Shima Japanese Restaurant in Country Club - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

This place is a hidden gem! Food is so good and affordable.

I love the food here and have come often with friends and my partner. I’ve frequented the restaurant multiple times a week for months and know some staff by name. I’ve loved dining in regularly up until recently. While finishing up and being handed the check, my partner and I notice we were charged at large party fee, though it was just myself and my partner. We asked a server and were told this was to guarantee tip as it was rumored we would not tip. This is completely untrue and was extremely rude of the server to add an extra miscellaneous charge based off rumors. We weren’t a large party nor have there ever been major problems with service before, but this visit left my partner and I with a bad taste in our mouths. We enjoy the food and being regulars, but we’ll be taking a break from Shima. Most of the staff is pretty friendly, but some weekend staff are quite rude, cold, short, and do not take the time to make your night special the way some do. Nathan is always kind and helpful when we’ve visited. Adding hidden fees and charges to guarantee tip for yourself is shady and as someone who works in food/customer service, I’d never behave the way we were treated last. I know nothing will probably change, but it felt worth it to at least let others know. The food is usually great, some inconsistencies with taste but great most of the time. The atmosphere is cute and Shima is usually playing great music too! But overall customer service has hit an all time low. In this type of setting, multiple servers are present and help out multiple tables at once. So, this setup is very unlike the traditional waiter/waitress server model. You’re usually on your own most of the time besides being asked about drinks and sauce when you first sit, which is also why the added charges felt a bit like overkill :/

I LOVE sushi and Japanese food in general and finally I can say that I have found a place where the sushi is delicious and the prices are not insanely high. I usually order for pick up but yesterday I finally went and had a great experience. This place is great, I definitely recommend it.

Very small place, no where to sit and wait to be seated. You have to wait outside and stand in the hot sun. This place is very overpriced . My bill here was $80 for a table of 3 and all of us ate like 2 pieces of sushi per plate . You’re better off going to a buffet and fill your stomachs up for that price. I even tried ordering off the menu and the chicken was burnt.

I love the concept of the little boats floating by from which you choose your plates

Sar was amazing. EVERYTHING was perfect!!!! They were fast, friendly and efficient. Delicious food💙

Fav sushi place ever; have been coming here for years and the quality has never subsided.

Ok. Wait time to get in was very long. Highly recommend you get there early. Ordering a la carte takes an extremely long time. Overall, I would maybe come back. Just ok.

I love this place. Laid back spot and always consistent. One of the few affordable places to eat in South Florida that is actually delicious.

Nicest people ever! I've lived in this area for 16 years and somehow never noticed this quaint Japanese spot. Interior decor was so authentic and nice the owners and team were awesome. Food was fresh and the fried cheesecake is a MUST!

We love coming to SHIMA in Miami Gardens, FL!! Make sure to sit at the bar where the little boats pass you by with freshly prepared Sushi. The Sushi is made fresh and right in front of you! And just in case you don’t know what to order, no worries. The little boats will be passing by with different types of Sushi for you to try. Whatever you order, the chef will place an additional plate in the little boat so that others can see and have an opportunity to try! The price is per plate so be careful haha. The servers are super friendly and the restaurant is very clean. Be sure to get there early because it gets really busy!!

Ate here for the first time the other day and I'm only disappointed I didn't know about it sooner!! The rolls were amazing, and they had SO much variety. Everything was such a good price and every single member of the staff was incredibly nice and made sure we had everything we needed. Although we didn't sit by the boats, we were still able to get up and get plates if we wanted to. Pro tip: If you don't mind getting up to get a plate from the boat, and want to skip a wait, make sure to mark that you don't mind sitting away from them. There was a 20+ minute wait when we arrived and since we chose to sit away from the boats we were literally sat immediately.

Feels like Japan! The food was delicious and the environment was the best part.

Delicious! The variety is large and you leave beyond full. Even with a full restaurant we didn't wait that long and service was quick. Will definitely be back.

Loved Shima Japanese Restaurant! It was a wonderful experience and the food was delicious.

