The BEST fried rice around! ( you can even request Gluten Free soy sauce if needed).The Sushi is always delicious and fresh! This is hidden gem in the Havertown/ardmore area.
AJ R.
I have gone to Herosame over 10 times now and have never been disappointed. The food is so fresh and never disappoints!! For appetizers I always get the edamame which is so salty and amazing. The crab Rangoons are so crisp and flaky, they melt in your mouth. The ratio of the crust to the cream cheese crab inside is perfect. The lobster spring rolls are also a crowd favorite. The lobster is so fresh and they always come out warm. Since the rangoons and spring rolls are made in house, they do take a while to come out, so expect them to take a while. But when they do come out they are so hot and yummy. My friend got the chicken teriyaki which I always take the leftovers of because the sauce is soooo good. I'm a big sushi person so I always order a variety of different rolls. I ordered the shrimp tempura roll, the Philly roll and a spicy tuna roll this time and I was so happy. Great meal. I can't rave enough about this place. The servers are also so sweet and amazing. The ambiance is so calming and a great place for a dinner with friends or a date! They have a bunch of great alcoholic drink selection as well!!
Travis Spreen
Great Japanese spot outside the city. Delicious lunch
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bento Box, Rolls
Dario S.
Only busy in the restaurant on weekend dinners. But truthfully if you're going here, you're going for the consistently delicious food. Been dining and ordering take out here for almost 8 years and they've been consistent in hitting the mark. Interior restaurant is super cute with spacious booths and a very clean and tidy restaurant, you can also grab bottled beers from the cooler.
Emily Kenderdine
Ordered takeout. The shrimp tempura didn't really taste like much. Shrimp to everything else ratio was off. Couldn't taste the shrimp. Also got the crab rangoons and I did not enjoy the flavor at all. They didn't taste like much
Sahil P
Small nitpicks: This restaurant is 100% a blink and you miss it on the road. Parking isn’t great.Despite that, the food is excellent and reasonably priced. They’ve got great desserts and their cocktails are fantastic. I will be back as this may have become my new go-to restaurant for sushi.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sushi
Sugrbox Chef Dolie of Dolie’s Vegan Cuisine Sugrbox
This place is always fantastic. A can’t go wrong sushi and more spot. Always special.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Katharine Thomson
We ended up coming here for lunch, so roughly around noon. The atmosphere was relaxed, and we were the only ones inside. The food was AMAZING. My dining partner and I were shocked at just how good the food was! I got the chicken katsudon, and their sushi lunch special. The katsudon was so good, it was perfectly made, and they even served it in a traditional earthenware-style bowl. The chicken was perfectly consistency, and there was just enough sauce to soak into the rice to give it flavor, but not drown it. They also cooked the egg perfectly! So many times I've had katsudon at restaurants, and they almost always either overcook or undercook the eggs. The sushi was also exceptional. I asked for them to omit the cucumber in the rolls (I hate cucumber with a burning passion, like gag if I smell it type of hatred) and they did it with no questions asked. The quality of the tuna and salmon was excellent. The fish tasted wonderfully fresh! The lunch special deal they have for the sushi is a great price! Three rolls for $15 means it's $5 per roll, plus they give you soup. So not only do you save a few bucks, but you also get a delicious miso soup basically for free! The miso soup was also very well made. Just the right balance of seaweed and tofu, and it came out to the table at a perfect temperature. My dining partner got the chicken yakitori and the crunchy scallop roll. (They let me try some from their plates, so I could judge the food for myself) The yakitori was excellent as well! They cooked the chicken just long enough that it was still juicy, but not so little that it was undercooked. Plus, the sauce they used was so tasty, with the perfect consistency. Their crunchy scallop roll was very tasty, but it was a bit of a hassle to eat. It's difficult to tell where one piece ends and the other begins, so the person I was eating with kept accidentally eating two rolls at once. Also, be warned, this roll is very messy to eat! Because it's got so much on it, when you pick it up with chopsticks, the roll slowly disintegrates into little pieces. But, you're supposed to eat sushi with your fingers and not chopsticks, so that might be why they exploded the way they did. The service was excellent! The waitress we had was wonderfully attentive, and she was so sweet! She answered any questions we had about the food and helped me modify what I needed to be able to eat with ease. They also have a bar and a wall of coolers full of beer. Seeing as it was the middle of the day, we obviously didn't drink anything alcoholic. But at night, this would probably be an excellent place for dinner!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sushi
Larry Frankel
Spot on and consistently excellent. The staff makes you feel like a regular. Full bar and a great beer selection. One of my favorite places to eat.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Edamame
Jerry Robbins
I took out this time. Sashimi deluxe not quite up to their usual excellence. Love this place
Excellent, friendly service and great food! I literally live walking distance from this restaurant and I haven’t been there in a few years. Great sushi dinner with my friend. We chose a nice Belgian lambic to go with it and enjoyed ourselves. Beautiful presentation and very tasty
Eric Rosenbloom
Herosame is definitely my favorite sushi place. And I really like picking out my own beer from their refrigerators.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
A D
Great to have a local Japanese restaurant of this caliber, the food is consistently wonderful and elegant. I love that the menu is small and strictly Japanese and everything they make is spot-on.
