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Mind you, I'm not sushi expert (or any other type of food, except maybe pizza...) and have only given sushi a go rather recently, but I love coming here for din or a quick bite on the weekend.
My first experience here was for a friend's bachelorette party dinner meet-up. I was wearing purple tights. Not relevant to the review, but I was excited about them that night. We had made a reservation for 12 at 8pm on a Friday night. We got there a little early (10 min) and the table wasn't set up. In fact, all of their tables were full and the waitress informed us we would have to wait a bit until people finished & left so they could make room for us.
After a 20ish minute wait, we were seated. Considering how not-ready they were when we arrived, I was completely happy with how quickly we were seated, although some others in our party were complaining. I didn't know until we arrived, but a table of 12 fills up their entire little dining room. All that was left was the booths against the windows and the bar seating. Though, as much as we were in the middle of the room, it didn't feel uncomfortable. The place is cozy.
The waitress was totally sweet to us and very apologetic about the table mishap at the beginning, which is really all you can ask. We got our table and our drinks quickly on a Friday night, so I was still impressed. She (the waitress whose name escapes me) was very knowledgeable on all their sake selections, and suggested a few good ones that we ordered for our table to sample. She also snapped a couple group pictures for us, and was very engaging to our big, loud group the whole time we were there.
Since then, I have gone to Taiko with my boyfriend probably 4 or 5 times. We love their happy hour menu, which is all day, every day, and offers a limited but decent selection of discounted sushi rolls, appetizers and drinks. It should also be mentioned that every time I'm here, there are families with children who seem very excited to be eating at Taiko. Yay for cool restaurants that are kid friendly and don't serve happy meals.
Last time we went was again on a Friday, just as they were getting busy. We sat at the bar, and were served by the owner Toshi. He's superb - while skillfully preparing the orders for the restaurant, he also chatted with us and continually got us drinks, more wasabi, etc. When we left, we were bid goodbye multiple times by the waitresses, and the people working behind the bar. I felt cool on the way out, like a regular. I almost popped my collar, but didn't.
Probably should have.
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