BENTO Jacksonville Riverside

Date: Spring 2022 Note: bobba Tea to go purchase only I can only review on a quick to-go order of a Bobba tea. The drink itself was amazing, I got a mango coconut bobba tea and it had really good flavor. They have outside seasing which wasn't very welcoming and no outside trashcans anywhere. The staff we interacted with was nice and they have happy hour here.

Great ambiance, beautiful decor. Slower than usual service, and food is average. I usually love bento sushi, but this location doesn’t hit like I thought. It does upset me when I travel all the way out here though just to read that they don’t serve particular things that day. One day we went and they weren’t serving raw salmon and yesterday I went and they weren’t serving milk tea. It’s a gamble coming in.

The place was very clean. I loved the environment, it was beautiful and stylish. But unfortunately, the flavor from the food didn't quite seem on the same level. I ordered the sushi bento box. The two sushi I added were the avocado and mt. Fuji and were quite good. But the Cali roll was chewy and tasted almost stale as though it was made earlier that day or the day prior and just stored for future bento. My two companions got rice bowls and neither of them cared for the flavor. They didn't have quite a few flavors available due to shortages, but it is what it is. The drink I created was a passion fruit green tea with passion fruit jelly. It was my favorite part of the meal. Though, they don't currently have mango flavor, so I had to substitute. All in all it's a beautiful place to relax in. The food wasn't good enough to say I'd come back to it. If you live near here you should give it a try. Their specialty sushi is good, as well as the drinks.