rich cutshall
A kitchen is a difficult place to create art, and for other factors like people needing jobs and having families to support I try to be fair and balanced. That said, read on for the skinny, and if you are the sushi Chef at Herosame, let me know that you have fixed the problem and I will adjust this review. Meantime...The rice wasn’t sushi rice!! It was a small grained barely sticky something with little flavor and no structure. It shouldn’t have made it in through the door, let alone to the sushi bar and then out the door. This is a Japanese restaurant and this problem is unthinkable. But you, possible diner, deserve to know why:The sushi would not hold together. We purchased $270 worth of top drawer salmon, yellow tail, eel, etc. And it all fell apart into soy and wasabi, becoming inedible. Once we figured it out we schmeared our pieces beforehand, but the damage was done. And even then it was nearly impossible to get the bites to your mouth before they disintegrated.Sadly, everything else was fine, but sushi without top-end perfectly prepared rice is just a mess. And we paid way too much for our mess.
Janine Hill
I had eel, it was chewy almost like shoe leather. I'm not sure what happened but when it was brought out it looked sparse and odd. But I hoped I had misjudged the dish but I did not. I think they ran out of eel and gave me bits of pieces of what they thought would be enough to claim it was what I initially ordered. It was more avocado then not. I wouldn't want to eat that again or anything like it. Please do not get sushi from here. My stomach paid the price. Your stomach will thank you later.CLOSER LOOK THEY LEFT THE SKIN ON AND COULDN'T BE BOTHERED TO CLEAN AND CUT IT PROPERLY. WOULD NEVER GO HERE AGAIN AND WOULD NOT RECOMMEND!
The BEST fried rice around! ( you can even request Gluten Free soy sauce if needed).The Sushi is always delicious and fresh! This is hidden gem in the Havertown/ardmore area.
I have gone to Herosame over 10 times now and have never been disappointed. The food is so fresh and never disappoints!! For appetizers I always get the edamame which is so salty and amazing. The crab Rangoons are so crisp and flaky, they melt in your mouth. The ratio of the crust to the cream cheese crab inside is perfect. The lobster spring rolls are also a crowd favorite. The lobster is so fresh and they always come out warm. Since the rangoons and spring rolls are made in house, they do take a while to come out, so expect them to take a while. But when they do come out they are so hot and yummy. My friend got the chicken teriyaki which I always take the leftovers of because the sauce is soooo good. I'm a big sushi person so I always order a variety of different rolls. I ordered the shrimp tempura roll, the Philly roll and a spicy tuna roll this time and I was so happy. Great meal. I can't rave enough about this place. The servers are also so sweet and amazing. The ambiance is so calming and a great place for a dinner with friends or a date! They have a bunch of great alcoholic drink selection as well!!
Great Japanese spot outside the city. Delicious lunch
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bento Box, Rolls
Only busy in the restaurant on weekend dinners. But truthfully if you're going here, you're going for the consistently delicious food. Been dining and ordering take out here for almost 8 years and they've been consistent in hitting the mark. Interior restaurant is super cute with spacious booths and a very clean and tidy restaurant, you can also grab bottled beers from the cooler.
