My husband, son and I went to Kodo 2 nights ago based on all the excellent reviews. We've lived in Dallas and Southern California so we've been able to experience some excellent sushi. Kodo is not excellent sushi in spite of the other reviews. When we went in we chose to sit at the sushi bar. Oddly enough the "menu" is the form you order on. Seems cheap to me. We ordered appetizers and rolls. My husband thought the salmon sashimi wasn't as fresh as it should be though I though it just OK. We used to firm fresh salmon. This was more room temp and limp. Also the gimmick of the black rice adds nothing. We also had shrimp tempura that was pretty good and gyoza As for flavor on the rolls, I'm not a believer that HEAT is a flavor. The rolls (Ahi Tower and California rolls were SPICY....so spicy you couldn't get any other flavor for the most part. Maybe they don't know that Cali rolls aren't spicy or maybe they use the spice to cover the inferior product. Don't know, don't care, won't go back.