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| - It saddens me to rate this restaurant so poorly, as we're avid fans of the Flagstaff location and had high hopes for its Phoenix incarnation - but the similarities end at ambience and menu design. The quality of every dish we tried was just so bad: started with the fried cauliflower appetizer, which had none of the umami-rich, fully coating sauce we'd so enjoyed in Flagstaff, but just tasted like dry roasted cauliflower with an oddly lazy drizzle of a sort of peanut sauce? Ever the optimists, we moved on to our respective entrees with hopes still intact - the Mr. Karl Katsu and Hostile Takeover. Oh, sadness. The former was a bland mess of inedibly gummy Ramen, the latter literally fettuccine noodles (seriously, WTF) in an over-salted broth, and both were almost insultingly small portions. Overall, the food here was so bad we couldn't finish it - the two stars are for the gracious staff who took our feedback with understanding and comped the (mostly uneaten) meal. I'd love to see them improve and bring the quality up to par with the original SoSoBa, so we can support the business and staff here.
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