4 stars am I crazy? Well maybe but that has nothing to do with it. I would almost give this place 5 stars but it didn't blow my mind with amazing food that was the best I have ever eaten. But I am tempted. The other reason I don't give it 5 stars is it would invalidate all of my other 5 star reviews. Yes is it a chain. Boo. But it is good. I have never been to RA before. I have seen them everywhere of course and heard people rank on them but feel it is slightly unjustified.
My girlfriend had a $20 half Birthday gift certificate that you get when you sign up for their club and it is halfway to your Birthday. That is cool. A nice treat 6 months away from your Birthday and you are not trying to run to 10 different places on your Birthday trying to get free stuff.
When we got there the restaurant is very nice. Nice décor. Which I'm sure is corporate mandated and in every restaurant but still nice. There were a few other people most sitting outside because of the nice weather. We picked inside and were immediately seated at a nice booth. The hostess was very nice and so was the server. Our drinks were always full and she checked on us regularly. The service was very good. The food came out fairly quickly too.
We ordered some pork Gyoza (pot sticker). I love them I could eat at ton of them. They do have great Happy Hour specials and I definitely recommend coming during Happy Hour which is from 3pm to 7pm Monday thru Saturday. Plenty of time to come in after work and fill up on some great food. Then we ordered 3 rolls. Vegas, Philly and Caterpillar. Everything tasted very fresh and was prepared very well. We decided to order one more roll a Dagon roll. It was also very good and came out pretty quick.
Now was this the best sushi I have ever had no but it was very fresh and tasted excellent. Every roll was very good plus the service was excellent as well. When you have to flag down someone to get something or wait a long time for someone to check on you or bring you a check it is a nice change when you get good service even if it is at a chain. So all of that combined is why this place gets 4 stars from me. Almost 5 if I wanted piss everyone off and rip a hole in the space-time continuum.
We will definitely be back especially during Happy Hour and when they send out coupons. After it was all said and done even without the discount the bill was only about $10 more then we spend at an all you can eat place. I will gladly spend the extra $10 to get quality food and great service and we had all we could eat too.