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| - I live 5 mins from this place but I had no idea it existed until a company lunch last week. Excellent food and staff. This was on a Wednesday afternoon, not at a super busy time.
Atmosphere: We booked a private room for 6. When we arrived we found everything was clean and well organized. They have a coat rack at the front door so it was convenient during winter, plus the neighborhood is good so you can feel safe leaving your coat and just taking your valuables with you. It was quiet, no overly powerful background noises (music/talking etc).
Service: the staff are very attentive and knowledgeable, they give you full attention when you order and helped us figure out portioning and dietary/allergy issues.
Food: All of our sushi was prepared promptly and displayed beautifully. The portioning was flexible, so we can order per piece for tempura. I highly recommend the short ribs and skewers. The unagi handroll was to die for. The miso soup was a bit salty according to my co-workers, but for me it was perfect (I got used to mixing it with rice when I was in traveling Japan).
I would stay away from those odd named rolls like AK47 or Tropical because deep fried rolls are always filled with tempura scrap/fillers. But my friends loved them, I stuck with my sushi and green dragon rolls. One thing I liked was that their menu was extensive but everything was in stock (rare for lunch buffets).
Price: I have no clue, the company paid, I think for the 5 of us was around $130 with wine, we even used a coupon for shishimi (when we left we found it was expired but they accepted it anyway without fuss).
I've always advocated that if you are going to do AYCE sushi, don't, just go and pay the little extra at an a la carte place if you have a whole bunch of friends splitting the bill, the price is about the same and you'd be surprised what other neat stuff is out there.
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