Sushi Village - Baton Rouge

Don't judge this place by its looks. The strip mall setting is unappealing, the lighting is inconsistent, the music was set to Taylor Swift and Kesha, and the walls had Italian-style wine pictures hanging in thin frames. The menu is low-priced, and offers hibachi with no hibachi tables in view. All in all, Sushi Village gives a terrible first impression. But any sushi place with an Engrish menu and all-Asian staff has promise, so we gave it a chance.<br/ <br/ We started with Gyoza dumplings. Interestingly, they are filled with shrimp instead of pork, and their shumai have crab instead of shrimp. The Gyoza had a good flavorful filling, and the shell was pan-fried and had a nice crisp crust to it.<br/ <br/ We also had a snow crab naruto (ordered off-menu). It was not served with a sauce typical of the dish, but it didn't need it because the snow crab was quite flavorful.<br/ <br/ But the highlights of the dinner were the April roll (roll of the month, but they spelled it Apirl; basically a RockNRoll topped with steak) and the Fire Dragon roll (tempura shrimp and avacado inside, salmon and crabstick on top). The eel sauce has a little spicy kick to it, which set off the flavor of the rolls perfectly. In addition, the Fire Dragon roll was artistically presented, as you can see in the picture attached.<br/ <br/ The one disappointment was the fried ice cream dessert. It was all batter and no ice cream. But at $3.50, I didn't feel much buyer's remorse.<br/ <br/ EDIT: Oh, and the service was great. Attentive and friendly.<br/ <br/ Sushi Village may not compete with Itchiban or Tsunami in style, but it has it where it counts and at a great price. Go here!

So Fresh and perfectly prepared.. I met the owner and he is still working some kinks out. The decor has something to be desired but his staff is top notch and his prices and quality of sushi could be rivaled with anyone in town period. Ask what is fresh.<br/ <br/ The tuna I had were large pieces caught yesterday and it shows in taste and texture. Not some previously frozen pieces you might get from other places in town. <br/ <br/ The rice was perfectly cooked and I have never seen someone who can prepare the rolls so quickly to perfection.<br/ <br/ I have eaten at many 'high end ' places from Houston to Orlando at two to three times the cost for this caliber of sushi. <br/ <br/ The menu could be expanded upon with more specialty rolls and descriptions but that is part of the growing process. <br/ <br/ Even if you get it to 'go ' you won 't be disappointed.

Great sushi. I drove past this restaurant for a month, thinking each time 'I have got to give this place a try '. I did that today and am regretting the 30 days that I wasted. The storefront location is deceptively off-puttting, but once inside, it was clear that I was in the right place. Each menu item we ordered was more delightful than the one before. The edamame was perfectly steamed (not as easy as it sounds). The spicy seafood soup was flavorful and contained several fresh, full-sized specimens of shrimp and scallops. The seaweed salad was unlike the usual preparation, instead containing pieces of crab as well as shreds of cucumber and ginger along with the expected nutty strands of seaweed. It 's hard to go wrong with a salmon skin roll, but these guys get it more right than most. The salmon skin is perfectly crunchy, but still contains a thin layer of meat which adds a nice dimension to a standard. The maguro sushi was as fresh as any we 've ever had. A last-minute snow crab roll maintained the standard we have already begun to expect. <br/ <br/ This is destined to become a regular destination for us. I would love to see the wine list expand to more interesting proportions, but the few glasses offered are reasonably priced and recently opened (once again, not as easy to find as one might expect).

Nice, cool, and comfortable inside. Very friendly staff. Delicious and quality sushi. Fair prices for most things it seems.

Pretty decent food and a nice presentation of the sushi dishes, however service was a bit slow. Overall, nice experience though would recommend for a slightly above average sushi place.