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| - I almost gave you guys 1 star, but I went for 2 because I don't want you to think I'm tearing you down.
I read the reviews on this place, but I honestly don't ever want to be that person that lets the bad reviews stop me from coming in -- so I went anyway. I will say that I was totally looking forward to coming to this place...so much that I wanted it to be my first meal when I landed in Calgary. My girlfriend and I were pretty excited to try the food here, especially after looking over the menu online...but it was no good.
It's been a month since our experience there, and I was hoping that somehow my recollection of Shokunin would be different, but it's not. I am not a food snob at all, but damn -- no flavor or presentation even. I mean, have all you guys that work there tasted the food? Is it one person in charge of the taste, or is it a collective effort? Either way, all you guys are lying to each other because your food has no taste. Are all you guys homies? I don't know. Like, if I was about to open a restaurant, and all my homies let me open this spot where all the food tasted below "Shokunin" standards, I would question the depth of my friendships. I promise you that if food has even a little something about it, I will say what it is...but I just can't with this place. lol I still feel so disappointed in Shokunin :( I really, REALLY wanted to like you guys, but I cannot help to think that people are writing good reviews about you guys because they don't want to feel salty at how much money they spent on what I am sure was an underwhelming experience. Or maybe this was their first time experiencing this flavor and they have nothing else to compare it to. I honestly don't know.
Looking back at it, we pretty much just paid for their awesome sound system and vibey ambience. I will say that the music selection was on hit though. Oh, and the eggplant dish had nice cuts, but that's it.
To say that we will never be back might be a little hasty, but we will not be back any time soon. We'll come back when your kitchen has honestly re-evaluated your menu and when ya'll stop lying to each other.
Lastly, if you're going to be selling premium quality sake, you better be damn sure you're selling premium quality food.
Truly hoping you change for the better,
AM
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