KazuNoriCHAIN

6.6/10Japanese

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It's a bar and that's all it does. Around $29 to $34 gets you five or six rolls and they don't take tips. The is the one people single out. Plenty of others say the rolls all taste alike and the is bland, so go for the value, not for great .

15 W 28th St, New YorkChelsea, Manhattan4 NYC locations mappedGoogle Maps

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  • replying to u/trey1928: I’ve had good hand rolls before, but I will say that Mari, the Korean hand roll spot here that has a Michelin star is shockingly mid. The spicy tuna was incredible but nothing else was amazing except the deserts. Fish wasn’t very fresh

    I had my handroll from Kazu Nori the sister company of Sugarfish. But I fell you, fish doesn't feel fresh... Feels like they made the fish into a "paste" just to mix it with other sauces to hide the un-freshness of the fish!

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  • replying to u/No_Rise_7106: I had my handroll from Kazu Nori the sister company of Sugarfish. But I fell you, fish doesn't feel fresh... Feels like they made the fish into a "paste" just to mix it with other sauces to hide the un-freshness of the fish!

    I work near kazu nori so I order the sushi they do to go sometimes (not hand rolls) and it’s kinda inconsistent. Sometimes it’s fire but last time I got it the tuna was so fishy I couldn’t finish it. But the lobster and crab was good.

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  • Kazunori has gone so downhill recently - half the fish pastes are indistinguishable from one another and super bland. The rice is still good and warm, but I can do such a better job making hand rolls at home it’s really not worth going anymore.

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  • replying to u/LurkerReadyFire: Not sure why everyone's downvoting the Sugarfish/Kazunori recs. It's really good sushi for ~$60. I don't even consider it omakase - it's basically the same set menu, not a chef handing you individual pieces across the counter and mumbling about the origin. But to OP, I'm also an LA migrant (10yrs in NYC) and live in lower Manhattan. Katsuei and Mercer are great

    Poorly cut boring fish that’s way too cold. Bland rice that’s way too hot. Albacore tuna? It’s aggressively bad

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  • similar vibes, but i like kazunori much more than sugarfish. it's hand rolls, fast paced, but very stable quality

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