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| - Sushi Neko has a rather generous 4.5 star review on Yelp at the moment but after trying it out, I didn't felt like I received service worth even 4 stars.
I went with a small group of friends out to all you can eat sushi dinner here after seeing its advertisement in the plaza with Kung Fu Tea and Raku so we decided to give it a try. I'll admit the best thing about Sushi Neko is the indeed the liberal ratio of fish to rice. Reminds me of Sake 2 Me Sushi in Tustin, CA, and it did taste rather fresh. Some nigiri such as the paprika salmon were good, and a lot of dishes looked like they tried to make the food presentation for the rolls somewhat unique and not completely standard cookie cutter fare I always see at sushi restaurants.
The first 6 or so dishes we ordered came out impressively fast. However, for some reason after that our dishes suddenly stopped coming. We told our waiter (even different waiters, to be honest) countless times we still had more than half of our order that hadn't came in yet and all they said was that they'd check again or something along the lines, but nothing improved. I think we even saw a couple that came in later than us, had all their plates arrive and they left way before we did. At one point, we gave up and tried to reorder all the missing items again, only to not have any of them out after more than 30 to 40 minutes of waiting. I've had sushi places misplace an order when we had a huge table but this... was kind of ridiculous even for a small party. When a place offers all you can eat sushi, they kind of need to be prepared to dish out their fish in a timely manner not just for certain tables, but for everyone, or they're going to get hungry AND angry patrons. And that's a bad combination.
Giving this place 2 stars because I do think it has potential (and because I've honestly had worse before at other places). But service can be terrible and is not consistently good. Hire more sushi chefs or figure out a more efficient system to make food so customers like us aren't sitting ducks waiting for all our items for almost 3 hours.
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