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| - This place really left me wanting more... I get that it's a "tapas" style restaurant, not intended to serve main dishes, but I'm not talking about the quantity. Each dish that came out really left me yearning for more... Flavor that is. I ordered a total of 12 dishes and all I could help but think was, damn that's it?!?!....
They did a great job with menu descriptions, all the ingredients and components sounded like they would work so well together. Needless to say, I was excited to eat. Then the dishes came out and they looked very pretty, but I think they focused too much attention on presentation rather than flavor. 3/10 [octopus/cucumber/seaweed salad, salmon/tangerine sashimi, seabass/kumamota/salmon roe sashimi] dishes we ordered had very similar tasting sauce; it got boring fast. Nothing so special. I also ordered the watermelon/tuna. I liked the sauce it came with, but the piece of watermelon was too big and watered down the whole taste of the dish.
-Gyu sliders: wow, probably my least favorite dish. It was meat and chunky slices of jalapeño (which I don't mind), nonexistent purée/sauce smacked in between two pieces of molded white rice made to look like buns. They tried to get too creative, but in essence it's just meat and rice.
-Asian pillow: this was a horrible take on fresh spring rolls. It was basically salmon, kumquat, and greens wrapped in rice paper, cut into pieces of "rolls". There was hardly any salmon, too much salad, cut to big, and not enough sauce.
-Grilled mackerel was good, how do you mess that up though. It was served atop sliced cucumbers that were there more for decoration.
-Uni to ikura: uni, scallops, pumpkin purée, salmon roe, and this spice (that tasted like nothing). This dish had too much going on. I love salmon roe, but they didn't need to put that much. The pumpkin purée was too thick and didn't taste like anything, pair that with a big piece of scallop and uni, and you're left with a very confused palate.
I also ordered both desserts that they offered. It was probably the only part of dinner I actually enjoyed, even better had they not left a finger indentation on my sorbet. haha, that was funny. Overall, yonaka left me wanting more. I felt like I was in another restaurant, on the strip, that's trying too hard to impress. Actually, considering the price point, it might as well be on the strip.
On a more positive note, the decoration is nice; it was very hip, sheik, clean, and simple. Our server was very kind, presentable, and did a great job explaining the menu and dishes. Oh, and if you're on a time crunch, I suggest you ask the server to bring the food out as its ready. Our server coursed each dish out one by one and we ended up being at the restaurant for nearly two hours. Seriously, took forever.
I'll probably come back just because I want to try out the other dishes, but based on this first visit i'm rating my experience at a 2.5 (solely based on the food. I'm not taking into account the decoration or service, which were both fine, but i'm here for the food and I just didn't taste that WOW factor.)
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