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| - With so many solid reviews and ratings after new management and improvement, I really wish I could give 3.5 stars but as much as I hate to give 3 stars, for me it was a solid 3 star establishment and experience.
So a Yelp buddy of mine, Eddie had seen reviews on this place and had been mentioning let's give this place a try. Now I live totally on the opposite side of town, but after pictures and reviews I thought, hey let's give it a shot.
I'm not the type that's turned off depending on location or plaza, but it's all about how it looks inside and the food. But for $20.00. For AYCE sushi I was interested in how this place would turn out. I walk in surprised at the limited seating, lack off decoration, and non matching tables and chairs, and booth seatings that you could feel the springs underneath.
Being an avid Yelper, I had did my yelp research on the place before coming, so I knew the place was not owned or managed by Japanese, or Asians by that matter, so I wasn't startled when the servers and chefs were Hispanic. It did also seem this was more of a family owned run and operated establishment. So that was impressive.
I was a bit confused in the beginning because the hand written signs outside said AYCE sushi was $19.99, but there was nothing stating if there was limitations to the AYCE menu or if certain items were only one time order (which some were) so the chef and server had to verbally let us know the AYCE specific limitations.
I started with sashimi orders, ordering the sashimi salad, the sashimi platter, unagi nigiri, nabeyiki tempura udon and soft shell crab. The platter I thought was really good and the light in house onion sauce was a different twist than the reg soy or ponzu sauce. The sashimi salad was very good! I loved the mango and light citrus dressing on the salad! It was a nice change up from the sesame ginger dressing. The salad was a spring mix compilation but there was definitely more greens that sashimi. The unagi nigiri was pretty standard in regards to rice to fish ratio. The nabeyiki udon wasn't all that great. I was disappointed. The chicken in the udon was seasoned in a way that did not compliment the tempura udon broth. I pretty much only ate the noodles, the aged egg, and shrimp tempura. And the soft shell crab on the menu says it's laid on a bed of greens, but when we got the order we were extremely surprised that it was more like another spring mix salad with two very small soft shell crab pieces... Lots of salad and green fillers which in the beginning I liked the salad but now I was already over it.
Next round, I ordered the sashimi rice bowl, and again it was topped and piled with the spring mix greens few sashimi and rice buried underneath. Again I was like salad again?! We had also ordered their shabu shabu steak roll, the popcorn shrimp spicy tuna roll, and yellowtail Kama. We ordered yellow tail special roll but they forgot to even bring it out.
The shabu shabu was bland and meat that topped the roll was more chewy than tender. The popcorn shrimp roll had a nice kick to it and I enjoyed that roll but at this point I was starting to tap out, so it wasn't a big deal that they had forgotten our yellowtail special roll. What was most disappointing was that the yellowtail Kama was asked to be cooked well done, and after devouring the crispy outsides, once we made it more inside of the collar bone, the fish was pink and not cooked. Luckily we noticed it before either my friend and I had taken another bite.
The chef came by to apologize and we were treated to dessert on the house, strawberry and mango mochi (dessert is not included in AYCE) and those we of course yummy as any other mochi.
I'm a huge supporter of local business and being a loyal customer, but I try to be as objective and honest as I can be on yelp to give the audience a full understand of the experience in its entirety. I think they will do will for the demographics they may be targeting, but the place lacks in presentation and comfortability to me. The AYCE menu is a little too limited for my liking, when I know I can pay $3 more for a better quality experience. I'm truly happy to see there are other solid reviews from loyal customers and it was bad food at all, just not the AYCE sushi place of choice for me. I do not see myself driving out of my way across town to make it here, when there is better quality elsewhere. So terms of all the AYCE sushi places I have been to in the valley, for me this places stands as a solid 3.
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