O-Toro Midtown

Service and ambiance was good. My fiancé and I went on a Monday afternoon.

I've been here before but hard to remember what I had. Started off with the wakame salad (my favorite!) which was good, can't complain.

My fiancé got the orange blossom and the sunburnt which he liked. As a vegetarian (I will sometimes eat fish, depends) I got the Wonder and the Evergreen.
I wish these rolls had sauce because they were a bit dry for me...I'd probably order something else and then update my review.

Midtown Dining [Sacramento CA]

My daughter introduced us to this sushi restaurant located in Midtown. We don't come to Sacramento enough so it was a nice change of venue for dining. We were seated immediately. The menu can be scanned on the QR code but it's very tiny on the phone. Seeing how we were struggling to view the menu online were given a paper menu but we were told that the prices were not updated.

We ordered the following:
Wakame Salad
Broadway Roll
Tempura Udon
Bento Box - Teriyaki Salmon and Beef Teriyaki

Food came quickly. The portions on my bento box were generous especially the salmon. The beef was tender and cut in perfect small bite size portions. The house salad was very good. The teriyaki sauce was spread evenly and both salmon and beef were tasty and flavorful. Daughter and husband also enjoyed their meals. The tempura that came with the udon was a large piece and came with mixed vegetable tempura pieces. Hubby said that the broth on the udon was a tad too salty for his taste.

The food was a little pricey but even a casual dinner is expensive nowadays. The servers were great and very attentive.

Review #3398

Bestie and I came here after our reservations at a different spot got canceled. This spot looks pretty trendy. The bar is in the separate room, and that looked like a neat spot.

We sat in the main restaurant area for dinner. We each got drinks - I decided on a Tokyo Tea - Which was a blast from the past! I hadn't had one of those in a really long time. Anyway, all of the rolls we had were pretty tasty - I would say - That I would skip the ocean trout. That's just meh.

The waitress recommended the brown sugar boba taiyaki - That was the perfect reco! The boba is nice and chewy, in cotrast with the coldness of the ice cream... SO GOOD!

This place is a little unexpected gem!

Food; delicious! Especially for Sacramento.. additionally the service was above-par, I could tell they were attentive to my table. The ambiance? Super cute! They have a bar towards the back, separate from the rest of the restaurant, which is something I appreciated. I'll def be going back!

O-Toro Midtown restaurant
2131 J St, Sacramento, CA 95816
Midtown

Sunday, 1/28/2023 - Had a great time here at O-Toro Midtown making blessing charms. I was attending an event. When you go here, the entrance is not the door with the business name on it. It's the door to the right of it. They had outside seating. Servers were very nice and professional. They were ready to seat me right away. They checked on me several times. They had free water on the counter if you want any. Water tasted good. No funky taste.

Parking in this area is a bit more inconvenient so give yourself some extra time to find parking if you're coming during prime dinner hours or in the evening as it's located near residential homes that utilize the street parking.

Made a reservation through Yelp for 8pm on a Friday but we came in earlier than our reservation and it wasn't too crowded. So may not need to but couldn't hurt.

The sushi here is quite a bit more expensive than other places and honestly didn't hit the spot like I was hoping. I can't pin point why(maybe the toppings took away from the fish as opposed to enhancing the fish) as they looked delicious and Presentation was beautiful.

Ramen was delicious and felt like it was more memorable for me compared to the sushi.

Calamari was also delicious and crispy. Light crispy tempura style batter. Sauce was some type of mixture that contained Tobasco.

Service was ok/neutral. Definitely pricier that other places. Would recommend this place for ramen more than the sushi.

There was plenty of parking on the street. When we came in, it was a bit warm. I don't know if they turned up the AC after or it was the propped open door that cooled things down. We started off with the vegetable tempura. We also had the orange blossom and midtown roll. The rolls were quite big, but I wished there was less sauce. Overall, I would say the place is average. I don't feel the need to return.

Food: 6/10
Service: 6/10
Ambiance: 8/10

We came here on a Saturday evening with reservations for 4. The place was not packed at all for a Saturday, probably 4 tables occupied. So, we decided to be seated by the bar to enjoy the drink choices.

It's advertised as a full bar, but to my surprised there's not a lot of choices. We tried to order a smoky old fashion, he didn't have it, so he just make us whatever old fashion with regular ice - sorry no block ice here. I asked him to make me a cocktail that is not too sweet, he can't do it, so we just ordered sake. I figured we can't go wrong with sake.

I had high hopes for this place with all the nice food reviews and been wanting to try the Omakase style, and found out that's only for advance requests only for the other days and not for Saturdays, so sadly not possible this time. I ordered raw oysters and uni - not available today as well. At this point, I'm not sure what else to order, so I just asked our server ( the bartender) to bring us 2 popular tuna rolls that they do have. I'm so glad they have the Nigiri Otoro and was okay, I've had better. Other dish like chicken karaage and soft shell crab was okay.

Lastly, trying taiyaki ice cream here and it's kinda stale, had better ones at sumi sumi.

I hardly give reviews such as this, and just solely based on my experience for that day of this place. It is a nice ambiance with so much potential on first impressions, but just lacking customer service and the wow factor experience. We were there to celebrate my friend's birthday, so we opted out on more dessert after the taiyaki.

Our go to place late night or if we need to find a spot to go to without much thought.

Sunburnt roll is great in addition to the udon.

Tempura seemed store/ freezer bought but other than that I've had great meals.

came here on a friday night after a concert nearby.. I've always wanted to try o-toro out and thought this was my perfect chance.

it was nearby closing so half of the restaurant was already tidied up. we weren't super hungry so we ordered oysters as an appetizer, which wasn't the best i've ever had but still hit the spot.

the rolls itself were smaller than I anticipated but I still cleaned off the plates hehe. the rice was on the mushier side but I can't expect otherwise since it was pretty late. the o-toro was chefs kiss.. it's exactly what I needed to close off the night. I could probably eat 20 of those and never get tired of it.

all in all, a solid spot! maybe if I came earlier during the day then it would've been a different experience.. so looks like I'll be back again!