All you can eat conveyor belt sushi? Brand new place? AND it has crab? Come on, I have got to try this. My friends and I came here for dinner on the day they opened. We got there a bit before 7 pm and was quoted a 30-45 minute wait. They were super packed when we got there but .... there was barely any food circling around on the belt. Uh oh.
Also, by the time we got there, they had already ran out of toro and blue fin tuna. I guess that's to be expected but I still wish that some places could be better prepared when they first open. Konbea Belt Sushi garnered a huge following on Facebook and that alone, they should have expected lots of business when they open.
When he finally sat down, we were asked what we wanted to eat. There was five of us and each of us got an order of ocean trout. I added an order of salmon into that as well. There were a ton of cooked foods going down the conveyor belt but very few actual sushi items. We had to wait a very long time before we saw any sushi items to munch on.
Salmon: No taste. Not that fresh looking.
Ocean Trout: Pretty good. The only good item they had imho.
Halibut: Eh. Not that great.
Octopus: Normal.
Unagi: Pretty good. But we only found two plates of it on the belt.
Oysters: Not that great. They dress it with sriracha and that was a little weird.
Salt & Pepper Prawns: A little spicy. Great flavor but some of the shrimp wasn't that good. Some shrimps were a bit mushy and some weren't. Would be great if they could deep fry it a bit more so the shell wouldn't be a pain to eat.
Also, the funniest thing is... five orders of ocean trout means 30 pieces. I guess I'll need to re-educate myself on how many pieces an order comes with. But it also took forever for us to get our food cause I'm pretty sure the chefs were backed up.
What's good though is that they didn't enforce the time limit like it said on their menu. Because, I mean, if you can't keep up then that's your problem, not mine. They also didn't enforce the whole "if one person in your party wants the add on crab AYCE then you all need it" which is fantastic. One of our friends wanted to try their crab but not...us so he got to have it alone.
Dessert was good. They give you a choice of different Korean packaged ice cream products like a crunch bar or melon bar.
Our server was attentive and was quick to take away dishes and covers. She actually used to work at goyemon so she was very well capable of taking care of our needs.
I originally was going to give Konbea 3 stars but unfortunately, something did not sit well with me afterwards. I started to get some stomach aches around midnight. I'm not sure if it's related but I got food poisoning the next night and my stomach still hurts up to today.
Sorry but Konbea will be a one and done for me.