I had a great experience at this location. I took my wife there on a date and were seated around the boat bar. The food was hot, fresh, and delicious. I didn't get the name of our server in the middle of the boat bar, but she was amazing. She was very attentive to us and even sold us on buying dessert which was the fried cheesecake with ice cream and whipped cream. Always a great experience.

Amazing fish; super fresh ….. One of the best sushi in Miami Interior and back bathrooms are in immediate need of renovation & update Weekends get crowded with wait list pretty long ….

I have been going there for about 2+ years and have always been happy. Today halfway through the meal the waiter rushed us and said our limit was almost done (we had another 30 minutes) based on their new 75 min per table rule to finalize out order The waiter forgot to put in my actual order and basically was more concerned with us getting up from the table Overall I just felt like I was rushed out and the service was so poor making me not want to go back.

Worst customer service ever the red hair manager was extremely rude and with a horrible attitude. After I put my name on the paper chart, I was waiting outside for over 1 hour in my car because it was extremely hot outside and there’s no chairs for you to wait. The hostess scratched out my name and the manager said that we had to wait all over again.

Great place to japanese food lovers.

I've been going to Katana on 71st Street Miami Beach for over a decade, so I thought I would give Shima a shot, as it claimed to be a larger space (and thus I imagined there would be less of a wait to be seated, whereas Katana usually runs anywhere from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours to be seated on weekends). While we were seated after only a short 10 minute wait, we quickly realized that the sushi chef at the bar seemed more preoccupied with fulfilling Uber Eats/delivery orders than making sure the sushi boats had a good variety of desirable sushi options going around for the patrons actually IN the restaurant. Hence we spent a significant amount of time just watching the same small selection of items going around in circles, with maybe 60-70% of the boats empty the rest of the time. The waiter kept asking us if we'd like to order something, but to us this entirely defeats the purpose of coming to a conveyor belt sushi type of restaurant. When we did order something, it took a very long time to receive it (and was missing one of the items we ordered). Skip Shima and go to Katana instead. Much better experience, even despite the longer wait times.

I've been coming here for over ten years and while I love the food, I am disappointed that the servers tried to put a LARGE PARTY GRATUITY for a three top. I'm a waitress and I don't like tricking people into a bigger tip. I have always left 20% or higher and I hope people aren't being swindled into tipping 35% or higher because they aren't checking. It's an insidious practice.

It is one of the good sushi places. I would only say theta the prices have gotten a little higher than average and the food sizzle didn’t go up along with the price. They even charge for the sauces that go alongside the sushi like the spicy mayo.

It's my girlfriend's and I's favorite spot for dinner dates, and also where we had our first date. The sushi there is great, as well as the ramen and the chicken katsu (our go-to platter).

The environment was nice and cozy. The rolls were amazing and the service was great. I would come here again

Love this place but there is usually a wait so be aware.

This place is small, and the wait time can be very long if you bring a group of 4+, but it's worth it if you want the experience. The sushi boats are great if you want to have different varieties of sushi, tayokaki, sweets, etc. They also have a regular menu with hot foods if you are not into sushi. Try it out and have fun

GROSS. Rude. The WORST service. They are clearly not interested in serving paying customers with respect. Highly recommend skipping this place.

Love this place . Small and comfortable.. always full , sushi is delicious and everyone is nice

Great place to eat and have fun!!!

Excellent place to eat, prices are good!! I recommend arriving early since they always find tables occupied and they have a waiting list!!

Hello...When they go to bring you the bill, they give you dishes that you didn't take,,,and I don't know how they do it because the dishes are on the table, if you get close to closing they no longer make new dishes and the rush with it. You can see the consumer at first glance, because I ordered a dish and they brought me another similar one and like someone who doesn't want the things, he tells me, try it or we'll prepare the other one for you. Please don't do that... The place is very small and the living room is not It is suitable due to its small size...thank you!

It took too long to get seated. Food was good.

I have now words, literally went in one day and never left , best sushi’s place in town !!

