OK, this is our third visit and while I loved it on the first visit, it's definitely now too weird.
The good:
- the servers are mostly excellent.
- the food is yummy (for the most part).
- appreciated the call in advance to say that the patio would be closed and there might a long wait to get seated.
The bad:
- we had a 7PM reservation. Got there at 6:45 and we were seated promptly. However, food ordered at 7 or maybe 7.15 did not appear until 8PM. One person in our company of 4 received his sushi rolls and tacos at 7.30 but the rest of the group didn't see food until 8PM.
- The food last night was ok. Not bad, not great. Might be because the restaurant was pretty busy.
- loud... it's loud and it gets louder as the night goes on as they have a DJ pumping out music so loud that we couldn't hear each other. It's truly obnoxious (do you really need some hipster kid pumping out thumping tunes from his MacBook air).
- our table was seated under a air conditioning unit dropping a lot of condensation- we were literally being rained on. Told our server several timed - he told us what it was and shrugged his shoulders.
- This place attracts all of the Scottsdale 30k millionaires.
Finally, Sumo Maya has to decide what it is. Is it a sports bar? (Big TVs showing college football). Is it a restaurant? Is it a night club. I bet it's making a ton of money for the owner - that won't last long.
If you want to avoid the worst of the worst about this place - get there early.