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| - For the overall experience of Japango, I have to give it a 3/5, but if I had to base it on food alone, I would give it a 4/5.
My boyfriend took me here for my birthday today. He made a reservation over a week ago. When we got there, the hostess/server said that they were backed up, even with reservations because other parties came earlier and he seated them. He said it would be a 5 minute wait (i knew this was not true) and we ended up waiting 30 minutes for a table. The place itself is small and cramped. We were sitting pretty close to other people and being near the door, we felt the cold breeze every time someone opened and closed the door.
I do have to say the hostess did apologize to us and gave us comp salads for our wait. He was a bit cold when I tried to ask him questions about the menu, but I chalked it up to him being super busy. I think he was the only one serving, seating, taking payment, and cleaning up after people left so he did the best he could.
Hands down, their sea urchin ($10 for about 3 pieces) and tuna belly ($23 for 3 pieces) were my fave thing on the menu. They were both so fresh. It was my first time having sea urchin on it's own (I usually have it in rice), but it tasted so fresh and amazing. I would say the quality is just as good as Japan.
Japango roll ($13 - 8 pieces) - this was okay - it was charred on top (i'm not really a fan of charred stuff), but it was flavourful. Pretty spicy though. So all you non-spicy people, watch out - you may only be able to give a few pieces before feeling the fire!
Crunchy Spicy Salmon Roll ($9 for 6 pieces) - very good - The salmon was topped with tempura pieces. The rice was so soft and just the right amount of sweetness. Totally melted in my mouth.
Chirashi Supreme ($28) - Good amount of sashimi pieces. Came with a piece of sea urchin and eel on rice. A lot of the sashimi were charred so that I didn't like, but definitely very fresh sashimi pieces. I just wished I knew what we were eating. It's not written on the menu and the waiter was too busy to tell me what they were. It would be nice to have the pieces listed so that it could help determine if we want to other a la carte pieces.
The food came pretty quickly. Faster than we could eat - there isn't much room on the table so we felt like we had to eat quickly to accommodate the next dish.
If you are thinking of having a leisure time at this place where you can just talk and chill, think again - it's pretty much an "eat and get out" kind of a place since they are so small and busy. I think the max time (without stating it) is 1 hour. No dilly dallying indeed!
I would give this place a 4 if the actual dining experience was better. Maybe expanding will be an idea for the future. For the price point, we paid $100 for two people and had 5 dishes. I think I would prefer Jabistro instead despite it being a bit more pricier. Though, I don't know if the sea urchin will be as good and reasonably priced as Japango.
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