Love this place, frequent often for the fresh sushi and pleasant wait staff.

Excellent service and price. It's my first restaurant on this visit to Miami. I love it!

I love this sushi place! The idea of grabbing the sushi right off of the water boats is so convenient. I did not give it 5 stars because the place looks beaten down, it needs major renovation, the bathroom is hidden in the back & it is very tiny and so is the waiting area. Hopefully they improve their location. Otherwise good sushi concept and taste

Love this place, it has become one of my favorite spots . There is a lot of variety you can try. Food is amazing and everyone is very kind

A good place to taste some Japanese food...the only bad thing is the waiting time...very long

I love coming here from time to time with my husband, it is not a luxurious place but it is ideal for when you feel like eating delicious sushi and having a casual experience, and reasonable prices without so much preparation.

Sushi is always fresh and delicious. Sushi boats keep coming with different types of rolls, sashimi, dumplings etc. Never a dull a moment

This is a hole in the wall you can easily miss but it offers amazing food for an amazing value. You don't want to miss a chance to not eat here. The ambience is great with a nice Japanese aesthetic. The menu selections are also great

My second time coming here and I very much enjoyed it. They offer various selections of sushi, rolls and other appetizers. If you can't find anything that catches your eye, you can always select from the menu and have it specially prepared. The staff are nice and friendly. This makes it a Perfect place to bring a date or a friend to gobble up plates. Plates are color coded and they come in different prices. Get ready to spend $30 plus depending on how much you eat. The experience is great. The food is amazing! I'll definitely come back.

Never disappoints. Best Sushi place in Miami Lakes

The atmosphere was the best thing about my experience and even then, it was sloppy. I gave this review an additional star for the fact my friends enjoyed their meal. I, myself do not eat fish or sushi so I know what I am getting myself into when I go to eat out with friends and family at places where it’s mostly fish so I always make sure to take a look at the menu beforehand so I know what my options are. When we sat down we were immediately greeted which was nice but set a false pretense to our dining experience because after that everything just started slowing down from there. It took about 10 minutes just to get waters for the table, the hot sake was even longer and the third jar we ordered was left in the microwave way too long because we burned our hands grabbing the bottle and then not to mention how nuclear the sake was we burned our mouths taking the first sip. In the meantime, my friends start chowing down on the dishes of sushi coming out of the river boat and I can already foresee I’m going to be the one left at the table eating while everyone is ready to pay up and leave, but I didn’t expect our server to take another 15 minutes to come back so I can at least put an order in, in the chance I would be able to enjoy having dinner with my friends. Bad decision. When the server finally came back and took my order, I explained I don’t eat sushi but I was looking at the menu and asked her opinion between the yakisoba noodles and the okonomiyaki since that was on their specialty menu. She had a tough time helping me decide (maybe she’s new and I’ll chalk it up to that) either way, we came to the order of okonomiyaki. Guys, when I tell you this food took about 40 minutes to come out… I would have appreciated a heads up that this menu item was going to take that long to make because I would have happily ordered something that takes a little less time to make so I can, once again, have dinner with my friends. It was either that the food took long, or (as a server I have also done this in the past) she forgot to put my order in, and then put it in when we followed up about the dish 20 minutes later. Dude, I seriously am not a stickler about food order and time to the table, but this was just beyond ridiculous and embarrassing at this point. More time keeps passing by, and at this point everyone has started slowing down and you could see the food comas starting to set in and they’re ready for the check. At this point, I don’t even want my order and I have lost my appetite, so I tell the waitress to cancel the order AND THEN she says “oh but they’re working on it, it’s going to take about another 10 minutes”. So now not only have I waited an hour for a meal after ordering, but now I am made to feel guilty about accepting and paying for the order. I tell her to put it in a container at this point because I am not going to go back and forth about an order I do not want anymore, because clearly, it’s easier for me to spend money on an order I have no desire for anymore after waiting an hour for my food, than to explain to the server that the entire dining experience and lack of service and wait time was absurd and it should be voided from the check. Dude… when I get this order prepared in a takeout container I am even more disgusted. Thank you for putting all the sauces separately, that I do appreciate… but the appearance of this food when it’s supposed to be like a pancake is chopped up like dog food, this was the topping of the cake. How could an already terrible experience get worse? I might give this place one more try just in the chance it was a bad night, but that’s a fat chance at this point.

