have the same names but are completely different. Some are baked but that is not noted on the menu whatsoever. This used to be my favorite sushi restaurant. Back to the drawing board.
Well where to start? I was the only person in the place and it took 20 minutes to prepare a chirashi bowl. And when I say prepare, I mean it was chunks of too-cold fish on a desperately small amount of tasteless rice- none of the fine knife skills or seasoning you might find elsewhere. Can't hide poor skills behind a sliced avocado and an edible flower. Turns out the person working- there was only 1- didn't get to work early enough to check what needed to be prepped, as they were out of seaweed salad and he didn't know until it was too late. I didn't really want miso soup but it was the only other option to go with my $30 (!!!!) Lunch "special." It must have been very special indeed because I got less than 6 oz of it. It was bland and bitter and i did not eat it. What a terrible waste of my lunch and my money. Instead of importing Japanese fish, you'd think they'd take some lessons from the Japanese about crafting their cuisine. It's a no from me.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 2
I was craving sushi and we ordered pick-up from Sushi Leo. I've never eaten here before but had heard it was good so I didn't think I would be so disappointed. The sushi was decent, but not great. Eel rolls are usually a safe bet at any sushi place, but this one was not good. The chicken yakitori was *very* dry. The bulgogi was $15. The serving was so small it was insulting, and it didn't even come with rice. I took a photo of it with my hand for reference. For 3 rolls, yakitori and bulgogi it was $70, plus tax and tip, so $90 total. I feel like I wasted my money and won't be going back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
I called this place without a menu, asking for recommendations. I ordered three simple and small sushi rolls - playboy, spicy salmon, and a red dragon roll. I also ordered karaji. The total over the phone was $60, which I thought to be about 2-3X what I should pay, but whatever. Expectations were high. Expectations were not met in quantity or quality. The karaji was oily and nothing I had ever recieved before. There was also a smear of some type of left over on the bottom of the to-go container. The chicken seemed old and it honestly felt like they grabbed someone's leftovers and sent them to me. The sushi was extremely small and it seemed rushed because of how they were put together.I live nearby and love sushi. You lost quite a bit of money in your greed and lack of quality. I expect a response of "sorry you had a bad experience - use our menu sometime," but I know enough to know when a business is taking advantage of opportunity.
Food: 1
Good strip mall Sushi. In something of a reversal of expectations, the fish was excellent, although only adequately prepared and served. High prices make this a tough recommendation when there are options nearby that get the intangibles right at a similar price point.Service was ok, but not great. We ordered a gluttonous amount of sushi, they decided to serve it in 2 rounds but probably should've served it in 3 rounds as our appetizers came quickly yet the first sushi round took over 30 minutes to arrive, which is too long. The server didn't ask to refill drinks until after the first round of sushi. With more care, they could've balanced out the arrival of our food to reduce "dead time" at the table. To be fair, they only had 1 waiter working and about 5 or 6 active tables, so the waiter was pretty busy.The nigiri was well done and mostly excellent. Specifically the red snapper and yellowtail were superb. Red snapper was firm with some toothsome snap to it. The ahi was also very good, not mushy nor metallic (common Colorado flaws with tuna). The salmon was slightly less great, still very good, but a half-step back from their other fish.Where they lose a star is for their freshwater eel (unagi). It was cold and uniform in texture. Ideally the unagi should be fresh cooked with some crispy bits around the edges by a torch or searing station.The rolls were OK but nothing special. Nice quality of avocado but they were overfilled with cucumber and carrot and had tiny amounts of fish.The restaurant's choice of soy sauce is unfortunate as it is very one-note and too salty. They should at least use low sodium soy by default and if possible switch suppliers.Finally, a subjective issue -- their wasabi was too mild for my palate, perhaps this was an attempt to mimic 'real' Japanese wasabi, but most western sushi restaurants use the spicy horseradish wasabi which I am used to and prefer for mainstream sushi.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Easily the best sushi in Colorado that I've had. Really fantastic. Every piece perfect. The Playboy role, with gently broiled salmon with spicy mayo baked in was so good we had it for desert too. Really fantastic. I'm telling everyone I know.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Such a neighborhood gem! Staff was very friendly and knowledgeable about fish and flavors of the dishes. The sushi is delicious, high quality, very fresh sushi! I highly recommend!!!Kid-friendliness: Kid friendly atmosphere
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fish
The chefs and food were AMAZING!!! this is a hiiden treasure in Longmont!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fish, Deluxe Sashimi Platter
Excellent and fresh food. Great service and atmosphere. A must to try and not just once. Check it out...you won't regret.
