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| - FYI: This is my first ever review of any restaurant.
I love ALMOST everything about this restaurant. I just had a birthday dinner party of 16-18 people and everyone had a great time.
POSITIVES:
Food, no doubt, deserves five stars for taste, innovation and being absolutely superb. If you're looking for a trendy Japanese-west-bar fusion - this is an amazing choice. Everyone from my party shared the same consensus that the food was really good. You can pick anything on that menu - you can pretty much close your eyes and randomly point at an item - and be blown away. My favourite items include: tiger shrimp, japa burger, double salmon roll, creamy mentai potato, oysters. But beware the portions of some dishes are small - like magura & avocado tartare is sooo good but so tiny. So let it be expected that each guest would order about 2-3 dishes. FIVE STARS
Drinks: We ordered 2 pitchers of Asahi and 2 pitchers of Red Sangria. The Sangria was really good but I couldn't taste the alcohol. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the drinks. FOUR STARS
Ambiance - the place is smallish and cozy. Not crowded with people but certainly a bit tight for space. The restaurant dims the lights at a certain time lit by trendy glowy lights. Not too loud. Had a really great atmosphere. FOUR STARS
Service - was good. The waitresses were friendly and courteous and, for such a busy restaurant, they truly worked really hard to get to all their patrons. Sometimes, they took a while before we can get their attention but overall they were great dealing so many people at a time. They were diligent on details like including a knife with our Japa Burger order when they saw that we were going to share them. FOUR STARS
Overall: the food, ambiance and service: 4.5 stars. I would definitely go again.
NEGATIVES:
1. They charged us for a slice of birthday cake.
One of my party guests told the restaurant that it was my birthday and hoped they'll do something cool for me. Well, they did. Towards the end, they placed a slice of yummy red velvet cake in front of me with an intense flame-throwing sparkler. The entire restaurant erupted in Happy Birthday song. We enjoyed the gesture.
BUT, when the bill came, we were charged $8 + tax for that slice of cake which we didn't exactly 'order' nor did we know we were going to be charged. It left us kinda puzzled and partly stunned. Usually, restaurants do this on-the-house and, given the size of our party with everyone paying almost $30-35 (NOT including the price of alcohol which I covered), it would've been nice to give this to us for free. Since birthdays is really a time for happy celebration, my guests decided to suck it up and pay for the cake. Strangely, it reminded me of something that Mr. Krabs (from Spongebob Square Pants) or Thénardier (from Les Mis) would do.
2. What DJ?
Also, according to the website, it said they have a DJ on Saturdays. Not only did I not see a DJ, there's no room to dance in the restaurant. :)
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