Narumi Sushi Lemon Grove

Took my wife out for some sushi and had a great experience!!! The portions of the roles were above exceptional and tasty and the service was friendly!! So many different choices of rolls and the custom ones are great!! Definitely a place that we will come back to!!

Narumi was a local eatery which I fell in love with. At one point, La Mesa was the only place to find it and I remember eating there after long work days. It was even the place I had my first date with my now fiance. When the Lemon Grove location opened it was almost priority for us to support this eatery. It's food I did not want to make at home, very delicious. However after today, it's time to maybe say goodbye to this local eatery. We encountered very rude staff but out waitress was the most rude of all. I ordered the Katsu Don and my fiance ordered the Tempura Don. The waitress gave my fiance attitude when he requested the original tempura sauce made with dashi, and not the katsu like sauce they originally gave him. I understand she might have been stressed so I let it slide but she proceeded to give me attitude as well when I mentioned my Katsu Don was completely raw. She blamed me for not liking it...No madame, it wasn't that I didn't like it, the issue was that it was undercook

I was disappointed on several levels. Overall the place was not as clean as I expect a sushi restaurant to be. There were prices of fish that were dried out behind the glass. And the eel in the hand roll was chewy like rubber and not prepared correctly. With that being said. I thought the rolls that we had were delicious, the veggie roll and the high protein roll both were loaded the sauces were very good. The steamed edamane with garlic sauce was terrific. The dine in experience wasn't that good. I won't go back for a sit down meal I would go back and get rolls to go. In all fairness I must say that the restaurant was busy. But the majority was for takeout.