SUSHI BAR

Best octopus I have ever had. Excellent experience unfortunately you can't drink with the chefs anymore.

Serious Sushi. Close to Dana Pt., but no fancy manners (or views). Clearly a local favorite.

I love this place. I come for lunch often. Great sushi and wonderful staff.

I have mixed feelings about this restaurant. The service was really friendly, fast, efficient and good. The restaurant was packed on a friday night. We started our meal with the Miso soup. It was overall good, but I felt it may have been a bit too salty and grainy for my liking. We then had the fried gyoza as an appetizer. It had a strange pork like mushy texture for the filling. It tasted good, but weird texture. Our entrees included the Spider roll, which was really nice and delicious. The pork Katsu meal was really good as well. it included a salad, fruit , rice and a sauce for the Katsu. The salad had the normal Japanese ginger,carrot,cucumber dressing. In my opinion, it tasted "off" and not like the normal dressings you would generally get in other Japanese restaurants. It wasn't sweet enough and may of had too much ginger flavor. Another entree we had was the sushi and sashimi dinner. It was beautifully presented and the sushi roll (california imitation crab?) was good. The sashimi pieces of salmon, white fin tail, shrimp and tuna were good and fresh. My only criticism was that they were cut way too thick to enjoy. Part of eating sashimi is the thinner slices that are delicate and will melt in your mouth. These pieces were "hacked" into chunks and thick slices. Way too thick. The last entree we had was the Chirashi. This is basically sashimi variety on top of a bowl of sushi rice. This was beautifully presented. Again my only complaint was that the sushi pieces were twice as thick as they should be, sliced. We finished our meal with a light and creamy green tea mochi ice cream. Overall, a pleasant experience and will return to try other dishes.

Gen Kai is definitely the sushi spot for anyone in the beach cities area. Priced fair and the food is incredible. I do find sitting at the bar is a better experience then in the dining hall due to how busy the staff gets though.