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| - Ugh. This place is always packed for reasons I can't quite grasp. The parking lot looks crowded every time I drive by. Sometimes I'm suspicious that they must hire confederate diners to make the place look popular and lure unsuspecting customers inside.
I only have one thing to say about the service here. This is the type of place where the wait staff will judge you by your potential to tip, and then ignore you if you obviously fall into the category of "poor college student." If you come here, regardless of your background, at least dress like you own money so that you'll get your drinks refilled.
On a particularly busy weekend night, I showed up with a friend and expected to wait for for a table. Good news: we were seated immediately. Bad news: we were seated at a teppenyaki table...when we had no intention of eating teppenyaki...and we had to share the table with a large family who we obviously did not know. Don't get me wrong, I am not offended by cafeteria-style dining (I'm a college student, after all), but this should not be the seating arrangement at a place that presents itself as some kind of fine restaurant. Throughout the meal, I had to whisper to my dinner companion to avoid disrupting a stranger's family dinner (awkward?). Be careful about bringing a date here, or at least make a reservation in advance.
The food? Blegh. Let me be clear on this--I've tasted sushi on both the east coast and west coast, and I am in no way prejudiced against eating sushi in the Midwest. I even think there's some decent sushi in Champaign (at other restaurants), so my standards are not impossible to meet.
Again, I've always eaten at Kamakura on busy nights, because I naively assumed that most sushi restaurants will bring out the best fish when serving crowds of customers. Instead, I received garbage that smelled and tasted like rotting fish. Maybe by the time they got to my order, they had to use the smelly leftovers at the bottom of the barrel? When I got home, I tried to purge my mouth with Listerine. Even with it's advertised "deep-cleaning action," I couldn't get the taste of putrid fish out of my mouth. I drank some coffee, chewed gum, etc., but there was no redemption from the haunting taste of old fish. My suggestion? Stick to the cooked dishes at Kamakura: tempura, teriyaki, udon, etc.
With so many better sushi restaurants in the area, I don't see how Kamakura hangs onto customers. I can forgive bad service, but food that ruins your breath for an entire day is not acceptable. This is the kind of place that gives sushi a bad reputation.
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