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| - This is where I had my first date with my wife. Maybe it's the warmness of that memory that convinced my mind this place was excellent. So, so wrong.
Came here a few months ago excited to try some of the sushi I remember being so fresh, beautifully prepared, all of the things you expect from a good sushi place (even if it's a chain, I guess).
The place was close to empty and it was during dinner time, which is strange for this district, but I shrugged it off.
We ordered two mango lemonades to drink and spicy tuna on crispy rice to start.
The drinks came out and there was no fresh mango in the drinks like last time, but whatever, maybe it's not the season (it was, but i get too nice sometimes). I took one sip and it took physical effort to swallow. Way too sweet and the amount of dental work this drink will cost me is out of my budget. Our server came back and we put in our entree orders and told him about the drinks. He apologized and told us he knew, that whoever made the lemonade spilled the ENTIRE THING OF SYRUP INTO THE BATCH ON ACCIDENT. But it "takes too long" to make a new batch. What? Um...just water then, thank you. Some 20 minutes later and my wife receives her entree. Just my wife. My entree is probably in the same place our appetizer is hiding.
Of course, we assume that my entree is not far behind, so my wife waits to begin eating her food until mine comes to the table. Waiting...waiting...waiting...
Still waiting.
Finally, it arrives! ....Our appetizer.
So now we're in this sort of awkward position, where my wife doesn't know if she should eat her (now cold) entree before it gets worse or share our "starter". We finish the starter and my entree still hasn't arrived. At this point, we've been in the establishment for over an hour. The waiter has come to our table a total of 3 times, no apologies, no anything.
Finally, I just cancel my entree. I relay our complaints to our sever who says he'll let a manager know. The manager never thought to grace us with his presence at the table but did pass a message on to the server to give us a whole 5% off. Because it wasn't obvious enough already that he didn't care and he just had to further prove his point, or something.
Still charged for the entree my wife didn't even touch.
Just....No words. Or a lot of words, by the size of this review, but you get my point.
Went back again because, again, I'm too nice, or I got a concussion and wasn't thinking clearly, or I'm not sure, but here's the report on that: A/C was broken (not the restaurants fault, but it's 118 outside and I'm getting grumpy here), same awful service, food (we got it this time!) went way downhill in quality, portion, etc. Watered down drinks (shots of vodka tasted suspiciously like tap water, drink tasted strong with straw, absolutely no taste when the straw was absent, hmm, no accusations here but I know my drink. Maybe it's because we look so young), will NEVER come back to this embarrassment of an establishment.
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