Kaigan Sushi - San Carlos

I’ve been visiting this place for years, and the food is outstanding! I particularly enjoy the avocado roll and pad see ew. If you’re in the mood for delicious sushi or Thai cuisine, you should definitely check it out. The staff is very friendly, and they even provide hand sanitizer inside.

When I visited, the place was empty, which made me a bit apprehensive. However, the food was quite good, albeit slightly on the salty side.

I hardly know where to start! When we walked in, we noticed that half of the tables hadn’t been cleaned, which was quite unsanitary. We sat down and ended up waiting over an hour for our food to arrive. The server appeared annoyed when we were trying to place our order, repeatedly saying "No! No! No!" to everything we requested. It was a terrible experience! To make things worse, when we finally got our food, it was the wrong items! I arrived hungry and left still hungry!

I very rarely leave a restaurant feeling distressed, but there were a lot of issues here when we stopped by for lunch. I think one in isolation is already stressful but there were just too many in succession. The lack of cleanliness was a big issue here. We looked up and saw huge spiderwebs and cobwebs above the front door inside. That was rather gross and hinted that the restaurant may not be that thorough about cleaning. My husband was absolutely disgusted by this. Next, the serving ware was a bit dirty. My husband had this gross stain on his water cup near the lip, so he asked for another one. The waiter was about to bring over a second cup when he noticed that too was dirty so he had to go back again to get another cup. That was unsettling. The new cup was actually still dirty but at least it wasn't near the lip of the cup. The water was in those big glass bottles that you pour yourself. I noticed that the rubber top (that touches the water had a ton of black spots. That indicates mold and/or dirt which was pretty gross. I should have asked for a new bottle but I think I was just so shell shocked from the rest of the stuff that I forgot to ask. Next, they gave my husband the wrong dish despite the two dishes not sounding alike. They quickly rectified it which was good. They also initially gave my husband miso soup and we thought it was part of his meal since we didn't order it. However when we got the bill, they charged us for the miso soup. We had to briefly argue that we didn't order it; we ate it because they gave it to us and they finally agreed to take it off the receipt. Rice is not included with curry and so that was an extra $4 which was also a bit pricey. The yellow curry portion was very large to my surprise. However this was one of the most watery Thai curries I have ever eaten and I eat a lot of Thai curries. It was too bad because I actually thought the flavor was decent though. Chicken was also a tiny bit dry. The green curry roti is not bad though. I liked the curry sauce. All in all I was just disappointed with our lunch experience and won't be back anytime soon. I'm kind of upset because I remember going to Asya (same logo, I checked! back when they were in San Carlos and Ioved it back then. Not sure if ownership has changed or what.

We 've been looking for a nice, mid week I 'm in the mood for sushi place with very good quality and reasonable prices and we definitely found it here. We ordered 5 specialty rolls and the tempura. Plenty of food for 2 with leftovers for $70. We will definitely go back.