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| - I think this place has more pretensions about what it thinks it is than what it is in reality.
The decor is trying to be upscale, but I thought it looks a bit clubby. I felt like I was at a bar in the Club district, expecting the people at the front couches to order bottle service. The 2-person tables in the back are too close - could it have hurt them to just take one table out and spaced us out a bit more comfortably? I was confused by the atmosphere as well, because while it was trying to be upscale, the clientele was pretty casual.
It was a Friday evening and our row was busy, but the service was quick and our waiter was nice. No problems there.
However, everything is pretentiously overpriced. I don't think any of the food I saw coming to other tables warranted a price tag of around $30 (and I know plenty of other places where $30 is worth $30 in terms of quality and quantity). This place is not an upscale or unique restaurant! Charging prices like these is misleading.
We had a coupon and, as we obviously didn't want to blow it on just one dish, we decided to order sushi rolls. Except for the interesting cooked salmon sushi roll (super rich tasting and warm), the others were disappointing. Pieces of each roll, without fail, fell apart on our chop sticks and were unevenly cut. They may have been long, but there was no girth to them. Few flavours stood out. This place was so cheap, they even skimped on the rice to hold the darn rolls together.
Thank goodness our coupon was a gift, because this place is a total rip-off.
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