Hamasaku in Los Angeles - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

We got the omakase and it was worth it. The uni and roe bowl tasted like heaven.

Amazing sushi place!! One of the best in LA!

Always excellent, best Sushi all around!

I've been dying to try this place since the pandemic. Finally. Did it meet my expectations? Mostly. HIDDEN. Because the restaurant is located in the downstairs corner unit, its somewhat hidden. But I gave 4.5 stars for the nice modern Japanese decor and atmosphere. FOOD. Dinner omakase $130. Hmm, I thought the food was really good, but nothing that really shouted "Wow!" But for the Westside, it's about right. The pieces of fish were small, but at least the rice for the nigiri was still warm (nice.) But the competition for quality and value is tough out here in WestLA/Santa Monica. The omakase ended with a nice yuzu sorbet. Perfect ending. Sake: they sell a variety of sake by the glass or by a carafe (iced.) I trust they are serving me the right cold sake that I ordered. The serving size was smaller than I expected.

Even if you spend 600 dollars on dinner the valet will charge you when you park your own car in a spot

10/10. Some of the best sushi in LA

Really solid place for casual sushi lunch or dinner

(4.5/5) love the codzilla and summer roll. not my favorite crispy rice ever, but is still pretty good.

Totally unexpected and fabulous spot in a strip mall. Don’t be put off by the exterior - this is something truly special and the locals know it.

Such amazing sushi and quality is top tier

I just came back from Tokyo and this place is worth to call real Japanese food.

Good sushi, especially for the price.

Lunch for 2: Got Delux Moriawase, Sunset Roll, and Soba Salad. Soba Salad was a bit small for the price but tasted amazing. Miso soup and salad (comes with Moriawase) were excellent. Sushi was great and Spicy Toro Hand Roll was good as well. Only thing we did not like was the Sunset Roll. Wasabi fraiche and smoke roe did not compliment the flavor of overpriced and ultimately just regular salmon roll with just two gimmicky ingredients. However, everything else was amazing. Tables are very close to each other and it was very loud (mainly due to the four business men next to us were really loud). Still one of the better sushi places in an area already crowded with great sushi restaurants. Certainly will revisit.

Usually a sushi restaurant concentrates on creating a culinary experience based on nigiri and sashimi at the expense of providing a variety of food options. Hamasaku is one of those rare exceptions where the sushi is extremely fresh and delicious while the menu offers everything from yellowtail Kama to shishito peppers and krispy rice. Hamasaku sits in a strip mall next to a Carvel's ice cream shop so if you don't like any of the deserts at Hamasaku (the Yuzu cheescake is worth ordering), you can grab a scoop next door.

In a strip mall and has an almost hidden door (wooden) to get in, but seemed to be an extremely popular place. We waited for them to open at noon outside with around 15 other people. The food was incredible and they paid a lot of attention to detail in this place. Great menu.

Everything was fantastic! I had all 4 of the mackerel they had in stock, and it was the best I have ever had state side. The nigiri doesn't come with Wasabi underneath it. The miso was good, and the Hamasaku roll was fantastic! Loved the feel and vibe. Very good place to go for lunch or a date.

Great food, the place can get loud though!

Fantastic experience. Loved every dish.

Lively place, plenty of choices on the menu. Friendly service but indifferent. Parking was a problem. Very crowded lot. One very harassed valet.

The best omakase! Parking in the lot is 45min free with validation and then $2 per 20min with max $12. Hamasaku DOESN’T validate parking, but the parking staff was so nice that he did not charge for the 45min initial

Great food, great atmosphere, even though it’s a bit pricey, but the foods are very fresh.

Wonderful meal with wonderful people. Great deal for omakase as well. Definitely will be back.

Amazing cut rolls!!! I’ve been addicted to this place lately. The staff is also so kind!

Superb fish and service at a very reasonable price. We had to eat outside, which was a tented patio, but the interior has a nice decor.

