Sakura Chaya Clovis

First time visiting this restaurant. To star with, We arrived at 1:00 PM party of 12 reservation as a guest. The hostess told us we have to wait for the rest of our party, totally understandable but then she said "Please contact all your party friends, "not in the nicest attitude" your cut-out time is until 1:40 pm for everyone to arrived." I told her "I am sorry but I am just a guest " She insisted for us to contact everyone else in our party. Definitely feels like Debbie Downer welcoming. The waiter was really nice and quick service. We have cupcakes and asked us, if We would like to be store in the fridge while we eat. Which we appreciated it. The chef was not experienced, couple tricks here and there but he did really well, he was funny and his food was delicious and well cook. I told the waiter that we have a birthday in our party and he said "I will get you an ice cream" my problem was that an hour before the staff sang happy birthday for someone else while our birthday girl just got place a n ice cream in front of her. Nice but kinda sad. My advice is "If you are not going to do it for everyone, better not do it at all." I have mix feelings about this place. Overall the place is beautiful, spacious and very clean. $$ Long waiting time to be seated. I don't think I want to go back.

We really wanted sushi before our movie and my mom suggested we come here since it’s in the same plaza. When we were getting close to the plaza we noticed the street lights were out as well as the power being out in the plaza. We still had over an hour for the movie and my mom figured let’s try and see if we can still eat. Lol. I thought for sure with no power they wouldn’t be able to serve us. But the staff there were welcoming and a team of troopers. Since we knew the power was out we figured let’s just sit at the sushi bar and do the raw options. Luckily they did have shrimp tempura ready for some rolls so the chef suggested the red dragon roll. My fiancé is not a fan of mayo so we got the spicy mayo on the side and the crab was mixed with siracha instead of the mayo. What a hit. Oh and I almost forgot they started us off with a cucumber and crab salad in rice vinegar that was excellent. We also had ordered sake nigori (milky sake) and my mom ordered her Cabernet (red wine) my fiancé ordered the chef sushi choice with California roll. And I ordered the masago with quail egg nigiri (it’s a personal fave) I was in luck because they had the habanero masago. My mom wanted a little more so we ordered the red dragon the same way again since it was so good the first time. The power finally turned back on as we were finishing up. My mom also ordered tuna sashimi. I honestly wanted to order more but we were stuffed after finishing up everything. We ordered a milky sake to go and genuinely enjoyed our food, drinks and service. Again I want to thank the staff for being so accommodating and servicing us in the dark. We held our phones flash lights up for the chefs to be able to make our food. Sushi dining in the dark was a great experience. And I can’t wait to go back!

4 star 🌟 because when we arrived I said 2 please hosts said huhu 2 for dine in I need a table after tha food lunch amazing my daughter order rainbow rool salmon rolls nice I order a plate with everything on it nice my hot tea not quite I I imagine a nice Japanese hot tea but overall I go back for lunch service outstanding