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| - Our concierge recommended this place and we were excited to try it out. We were told the servers perform songs in between serving their tables and that sounded like a great time for dinner.
We arrived at 10:00pm and the place was pretty packed but they sat us right away. The decor was cool, the music was loud but not blaring, the clientele looked young and fun, the performing servers did a great job entertaining the crowd, etc.
The Service:
We were sitting there for about 10min and were never handed menus. Fine, it's busy, I understand. Although I saw our server walking around the restaurant, I didn't see him doing anything specific. I tried plenty of times to make eye contact/flag him down but he simply forgot we were there or something. But then a new table was seated right next to us and they were handed their menus, then their drinks, then their appetizer... all before we were even given menus. Eventually, our waiter came by and quickly dropped off menus and said he'd be right back. The problem was that he didn't come back for another 15min which meant we were there for 25min in total just waiting for someone to come by to take a beer order. My friend and I agreed that if our server didn't come by in the next few minutes then we were leaving. Sure enough, those minutes rolled around so we picked up our purses to head out and who walks on over but our server asking if we're ready with our drink orders (Seriously? drink orders? we've been ready with those for 20min). So I said to him "Listen, we were just getting up to leave. I understand that it's busy for you guys but not a single person acknowledged us or even thought to take a drink order." Our server then said "Oh, sorry guys, I'll take care of you." Since we were both starving, we gave him our small order and hoped it would come quickly.
We noticed how many tables were emptying so we were curious to check what time they closed. Found out the place closed at 10:00pm (right when we arrived) which made the whole experience worse. You'd think that if a place was closing then they'd do their best to get those tables taken care of so they can leave sooner. Instead, we were there until 11pm even though we only had a small dinner. We looked over our check at the end to see that our server didn't "take care of us" like he implied earlier. I mean, I thought that meant at the very least a comped beer to lessen the blow that he forgot about us for 30min. Instead, I felt like he walked all over us.
The Food:
Our entire dinner order was one edamame appetizer, two rolls each (so 4 total), and two large beers and it all came out to $100 before tip. The sushi itself was pretty mediocre and the garlic edamame was much spicier than we anticipated. The sad thing was that we were both hungry only a few hours after spending all that money on that tiny dinner. There are countless top quality places in Vegas and I see no point in returning to this restaurant.
tl;dr
Although this place had an upbeat atmosphere, it was way overpriced and the risk of crappy service again seems too high. Not my type of sushi joint.
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