Hip and high quality sushi restaurant that you would expect somewhere in Santa Monica or downtown, but is right here in Westwood. Great date spot

Incredible sushi and dinner! The location (in a strip mall) throws you off a bit but the food is the star of this show. We sampled about half the menu and all agreed this is some of the best sushi in LA. Don’t skip out on dessert and get the Tokyo Banana Pudding if it’s on the menu 🤤

Incredible omakase. Only negative thing is the weird “valet” that doesn’t do anything but shakes you down for cash as you try to leave.

Selection, quality, ambience, service: all top tier.

Delicious food , service could be a bit more attentive, loved the atmosphere .

Amazing meal and service! Highly recommend the toro hand roll

Very nice high quality sushi place with a friendly bustling atmosphere, very home like yet elegant. Best dish by far was the avenue of stars roll. Every bite you take of that roll you can tell it’s really high quality. Ricky castle roll and September flower are also pretty good but I would say they are not worth the price. Black cod tastes really good and tender but is also not worth the price with the tiny quantity of fish you get. Yellowtail collar is cheaper but the fish texture is definitely worse than the black cod, with some areas of the meat being pretty tough. The wagyu roll is pretty good and very creative! Overall, a pretty creative and high quality sushi place.

The food is excellent and there is an obvious care and attention to the quality of the food. The toro is some of the best toro I ever had! The service was alright, nothing to write home about or make it a unique experience. There were a few times we had to aggressively flag down a waiter to order more or get more sake for the table. The atmosphere was by far the worst thing at this restaurant. It was incredibly loud inside, stuffed with people and we sat between a man ranting about his mistress and pending divorce and a woman watching TV shows loudly on her phone whose adult son was loudly watching things on his iPad. Overall gave it big cafeteria vibes, something that feels very strange at a restaurant that is this expensive and high quality otherwise.

We had the Hamachi kama and afew rolls. All were very good. Definitely recommended if you are in the area for japanese food.

The omakase was beautiful with such a nice selection - especially loved the clam miso, the toro hand roll, the sweet shrimp, crab sunomono, and the yuzu ice cream. If you're going non-alocholic I recommend the iced green tea.

Great food! Specially the Sashimi platter

Superb quality fish combined with excellent service and presantation makes for an excellent sushi experience. They graciously seated us right at closing and gave us an amazing array of audible "wow"s. The scallop and the albacore stood out above all but the Avenue of the Stars is a delectable selection of the chef's specialties and should not be missed. Oh and the sashimi tacos are stupid-good in their delicious wonton shells... My second sushi meal in LA and it did not disappoint.

Always consistent with excellent food, service, and atmosphere. In a sea of sushi restaurants in LA, Hamasaku really stands out as a true gem. The menu has both traditional and very inventive options. I couldn’t recommend Hamasaku more.

Hamasaku is an exceptional sushi restaurant that delivers an unforgettable culinary experience. From the moment you step inside, the warm ambiance sets the stage for a remarkable dining adventure. The quality and freshness of the sushi are truly outstanding, with each piece masterfully crafted to perfection. The melt-in-your-mouth texture and delicate flavors of the fish, coupled with the skillful combination of traditional and innovative ingredients, make every bite a delectable delight. The attentive and knowledgeable staff provides impeccable service, ensuring a memorable and enjoyable meal. Whether you're a sushi connoisseur or a first-time enthusiast, Hamasaku is a must-visit destination that will leave your taste buds tantalized and your cravings satisfied.

Visiting from South Florida. Sushi was fresh and yummy. Everything we got was superb. Thank you for such fantastic experience and food. Highly recommend.

Food is great. Service is good. There’s a sketchy guy they have outside claiming to be valet, takes your key and only takes cash. There’s no way to get cash nearby. Ruins the whole experience

Amazing food great service kind of a small space !

Didn’t know this is a Michelin guide restaurant and was impressed with the creativity and quality of the rolls! Every roll we tried was great. Would highly recommend Avenue of Stars if it’s on the menu. Besides the different types of fish inside and outside of the roll, it even has different toppings on each of the 8 pieces. The mushroom and the peppers were mediocre.

