We were in the area and decided with AYCE sushi at Makimono. The restaurant is dimly-lit with a dark finish. It looks pretty nice for an intimate dine out. They have a private room in the back that looks like it could seat at least 25 guests.
It wasn't busy in my opinion when we came by for a late lunch. They didn't have a host at the front so we had to wait for the server to seat us. They sat us in front of where the chef make their sushi. They gave us one tablet/iPad to select our orders which took awhile because we were group of more than 6. Most sushi restaurants would provide us 2 tablets to order from with our party size. After submitting our orders we still had to wait for the server to confirm our orders. Which made us wait more because there seem to be only 2 servers for the whole restaurant. Even with these "prime seats" that were so close to the kitchen - we had to wait quite some time.
I'm curious as to how they wash their dishes because one of our sauce bowl had a dried up piece of seaweed stuck in it. How did they miss that?
This restaurant has a small selection of sake. We went with the server's recommendation for a jelly sparkling sake which was the cheapest on the menu, priced at $15 for a 6oz can. It was pretty good! I need to find out where to buy this or I have to come back here just to order this.
The sushi had too much rice. They placed the slice of fish on a pretty big bed of rice. This can make one pretty full from all the rice and there goes the AYCE. The maki rolls were a decent size. I had to ask for ginger slices to cleanse my palate twice and waited probably a total of 20 minutes. My food got cold as I was waiting to cleanse the fishy taste in my mouth. You think they thought I was asking them to bring it at the end of my meal.
The desserts took quite a while to come out too. By this time we were the last few people left sitting at the restaurant. The lunch crowd that came after us had already gone. Did they even eat? We have no idea.
This place has room for improvements considering they have many other locations in other cities. If you don't mind the waiting game then come by here if you are near the airport. I wouldn't go out of my way to make a trip here.. well maybe just for the sake. Their sushi is nothing special as you will find your typical ACYE choices here.