9 Style Sushi in San Clemente

Made a reservation for my wife's birthday. We were told a table wasn't ready for us, but a party came in 20 minutes later and was seated immediately. I asked for the manager and was told she was busy with another table. We're bummed because they do have good sushi, but I'll drive much further to go somewhere we know has good service.

Anna was great, food was amazing!

Great atmosphere and delicious sushi! Their original rolls and specials are amazing. Several tines though when its gotten busy the staff has favored certain customers while almost ignoring us.

Great sushi and ambiance!

To understand yelp you must be able to read between the bad reviews. 5 stars for amazing sushi experience. It’s a small restaurant with friendly staff, when eating sushi patience is always a virtue. Anyone that leaves less then 5 stars is probably used to supermarket sushi.

Great Food, excellent service! Server Sophia is a must! Thank you 9 Style

Sophie, our server, did an excellent job. The food was great too.

I have been to a lot of sushi places and this place definitely had me surprised. Their fish was excellent! I will be back for sure

This is the best place for sushi in San Clemente. Rio, the main sushi chef is excellent. They play surfing videos on TV's in there. A big wait Fri and Sat if you don't get there early enough because it's so great!

Very good 👍. Awesome service!!💖

I really loved their food and service, good location very close to my apartment. The cashiers are always helpful. Will come back again.

Drunk sushi chefs kept missing our orders, they acted disrespectful to customers and waiter/waitress. Quite embarrassing scene and there's no manager in charge in the restaurant. Jake the waiter was awesome.

Probably the best sushi place I have been to. Quality is great and good flavors.

Food was good, but not enough for the money. A little pricy.

Friendly staff and efficient service at the sushi bar.

Best sushi in town - prob best ever

So happy we found a phenomenal sushi place! Wow! Everything was fantastic! Definitely a must try!!

I got the teriyaki beef with rice and a crunch roll and they both great

Awesome place to eat great real authentic food and pretty well priced.

This place was AMAZING! The cost is worth everything! The service was unbelievably friendly! They were so sweet. I would love to go there again and again! No wonder they're always so busy!

Seriously our favorite place.

Excellent food, atmosphere and service. Garlic 9 roll is the way to go. Dragon and volcano are excellent too. Love it.

Get the real wasabi! It makes this already amazing sushi/sashimi/nigiri even better! The staff are all welcoming, and the itamae are very willing to discuss the different dishes. Thank you!

Great place if you can get in.

Incredibly good sushi for a shockingly cheap cost (my girlfriend and I split 3 orders of rolls and an appitizer for $33)

I love how fresh the sushi is. The portions are perfect and then service is fantastic! I personally love the seared yellow tail roll and the atomic calamari. Every time we go we try something new and it never is a BSD choice! Highly recommended!

Knowledgeable, fun staff and creative arrangements of delicious bluefin, yellowtail and salmon made this a highlight meal for the week!

Absolute best sushi I've ever eaten. Words cannot describe the emotional euphoria that I attained while eating here. The service was next level.

Fresh fish

best sushi place ever

It's a great small delicious place

Best sushi in San Clemente hands down!! Come in and check out the great atmosphere and killer chefs.

We really want to love this place, as our friends highly recommend it. I would say it's fine, but not spectacular.

Small place not to expensive.

Great traditional sushi

Best sushi in SC.

Great atmosphere, outstanding cuts, and even better service. The sushi chef was personable and had some great recommendations. All of the fish was fresh and cut to perfection. Could not recommend this place enough!

Amazing hole in the wall place, local favorite with consistent quality sushi!

The highly skilled Sushi Chefs prepare dish after dish of your favorite seafood that is so delicious, they make you want to try everything on the menu!

Shoko is amazing. Love her.

Smallish strip mall sushi place right in heart of San Clemente, takes reservations so plan ahead during tourist season. Great service by the staff, kept our waters filled and the beer and sake flowing. Garlic edamame was unbelievable, as was the quality of the tuna and super surprised to see blue fin on the menu for a reasonable price. They did not rush us and made us feel welcome and comfortable while we took our time to socialize and catch up with old friends. The pan fried shrimp dumplings are amazing and the selection of rolls is unbeatable. Would recommend highly.

If you want your pallet to experience a flavor bomb come here...garlic roll is a delicious crab California roll with hot buttery garlic drizzled on top. You'll be back for more. Live dangerously with the very colorful oyster shooter, again welcome to flavor town 9 style.

Best sushi around. Everyone that works there is really awesome. I'm a regular.

If you weren't looking for this place you would probably never know it was there. It's kind of tucked out if the way in a dark corner. However the food is good, decent service ambiance fairly dark and the background music a little loud. This is the first time here for us based on a recommendation. We weren't disappointed. We had several sushi rolls and some sashimi. All of it was fresh and good quality. We typically go to a sushi place closer to our home so this was a nice divergent to something new and different. The seared yellowtail roll was my favorite, but everything we had was good. The rolls are not large, very traditional Japanese style. Pricing I would say is on the high side. $105 plus too for group of four and no drinks. We had 5 rolls, two sashimi and a desert. It would have been about $80 at our regular place. I would recommend it for the quality and variety they offer.

Good selection of fresh sushi and they always have specials to try. Can't go without getting the Garlic 9 which is terrific. They also have a daily happy hour. No reservations and they do fill up sometimes so have a backup plan or be prepared to wait.

Good sushi, not great atmosphere. Better sushi in the area.

Best Japanese restaurant in California.

Great food and service

Dinner was good we had sushi, cucumber salad, as well as soup and beer. Kind of disappointed in the cucumber salad, but dinner was delicious otherwise. I thought the cucumber salad should have been marinated longer. And it should have had more sesame seeds on it, I think. It's also sometimes very difficult to understand the chef's description of the meal. Maybe that means it is more authentic? LOL