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| - After falling in love with Heartland Heart sushi's lunch, my S/O and I decided to give this a try after finding out that it was opening up where Tako sushi used to be (She lives really close to this area and saw the coming soon posters and have been keeping close watch ever since!)
First thing they ask us is are we here for ayce, a la carte, or teppanyaki. We went for ayce, but was surprised that they kept the old restaurant's style alive. That'll be something to try out later on for sure!
The plates - just like their parent restaurant - are very nice looking. Cute even.
As for the food, it was...okay. I liked the salmon dishes at the heartland location a lot better. It looks like they've gone back to the stock fish supplier that every sushi ayce seems to use (168, saki, etc.). Even the salmon roses seems to be skimpy compared to their other location. I'll have to try the dinner/teppanyaki before we make a full review, but if it's anything like the heartland location, I'm not too sure I'll like it. A lot of the kitchen items were similarly cooked to their primary location; very good. One thing that really threw us off however, was the kalbi. It tasted like mackerel! I think it's because they cooked it on the same side as the fish/didn't scrape off the grill after cooking, but it was really unappealing. I'm going to assume it was just because they're still ironing out the kinks in the kitchen, but I really hope that's not a recurring thing.
The service here is quite nice. It was dead when we arrived (hopefully it'll pick up when the word of their opening spreads), so they were more than happy to keep our waters filled, and tables clean. I only hope the service will remain this way when it fills up.
One thing I really liked about the place was the decor. Similar to what one of the previous reviewers said, it's very calm, very relaxing. The music was very quiet which allowed for conversation. It was very nice.
Overall, I like everything about the place except for the food. Which is bad, because at the end of the day, that's what I'm going there for. We'll give it another shot later on, maybe for dinner/teppan, but until then I'm giving this place 3 stars.
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