OVERPRICED. BAD SERVICE. Average quality. Overpriced:An order of yellowtail nigiri here is more than Sushi Den, if you can believe that.Three average size pieces of yellowtail nigiri with a tiny side salad is $15 here!! That makes it $10 for an order, which is traditionally two pieces in most every sushi restaurant I've ever been to, but for some reason here it is three pieces. $15 for three pieces equals $10 an order. Ridiculously expensive. There's high and sushi restaurants in New York that don't charge $10 an order for yellowtail. Yellowtail at Sushi Den in Denver is around 8 to 9 dollars for way better quality fish. How do you justify charging more than Sushi Den? Good luck. I'll come buy the fixtures from your restaurant when you're out of business in six months. Service:After three visits to our table to drop off food, the waitress just looked at the stack of dirty dishes on our table and just left them there. I angrily moved the plates to the empty table next to us and slammed them down. Nothing is more irritating than eating in front of a stack of dirty dishes when the waitress has been by two or three times and had plenty of opportunity to pick them up. We were one of only two tables in the restaurant at the time as well, so they definitely were not busy. It's insulting. We had to ask for water refills as well. How tacky is that in a sushi restaurant?Chicken Teriyaki bowl:One of my kids had the chicken teriyaki bowl. This was a joke at $16. There was about four or five tiny little strips of chicken teriyaki over a giant pile of white of rice with about a half cup of vegetables for $16. This felt like a complete rip off.Nigiri:Octopus nigiri was average, but overpriced. The 2 orders of tobiko were decent, but the rice cups fell apart as soon as they were picked up. The yellowtail roll was $11. Really? A $7 roll pretty much ANYWHERE else is $11 here?! Why?HORRIBLE SERVICE and EXTREMELY OVERPRICED. We will DEFINITELY NEVER RETURN.
At Sushi Leo, I truly feel like a special guest in the chef’s kitchen. The vibe is classy, yet cozy. The Nigiri is fresh, there are seasonal varieties of fish, quirky sushi rolls, and excellent customer service. This is my go-to restaurant for special occasions with my partner. If we sit outside on a chilly evening, we are seated by a heater and are handed clean fuzzy blankets to wrap up in. This place is simply the best! ❤️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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Wow!!! Decided to try this for the first time with a large group so we got to try just about everything on the sushi menu and it was over the top. Sushi was amazing and the presentation added to the experience. This place is a must.
Excellent food quality and pleasant atmosphere. The sushi was delicious, the choices excellent and the presentations creative and appetizing. A definite must! The staff, and owner are very attentive and pleasant to deal with.
AWFUL! The sushi "Chef" ( dude with huge gauged ears and a beard) made rolls that fell apart the second you touch them. They had scales in them, my sashimi had fish bones in it. He prepared them awfully, and had some stupid excuse about how the scale must have accidentally gotten into one of the rolls when he was cutting it, but it was in every piece of the rolls, and then he remade it. yep in every piece of that too. Just their attitude and lying about the sushi made it very untrustworthy. 60+ bucks down the toilette. Avoid at all costs.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
My girlfriend and I have gone several times and usually end up getting more sushi than we planned on because we can’t get enough. Nate and Alan are phenomenal sushi chefs and provided excellent suggestions and fun conversation. We are have become regulars for sure.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Soup, Eel Sauce, Shrimp Tempura Roll
Completely obliterated their menu, namely their rolls. Fair warning: some have the same names but are completely different. Some are baked but that is not noted on the menu whatsoever. This used to be my favorite sushi restaurant. Back to the drawing board.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 2