Sushi A La Hattori - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Excellent Japanese Restaurant in Taos, but the hours are limited.

This remains the absolute best sushi restaurant in all of NM based on the ingredients list and artistry, coupled with excellent service. Most sushi restaurants serve sub-par ingredients and apparently, most people seem to not notice. (IE: other sushi restaurant in this town.) Customers should ask about the origins of this restaurant and its owner, because his connections are unbeatable. Santa Fe and ABQ sushi establishments can't hold a candle to this place. We're so glad to have moved back here to see that you're still around.

Great food, good service... Great views 5/17/2024- update I don't know what happened to this place since our last visit... Service from a long time server at this establishment was rude and dismissive. The server delivered our table's tempura appetizer to another table 15 minutes after we ordered, the replacement appetizer still has not arrived 30 minutes after we initially ordered. Well we are at 45 minutes and still no appetizer... Well 50 minutes later and they are out of vegetables for our appetizer... Oh wait... 57 minutes in... Entrees arrived and the appetizer... The food was good... The service was terrible with the exception of a new server who had been on the job for two days. Hopefully the new server's example will lead to the owners unburdening themselves of deadwood.

Horrible experience absolutely rude service. Dirty restaurant with horrible food.

Absolutely horrible service. Couldn’t make separate checks. The place was dirty. The food was disgusting. Do not recommend

Excellent service and food it's amazing.

Please don’t go to this place, it’s disgusting 🤮They don’t take care if their food is properly cooked or not. Served us undercooked chicken skewers and that killed my appetite. Gross and disgusting.

I ate outside on their shaded patio. What a beautiful view (see picture). This was my first visit to Sushi a La Hattori, even though I only live about an hour away. The food was excellent - I ordered the Hanzo sushi, which included miso soup, and I ordered tea, as well - and the service was cordial. The prices were rather high, though (expected, I guess, it's Taos), which would prohibit me from eating there more than once or twice a year, but other than that, I would recommend you go.

You can't beat sitting and watching the sun set.

While the food is ALLWAYS amazing, it will take 1.5 to 2.5 hours to get it. Make sure your initial beverage and appetizer order will sustain you till your main courses arrive as service is sparse.

We visited this establishment about 15 minutes after it opened for dinner on a Wednesday. We waited about 10 minutes after we were seated for a server. When we first got there, there was only one server worker. She was joined by another server later, but a full restaurant, indoors and out, still only had a max of two servers. Service was slow and inattentive. We waited almost an hour for our order, and we're never offered refills on beverages. We had to ask for our check after waiting with empty plates at our table for well over 10 minutes. The food was acceptable. The tempura was excellent, but the sushi - in my opinion - could have been more fresh and was served luke-warm.

Didn't even get to eat because RUDE WAITRESS wasn't interested in accommodating my sick 78 year old mother out of the sun because our group was one person too big for the four top we sat at out of the sun. She insisted we moved to a table in the Sun and when we told her that we could not she was unaccommodating. I went to speak with the manager and I told him that she was driving us out of the restaurant basically because she would not accommodate us out of the sun (there was plenty of space) and he just shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't care at all so we left. I have no interest in giving my money to such an establishment.

Stopped in with my sister. We both had the bento box. Absolutely amazing! We were first brought a serving of miso soup. Then came the prize! The tempura shrimp and vegetables that were perfectly done. The shrimp were sweet and flavorful. Very surprised at the amount and variety of the vegetables. Eggplant, sweet potato, broccoli, and asparagus. Oh yes, there was also a generous piece of tempura salmon, brown rice, and 4 pieces of a California roll, along with a delicious salad. All for under $12. Very high quality, and excellent service.😎👌

A little hard to find. Well made sushi

Food is always amazing! Service & wait times could definitely be stepped up a few notches, but great food nonetheless!

This is our local go-to for Japanese food. Sometimes the service is a bit slow (when they are very busy) but always pleasant. The food has always been excellent.

A fantastic choice for an intimate dining experience. The location is just outside of Taos, NM. The staff were very friendly. The food was fantastic. Expect longer wait times here. Arrive early.

Service was good getting in but slow to leave (pay). Very busy. The food is excellent. We had salmon and a chicken skewer.

First time customer, was my Birthday, Poor service, sushi was just ok. Food came out randomly over an hour an half timeframe. The group did not eat together. Had a couple missing items. When we informed them of this we got yelled at by both waitresses and sushi chef. Owner walked out, listened and said sorry and then disappeared. Would not recommend this place.

