Red Sun Essen - Japanisches Restaurant

This restaurant is worth a visit, although they are 4 Japanese restaurants in the same street. It is operated by Chinese people. I assume that the cooks are Japanese. The dishes are tasting very good and authentic to me. I was disappointed with no dish. I tried several times the all you can eat- a la card . You get 5 rounds with 5 dishes from the menue. I never made all 5 rounds completely. But for that price it is worth to try 'all you can eat '. My tip: don 't eat rice and tempura too early; you will be stuffed to soon. The sushis are nice and all grilled dishes are also very good. Every choice was good. So try out what you want. They also have some nice wine and serve soft drinks from Fritz Cola. The atmosphere is really Asian and nice. No reason not to go here!

So.. all you can eat menu.. right... but then as soon as we chose this option, the confusion came in. We had to order and then instead of bringing rounds they were bringing types of sushis.. so we got 20 rolls because that port of the kitchen was closing (at 9.30pm). Then we couldnt order any more of that because it closed. We couldn 't even communicate with the staff (we speak german).. The sushi as such was nice but all rest a big NO. Not going there again..

It was very easy to book a table, and the all you can eat price is very decent (I suggest you go for that one, if you order a la carte you end up paying way more). They have many small dishes and they serve you very fast. For those who don't like sushi/seafood (like me) there are also many options including meat; and all of them were very tasty.

I was attracted to this restaurant because of the obvious all you can eat meal that was on offer and so I did have the slight thought of what was the catch. Without doubt, the restaurant looked nice, the menu had great variety, and the staff were friendly. There was even one particular pleasant waitress who was kind enough to persevere in conversing with us in English since being the typically British, I tend not to learn other peoples ' languages well or really at all. We received the gimmicky tablet computer where my wife and I were able to make our selections from the food menu, and once we had selected the 5 dishes each that we were allowed per round, we simple confirmed our order and wait for it to be served. The food is indeed tasty. All the hot dishes that we ordered arrived very promptly and you could tell they were fresh. So too was the sushi, but... I would have to concur with the other reviews that have been posted and that there was an extremely disproportionate amount of time when waiting for the sushi to arrive. The tablet computer actually shows you how much time you have been seated at your table. And so, just to break things down, our order could have been broken down to 2 rounds, both with hot dishes and some sushi in each round (and remember, the dishes in these places are small plates) and the timer on the tablet said 87 minutes before completion of our last order... The place was not too busy so really it was inexcusable to have to wait so long when in other Japanese restaurants where if I had ordered the same dishes in an a la carte menu, we would would have normally been done within an hour. If the restaurant can just get the timing right, this place would be absolutely superb. However, as the customers who come in are usually going to care most about the food than anything else, if it comes too late, even if it does not matter that it is cold, then you are going to have disgruntled customers. We were not disgruntled when we left, but sadly, it is not a place I could really recommend at the moment.

Das Red Sun galt lange als Geheimtipp, da gerade unter der Woche abends wenig los ist und man qualitativ sehr hochwertiges Essen bekommt. Mit dem Noori und dem Okini hat das Red Sun einige Konkurrenten mehr bekommen, doch wir gehen immer noch sehr gern ins Red Sun. Besser als die Konkurrenz macht das Red Sun die detaillierte Gestaltung der Speisen. So sind die Sushi Platten immer hübsch dekoriert.