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| - Came with the family for dinner last night. Ordered the medium sashimi platter ($44.95 for 46 pieces), a heart roll ($10.95), a hurricane roll ($12.95), and a cottage roll ($13.95). We also got an order of hamachi belly sashimi ($9.95 for 3 pieces).
Overall, the food was fresh and tasty. The medium platter could use a little variety. Lots of salmon. About four pieces each of red tuna, white tuna, hamachi, snapper?. Two octopus, I think. Also two to four surf clam. I forget. Feel free to look at the pictures for reference. For a platter that large, I was expecting some saba (mackerel) and perhaps some ika (squid), and perhaps two or so amaebi (sweet shrimp). I like salmon, but if I'm ordering a platter, I want variety, and that was a bit lacking.
The heart roll was cute, but more novelty in shape than in taste. There ends up being an uneven distribution of ingredients, so the first half of the roll will taste different than the second half.
The hurricane was very tasty. Love the different sauces on there. Ended up dipping my sashimi into the remaining sauce on the plate.
The cottage roll was fresh, and not so heavy on the stomach. For a soy paper wrapped roll, not particularly expensive either. I find that usually, soy paper wrapped rolls cost more than the average specialty roll, and also have fewer pieces. Each of these specialty rolls, including this one, came with 8 pieces.
The hamachi belly was nice and fatty. My first time having this particular cut, and I quite enjoyed it. Not cheap though, even if the pieces were a nice size (they were!).
It was my mom's birthday, and the chef made her some sashimi flowers! That was pretty. Three flowers - one red tuna, one white tuna, and one salmon, each topped with different colors of fish eggs.
My dad also mentioned that they should have thrown in one more piece of hamachi belly because there were four of us, and I guess they felt bad, because they ended up giving us four pieces of complimentary hamachi cheek sashimi. Way to go dad? The cheek sashimi was not quite as fatty as the belly, but tastier than their regular cut of hamachi.
Service was good. Place was clean. Free WiFi. I'll be back to have more of their specialty rolls. I'm a sucker for specialty rolls, and this place has a whole lot of them.
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