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| - Basis for my starred ratings (which skews heavily to the food or drink):
1 star: Never again.
2 stars: Poor food, poor experience, extraordinary measures in order for me to come back.
3 stars: Average, nothing really special, nothing particularly bad.
4 stars: Very good, would definitely return.
5 stars: A favorite, one of the best.
I'm typically loathe to give a 2-star review to a place that's clean and where the service was good enough, but given the quality of the food, I'm surprised by the rating here. Less surprised if they are based mostly on ordering rolls, where extra rice, sauce, and other fillings hide the quality of the fish.
Tried to order oysters and uni on a Wednesday. Said they don't have any - typically only on Fridays and Saturdays. I've tried to keep this fact out of my review.
Started with the soft shell crab and ordered the sushi deluxe for my entree.
My concerns were initially raised with the soup and salad. Typical salad with citrus/ginger dressing. Grainy and overly sweet. They use white miso in their miso soup and it was essentially flavorless - not enough miso.
But these were free add-ins so tried to get past that. Soft shell crab comes out, panko crusted - it is well prepared. The sauce that comes with it is quite good. Probably the best thing I ate that night with the exception of the black meat in the crab. You expect a certain amount of muddiness in eating the black meat, but this was off-muddy. The legs and white meat portions were great, but my concerns of the freshness of the crab based on the black meat leads me to my sushi.
Nigiri with a spicy tuna roll. The spicy tuna roll was neither here nor there - under-flavored but passable. They give you two pieces of nigiri for almost every type of fish on the plate except the more expensive fish - like yellowtail. They're running a business, I can ignore that too. I couldn't ignore the rice to fish ratio, which was far too much rice. And I couldn't ignore that fact that the rice was coming straight from the open rice cooker into the sushi, meaning it is most likely not seasoned at all and if it is, it is with the flavoring powder, which i still couldn't taste when I tried to rice on its own.
The quality of the fish was not good. The salmon was very sinewy. The tuna (not albacore) was my biggest concern. The freshest tuna has almost no flavor. The best tuna for sushi, after a couple days, opens up flavors of the actual fish but more like the blood and irony richness that accompanies it, along with some brininess. This tuna was past that. Fishy and too soft. With the exception of a few fish (i.e. mackerel), no sushi fish should taste fishy. Same goes for the albacore and other fish on the plate. The yellowtail was passable, as was the escolar (aka white "tuna").
I get it. You get what you pay for, and this place is pretty cheap. But even for a local joint, the value of the meal here can't overcome the deficiencies in the fish that they serve, which is really, really subpar. Plenty of non-Japanese owners have opened up very good sushi joints, but this is not one of them.
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