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Look, this place is an AYCE sushi joint not some three Michelin star winning sushi restaurant like Sukiyabashi Jiro. So if you are looking for top quality sushi, you should know better than to come here. I mean, do you go into McDonald's expecting USDA prime beef? I should rephrase that to do you expect real beef at McDonald's ...
I mean it baffles my mind that people expect 5-star sushi at an AYCE where lunch (11 to 3) is $20.95 and dinner (3 to 11) is $23.95! Then again, there are insensible morons all around us like the crazies that I saw the other day buying sushi from 7-Eleven. Oh the horror!
Let's put it this way, compared to the prices of buffets on The Strip, Yama Sushi's price is a steal. Moreover, have you even seen the deplorable sushi on The Strip? Either way, I came here expecting quantity over quality, but was surprised that the quality wasn't too shabby.
The wife and I ate at Yama Sushi because we were in town with a bunch of Los Angeles Yelpers as part of an unofficial summer break weekend for July 4th. You see, the wife and I don't usually eat AYCE and Yama Sushi was not even on our radar, but since the group decided to check it out we decided to join them as not to be party foul.
So yea, although I still needed to tackle down some of the Vegas restaurants reviewed by my Yelp friend and Vegas aficionado Rod U. (http://www.yelp.com/user_details_lists?userid=oeAhRa8yFa9jtrhaHnOyxQ) who has several awesome Vegas restaurant lists, we took the detour with Yama Sushi that ended up being better than expected.
Despite our large party (20+), Yama Sushi accommodated us by putting together 4-5 tables. Since I am an aisle-person (planes, concerts, sporting events), the wife and I sat at an end table. Our end table of six was the sober table because we had come to eat and not to get drunk and rowdy. I mean pro eaters know that AYCE places recuperate their money via overpriced alcohol, DUH!
Anyways, we must have ordered a million rolls. I can't even remember what we had because the food just kept on "rollin". There were rolls with cream cheese, rolls with eel sauce, and rolls with gooey mayo goodness. But with AYCE, everything all starts tasting the same after awhile. Good thing Ed A. (http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=zyFN0KU7Y9MfTZIROrsKhA) was at our table to clear the leftover roll pieces our gluttonous asses could not finish... so that we could order more of course.
Coming in with low expectations, I was surprised that the food wasn't too bad. The rolls were decent and the appetizers such as the soft shell crab and sweet shrimp were tasty. I really do not know how this business model works because pretty much their entire menu is available for AYCE (some items such as the uni had a limit of one order).
The only real awkward moment of the night was that there seemed to be some disagreement with the drunk table at our party about whether they had ordered 3 or 4 small bottles of sake (375 ML). While I was not paying attention to their count, either they are real lightweights with sake or the restaurant overcharged a bottle. At the end of the day, they ended up only paying for 3. Aside from that moment, I was impressed by how good a job Yama did of servicing our large crowd.
So is Yama Sushi 5-star quality? Come on now. However, for the price, it is as good a value that you will find in a town (Las Vegas aka Lost Wages) hell-bent on stealing all your wages.
* BTW AYCE sushi places get you full with the rice in the rolls.
** The only sashimi-type dish for AYCE they have is the sashimi salad.
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