Kinokawa Japanese Restaurant

Really nice place in LBC. Classic Japanese style sushi place with many offerings from baked sushi rolls, tempura rolls, and of course sashimi. They also have lunch specials and Bento style combination plates, I took the regular sashimi and the quality was really good. The price is decent, and there plenty of selections for food for the non-sushi types. Oh yeah, they also carry Orion :).

A solid pick in an area not overflowing with traditional Japanese restaurants. Additionally, this place opens a but later than the rest, oddly enough later is 9pm or so on the weekends, which is also rare for Long Beach ethnic restaurants. The rolls were good, but our focus were the hamachi and blue crab hand rolls that was tasty and fresh. Also the unagi sushi was done to perfection with the right crispiness on the skin but not over cook. We were there towards the closing end of the night, and they had one server but he was attentive and did well. Being a large place I can imagine the service may suffer if the entire place gets busy, but I can be wrong. Overall we will definitely return as this place is a good departure from the other Japanese restaurants around that focuses more on bento boxes and teriyaki sets.