Blue C Sushi

05/19/09

Fun & Tasty!

by BritDolan at Citysearch

Blue C Sushi is a space aged restaurant concept, which may appeal to many, but I come for the food. The sushi is totally reasonably priced, and there is a great variety of rolls, nigiri and cooked food items. The even have a ton of vegan and gluten free options, which is especially great for the Fremont crowd.

You sit at a counter while the sushi passes in front of you, press the blue light if you don't see something you want, or you would like to check out. Its super fast (if you want it to be) its right in the heart of Fremont, and they have Happy Hour!!!

• Pros: moderately priced, great atmosphere, great service
• Cons: parking in Fremont is tough

04/19/09

Blue C jumped the shark

by wondrousworld at Citysearch

"Blue C Sushi has jumped the shark! I used to like the place a lot, especially the Fremont location. But lately, they've been using very low grade fish and charging high grade prices. Most plates are the same ol', same ol' uninspired stuff. Recently they started an "off the belt" menu with even higher prices. I ordered the tuna poke, which was $5.25 for a meager amount of stringy tuna (lowest grade tuna) that was still VERY cold and not marinated. It seemed they had just taken the fish off ice and sprinkled some poke sauce on top. All that on limp lettuce! When I pointed it out to the server, she was uninterested at best." You could do a lot better for sushi, even in the same neighborhood.

• Pros: great location, fast conveyor belt service
• Cons: low grade fish for high grade prices

12/11/08

Come for the sushi, stay for the space age bathrooms

by bellhopbandit at Citysearch

Blue C Sushi is your standard-issue sushi restaurant with a conveyor belt and restrooms out of "THX 1138." If that's not standard-issue to you, by all means, stop in for some cold sesame noodles and Japanese cream puffs on a rainy afternoon, and see what it's about. Lunch is typically less than $12 a person, and I'm not kidding about these bathrooms.

Things are automated in there that I never thought needed to be automated.

• Pros: Interesting decor
• Cons: Wait times can verge on the slightly ridiculous

11/03/08

fun for sure, but the sushi? mediocre

by bunsennbeake at Citysearch

If you're wanting relatively inexpensive sushi in a cool grab it, gobble it atmosphere (it is great for groups), this place is a good choice... that said, it's not worth the hour plus wait it sometimes demands (all because of its location and atmosphere really). It's almost a social experiment in reality, so even as I say the hour wait is hideous, I also remind myself that people want to be there because it's got loads of people to watch as much as you watch the food flying by you...

I went there with a group, and it's a good inexpensive way of trying a lot of stuff out... however, I've eaten sushi on part with Blue C that came from grocery stores (mid-high end ones, of course)... and if I'm going to spend a whole lot of money anyway, I'd just as soon get something really fantastic instead of nibbling around on several things that all end up kind of tasting the same except a few pieces that will have something non-sushi-related tossed in for kicks. If I just want sushi, this isn't where I go by a lonnnng shot (Ototo is!)... but I enjoyed the social experience all the same and don't regret it even though it was over $25 a person (a lot for "sharing" amongst 5 of us considering I drank water!!

• Pros: it's possible to eat cheap if you want a light meal, the atmosphere is very people-watching-oriented, fresh enough despite bland
• Cons: very very crowded area with little available parking, not a lot of flavor to most of their food, a one-time experience for most of us

07/30/08

NOTE: this is for the southcenter site only!! Don't go here unless u like really bad sushi

by lots_of_crap at Citysearch

I have to say there is good sushi and bad sushi (not including upscale places) and this place ranks #2 on the bad sushi establishments (sushi land southcenter being the champ at #1, i think i see a pattern). Here is a list of things that went wrong.

1) limited menu (not really your fault just a business decision)

2) ordered Genmai tea ( didn't know you guys charge $1.75 for tea) not sure if we got genmai, they guy said it was. The tea bag was very poor quality (no taste). I can't blame the tea for 100%of the taste, the water it came out in was warm/cold. We asked for hot water again and still got warm water. took about 15 mins before the water turned green due to the tea bag but it required another 15-20 mins before we could taste it.

3) Ordered a spicy tuna hand roll. you can taste the spices but there was a salty taste in both our tuna. It was salty. i love salty foods but this was bad.

4) after eating a bunch of ginger to clean our pallets, we tried the yellow tail, the taste was very acidic. strange, not sure exactly why that was.

5) ordered a spider roll and asked if it can be freshly made, waiter said yes. 2-3 mins later we received it. at first it seemed cold, so i touched it :( i hope no one ended up eating that but who knows about this place

6) scallops had no texture and it was soggy.

Here come the worst part, i still have that salty taste in my mouth ( no matter how much ginger i ate) i had to go upstairs to another establishment to order food to get that salty taste out.

• Pros: it was at the mall and i'm lazy :)
• Cons: pretty much everything