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| - It's a trendy new place to hang out. The food (sushi) is OK. I lived in Japan for a while, and enjoyed sushi there very much, but I'm not a picky gourmet eater or anything and find most of American style sushi pretty decent, though entirely "different" from what I'm used to in Japan.
I went to the place for all you can eat lunch deal (which was actually restricted to 10 tiny orders total, but whateva). I don't know about regular menu items, but their portions were ridiculously small (one piece instead of normal two for each nigiri order, and tiny 4 pieces for each maki order). I can see they're trying to pretty-fy (trendy-fy or whatever the words you can come up with) their sushis, but especially makis were easy-to-make cheater dish anyway (which you never see served in a restaurant in Japan), so it's kind of funny they try to make those look "high class" by making them ridiculously small.
Another thing I'd never understand (not just this place but all sushi places I've been to in the US) is that they serves those cheap fake crab-flavored fish-meat substitutes as "crabs". Really, do they expect anybody actually thinks there's any crab in those things? If you can't afford real crab, why not just skip it from the menu, or at least clarify it being fake on the menu? I've gotten used to this fake advertisements in sushi menus in various places by now, but it's still surprising to see them proudly served in a supposedly posh place like Pisces. My order of "crab" nigiri sushi came with a piece of rectangular fake crab meat placed on top of a ball of rice. Do you seriously call this a sushi?
All in all, it was OK. You can find better (and cheaper) sushis even in Charlotte. I won't name names since I don't wanna sound like plugging the places.
On the plus side, the waiters were very cheerful and attentive. All in all, I think it's a nice trendy place to hang out. Just don't expect too much in terms of food or its cost performance.
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