Hamasaku prepared the most delicious and safe meal, with the pressure of a highly sensitive celiac at the table. It is rare to see such care put into keeping someone with allergies as safe as they did. Simple outdoor seating is private as well.

Five star for the food, 0 star for the parking. We had such a bad experience with the parking. They basically force you to do the valet parking and just want to rob you the money without providing any service. The guy was extremely rude.

Beautiful atmosphere. Attentive, personable and considerate service. Quite excellent food and drink for the price. Scallops special and G6 roll were top notch. Mackerel sushi was some of the best I’ve eaten. Sake selection is spectacular and not too expensive. Draft Suntory malt beer was icy cold and tasted like I was in Japan. Definitely going to make Hamasaku a regular sushi spot. Reserve table when they open and stay for two to three hours if no one’s coming. Tuesday and Wednesday are the best nights. Parking usually available on the street around the block or valet is in the lot. Well worth your time and money.

First time dining here and I had a wonderful experience. Great food and service. A little bit on the pricier side but its top notch quality and they have a good selection of Japanese beer... It's been a couple years since our initial dining experience here and the quality of food and service is still impeccable. We had a wonderful experience and this a great spot for a date or night out with the family. Highly recommend.

Fantastic sushi, great atmosphere, great service. Glad I found this little hole in the wall.

Very enjoyable omakase experience!!! Very welcoming! We loved how great the selection was! The green tea was wonderful on a cold night and after a lull in service was asked if I needed more plenty of times. While I can understand a temporary delay in service, I have to give 4 stars due to the poor choice in chairs. My lower body went asleep and my back felt unsupported. I hate it when designers don’t sit in their own selections. We spent an hour and half here very comfortably otherwise. Ps. The rest of the design was nicely done with warm wood & gold tones plus various art pieces.

Great food, some of the best priced high end omakase you can find

Dunno bout the sushi. But I have a question. Can I park my car on the disabled(ex-presidential)spot?

A friend and I had the omakase here and everything was great! Service was wonderful, the waitresses were very attentive and the food was brought out in a timely manner. Everything tasted really fresh. The toro was so good we had to get an extra serving of it before desert! Price was really fair compared to the other omakase options around the area. All in all a wonderful experience and would definitely recommend!

Too expensive for what you get. Sushi was not great

Don't sleep on this place! The spicy tuna on crispy rice was perfection, the Lourd roll was bomb af, and the veggie gyoza was crispy yet tender.

Love this place. Fresh fish, and the locals make this a regular

Pound for pound, you can’t get more out of an omakase in this area than hamasaku. This is actually a good starting point for someone looking to explore sushi further than your California rolls as they provide a good range of the basics at quality cuts and freshness. Their hotate(scallop) was mouthwatering as I ordered an additional A La carte piece. You’ll leave satisfied and I would definitely return! Aregato so much.

We had the omakase with uni. Everything our group had was amazing, some of us were not the biggest fans of the fried ebi. For the price, it is a really solid value.

I had the opportunity to eat a whole Sushi today. What wonderful food. Everything was very fresh, tasty, professionally prepared and pleasant. Chef Masa was excellent as were his colleagues. Nothing was less than excellent. I will return again and again. If you are looking for sushi in LA this is the place. Get ready to wait for a table, the sushi bar is great. But worth the wait. Enjoy.

Yuuuummmmm incredible sushi and dessert

Well made and affordable Omakase sushi. Presentation can be improved, but overall happy.

Service was good, but the food was disappointing and bland. I was really surprised by the positive reviews that made me go there. 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

Disappointing experience and expensive. Sushi wasn’t that good and I’m a bit shocked by all the positive reviews. We must not have the same appreciation for sushi.

