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| - Yamaza is the reason I have cut off "all you can order" restaurants. It's a restaurant concept that I think has gone past it's expiration date just as the 90's craze with buffets did.
I was with a party of 7 and we ordered in pairs of 2s and 3s so as to not over order and reach over each other to get to the grub. Apparently this was a foreign concept to them because it took some back and forth to get them to understand how we can't order for 7 people with varying tastes on one sheet.
After sorting that out, we began ordering and receiving food that was not only the wrong food, but delivered to the wrong people. I understood then why 2 or 3 sheets were a bad idea- they had no idea how to handle it. We were seated in a 10 seater booth and I can't tell you how many times one end was shouting to the other on what was on the east and west ends of the table. It was kind of amusing.
The other amusing part was the fabric of the booth itself. The "leather" was so rubbery that you couldn't shimmy your way to one end of the booth to the other without shifting your pants, boxers, and shirt nearly backwards. Funny at the time, but funny as in I'm laughing at you, not with you.
The quality of the food was hit or miss. Some of the sushi pieces were minuscule, some larger. None of the sushi that we ordered really stood out. The seaweed salad was awesome and so were the garlic shrimp. Those two items stood out amongst the rest of the dinners mediocrity. In fact, if this was a restaurant, I'd consider coming back for it!
One of the servers offered to take a photo of the group, which I thought was quite nice and textbook customer service. I noticed that a lot of their tags had a lasalle college logo on it, meaning this was probably a stage for quite a few servers. Even though some orders were wrong, the servers for the most part were very nice and attentive.
I would not go out of my way for this place. I think the concept of all you can order was already treading a fine line with me, and this experience has finally led me to write it off altogether.
3 stars is me being nice and realizing my bias against all you can order restos.
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