Mrs. B. and I have been here several times and the sushi is always fresh and delicious. We only order a la carte and have found this to be a solid value. We tend to stick to the fundamentals - salmon, maguro, hamachi, unagi, etc. - and have never been disappointed here. There is typically a 20 or so minute wait but worth it.
In my experience, AYCE sushi sellers ration what you eat by serving you much more slowly than you would otherwise order and eat, and sometimes limit your total table time on top of that. In the case of the other reviews where the server "forgot" to fill orders, I suspect this may have been by design. In any case, I'm usually right around breakeven vs. AYCE by the time I'm full and my wife is usually short of breakeven, so a la carte works for us.