Sushi Cocoro &udon Noodle -tuna-ichi

Sushi is excellent. the unagi sasimi was super! service is good and accommodating. Eat is delicious!

There was simply too much rice and not enough fresh fish, sweet or taste to lift out each of the 5 sushi’s we tried. they were completely inevitable from each other.

Where to begin? The fish was grey, the sushi rice was a cold, solid paste (eww), our orders came late and staggered (if they came at all), the waitress was beyond rude. She refused to look at us the entire time and served the child in our group last—30 minutes after everyone else had finished their meals. To top it off, the sushi chefs hissed at us for asking for our checks. The experience was so bad it became a running joke on our trip. The next night we tried a different sushi restaurant in Kona—Izakaya Shiono—and had the most delicious meal with a delightful waitress. How to explain the good reviews for Cocoro? They're either entirely focused on price (it's very cheap) or friends of the owners. We saw another party being treated well and they were locals who were friends of the owners. If you're not a local, beware: No Aloha spirit here!

I wanted to love this lil hole-in-the-wall sushi place but I didn't. I think the hostess/waitress/owners maybe a lil too concerned about covid? Self serve water, our server wore blue rubber gloves the entire time which is gross when you see her touching everything like the credit card machine and they bringing your plates of food over. By now we know hand washing is more sanitary than gloves. I felt the sushi was good, my daughter liked her udon noodles and my husband loved his chicken teriyaki roll. So if you're staying near by, some take out rolls you would enjoy but eating in?? Maybe think twice.

Staying at an AirBnB in Kona and when a torrential downpour started up not long before we had planned to go to dinner we decide to find someplace close by. Note that we didn't have a car so we needed to walk. The owners of the AirBnB had left a list of favorite restaurants in the area which included 5 Japanese restaurants. Sushi Cocoro Udon Noodle was not on the list and our one dining experience there showed us why. When we arrived we were shown where our table was and where the water was because water was self-serve The young lady who was our server was polite buy not personable. The place is a hole-in-the-wall kind of sushi place and often I hope for these places to be hidden gems and I'm willing to go without a lot of fancy decor and furnishings especially if the food is remarkable. It was not. Honestly I have had better sushi from groceries store deli's. It all starts with the sushi rice and they definitely failed there. I had a Sushi Combo, edamame and a bottle of Kirin beer. They don't have any beers on tap. The sushi was okay but a bit flavorless even the wasabi couldn't pack much punch. So not a place I will go back to. To their credit the prices were very reasonable. But I'd rather pay more and have quality sushi. And I will end with my pet peeve about cashing out with these new devices. I hate it when the server hands you a device to have to select the amount of the tip while he/she watches! We need to replace that system of tipping.