A fabulous experience, second time I've gone and I love it

TERRIBLE SERVICE!!! No greeting at the front door or kindness. Very rude. After putting our name down and waiting 30 minutes we were told they could not sit us due to having a baby and too bad. What a disgrace, this place should ashamed to hire employees like this.

Came here three times and food is very good every time!! Just be very careful on grabbing too much plates, you’re not gonna realize how big your bill is at the end 😂 kidding aside, will definitely recommend this place to everyone

Some places just don’t stand the test of time . This staple was a hidden gem but due to changes in service and prices it’s just not worth it . While the sushi is fresh taste good the other menu items lack flavor . The service is your typical mediocre and bad service you get in Miami. Hopefully they change for the better and not continue for the worst.

High chance Food will take you to the hospital

Food is excellent and the one thing I rave about this restaurant. The seating system needs work but better than it was in the past.

Love coming here whenever I get my cravings on eating some great sushi and dessert. Would definitely recommend this place to anyone of my friends to check out

Local sushi restaurant that's family owned and operated. They never disappoint qith their fresh sushi and friendly service!

This was my first time and we absolutely loved it! My favorite dishes seaweed salad, octopus dumplings, jumbo shrimp in sauce, miso soup and definitely the Crepe cake for dessert and my ultimate official favorite the cheese pound cake. Highly recommend this very unique spot and will be returning. Great service!

Delicious! The hostess helped with a surprise birthday candle in a dessert :) they don’t sing HB but we did it ourselves quietly and the tables next to us joined in! It was pretty cool:) I just wanted to eat everything! Haha very fresh!

Been coming here for tears, never disappoints, the best sushi place in the hialeah- miami lakes area

Shima is excellent. It's always great and never fails. I always have a good time and the food is awesome. Tai donuts are fantastic as well.

My favorite sushi spot in Miami/Miami Lakes area. Revolving Sushi on boats on water. Full menu as well. Sushi prices are decent. The must try are the deep fried Oreos, absolutely delicious!

This is my favorite sushi restaurant and I feel blessed to live across the street from it. The food is fresh and delicious. They have a carousel of sushi going around for you to choose from.

I went there for dinner but can’t say anything about the food because couldn’t get passed the stench the second I walked thru the door. It smelled like a dirty bathroom and something rotten. They need to work on cleaning that place.

Don't miss out on the best sushi and Japanese noodle dishes. Please stop by, and support our local gem. Consistently the best. Enjoy going at least once a month.

i never write reviews, and ive gone multiple times but the soy ramen i ordered this time made me write one immediately after i left. i have gone to japan before and this is the only place that comes close to how good the ramen is there. oh my goooddd the soy ramen was so good and it wasnt a huge bowl either it was just the perfect size. plus the rolls on the boats are AMAZING. this is my go to place for asian food. the atmopshere is super casual. bring your mom bring your dad bring your abuela bro

It’s a 10/10 for me every time. I’ve been eating here regularly since before COVID and the quality has remained top tier this whole time. The sushi is delicious, the prices are great, and the staff is always welcoming and helpful.

I’m so disappointed this place is not like before, I just had dinner they don’t have enough personal apart from the wait time to go inside we had to wait more to be attended, after I ask for the check and the servers are trained to add more extra items to your check luckily we were attentive and knew what exactly we had consumed but still we were charged extra plates please be careful and attentive,small businesses like this will not thrive.

Love, love, love the ambiance and food

I went there Labor Day 2021. Their food is really good, I could say better than their sister restaurant, but the customers in that establishment has a different vibe than the one on the beach. In that aspect the beach is better. I enjoyed the good food, the service was excellent, I just do not appreciate people bringing babies at a restaurant and let them cry and be loud. In that instance there were TWO tables with really loud crying babies, again, that's not the restaurant's fault but kinda ruined my experience dinning there. Hence, the four stars. I may go back and hope not to have crying babies next to me. This type of restaurant is all about the experience, see the floating boats going in circles and get to pick from a variety of rolls and dishes. If I don't care about the experience, then I would get it to go.

