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| - Guess it pays to walk in w super low expectations, because I was pleasantly surprised but notice I still only gave it 2 stars. I had a great experience at the southern highlands location so decided to give this one a chance w a groupon.
We were seated at a booth by the sushi bar. Like others had mentioned it is kind of weird that the waitresses are all white girls and wearing corset tops. Although I disagree that any were attractive - muffin tops galore... I don't think sushi chefs were Japanese either, one said he was Korean the others looked Filipino.
Anyway back to the positives! I thought service was very attentive, they checked on us frequently and were very friendly. Our server was Heather, but seems to be a tag team effort because other girls also helped us out. Slower than most sushi places, but not as bad as yelpers had said -appetizers started arriving w/in 15 min and nigiri maybe 5 min later. We ordered a bunch at one time and some things like the voloshin motion one did take over 30 min to arrive. The order that things came out was super random, appetizers were all easily fried but some came 15 min after others? That's on the kitchen though, not the servers. I mentioned I didnt get my soft shell crab and she got it for me.
Nigiri had a lot of fish to rice, but it was cut pretty sloppy and I was worried that my salmon and scallops seemed to be at room temp. But its 24hrs later and I'm fine.
Poki roll was AWFUL sesame oil was overwhelming, consistency of the fish was nasty, and it was filled w ocean salad. I tried 1 piece and spit it out. Krispy Kristi roll also bad. It was a really sad version of Ra's crispy spicy tuna.
I really like the selection of sides, but the sushi is pretty mediocre overall. Helpful hint - their tempura sauce is awful, tastes more like shoyu, so ask for the sweet chili sauce for calamari or just keep it from won tons or lumpia.
Although this place exceeded my low expectations, I still wouldn't recommend going unless you're using the groupon. I'm thrilled service was good, but there are so many better sushi places in this town, don't waste your money. They also charged $2.99 for hot tea which kind of pissed me off. That's more than 10% of the sushi price - wtf! It also took an hour and a half for dinner btw
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