California Roll Sushi - Birmingham

I tried the tsunami and Las Vegas rolls today. Unfortunately, there was barely any meat or fish in them. It felt like we were only eating cream cheese rolls. I gave it 2 stars because the ramen was decent, but it also lacked ingredients. Overall, it was not worth the money. This was my first and last visit to this restaurant.

I absolutely loved everything about this place! We ordered takeout so I apologize for the lack of pictures. We started with the Spicy Tuna Rice Cake, which was delicious and unique. It was crunchy on the outside, filled with spicy tuna, and topped with eel and spicy mayo. The CRS Burrito was amazing with a soy wrapper filled with crab salad, spicy tuna, shrimp tempura, and avocado. We also ordered a spicy tuna roll that was extremely fresh and flavorful, as well as a crunchy roll with shrimp tempura, spicy Kani, and cucumber topped with a delicious sauce and crunchy bits. Overall, I was blown away by the quality and taste of the food at this restaurant. I can't believe I hadn't tried California Roll Sushi before!

I had a great experience at California Roll Sushi in Birmingham for Sushi Tuesday! I tried the Tempura Shrimp roll two ways: crunchy tempura shrimp with tempura crunchies and a baked Spicy Tempura roll with crab salad and spicy mayo. It was very good, fresh, and flavorful.

One of the unfortunate things about getting sushi delivered is that the exposure of the sushi to the inside of a storage container that is humid and warm really ruins the texture of a lot of rolls. This is particularly true of tempura rolls, which end up soggy and gross by the time they get delivered. I put a little request in the online order form for Uber eats asking for them to vent the container or make it open so that this doesn't happen to these roles as it's always disappointing to get them and they're just mush by the time you get to eat them. This also is true of Chinese places when you order general tso's chicken I want to show a photograph of the level of surgical precision that was done on this box. The person who packed and shipped this, cut out the top in order to keep it open and vented, and put it on the top of the order, but kept the structural integrity of the box for safe delivery. Basically, genius level thought went into designing this to get to me so that it would stay crispy, and that's just not something that you generally see from a small business making sushi. I was so impressed with it that I had to leave a review and say how thankful I was to the person that put in this level of effort. I will absolutely order from this place from now on. The sushi itself was also great!

Teeny tiny portions that are overpriced, and the food itself was not fresh, especially the rice. They tried to take a $6 tip for a pickup order and told me on the phone I can get *20% off on their website but that was not the case, I needed to actually sign in (there was no option and they tried to say they told me but they did not . *We were only ordering from here because of the $20% off option for a 1st time order. They did not try to fix anything with me while I waited roughly 10-15 minutes in their store for our food. (The 1 star is for presentation of the food.