Located a scant 5 minute walk from the Venice Beach sign, Restaurant Hama provides great, authentic Japanese food. Ordered a mix of sushi that I truly enjoyed. What's good always shifts...but the servers seem to have a good handle on what's great that day. I had the Wakame salad as well (I typically order it) but this one was the disappointment. Too much lettuce and the sauce f...

Great Sushi place in Venice. Very friendly personnel and super good food. We could sit at the Sushi bar and order directly from the chef.

Now I know what you are thinking, why wouldn't a sushi restaurant smell like fish? But usually I associate fresh sushi with no fishy smell. It tasted ok, but the overwhelming fish smell got to me after a while and we had to end up sitting on the right side of the restaurant, away from the sushi bar. The staff seemed overwhelmed with patrons and was probably the reason they didn...