ACTUALLY NO STARS for this visit! OMG, What a mess. The Waitress got our order incorrect and when we pointed it out, she flipped out and even the sushi cook came out and confronted us. They made racial remarks in spanish not know that we understood and speak it as well. Poorly managed, short staffed, staff stressed out, makes for a people on edge. Part of our party were completely done eating before the other half got part of their sushi order and by the time they got the last part of their sushi order we were all done eating and ready to leave.

Mr. Gustavo Sanchez is an impressive chef with food of an amazing flavor...

The food is so good I always forget to take pictures! 📸 Everything is good sushi 🍣, ramen 🍜, dumplings! Try anything you won't be disappointed. For dinner it usually takes 15-30 min. To be seated and 30+ min. To recieve your food but it is well worth the wait.

Over an hour and our sushi (simple order, 3 rolls) has not arrived. No explanations or attention. Restaurant was only half full when we arrived. If you want to eat within an hour, go elsewhere. Update: sushi finally arrived (but never the miso soup I ordered). It was fine, not exemplary but tasty.

This is the first time I've left a negative review on Google. I hate to do it, but feel compelled to warn prospective diners about our experience. We arrived at about 5:15 p.m. and were sat within 15 minutes. After we placed our order, we didn't receive any food or water for about an hour. The food then trickled out over the course of the next 1.5 hours, with the quality exponentially decreasing over that time. The ramen that we initially received, for example, was quite good. The final item that we received, the soft shell roll, was inedible. Overall, what we'd hoped would be a quick sushi dinner turned into a protracted and expensive three-hour affair. As the icing on the cake, we got a nasty bout of food poisoning. The restaurant did appear abnormally busy, so they may function better under ordinary circumstances.

As always a delicious sashimi and tempura meal for the three of us. So glad to have high quality sushi in Taos. It can be a bit crowded a times, so we try to go early or late. The quality is always top shelf and yummy

Shocking to get such fresh fish in Taos. Food is very good and the views are sensational!

This kind of quality and freshness is usually found in big cities!! Always crowded but certainly worth the wait!!!

Great place for a date in my opinion!

Awesome food and service. Sushi made fresh.

Great Food, Great Prices! We love this place and we don't even eat a lot of Sushi! The lunch specials are super and very reasonably priced. Nice staff. A go to with guests!

We just moved to Taos several months ago and have been here 3-4 times.... food has always been good (fresh sushi), service for most part good...but as some others have mentioned in their reviews, the owner is kind of arrogant and rude. Torn between continuing to patronize his place or find another Japanese restaurant.

Best sushi in all of New Mexico

Muy mal servicio. Poca atención de los meseros. Y no estaban tan ocupados.

Came to this location with 2 hours wait time to burn and still nothing came out of the kitchen 1h30m later. Waste of time with the staff ignoring incoming and waiting customers as they’ve been trying to settle a bill the whole time. Come early or not at all.

So lucky to have this gem in Taos! Excellent service and top notch sushi.

The best Sushi in New Mexico. The wait staff is friendly and kind, the cooks know how to make his Japanese food, and the sushi chef is amazing.

Great tempura and great view of the mountains.

We have eaten here several times and the food and service are always excellent. The view is nice, too — Taos Mountain and meadows on one side and dynamic wind sculptures on the other side. The miso soup has rich flavor. Servings are ample.

Extremely fresh, artistically prepared, authentic sushi in Taos, NM! We have dined here several times and have had consistently great culinary experiences. I highly recommend Sushi A La Hittori if you are looking for high quality sushi, and other authentic Japanese dishes.

I sent soggy tempura don back to the kitchen and the chef came out of the kitchen to yell at me and said, “Tempura don is suppose to be soggy and you will pay for this!” This behavior on his behalf made the restaurant as a whole look bad. The most shocking part about this was that I did a quick Google search and tempura don is short for donburi which just means CRISPY tempura over rice in a bowl. Regardless of whether the dish was prepared properly today I believe if a customer sends a dish back to the kitchen it should just be accepted and no chef should come out to yell at a customer. The quality must have been severely lacking because surrounding tables were also saying that the food was not good today.

Horrible service. Food took over an hour, we didn't get one of our plates she forgot one of our drinks.

I have eaten Sushi all over the country & to have such a great japanese restaurant in Taos is such a delight!! Yes the service can be slow but the fish is quality, the sushi is excellent and the lunch specials are a great price!! Order some Saki and plan to spend an evening there!!

Best sushi! Not just Taos good, but really good.

We were a party of ten. My daughter wanted to eat there for her Birthday! The service was great. The food was delicious! Love Sushi a la Hitore!

Favorite sushi in New Mexico! Very fresh with great views of the mountains from their patio.

Best place in Northern NM to get your fix. Good selection. It gets busy here so pace yourself.