Ordered takeout. The shrimp tempura didn't really taste like much. Shrimp to everything else ratio was off. Couldn't taste the shrimp. Also got the crab rangoons and I did not enjoy the flavor at all. They didn't taste like much
Small nitpicks: This restaurant is 100% a blink and you miss it on the road. Parking isn’t great.Despite that, the food is excellent and reasonably priced. They’ve got great desserts and their cocktails are fantastic. I will be back as this may have become my new go-to restaurant for sushi.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sushi
This place is always fantastic. A can’t go wrong sushi and more spot. Always special.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We ended up coming here for lunch, so roughly around noon. The atmosphere was relaxed, and we were the only ones inside. The food was AMAZING. My dining partner and I were shocked at just how good the food was! I got the chicken katsudon, and their sushi lunch special. The katsudon was so good, it was perfectly made, and they even served it in a traditional earthenware-style bowl. The chicken was perfectly consistency, and there was just enough sauce to soak into the rice to give it flavor, but not drown it. They also cooked the egg perfectly! So many times I've had katsudon at restaurants, and they almost always either overcook or undercook the eggs. The sushi was also exceptional. I asked for them to omit the cucumber in the rolls (I hate cucumber with a burning passion, like gag if I smell it type of hatred) and they did it with no questions asked. The quality of the tuna and salmon was excellent. The fish tasted wonderfully fresh! The lunch special deal they have for the sushi is a great price! Three rolls for $15 means it's $5 per roll, plus they give you soup. So not only do you save a few bucks, but you also get a delicious miso soup basically for free! The miso soup was also very well made. Just the right balance of seaweed and tofu, and it came out to the table at a perfect temperature. My dining partner got the chicken yakitori and the crunchy scallop roll. (They let me try some from their plates, so I could judge the food for myself) The yakitori was excellent as well! They cooked the chicken just long enough that it was still juicy, but not so little that it was undercooked. Plus, the sauce they used was so tasty, with the perfect consistency. Their crunchy scallop roll was very tasty, but it was a bit of a hassle to eat. It's difficult to tell where one piece ends and the other begins, so the person I was eating with kept accidentally eating two rolls at once. Also, be warned, this roll is very messy to eat! Because it's got so much on it, when you pick it up with chopsticks, the roll slowly disintegrates into little pieces. But, you're supposed to eat sushi with your fingers and not chopsticks, so that might be why they exploded the way they did. The service was excellent! The waitress we had was wonderfully attentive, and she was so sweet! She answered any questions we had about the food and helped me modify what I needed to be able to eat with ease. They also have a bar and a wall of coolers full of beer. Seeing as it was the middle of the day, we obviously didn't drink anything alcoholic. But at night, this would probably be an excellent place for dinner!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sushi
Spot on and consistently excellent. The staff makes you feel like a regular. Full bar and a great beer selection. One of my favorite places to eat.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Edamame
I took out this time. Sashimi deluxe not quite up to their usual excellence. Love this place
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Excellent, friendly service and great food! I literally live walking distance from this restaurant and I haven’t been there in a few years. Great sushi dinner with my friend. We chose a nice Belgian lambic to go with it and enjoyed ourselves. Beautiful presentation and very tasty
Herosame is definitely my favorite sushi place. And I really like picking out my own beer from their refrigerators.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great to have a local Japanese restaurant of this caliber, the food is consistently wonderful and elegant. I love that the menu is small and strictly Japanese and everything they make is spot-on.
A kitchen is a difficult place to create art, and for other factors like people needing jobs and having families to support I try to be fair and balanced. That said, read on for the skinny, and if you are the sushi Chef at Herosame, let me know that you have fixed the problem and I will adjust this review. Meantime...The rice wasn’t sushi rice!! It was a small grained barely sticky something with little flavor and no structure. It shouldn’t have made it in through the door, let alone to the sushi bar and then out the door. This is a Japanese restaurant and this problem is unthinkable. But you, possible diner, deserve to know why:The sushi would not hold together. We purchased $270 worth of top drawer salmon, yellow tail, eel, etc. And it all fell apart into soy and wasabi, becoming inedible. Once we figured it out we schmeared our pieces beforehand, but the damage was done. And even then it was nearly impossible to get the bites to your mouth before they disintegrated.Sadly, everything else was fine, but sushi without top-end perfectly prepared rice is just a mess. And we paid way too much for our mess.
I had eel, it was chewy almost like shoe leather. I'm not sure what happened but when it was brought out it looked sparse and odd. But I hoped I had misjudged the dish but I did not. I think they ran out of eel and gave me bits of pieces of what they thought would be enough to claim it was what I initially ordered. It was more avocado then not. I wouldn't want to eat that again or anything like it. Please do not get sushi from here. My stomach paid the price. Your stomach will thank you later.CLOSER LOOK THEY LEFT THE SKIN ON AND COULDN'T BE BOTHERED TO CLEAN AND CUT IT PROPERLY. WOULD NEVER GO HERE AGAIN AND WOULD NOT RECOMMEND!