Love this place, had to take a break from going so much. First time back in months and still amazing, with some great new options as well.

Bad food, bad service, forget about the sitting, is a mess, big mess, parties of odd numbers are screwed, as the waiters only sit party of 2 because more than that become available only after 1 or 2 hours of waiting, math must be hard I guess.

We absolutely love the place, and the food was excellent

Hands down, this place has to be one of the best sushi spots in all of South Florida. I’m no sushi expert by all means, but in my humble opinion, the taste, quality, freshness, variety and price is by all means exceptional! I’ve been to many sushi spots in Dade and Broward areas, some are high-end and others are causal/ “trendy” spots, but nothing beats the value and taste that these sushi rolls have… pretty descent sushi/ sashimi selection and easy on the pocket (although menu prices did increase just like everything else has). Always great service, very casual, very neighborhood friendly and overall good food. I used to live in the same area, now I live in Davie and I still make the drive from time to time to get our fix. I hope they never change and keep doing what they do. Congratulations to the owner, sushi chef and all staff for a job well done!

My son took me here first time I loved the shrimp tempura 🤤 I don't eat rice he order a veggie roll and it had rice they told him he didn't have to pay for it of course no one eat it but amazing people here from waitress to bus boyss

The place is quite nice and cozy, and the rotating sushi bar/lazy river concept is clever and unique compared to conveyer belt sushi. The food is pretty good. They put sauce on most of the nigiri, which can overpower the flavor of the fish at times. But overall the quality is pretty decent and the prices are good. I'll continue to stop by!

Food and service was excellent as usual. Thank you Nathan for having great menu knowledge and for teaching me abiut the Jack roll and sexy salmon roll. I had a great time

Oh shima, I love you because I've been coming for years more than a decade for sure. But in all honesty, the quality is subpar, walked in at 6:01 and 49 roll was cold and the shrimp tempura had lost all its crunch and tasted like mush. Hope this'll help someone, neighborhood staple but umph has dwindled. Server aaron was very nice and attentive.

It was a little bit disappointing if I'm being honest. The sushi was just OK and the options on the boats were just fried things that no one was getting...so it just kept circling around for the entire time we were there Wouldn't go back again. There's better options with the same concept

Waited 10 minutes to be told I was not going to be service besucase they take last call 40 minutes before closing ridiculous I won’t be back

Reminds me of Katana on the beach, solid place to eat sushi with a twist, pick what you like,as the boats cruise by you, and get charged by the color of the plate.

This is the sushi bar I compare all sushi bars/restaurants too. Great and unique rolls. Everything is fresh. Love the small restaurant ambiance.

Los alimentos muy frescos y muy buena presentacion

Bueno fue increíble en mi primera visita aprendí a usar los palillo 🥢 para comer muy sabrosa la comida me gusto el y lo de los v Barquito con los platos increíble

El sushi es espectacular, y los barquitos siempre tienen amplia variedad. También puedes pedir aparte en un menú, pero si quieres probar cosas nuevas, los barquitos serán ti mejor opción :3

The best Japanese food in the area… Thanks!!!

I am a regular customer of this restaurant for the food quality and good service. The sushi’s are fresh made in from of you . The ramen es exquisito.

Just left and it was TERRIBLE!! The same items multiple times going around and around. The QUALITY has gone down and prices have gone too high for what you're getting. Last time I'll be here.

A fat girl with curly ginger hair was super rude from the moment she spoke to us. This place isn’t even all that to be getting treated that way. Bye , hire better people

This place is incredibly good. You easily loose track of how much your spending lol.