I’m surprised by the positive reviews for this Japanese restaurant. It’s on a nondescript parking lot/strip mall like many other places In LA. The setting is nice enough. What really ticket me off was the food. Ordered peppers as a starter which were bland and uninteresting with a weird sauce. Let’s forget about that. The sushi arrived nicely presented, but that was it for the experience. The fish was not very tasty and the rice was slightly dry and bland. Overall very underwhelming. Don’t waste your time and just go straight to Sugar fish. A far better experience overall and half the price 😤😡

I've lived in L.A. my whole life & I'm sorry I didn't get here sooner. Try the Charlize Tacos

If you ordered omakase, definitely need to add the uni and otoro sushi. Great food with reasonable price. The omakase is 85 per person, additional 15 if you want to add a otoro and a uni sushi.

Their sushi is so good that we even do takeout, due to logical packaging and very high quality.

Hidden gem of a sushi spot in Westwood! Definitely get the sushi tacos, but I honestly haven’t been disappointed by anything on their menu so you can’t go wrong with their standard fare.

Decent but by no means great, it’s a very expensive restaurant that while good, doesn’t compare to some of LAs really good sushi places.

Great Omakase experience at Hamasaku. Excellent.sake options. Portions were perfect and fish tasted super fresh! Make a reservation through Yelp!

Still one of my favorite omakase experiences in LA at a ~$100 price point. The fish is great and you can tell they have great sourcing, but honestly it's the rice that blows me away. Undoubtedly some of the best sushi rice you can have.

What a hidden gem! Almost don't want anyone else to find out about this as it wasn't over crowded on a Friday night. Service was fantastic, helpful, honest, perfectly timed. Fish was melt in your mouth delicious. Everything we tried from chicken Kara age to black cod (highly recommend) was amazing.

Absolutely the best sushi in Los Angeles! The kale salad is amazing and their frozen creme brûlée is to die for! Thank you for the wonderful service and great food!!!!

Hamasaku is great! I came here quite late at night. I thought about that one episode of Worth It, where Steven and Andrew came here. Parking was fair enough, as it was a strip mall. Unfortunately, it’s not very visible unless you look closely at the area, thus making it somewhat a hidden gem. As with all sushi joints in LA, everything is hella expensive! However, your money is well spent here. Their absolutely phenomenal omakase is only 85$ [And yes, I said only, because places like Kanpai are in the 3 digits zone, and I argue the stuff here is better.] The starting dish, snow crab salad was bomb! Nice and fresh; a good start to your meal. Sashimi is as fresh as ever, and it’s more like butter than fish! Delicious. Sushi is extremely tasty, and each nigiri piece is unique. Lastly, their cheesecake for dessert was very interesting, and made a satisfying wrap-up. The staff is very patient and the atmosphere is downtempo but not intimate, which is quite uncommon in a lot of restaurants. All in all, I really enjoyed my meal here. Eat the sushi with your hands, and the sashimi with your chopsticks! That makes it better??? [Or so I’ve heard] I will be back. Thank you Hamasaku!

Tasty, a bit overpriced, suggest a la carte & get the taco 👍

Very good if not exceptional sushi

Mouth watering omakase...and the collar....wow!

Overrated. So many fresher fish spots in la if you want fresh sushi. Their cooked food is good. But very sceney and overpriced.

highly recommend. my new go to sushi on the west side. the people who work there are the best. support small businesses !!!!

Pretty tasty sushi, but overall the cuts were hit or miss. The sashimi was not the highest quality (seemed like a chirashi bowl), and a couple of the sushi pieces from the Omakase were tough or chewy. That being said there were some really tasty cuts. The salmon and yellowtail were excellent. Was hoping for a bit higher quality, but not a bad deal at $55

One of my favorite sushi restaurants near my home. Everything was excellent aside from the garlic chili edamame which was borderline inedible due to its heat. We went on a Sunday midday and there was plenty of seating. The staff is attentive with refilling drinks.

Food is very good, service was extremely slow.

Great quality fish. Priced appropriately for the quality. Friendly and quick servers. Limited parking (valet at night).

