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| - I ate here this past weekend with my boyfriend. We're both big sushi fans, and it had just opened recently with an attractive window display, so we wanted to try it.
Rough summary: Bad service, adequately prepared but with a bad menu.
The waitstaff appears to be quite new, and totally incompetent. Our waitress brought out my boyfriend's salad at the same time as our sushi rolls (and had to have the salad pointed out to her on the menu when we ordered). She half filled our water glasses when we arrived and never touched them again; by the end of the meal I had been out of water for at least 15 minutes. After eating, you receive a ticket and have to pay at the register, which took FOREVER. Admittedly there was a big group of undergrads ahead of us trying to split their lunch six ways, but it was still pretty ridiculous to make us wait in line for 10+ minutes for the privilege of paying.
The sushi itself was mostly mediocre. The spicy tuna was extremely disappointing--it was relatively spicy, but had no crunch and very little flavor beyond "spicy." It also included avocado, although the menu didn't indicate that it would.
The Hawaiian roll was decent, but had way too much cream cheese. If you don't want a hefty dollop of cream cheese in your sushi at Sushi Hut, you'll have to avoid basically their entire Special Roll menu, as almost all of it contains cream cheese. The Dragon Roll was actually quite good; it did have cream cheese, but not as much as the Hawaiian.
Sushi Hut is comparably priced to Takara, just a couple of blocks up State, but inferior in pretty much every way. Save yourself the trouble.
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