Since 1969, restaurant, hotel, travel & other witty reviews by a handpicked, worldwide team of discerning professionals—and your views, too.

Sakana Restaurant Review

1046 Coast Village Rd., Ste. K (Hot Springs Rd.) Send to Phone
MontecitoCA 93108
805-565-2014 | Menu
Your Opinion
Add your own review
Trendy, see-and-be-seen sushi bar serves up cutting edge Japanese specialties like press box rolls.

Cuisine

Open

Lunch Tues.-Fri., Dinner Tues.-Sun.

Features

* Click here for rating key

If you think of the gilded Coast Village Road shopping center---where Sakana is located---as a “strip mall” then Manhattan's Time Warner Center is an oversize food court. This chic yet teensy space caters to down-tempo celebs and other movers and shakers who reside in this wealthy seaside enclave. Single white roses and twinkling glass votives impart a minimalist ambience, yet the sushi is over the top. It’s not unheard of for four or five artfully applied sauces to grace specialties like the salmon battera press box roll: crab, scallions and avocado are molded in the press box then topped with translucent, pale green battera, seaweed and ikura (salmon roe). Other delights included the tuna zuke nigiri sushi with ginger-and-soy-marinated tuna, and the champagne crab---snow crab legs topped with caviar and champagne-shallot-yuzu vinaigrette.

User Ratings & Reviews for Sakana
 



RESTAURANT AWARDS

We just published the 2012 edition of our annual restaurant issue, featuring the Top 40 Restaurants in the U.S. and much more. Check it out!