Great selection and wonderful sushi 🤩

Awesome food and service 6/5 stars

Wow this place was great, I absolutely loved it and would definitely come back again

Hamasaku is ensconced in a corner of an unassuming strip mall on Santa Monica Boulevard, but upon entering the charming restaurant space, it feels more like Tokyo than West L. A. We picked amongst favorite categories of dishes, to construct our preferred dinner, and with each course we got something far more complex and wonderful than anticipated. Spicy tuna over Crispy Rice offered contrasts of soft and crunchy, cold and warm— sublime. The warm tofu was served with sauces, seasonings, mushrooms, and fresh egg yolk— a delight. Grilled vegetables were presented like a perfectly charred salad, a very generous portion with intense, individual flavors. The Blondie roll combined our favorite crustaceans with favorite vegetables in a unique presentation. Same for the DJ Spider Roll, though with a few ingredient adjustments, the result was surprisingly different and also terrific. We could return numerous times, never having the same dishes, and be completely satisfied with each. The cozy dining room was quite lively, servers helpful, and tables were filled and refilled with appreciative patrons.

To all Sushi lovers I recommend Hamasaku restaurant. Great Sushi, always fresh and tastes delicious. 5 stars.

This restaurant is so pretty! And the sushi is great! Very refreshing.

Hamasaku has the freshest fish of any sushi restaurant in NW LA. I've been to several sushi places near to this, and Hamasaku takes the cake, bar none. Every piece of nigiri tastes like it was caught this morning, and the rolls are second to none. The interior has a cool, modern vibe (that is modern as in the era, not meaning contemporary), and although the service has been a bit slow a couple times that I've been here, the food and amenities more than make up for it (they even bring you a warm hand towel, and they serve sake in a glass with an ice chamber to keep it cold). This is amongst my favorite restaurants to which I've ever been. If you're willing to drop a pretty penny, go to Hamasaku.

Owned by Jesse Duron, chef Yoya Takahashi and Michael Ovitz there is no way this could make money. The fish is better than Tokyo. And it's half the price of Tokyo. Just go

Fresh fish from sustainable suppliers. Parking is convenient with free valet service for first 45 min. Ambiance is great for friends, families, and date nights.

Excelente cocina, local aparentemente informal.

The omakase was incredible. The seasonal offerings were delicious but then being followed up with quality cuts of fish shot it up through the atmosphere. Will come back for some of the best salmon roe and toro I've ever had.

Excellent food and staff. Nothing but the best.

Our favorite sushi restaurant! Most fresh and delicious sushi in Los Angeles!

Food is just great. Visited for our anniversary. Nothing else to say. They’re just great. The food. The staff. The interior. The vibe. Just go and check it out :)

Delicious sushi with high attention to detail and great ambiance.

Excellent omakase experience! To begin with, I would like to call their sushi 'aroma sushi'. All the dishes come with some creative addition of novel tastes and scents. Sushi dish was served seven times in total and each dish came with two pieces. All tasted extremely fresh, tender, and juicy! Spain tuna, one of the seasonal fish pieces, even tasted chewy. Actually, I was a little disappointed at the first dish of sashimi because of too ordinary tuna (It's still better and more tender in taste). But shortly after it, I got totally amazed and entertained with the series of the following gorgeous sushi dishes. There was a mix of new tastes and familiar ones but with far more upgraded taste sensations. Overall, great pleasure and happy meal it was for sure! Also, the last dish (the traditional Japanese ice creams) was extremely enjoyable! Particularly, lychee ice cream was too surprising! I like lychee (a fruit) but I've never imagined it can turn into an ice cream before. Thumbs up! 향이 살아있는 스시. 독특한 면이 있어서 재미있음! 사시미 투나 한점 빼고 전부 미각을 상당히 자극함! 간장 맛이 너무 좋음.

The traffic route from Santa Monica to this place was an adventure but the food was well worth the trek. We were sat down quickly and had a great honest depiction of what to try within seasonal and specials for the day. The waitresses and sushi chefs made a great team that strengthened our confidence that this place would not leave us unhappy with our choices of drinks or food. We look forward to our return and will recommend this place to family and friends.

Came in with a party of two on a Thursday night, no reservations, they had a table available. We were delighted by the quickness. The server was very amicable and knowledgeable. She diligently went over the menu and gave us good suggestions.

The sushi and mochi are amazing here