I wanted to review this place well. I wanted it to be great. What's not to like about $21.99 AYCE sushi a walk from my apartment? Sadly, a lot.
Ill start with the bad. For starters, the miso soup was lukewarm at best and had very little flavour. The tempura shrimp was so greasy and way over battered. The beef tataki was thinly stripped and flavorless. The tuna sashimi was TINY and tasted bland. Actually all of the sashimi was a little too fishy and generic.
Perhaps the most striking problem was how much bloody rice they had on everything. The spider roll was one of the worst examples... I actually opened a piece up because I literally couldn't see any soft shell crab. I feel like it is a deliberate way to try and fill up customers to make up for their lower than usual AYCE price.
The good? Friendly service. Cheap. The beef mushroom was delicious and the honey shrimp quite tasty. Spicy salmon was decent. Kitchen food is probably good here, and some of the rolls are good.
Overall, it is just bland. Meh. Not a lot of flavour. Feels like they are just trying to fill your gut so you gtfo as quickly as possible. We didn't even have dessert.
I would come back only if I was super hungry and wanted to stuff my face.... gonna spend a little bit extra and go to an actual Japanese sushi restaurant and buy Ala Carte. This place feels more like a trough.