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| - I may be being a little harsh on this place, and even though I am only giving it 3 stars, I will say I will definitely go back, just a few things that weren't my favorite about it.
First of all, the place is SMALL, and I cannot stress that enough. In the middle is a bar where the sushi is made to order in front of you which probably has about 20 seats and then there are only 3 tables, so I highly suggest reservations. I, of course, did not have one, but luckily we got sat in about 20 minutes.
A girlfriend and I went for dinner as we were looking to try somewhere new. We went on a Saturday night around 8:00 PM and as I said our wait was about 20 min for the sushi bar so we headed up to Dante's for a drink which then we were able to bring downstairs when our table was ready.
We already had drinks so we sat down and started looking at the menu to decide what we want, we decided on shishito peppers as an appetizer and started talking about sushi as we knew we wanted to split a few rolls. I would honestly say 10 minutes went by before a waitress looking woman was in front of me, and I said can we place an order with you? She said yeah of course, I'll be right back. About 5 minutes later she came back to take our order... now as I mentioned it's small, so what was everyone doing that they couldn't even come and check on us, I am not sure? We placed all of our order (afraid she wasn't coming back) - the peppers and then 4 sushi rolls we were splitting.
The food was definitely served promptly from that point, the peppers were delicious the perfect amount of spice, and promptly after our sushi came out on a big place and he described which roll was which. It was extremely fresh, almost hard to eat because it was so fresh the rice didn't hold together that well, but that is definitely not a complalint I am making. We had The Zeppelin, Eye of the Tiger (I did not try this one), asparagus roll, and soft shell crab. All of it was delicious, I really loved the Zeppelin and the soft shell crab. :)
But I'll go back to reasons why I just didn't love it. As mentioned the service was slow, later on we were mostly done with our sushi as well as done with our drinks so I asked for a drink menu, which then took another 7ish minutes to get that to us.. I mean, it's a menu! Then I was also really disappointed in their drink selection, only a handful of cocktails that were not that appetizing and no saki drinks which I thought was bizarre.
Overall, I'd go to eat, just don't expect this amazing experience. I would say maybe get it to go honestly.
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