SEN NARI is located at a older Japanese shopping mall in Gardena. It is a small and cozy place that makes you feel like you are in the country side of Japan. They even have tatami rooms. I would say 90% of the people there were all Japanese!! I think my husband was the only white man in the restaurant when we first got there. (There were few more by the time we were ready to leave.)

They seem to only serve traditionally prepared sushi/sashimi which means no rolls and not very many kitchen food items. Their sushi was excellent!!! They had a variety of different fish, and most of the seafood was wild caught... and you can tell by the amazing strong texture of the fish! Hmmm... my favorites were tuna (wild), kanpachi (wild), Aji (wild), Sanma (wild), and Saba with shiso and pickled daikon radish!! I never had Saba with pickled daikon, and that was delicious!! But their kitchen food wasn't that spectacular. The fried Amaebi head (shrimp head) was served luke warm and not as crunchy as we liked. If a restaurant is going to serve a fried dish, they should do a good job! Otherwise... don't bother serving them! We also ordered some vegetable dishes, but they weren't quite right... maybe a little too ordinary. So, this might be the only downside of this place.

Anyway, we still had a great time and experience at SEN NARI SUSHI. :) The highlight of this restaurant is definitely the quality and variety of their fish. All the sushi was prepared very simply, so that you could appreciate the flavor of each fish.