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| - This place looks posh, but you'll find some customers dressed up and some going casual. The decor is mellow and dark and elegant. You could go there dressed up after a special event, or you can mosey in spontaneously like we did. There's a teppan table but we were just there for a quicker dinner.
The menu has lots of options even if you don't like sushi -- there's tonkatsu and teriyaki as well as some creative things done with raw fish. As a vegetarian I wish there were a few more meatless choices. I went with the vegi maki dinner, which promised tempura sweet potato rolls -- my favourite -- although I wished I could have had that roll a la carte.
I don't find sushi satisfying unless the ingredients are balanced well and the rice is really good. This was good stuff. I was not disappointed by the sweet potato. The veggie futomaki rolls were a bit over-large and needed more fresh ingredients (and fewer slippery mushrooms, oshinko, avocado, etc.). The rolls that I expected to be filler -- plain oyster mushroom, and lettuce-and-tomato (which I wanted to call rabbit-food rolls) -- were great, just because the ingredients were tasty and the rice was very well done. The sushi craving I've been nursing for a few weeks is gone, for now.
The service was efficient, impressive since one waitress (with occasional busser help) was taking care of our twelve-person party. One of us had to send back his beef because it had butter on it and he can't eat dairy (he didn't ask ahead because who expects butter on beef in a Japanese restaurant, anyways?), and they replaced it quickly and without a fuss.
There are a few Japanese beers, a small selection of wines, and when I come back with more money I'll have to choose from the sake or plum wine list, or maybe get one of the sweet fruity house cocktails.
Points off for not having enough veggie selection. Otherwise, these folks know what they're doing, and I'll be back when I'm in the area again.
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