Best sushi in Miami never disappoints Great atmosphere! Great customer service

As a customer that has been coming to this restaurant for many years. Today I experienced something distasteful. I put my name in the list and apparently I was called. I never heard my name being called or anything of the sorts and I was right outside. When I asked they had crossed my name out, and said I had to put my name all the way at the bottom of the list. We asked the receptionist/ manager Sara what happened and if we can be next since we had waited for so long. She blatantly and loudly said NO! And that she had called us while screaming it out loud in front of the restaurant. Sara even got involved two other customers who was waiting inside to agree with her. Sara loudly and dramatically said to the two ladies waiting “didn’t I call them”? The ladies faces were in complete shock. As a customer I was embarrassed at how Sara being the manager and all treated us. She didn’t even try to passively explain to us the situation or find a remedy to fix her mistake. Instead she was very rude, did not make eye contact with us when calling us again a second time. There was an issue where she had let someone else get in front of us and the people that were already waiting. But did Sara say anything to those people that skipped ? No. I can’t believe that they put someone like that to be a manager. One of the first things you do as a manager is learn customer service and how to treat people. Unfortunately this was not the case today as we were treated very coldly. I hope this place has a serious training on customer service and how to treat their customers.

Fresh ingredients, great taste, the ambience is chill, music at a low enough volume to talk to others. Looking forward to my next visit!

The food here is to die for. It was our first time visiting this past Sunday. I highly recommend it. You can visit their Instagram @shima_miami and see for yourself. Yum!!

Good place, food is really good.

DO NOT EAT HERE IF YOU HAVE ALERGIES OR IF YOU'RE VEGETARIAN/VEGAN!!!! Ok. Starting off, the food here is not bad by any means. I personally enjoyed some of the dishes I had there. My boyfriend has a severe allergy to Shellfish and I have a specific allergy to Cabbage. I was asking every 2 seconds to the chef what everything was, for things like Gyoza, they couldn't tell me whether it is vegetable or pork. I wouldn't be hostile at all to this but my friend who had taken us to this establishment asked how they handle the shellfish and the normal fish for me to ease my anxiety. THEY USE THE SAME KNIFE TO HANDLE ALL THEIR FOOD. Vegetables, pork, shellfish and normal fish, all with the same knife. A waiter had told us this casually as if not knowing it was a problem, not the waiter's fault. But the management's response to this was awful, referring us to one tiny sign that told us to "tell them about food allergies we have". It was right next to our table of TEN PEOPLE and NONE of us saw it. Luckily enough they did take away the plates ONLY my boyfriend ate on the bill. If you have no food allergies or diet restrictions to worry about, then you're fine. But if you do, find another establishment. Edit 1/8/23: As of a day of eating the sushi at this restaurant, he did get hives on his hand.

I had to wait for a long time for nothing the girl forget call me and I lost the line.

It was so much betterbefore, dont waste your time honestly. I wasted 2 hours to come here to leave. Im so freak*** upset as to how i was treated and the wait times when i used the virtual wait times. Go somewhere else! Even shima is better! Its so sad honestly. Ruined my day off

Shima is a neighborhood gem. In my opinion, this restaurant has some of the best sushi in South Florida. I've eaten in the restaurant as well as have ordered it for delivery. The sushi is always fresh. It's also reasonably priced. I love that for the price of one sushi roll in other restaurants, you can come here and get multiple rolls. Instead of a conveyor belt, Shima has revolving boats. You can either pick up sushi from one of the plates coming around or order from the menu. The color of the plates tells you how much each dish is. The restaurant is within a strip mall. It doesn't have a lot of seating. So very often there is a line. Make sure to add your name to the wait list.

The sushi was not good at all. Lacks creativity. Pretty basic rolls, that didn’t taste good. Also the inside feels dirty too. The beer was ice cold so that was at least good.

This is the best place you can go for a first date. If you like sushi one of the best restaurants in all Miami.

The food was a little off today, but is usually well done. Service was good. Atmosphere lost a star for having a slew of power strips and extension cords around looking rather messy.

Favorite spot for quick, good affordable sushi

Great sushi and atmosphere at a hole-in-the-wall spot.