10+ stars! Never disappointed with the food and costumer service. Absolutely love this place!

We enjoyed the sushi rolls, miso soup, and seaweed salad very much! The cost was very reasonable. Bring a jacket if your sitting outside, gets quite cool once the sun sets, totally worth those mountain views! Delicious!

We went at 7 pm on a Friday and were seated immediately! We did have to wait more than a few minutes for our server to make it over to us for a drink order, but we were patient and understanding. We got our miso soup, and then our seaweed salad, pretty quickly. Our rolls and sashimi took a little longer, but when it came out, BOOYAH!!!!!! I hadn’t had sushi in Taos yet, and I was sooooo pleasantly surprised! The hamachi belly was incredible, our Taos roll was creative and spicy with the green chiles, even our simple asparagus tempura roll was perfect! We’ll definitely be going back!!

Excellent as usual! So inventive!

I love this place...the food (simply put) is perfection.... bon appetit

Rude workers, and The owner should learn customer service, visiting from out of town, was recommended this place. I will never go to this restaurant again, salad didn't have dressing, the sushi wasn't fresh. I would recommend getting sushi from the local grocery store.

Menu may be Japanese, but the kitchen and owners don't appear to have the grace or finesse of Japanese cooks. Owner is very rude (on the order of Seinfeld's "soup Nazi"), actually telling a member of our party that she wouldn't be served. Sashimi was chunky and clunky, universally made with a fat slice of avocado diluting the filling. No unagi, no actual sushi. Everything had too much miso/salt. No color in dish, which was a uniform brown. Very unappetizing presentation.

Fresh fish, very busy, so you might have to wait. But to me that’s a GOOD sign. The owners and employees are great+ friendly. It’s my favorite restaurant in Taos.

Loved the sushi and would give 5 stars but the service from some of the employees needs drastic improvement. Arrived at 7:15 on a Thursday and before our drinks arrived a waitress was telling us the kitchen was closing and we needed to order. Someone else helped us, but after a 700 mile drive I was not impressed at all by their reputation.

I don’t think the other people who are complaining have been to a smaller sushi restaurant. If it’s busy it is not un common to wait over 30min for hand made sushi. We go weekly and it’s always worth the wait.

Very busy, but still had great service and delicious sushi! Taos roll, Vegas roll, Philadelphia, and shrimp tempura

Unfortunately, this restaurant has limited hours or I would go more often. It is popular and best to get there exactly when it opens. I wish it would not close between lunch and dinner. The way the tables are set up, if you don't get there early, you might be sitting too close to the next table. Tempura was very good. I observed several dishes going to tables and the presentation was lovely.

Best Sushi that I have had for a LONG time!

The food here is great. That has never been an issue at Sushi a la Hattori. The service is often slow so it is best to go as soon as they open. Twice now I have gone to eat here with friends and some entrees come out right away and others come out 15 minutes later. Last week three of us went for lunch. One "hot" entree came out quickly along with one order of sushi. Then part of my sushi order came out. We all ate and then I sat waiting while my friends nearly finished their lunch. Finally the rest of my order came out. I was about to cancel it. Why not wait until all sushi is ready and then bring the entire order out? It is agrivating.

The sushi want bad, only average.

Miso soup was tasty fast. Seaweed salad beautifully presented and yummy. Sashimi was fresh and nicely presented. Service was good. By the time we left the place was full, so later service might be slow.

The food is so well worth the 3 hour drive! It's small and the seating gets filled up fast, you best bet is to get there just before peak hours aka Lunch and Dinner

Lunch service, on the day we were at Hattori, was excellent. Fresh and prepared with beautiful technique. I loved the bento box special.

Pricey but worth it. High quality sushi and amazing mochi ice cream! The setting is spectacular too.

Great sushi! Best times during Friday and Saturday are when they open and 45 minutes before closing.

Amazing Sushi and so very fresh. They use real crab meat in their California rolls, Dragon rolls, and other sushi rolls having crab meat. Their calamari appetizers are thick delicious and very tender lightly breaded - simply spectacular. Their sushi chef is Japanese and came here from California. He really knows his stuff. He takes a little time making them but his attention to detail and perfection makes the sushi well worth the wait. Plus we were there on a Friday night and the place was packed so he was very busy. If you love Sushi and can't make it to Japan for genuine sushi, then then this is the next best place. 🙂

Best Sushi in town by far! They also have so many other incredible dishes. I just love this place.

Understaffed, but the food more than makes up for it.

Menu is fun. Sushi was fresh. Atmosphere is soft and inviting.

