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| - After watching this empty storefront for months, I was excited to finally get to eat at Tomo! My roommate and I both got sushi and a glass of wine here, and I was pretty happy with my experience.
The layout of Tomo is a little strange - when you walk in, there's a bunch of tables, with a bar on the right, and a sushi bar on the left, a little further down. We decided to eat at the sushi bar, and the server placed us in the center of it - an odd choice, since it meant my roommate was facing a giant fake flower and couldn't see the chefs or the mirror behind the chefs all that well. Further back in the restaurant were some hibachi tables with groups of people around them. It was a little strange to hear the hibachi chefs as we were eating - they sounded like they were decent entertainers, but to listen to that as you're NOT eating hibachi was a little weird. I wish they had divided the restaurant up so that the sound was better separated.
The...owner? Manager? Someone important? came up to us twice to check on how we were doing. He seemed very nice and clearly was hoping we were having a good time - he was also very clearly excited about the restaurant and building, and talked about some of his plans for it - for instance, a tea room on one of the upper floors. I had no idea this place was 5 floors, or that Tomo owned them all. UNFORTUNATELY, he also twice offered to give us a tour, and his tone and words came off a bit more than a little creepily. I am pretty sure that he was just being friendly and excited, and I later saw him talking to many other patrons, but as a pair of 20-something girls, we just didn't feel comfortable taking him up on his offer. In a larger group, I would have love to have seen the rest of the space, and I feel bad because I really do think he wanted to show off the space. In the future, I think I would have felt more comfortable had he gotten a larger group of patrons together and invited us, rather than making it sound like it'd just be the three of us. I feel bad even writing this, but we both felt pretty uncomfortable at the time.
I ordered the miso soup, spicy tuna roll and California roll - I had really wanted to try some of the specialty rolls, but many of the more interesting ones were $18 - guaranteeing that there is no way that I'm going to ever get them unless there's some sort of discount deal.
The miso soup was pretty standard, although it was a lot more clear (instead of yellow) than I'm used to, and had mushrooms in it. As a mushroom-hater, I was able to pretty easily avoid the fungus floating in my bowl. I would have preferred more greens in it, but it was fine. Both of my rolls were large and delicious to the point where I was uncomfortably full after eating both of them - in the future, I think my roommate and I will probably split 3 between us.
Look - if I'm being honest, I think I want Tomo to succeed and that's probably making this earn an extra half star, but why not? This place has been empty for a year, and it's clear the staff wants to make this work. They're currently the only dedicated sushi place in the Warehouse District (until Sushi Rock reopens), and a heck of a lot better than the sushi at China Sea or prepackaged at Constantino's. Could their decorations be improved? Definitely. Are the hibachi sounds distracting? Yup. Will I go here again? Absolutely.
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