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| - I've been struggling to write this review for almost a week now. This review is a mashup of two separate experiences.
The first:
We went for lunch ayce on a weekday ($13.99). For the price, the food is pretty good. The fish was fresh. The rice was soft. The hot foods were pretty good. The deep fried scallops were one of the best I've had at ayce (most of the time, it's almost all breading. Here, it was almost all scallop). The tempura was crispy. The crystal roll and the kingston roll were fresh and delightful (think Vietnamese cold wraps with sushi roll inspired fillings). The deep fried milk was not so great, but all in all, I wouldn't begrudge this place a four star for this review. Why not a fifth star? Well, we had a bit of a mishap. Our waitress placed a plate of tempura broccoli and mushrooms on our table. I didn't recall ordering it, but I remembered considering it, so I assumed it was ours, and grabbed a mushroom. Our waitress then came back and took the plate away, saying it wasn't ours. I let her know that I had already taken a piece of it. She said that was fine, and whisked it away, giving it to a table about three booths down from us. Yeah. I ate from a plate that she gave to her other customers. She was fine with it. We were so shocked that we kinda laughed it off...
The second:
We made a reservation for about 50 for a Saturday at around 2pm ($14.99). Their party room seats are all torn up. What I mean is that the upholstery was not just cracked but the glossy exterior was entirely missing in large chunks. It was quite unpleasant, especially because our party was there to eat our post-funeral meal for my grandmother. The food was almost as good as our first visit, except that on the red dragon rolls, there was considerably less salmon sashimi (think about two centimeters of sashimi on each roll, instead of the entire top section of the roll being draped in sashimi). The orders, however, were continually incorrect, or missing, or going to the wrong tables. Tables got rounds and rounds of food before we got any. When we got some, there were cheaper rolls (california or cucumber or mushroom) placed with our red and green dragons when we didn't order them. We got imitation crab tempura instead of calamari. We got considerably less shrimp tempura than we ordered. Not cool. Our reservation was not during peak lunch hours, and we had informed them ahead of time. They did not provide us with enough servers or service to do this reservation justice.
Would I come again? Probably if I was in a smaller group and it was a weekday. Would I come with a large group? Definitely not.
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