This place is hard to miss when driving on Scottsdale Road. It's got two flame towers that are on every evening surrounding a outdoor patio in the front of the restaurant that always seems poppin' with people. So for the past few months the fiance and I have been saying "We need to try that place" every time we pass by it. Finally, the time came and we found ourselves at Sapporo early on a Saturday evening.
We were seated right away although the place was pretty packed. It's a big restaurant with a lot of tables and most people are sitting at the bar or outdoor patio. We were pleasantly surprised when our waitress informed us it was still happy hour for a little while longer and gave us the HH menu so we could take advantage.
The fiance promptly ordered a couple beers which were half off. Good thing since drinks are normally pretty pricey. We ordered a variety of sushi including spicy tuna, unagi, crunch roll and a couple others. The rolls are decent enough with a good, fresh flavor and appropriately sticky and sweet rice.
Our waitress was super nice and helpful which made the experience much better. With the amount of people in the place I didn't have high expectations for attentive service but she was so cheerful and checked on us often.
The ambience is as hip and trendy as a sushi place can be here in Arizona. Good for people watching and satisfying the sushi craving. It's the typical sushi spot that the fiance and I are used to being from SoCal where stylin' sushi is a dime a dozen. Sapporo fits right into our books so we'll probably be heading back whenever we want to grub on on good soosh on happy hour prices.