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| - If I walk into an AYCE sushi restaurant, I'm automatically a fan of it and the buffer zone to take me out this fan range is pretty large. Unfortunately, Inaka did plenty of negative things to take me well out of the fan zone despite me being a pretty forgiving diner. We went there based on our many previous experiences which were OK, and were hoping they might have stepped things up. If I had read the more recent reviews, I would have never set foot in there.
The male server is everything previous reviewers have described. A corpse comes to my mind as comparison: rigid, cold, and unresponsive. When we arrived we were the only table at 3 PM on Saturday afternoon with one television on and light background music. After the server greeted us saying, "how many?" the only other words he said in the entire 30 minutes we were there were, "finished?" If he wasn't running our food, he would literally stand 3 feet away from us, just staring at us. Talk about awkward.
The menu is minimal for nigiri and rolls. The presentation of my first order of 20 pieces of nigiri was horrendous. The chef placed all 20 pieces on one small rectangular plate like that was the only plate left in the restaurant. All the pieces were in contact with each other and the sauces that come on some of the fish mixed with other fish ruining the flavor. It looked like he used a butter knife to cut the fish, just terrible presentation. The rice was mush without flavor. And the fish was discolored and didn't look fresh, especially the maguro.
I really felt like I was playing Russian roulette at this point. So before I took another turn, I ordered some green tea ice cream and we bolted. I chalked it up as a big time loss as I was also charged dinner price. Don't come here, there are plenty of better options a short drive away.
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