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| - I've been to Sumo twice now. The first time was back last Dec for lunch on a Sat for a friend's B-day. I remembered the food and service being pretty decent back than. Other than the fact that they didn't have a lunch AYCE menu, so they charged us $26.95 for lunch, so we vowed never to return for lunch. And that soft drinks were not included, and their dessert selections being pretty unimpressive. I had no other complaints about the place. They would have received a 3-3.5 star from me back than.
So 2 Saturdays ago, when we were trying to think of an AYCE sushi restaurant to go for dinner, this place popped into our minds. I called about an hour beforehand to make a reservation. When they picked up, the person on the phone sounded surprised I was calling for a reservation and told me they were not too busy right now, so it should be fine. Not too busy on a Sat night dinner around 7pm? That should have been our 1st sign to choose another location. We were not wise enough and the 4 of us went anyways. When we got there, it was indeed not very busy. Probably less than half the restaurant was full, and most of the other tables had ordered Bento Boxes instead of AYCE. That should have been our 2nd sign to maybe leave. But we were not wise enough and proceeded to order from the AYCE menu anyways.
Now some notes about the food:
~Sashimi were not that fresh. Salmon sashimi was ok, but some of the other fishes were really fishy tasting. You could order fish roe as a sashimi without rice, but it was this weird dark copper red colour I had never seen fish roe as before.
~The sushi rice they used for the sushi, maki, and hand rolls were bland and lacked the proper seasoning. It made me not want to order anything else with rice after the first round.
~They had 6 kinds of torched sushi available, which interested us, but they all tasted the same because the fish was not fresh. They also all had the same sauce on them, except for the torched shrimp and the torched mackeral. Also the same bland rice. So even though they gave us a few pieces less than what we ordered, so not everyone could try all 6. We did not care to even order it again.
~Tempura items were ok according to my friends, I did not try.
~Grilled items were ok as well. Although some of the meats were overcooked. And the diced steak and garlic was swimming in oily grease.
~Udon soup noodles were ok. We ordered the 2 of the same Seafood Udon, and the seafood were probably random pieces of fish leftover from the sushi bar. And the portion of the 2 bowls served at the same time were different from each other. The other 2 ordered the Pork Cutlet Udon, and they placed the cutlets right into the soup.
~Desserts were unimpressive. Besides ice cream, they had 2 kinds of mousse, a coconut pudding of some sort, and mango tapioca. Just stick with the ice cream. The mousse were powdery. We ordered the coconut one, but it didn't come. And the mango tapioca was ok, but had some tapioca in it that were under cooked.
~Some of the items that we thought were interesting and enjoyed the first time we went, such as the grilled rice cake with cheese, were now gone.
We had never encountered a situation before where we were at an AYCE place, we were not full yet, but was struggling to find anything to order because none of the food interested us. Service was ok though. We asked them to refill our pots of water and tea a few times, and they did it right away. They missed a few items in our order though. And the sushi didn't come in the correct number of pieces.
You get 10% off if you pay in cash. Dinner is $26.95 on the weekend. Price was not worth the food. We will probably not be coming back.
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