Japanese Restaurant Located in Poway
Offering fresh, quality sushi and sashimi, as well as a variety of Japanese comfort food including bento boxes, udon, and ramen
We have enough spaces available for large groups, as well as have a large selection of catering and party platters
Visit us on our website to place pick up order and make reservation today!
This booth-filled strip-mall Japanese eatery specializes in sushi & bento lunch specials. Based on 473 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.5 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Curbside pickup ✔️ No-contact delivery
Address:
13425 Poway Rd, Poway, CA 92064
Phone: (858) 668-1745
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Hours
| Friday | 11:30 AM–9:30 PM |
| Saturday | 11:30 AM–9:30 PM |
| Sunday | 11:30 AM–9 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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11:30 AM–9 PM
Hours might differ
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| Tuesday | 11:30 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 11:30 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 11:30 AM–9 PM |
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Order and Reservations
Reservations: kaisushirestaurant.com
Reviews
Brendan Burgess
Best overall Sushi in Poway. Reasonable prices and good quality. Servings are generous and delicious. Usually get the 10 piece assorted sashimi and some rolls off the menu. Check out the daily specials.
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Bonnie P
Best sushi around! It was so good I almost forgot to take pictures.
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Paul Callahan
The food was really good. We had tempura calamari and four different rolls. The Chargers roll was our favorite. It would be nice if they had a soda fountain. The soda is sold by the can.
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Tedd Staub
Top notch .. simply the BEST sushi I have had in years. Prices are competitive, service over the top, and the food was AMAZING. I am so glad this place survived the pandemic. Better than ever now.
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Kyle Madaffer
Loved the Super Dragon Roll, Salmon roll, plus those fried fish balls! Real good! Sam behind the sushi bar was awesome!!! Will be back!
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Shane Sandberg
Kai Sushi is the best sushi place around! Sam is the head chef and is absolutely incredible. He always makes something special for us! The oysters are incredible. The noodle soup is off the chain! We had the Rainbow roll, Philadelphia roll, and Charger roll. We also had the chicken tempura plate and a really special seaweed cucumber type salad. Also buy two beers get sake for one cent
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Brett Stalbaum
As nice as they come, re the staff. The food is good, they even opened a little early for us because we were stumbling around the shopping center looking for an early lunch. Would stop back in anytime, very friendly.
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Erin Bean
Ask for the Chef’s Choice Sushimi, they will do larger orders than on the menu if you have a large party! We love Kai Sushi so much its the number 1 pick for birthday dinners.
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Lydia K.
We found this place randomly searching for food. It’s such a cute space. We didn’t realize they had the bell to call for service(just like in Japan) until we finished eating. They were so present I didn’t even realize they had that. We went at 730-810pm on a Friday night. I spent 10-15 minutes just looking at the menu items because they had some interesting renames. I love their white sheet of information that lists the roll names and the ingredients(not sure if I was supposed to order with that sheet). The kids bento box portion was massive. I should have had both kids share 1 dish but one wanted sushi and the other wanted a bento box. The prices of hand rolls are great. My 7 year old barely finished a CA handroll(it was huge), my 5 year old barely made a dent in her delicious chicken teriyaki bento, and my husband ate more than half of full size chicken teriyaki bento. I got a UFO roll and was soooooo full. It was such a massive roll that could have been 2 lunches for me. The portions are huge in a bento box, sushi roll and kids bento. They gave us a free piece of salmon(fin or tail). It was delicious. My son asked for extra crumbles of tempura on his CA roll so it doesn’t normally look like what it does in my photo of his roll. The prices are good considering the portion size is the largest out of all the places in SD I have been to. It’s an easy place to bring the small kids to eat. Although there is no coloring pages to distract them, the food comes out super quick.
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Ethan Brown
I’ve been going to Kai Sushi for many many years and it is one of my favorite Sushi restaurants in Poway. In addition to Sushi they have a nice variety of other menu items. In addition to the quality of their food, their presentation is of equal quality, as seen by the attached photo from my recent visit.
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