Bento Sushi - MC LEAN

Honestly if there weren 't pictures you 'd never know that this is just a grocery store. I 've never seen a grocery store sushi section have its on yelp but they do make the sushi there maybe that 's why? If you don 't get there early you won 't really have that good of a selection, it 's definitely a grab and go situation. I 've had a few rolls from here and it 's good nothing special it just taste like regular grocery store sushi to me. They do have private parking and there really is no service needed. The grocery store itself is one of my favorites, it 's clean and usually well stocked if shopping early!

Google has this place as a 24 he restaurant for some reason. It ain't it's Safeway

This is my third time trying to grab sushi not even fresh it's early made and I don't find a s .. one or two platers from last week, you can't even look at them Please fix your 24h open to 4h a day it's more than enough for stupid bar food management.

I actually drove out of my way to find this place... it's a grocery store sushi section! Completely disappointed. Old fish, no quality and made in the early morning so I wouldn't eat it for dinner. Disappointing!

To be clear: there's maybe like three seats at the sushi bar, so don't assume that this is some hip and happening sushi joint you can drop by; it's literally grab-n-go sushi in Safeway first and foremost. That said, back to the review: You know, until I saw this listing, it didn't even occur to me that this was anything other than an in-market sushi thing run by Safeway itself. I'm surprised it's actually a franchised operation, standardized and everything. I also don't recall the Bento name, so I figured this was a recent change. Turns out this Safeway location outsourced their sushi bar to Bento Sushi almost two years ago. Quality compares to Wasabi Sushi minus the Wasabi novelty markup, so it earns four stars on that alone given that Wasabi isn't perfect but that the pricing here is better. The selection of pre-boxed sushi isn't really as broad as it could be, but there's also not enough business foot traffic (yet) to justify it as there's currently only Northrop and MITRE right next door. As this area is largely being remade over the next few years with more in the way of mixed-use developments and office space, it'd probably make sense to broaden the selection and work with this particular Safeway to improve amenities like seating space. Then again, it's a grab-n-go sushi franchise, so maybe they should just stick to what they know best. 4 stars for food. There's really nothing else I can rate here because it's literally just a boxed sushi vendor that happens to be franchised pretty effectively.