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| - First time at the Spring Rolls chain of Pan Asian fusion restaurants located in the city. I was a little skeptical of these places that are a fusion of different styles of food especially if it was a chain. In my past experiences with similar restaurants, the quality of the food was passable, but the fusion of the food was not to my liking. We arrived with a birthday party of 30 people, we were greeted by our server and our area was in a semi private area of the upper floor.
The restaurant has an unusual 3.5 level tiered layout. We were on the second floor of the restaurant but we were seated in another tiered level on the second floor and there was also another area similar to ours across the second floor of the restaurant. I was a good place to sit because it took our group away from the hustle of the rest of the facility.
This particular location of Spring Rolls was one that featured a "Tasting Menu" that was another option instead of eating a la carte of the main menu. The "Tasting Menu" is basically an all you can eat option of the regular menu (the portion sizes are smaller) but you tell your server what you want and they bring you what you ordered. Knowing from past experiences in ordering at similar "Tasting" restaurants, you do not order 1 thing and then wait for it. Depending of the size of the party and how busy your server gets in their section, you could be waiting quite a long time for the next opportunity to order your next dishes. I usually order about 4-7 dishes at once. This allows me the time to eat my selections and I am not waiting 10-15 minutes for my server to come back to re-order another selection.
The tasting menu also included all you can eat sushi, unagi, hand rools, lamb, steak, ribs, salads etc.. The value is $26.99 on the weekends, but easily worth it. If you just order a la carte menu items plus and appetizer, you are basically paying about 24 dollars. So why not have a taste of everything? I ordered everything from sushi to Kalbi short ribs. Our server was great and he was on top of all the orders in our group. 6-8 people decided on the "Tasting Menu" and all of us were very satisfied. I looked at some of the a la carte orders and the portion sizes were quite big (New Zealand Lamb in Red Curry, Sweet and sour chicken and Seafood Stir Fry. Our group was very satisfied and I am definitely partaking on the "Tasting Menu" again. A good 4 stars!!
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