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| - Went in on a Thursday with my son for dinner at around 7:30pm. Place was empty, we were the only customers. One of the chefs were off to the side eating dinner himself. No big deal.
Normally, I am very hesitant to eat at a place that has little or no activity, my thinking being that any food in the kitchen has been sitting for a while and will just get reheated. However, we were hungry and tired, and had already been to our usual choice sushi buffet (Sushi Today- Formerly Go believe Sushi) down the street recently and wanted to try Shogun for the first time.
We ordered off a printed text only sheet using a pencil. Old Skool - no biggie though , but I had to ask for the ala-carte menu to see some images as I couldn't remember what some of the sushi rolls looked like or contained. Didn't help much as the menu has some example pics and wasn't very illustrated at all. The ipad ordering system like some of the other sushi buffets have adopted is the best thing since sliced bread I tell you!
Anyway, we ordered the calamari tempura, shrimp tempura and veg tempura for starters, my son ordered a cucumber hand roll.
When those came out we dug in immediately, my son worked on his hand roll, I went for the shrimp then one bite of the calamari.
The calamari tasted funny.
I smelled the calamari and it actually smelled rotten!
I have had calamari countless times before and NEVER had I smelled it this bad. It was actually spoiled. I pushed the plate to the far end of the table so the server could take it away and told my son not to touch it. We did however eat the other tempura which was fine.
I was tempted to walk out with my son, but didn't want to get into a confrontation with the staff as we had already started into out meal so I decided to stay and see what the other food was like. When the other food came and everything else was on point. The spicy fried rice and general Tao chicken were generous portions and delicious. The spicy salmon pizza and spicy crab pizza was great. As was the Alaska roll.
At one point I did mention to our server that the calamari was bad and even smelled bad. She just took it away , I think I got a one word apology, but no offer to replace it or to order something else.
We left satisfied with the other dishes, however the calamari experience will always have me second guessing any future calamari purchases from now on. It also solidified my decision to not come back to Shogun again. Its a shame because the place has potential- as I said, their other dishes were on point, I just can't see how they missed the bad Calamari. The chef would have had to have a cold to not smell that rotting seafood. It was vile.
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