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| - Anyone who thinks this place rocks is seriously delusional.
It was inevitable that we'd end up spending money here, as my Fiance put it...better to waste money on lunch than drop a crapload at dinner...in this case, for crap.
We were drawn into this place by the big sign that advertises how they're THE lunch place for the corporate types. Sounds good....their 'dons' were the best deal apparently...beef don was $4.95. Woohoo!
Anyway, we get in there, and the decor is gorgeous. Really nice, Japanese decor, clean simple but stylish. Looked expensive. Even the bathrooms were nicely done ... it looked traditional. And expensive.
My fiance orders the large size beef teriyaki don... I believe it was around $8. I opted for the variety of mushroom and egg don..$7.. and of course, in my opinion, the true test of a good Japanese restaurant...the California roll.. and at $8 a hit, it wasn't cheap at all (I'm from Vancouver where $7.50 gets you a california roll done up to the nines with REAL crab meat).
The food arrives and the dons are disappointing. Picture a bowl filleld up 3/4 of the way with rice. My fiance's was topped with a shallow layer of beef, dry, not enough sauce. My mushroom and egg don was again, a shallow layer of 2-3 kinds of mushroom and some egg....very dry. I had to ask them for some teriyaki sauce on the side.
The california roll arrives like, 10 minutes later. And guess what? The rice has no vinegar taste, the rolls are small and what really peeved me off was the fact that the crab meat wasn't even shredded or anything it was just a stick of fake crab meat slapped in with some cukes, a rail thin piece of avocado.
Seriously, T&T even uses shredded crab meat and mixes it in with mayo. This place charges you $8-$9 for a fricking Cali roll and can't even bother to do anything fancier than cutting up a stick of fake crab meat.
A total jip. I will never return and am thankful we only spent our money at lunch time and not a dinner.
The high prices don't match the food, it matches the amount of rent they pay and the cost of the decor.
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