We had heard how fabulous GUU was and had been meaning to try it out...when Don Don opened across the street from us we were thrilled. We were a group of 4 adults and a baby and we went during their opening week.
Atmosphere and decor was fab, as is the service. The food sadly left much to be desired. The wasabi seaweed chips and salted edamame were the best. Simple but with great flavour. The hotdogs which we heard so much about were nothing special, the simple rice and beef dishes were okay but again nothing to write home about. They had some fish dishes that were fresh but again nothing extra ordinary. Potato wedges took over forty five mins to come out (despite us asking the waitress three times for it) and when it did...well they were plain wedges..don't expect too much. The chicken skewers were grilled over high flame and were decent but pretty tame on the flavours. The chocolate and strawberry rice dessert was absolutely weird..and not in a good way. Every dish was presented beautifully but overall the flavours were lacking.
I'm not sure if our expectations were too high..in all honesty if we got similar food from say a small no name hole in the wall, we would have been satisfied. However entering a much hyped up restaurant with great detail paid to the decor, wait staff (neat ipad payment and ordering system!) we were expecting to be wowed and we were not. Sadly. Overall bill wasn't bad at all - about ten dishes and two pitchers of beer came up to $160.