Sushi Gawa, Peoria

Sushi Gawa is by far the best sushi in town. The perfect amount of sugar and vinegar in their rice. Happyfish always tastes vinegary and sushipopo isn't even in the same league. The ambiance is nice and everything is VERY clean. The sushi chef's cook with a kind of surgical precision. Don't waste your time if you know ANYTHING about sushi.

Awesome!! Great Atmosphere!! This place was great. Would go back A++

I agree that this is a great restaurant and clearly superior to the other sushi bar in Peoria. The prices are reasonable, the food excellent and the wait staff very friendly and accommodating. My biggest complaint is that when we visit we are coming from about 40 miles away (where we have no sushi restaurants) and it seems that Sushi Gawa is always closed. We've been there in the afternoon, on weekends and during times that seemed perfectly reasonable to expect a restaurant to have its doors open and they are closed. In fact, I found these reviews while looking for their hours because we're headed to Peoria tonight with the intention of dining at Sushi Gawa, and the last four times we've tried them they were closed. I don't want it to happen again. It's frustrating because they are such a good restaurant.

Great sushi resteraunt... the food is great! The service is always good and you can usually get right in. If you have room for dessert, try the ice cream!

Best Sushi in Peoria. Better ambiance than 'popo'. Clean, sushi seemed fresh. Edimame was properly prepared. I enjoyed myself.

I would like to say that this was an excellent restraunt. The food was good and filling and the atmosphere was great, and the waitresses were very helpful and they smiled and greated you with feeling. I would recommend this place for anyone who is looking for a carefree good time. The bill very resonable. Just try it and you will be hooked as well and remember try the plum candy at the end. :)

Great sushi with a contemporary atmosphere. By far my wife and I's favorite place to eat in Peoria. Prices seem right and the service is fast and very friendly. We took some friends from Japan there and they said it was very good sushi. Their only critique was that it obviously wasn't as fresh as sushi in Japan. That and the candy they give you at the end is Korean evidently. :)

Being a sushi fan and coming from Dallas, which is famous for sushi I did not high hopes of finding good sushi in Peoria. However I was suprised with the quality of food I had at Sushi Gawa. It is a small cozy spot with courteous service and excellent food. It does not have up-scale ambience, but I will certainly recommed this place to a sushi-lover.

For Central Illinois this is one of the best sushi restaurants. For sushi lovers they have a nice selection and I would suggest the rainbow and crazy rolls. For those looking for a little zing the Tataki Maki (lightly grilled tuna over a spicy tuna roll) is great! Sushi novices have a nice selection as well with very good california, and crunch rolls. My only complaint would be that their are not a lot of creative or different rolls but... it is Central Illinois where creative and different are not things most would try. As for Nigiri choices they have all the standards and I've never had anything that was bad. Again... nothing real creative or different but I understand why the owners wouldn't want to carry items that won't sell. For the Uni lovers out there they have it on a fairly regular basis but if you're dying for it you might want to call first to make sure. If you have a non-sushi lover in the group there are lots of choices including terriaki, and noodles. My mother in law seems to like the tempura a lot. The only complaint I've heard is that occasionally the chicken terriaki is over cooked but our friends tend to like things on the "juicy" side instead of overcooked. I could see where the chefs do this to prevent the germ-a-phobes from complaining. I'll add that they have nice combination choices and for lunch they are very reasonable. I get the california and 5 piece sushi and walk out paying around $15 with drink and tip. If I didn't wan the nigiri I could pay a lot less. As for dinner prices... they are very reasonable with a couple of rolls and some nigiri my wife and I can walk out under 30 dollars as long as we don't go crazy with the special maki choices. We love the service but then again we tend to go fairly regularly so they seem to know us. However everyone gets a big hello when they walk in and an equally big thank you as they walk out. The wait staff knows their stufff and are very attentive.

I know a group of Japanese and this is the restaurant they choose for sushi. The interior is simple, but I'm not there for atmosphere. I'm there for good sushi. Take your taste buds on a journey and give them a try.