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| - I heard from several people how good this place was, but it was just meh. We got there later at night and the hostess looked annoyed to see us. The first thing that should have alarmed me is that nobody around us just ordered sushi. We did, and when it came, I was underwhelmed. We usually order two regular rolls and a special roll, and none of them were overly special. The commonality was that the rice to fish ratio was heavily skued towards the rice, which made it so we could barely taste the fish. Furthermore, there was too much sauce or extras in the roll, which again took away from the taste of the fish. For example, we ordered a yellow-tail and green onion roll. There was so much green onion that it left my mouth burning. I decided to give a roll with some hot sauce in it a try, but again, there was so much hot sauce that it overpowered everything else. Last, the rolls were literally falling apart.
What really bumped this review down was the service. I was there with a vegetarian friend. She ordered an appetizer with tofu, immediately tasted fish, and stopped eating. Nearly twenty minutes later, when we finally saw the waitress again, she asked and was told that it was a fish breading. This hadn't been on the menu, and I think that my friend rightfully assumed that a tofu dish would be vegetarian, or otherwise, it would be marked on the menu as a non-vegetarian dish. Another restaurant would have comped the dish due to the mix up, especially since my friend didn't eat her appetizer. Instead, it was left on the bill and she paid for it, because we decided it wasn't worth the hassle.
Overall, the combination of merely ok sushi and poor service means I likely won't go back. As a New Englander, I am spoiled by superior fresh-fish sushi, and I still haven't found a restaurant in Cleveland that comes anywhere close to what I'm looking for -- guess I will continue to look.
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