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| - it's 8pm Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend and there's major traffic back to LA. I wanted to take out the bday boy (Kurt F.) and the 4 bedroom party house provider (Dan Y). Might as well eat before we go...sushi craving, iPhone, yelp, filter for open now = 808 Sushi, 4 stars, sure why not?
This place was pretty easy to find, in a little strip mall in the southwest part of Las Vegas, far from the strip. Wasn't too busy and the 3 of us were able to get a table for 6, and trust me, we needed it. Sat around wondering if we should do the AYCE for $24.95, it's hard to get full on sushi for less than $50/person so the choice was easy. You can order a la carte but you'll end up spending way more (i'll get to that).
Our waitress Val was the sweet, innocent type that still has her Hawaiian accent. She was very attentive as were the rest of the servers with refills as well as additional orders. Tip: the * on the menu means you can only one per person, so it stands to reason these are the more expensive items. Didn't realize that til the end and by then we missed out ordering a few things.
Ordering is simple, the front page has mini portions of appetizers/entrees and the 2nd page has rolls, nigiri, and dessert
Here's what we had:
(#) is the number of orders
I took photos of almost everything we ordered, I'll do my best to upload them
Ahi Poke-excellent, not much other than a little sauce/ponzu/sesame seeds
(2) Agedashi Tofu-pretty standard
Cold Tofu-it's just tofu, good palate cleanser
Edamame-standard
(4) Garlic Chicken-this was good but I didn't like the sweet sauce it was cooked in and also drizzled, I ordered one with sauce on the side but it wasn't the same, Kurt F loved the sauce and drenched his chicken in it, to each his own...
Miso Black Cod-this was excellent, wasn't planning on ordering it but we did during last call and I was sad when it was so good and I couldn't get more. Had a very buttery flavor but the chef said that taste was from the miso glaze and sake
(2) Pork Gyoza-standard
Seared Poke-not a fan, I like seared tuna but for some reason the raw poke was better
Rolls: I think rolls in general have too many dif flavors so I shy away from them
Philadelphia-standard
Philadelphia Deep Fried-standard
Salmon Skin-mediocre/standard
Spider-didn't try but heard it was good, a little heavy on the rice but it's AYCE, just order another!
Alii-I was intrigued by the wasabi lime mayo but it overpowered the sushi, which might have been the point seeing as how it was deep fried white fish (mediocre
Haleakala-Kurt F liked the scallops, he stabbed my hand as I was trying to take a picture
Hawaiian Style-this one was really good, would definitely order this again
Nigiri: in addition to the appetizers, this is mainly what i ate
(4) Albacore-excellent
(4) Garlic Tuna-excellent
(2) Hamachi (Yellowtail)-wasn't fresh enough for my tastes
(4) Hirame (Halibut)-has always been one of my faves, didn't disappoint
Dessert: (you can only order one per person)
Banzai Special-excellent, best of all the dif choices
Scoop of Green Tea Ice Cream-Dan Y thought it was too cold. but hey, it's ice cream!
Scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream
Kurt F. is Jewish and i'm Chinese so on our way home we calculated how much we would have spent. The bill including tax/tip was $103, if we had ordered a la carte, $287. We win! It would have been more but Dan Y didn't hold up his end of the bargain to stuff himself.
I'm fairly certain that Val was tired of running back and forth getting us all this food but she was awesome. Good experience, next time we're staying off strip I'll be going here for AYCE and this time, I'll order the Miso Black Cod first!
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