The sushi here is well crafted and the kitchen staff clearly know how to prepare and present a meal. The dining setting could be nicer perhaps with tablecloths. The main criticism is that the price is outstanding and you can easily spend too much for a portion.

Wasnt expecting such quality fish in Taos. Due to a craving we stopped in here and had the nigiri plate. It was so good. My boyfriend and I agreed to just eat whichever pieces and if something was amazing to let eachother try. Almost every piece was too good to not let the other try. Loved it!

Always delicious!!!! Love it!!!

I've seen from other reviews that the decor is outdated, and it is. But the staff are friendly, the place is well kept, and the beds are super comfortable. The only reason I gave it four stars is because I think the breakfast could have used a slightly wider variety. It was still delicious. But it was limited to potatoes, eggs, ham, French toast, yogurt, and oatmeal. Fairly decent selection, but no bacon.

I had black cod. Very good. Sister has hand rolls. She thought fush was not cut up well. Nice outdoor setting.

Large delicious portions in an unassuming storefront. We will be back!

Food is great! Waiting for your food can take awhile. My father and my girl and I went here last year and we waited two hours and 11 minutes for our food (I noted the wait time in my calendar). The food was great though. A few weeks ago, my family was in town again and all three of us went again. We waited an hour and twenty nine minutes this time. The wait was long, but the food was great. If you're going to be ordering sushi, be prepared to wait awhile. We each ordered a full order of sushi rolls and then ordered three two-piece sushis. It wasn't very busy either. We sat and watched everyone else who were seated after us order and get their food before we did. It was a little frustrating.

Not sure what is going on here. The servers are sweet but getting served and getting food in anything approximating a reasonable time period impossible. I appreciate the fact that we have such a restaurant in the high desert but last time I was there, I waited an hour for my meal and had to leave. So they made me wait even longer to give it to be as a To GO box which was not convenient as I was headed to a concert. Other tables just left when after 20 mins they could not even get drink orders in. Very sad.

The food was good enough, but not outstanding. Trying to find the restaurant was a bit of a nightmare, with it hidden behind another restaurant with not great signage. Service was so busy that we practically had to beg for plates and chopsticks.

Amazing to find such good sushi in such a little town. Don't pass up the seafood salad. It's one of the best things i've ever had.

Some of the best sashimi in New Mexico

The owner was making the sushi the night my friend and I visited. INCREADABLY GOOD SUSHI! In a cafe style shop. No need to dress up!

Great place. Awesome sushi (in New Mexico of all places!). Fantastic staff. Good prices.

The best sushi and Japanese food in town. Box specials on Wed-Friday are amazing and almost too much. Best Miso ever. Go early and prepare to wait for a gastronomic delight.

I seek out sushi and travel a lot. In new mexico, Colorado, Kans,Utah and Arizona no one even comes near Mr and Mrs Hattori's sushi. Been a customer from the start and always will be going back. In fact I'm taking my family there today

Top notch food, customer service skills lacking.

Excellent ramen. Authentic Japanese food with some dishes having a New Mexican flair (adding green chile) to it. Good selection of dishes. The seafood is high quality. The atmosphere is not stuffy and relatively relaxed. Great view of the mountains out the back. However the service is slow, it took 15 minutes for a waitress to take my order. Overall, would recommend if you like Japanese food or sushi.

Delicious and beautiful sushi in Taos! Yay!

Small place and usually very crowded as it's the only sit down place in town with decent to superb sushi.

The Japanese food is authentic and delicious. Enjoy the sushi bar. Great service.

Wow! The Sushi a la Hattori is a such a great restaurant. We ordered the SunTan(crab meat) and the Vegas(salmon) sushi selections. We also got the spicy chicken dinner. Everything was excellent! I understand why people fly into Taos to eat at this hidden gem....

Excellent place, so great to have a sushi restaurant in Taos.

Friendly not bad wait time for sushi

The fish was good. The selection for the combination sushi was also good.

Awesome food. Well organized, kept our party of 15 on the right tickets with the right food, and everthing tasted amazing.

Incredible sushi but be prepared for the owner, she can be quite gruff.

Best sushi in Taos. Great lunches. Great view. Good prices.

I can’t believe I am going to say this but this is one of the best secret sushi restaurants ever. I’ve been to Nobu and other great hotspots but this place is phenomenal. From the soft shell crab which is addictive to the amazing sake...

I seldom eat sushi, but this place is worth it. Their miso soup is superb. Wide selection, excellent salads, great bento boxes!

We stumbled on this place by mistake, (behind the Overland store), and the food looked so good we had to stop and eat. The service was extremely slow and the staff not very friendly, but the food made up for it. We ate sushi and...