Sushi Boat always seems busy--I had to queue up to get a seat along the sushi canal--which one would think is excellent in terms of freshness. I mean, the sushi won't be on the boats very long with such a crowd. The reality of my Friday night visit partly proved the freshness hypothesis: the sushi I got WAS fresh and tasty. . . but the boats, more often than not, floated by empty. It seemed a few of the tables around the room were ordering off the menu, and the menu orders seemed to receive priority, so the boats suffered with both poor variety and poor load factors. And with near-empty boats and selection in the single digits in terms of variety, the novelty of sitting and facing a sushi canal quickly dissipates.
Terrific idea--great fun--and perhaps an off night? I would make it a port of call again for the novelty, and hopefully variety would climb aboard as well.