Hanagasa Japanese - Carmel By the Sea

Local Jewel family owned restaurant. Great sushi. Definitely worth a visit!

This place was simply amazing! We love sushi and let me know we fell in love with this place. The beer is super ice cold and the Monterey role is one of the best we ever had. It was the 6 hours drive from Upland to visit Carmel and Monterey. In fact, we will go back for sushi today. We also had salmon and tuna sushi and that was also super fresh. The owner is very friendly. If you talk to him, he'll talk to you. Very nice humble man. If you are and love sushi, try it.

We visited this sushi community on our vacation from Upland CA and love it absolutely. Some of the freshest sushi ever. The owner was very friendly and very humble. Our sushi was so damn good. We're going back today. We made it!!!

Horrible service, stay away. The entire staff is extremely RUDE . We 've lived in Carmel for over 8 years and this is worst experience we have ever had at a restaurant. This place doesn 't represent what Carmel is about. The one thing that Carmel is known for the most is small Mom Pops restaurant and businesses. For the most part Mom Pops businesses are well known for excellent service, politeness, friendly, welcoming behavior but this place does not meet any of the above. The rude behavior starts from the minute you walk in and it continues until you leave. We ordered Hawaiian ahi poke appetizer and it was extremely spicy and it had only very few pieces of ahi tuna, we didn 't touch it and returned it. The madwoman yelled at us as she removed it from our table. Then we can hear her and the chef yelling some more when she brought it back to the kitchen. At this moment we thought about leaving but decided to give it a chance. Wrong decision. The rest of the food was nothing to wright home about. However the bad service and the mean mugging continued on. Finally, we had enough and asked for the check, to our surprise they had added the previously returned appetizer to our bill. When we asked to please remove it, all hell broke loose. The madwoman and the chef (owner/manager) we 're yelling and refused to remove it. After a few minutes of arguing, he finally accepted that his behavior was wrong although not happy, he finally removed it from our bill. But not before expressing his disagreement. He literally threw the recipe and pin at me to sign. Please stay away from this place. Horrible service.

This is an decent sushi restaurant if you don't care about ambiance or service. We had good food. But everything else was pretty blah-zay. Food (4/5): The star of our meal was the tempura calamari. Crispy batter with tender calamari. I would order 2 orders of this dish if I come back. We also had two rolls: The Carmel Valley and the Sun Set. I thought they were pretty good; my wife thought both were too sweet from the sauces that coated both rolls. This is a mom and pop place. If they were friendlier, I would try it again. Since they weren't, and their restaurant was pretty sad, I would look elsewhere for sushi in Carmel.