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| - Quite the disappointment after waiting months and months to try this place.
Tomo's building is quite unique with 5 different floors- main restaurant (1st floor), VIP area (2nd floor), "nightclub" area (3rd floor), "casual" bar (4th floor?), private party room (basement) and I am not quite sure / remember what the 5th floor is. The layout is a bit odd (a mish-mash) of Asian Contemporary with old-school Asian and Craftsman styles.
The service was completely horrendous- they messed up the bills and we were forced into an incredibly tight hibachi table. Additionally, what was suppose to be maybe a 1.5-2 hour meal turned into roughly 3 hours. Typically, when you order hibachi and sushi, the sushi comes first. It was not until after we completely finished the hibachi that we got our sushi. Many others at the table got their sushi orders before we did and it's fairly safe to say the waiter completely forgot about the order until we asked not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES about the sushi.
I had to have a friend of mine move his chair back and out, every time i wanted to move. They sat us at this table even though many of the other tables were completely empty.
I got the scallop and shrimp hibachi which was fairly decent, nothing special though. It tastes like any other hibachi restaurant I have been too. The hibachi chef was relatively interactive and animated with everyone at the table. The sushi was where the food went downhill.
I order tuna tataki and salmon sashimi, both of which were ridiculously fishy. Unbelievably fishy smelling and tasting. Contrary to popular thought, fresh sushi shouldn't taste fishy or have an overwhelming smell of a sitting dead fish. If that occurs, that is a big, BIG, MAJOR sign that the fish is not fresh. I had to leave a few pieces on the plate it was that bad and the rest were slathered in wasabi and soy sauce to mask the taste.
I also attempted to order a bottle of saki and you would expect a Japanese restaurant to know their saki. When I asked the bartender for a nigori (sp?) type of saki (which is a milky, unfiltered saki), he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about and had to ask someone else. It wasn't until I went up to the bar and he took out every kind of saki the restaurant had, that he knew what I was referring to.
Never again. I paid $70.00+ for poor service and poor food. I wish I had better things to say and that I could support the growth of this business downtown, but this is not the kind of restaurant that I want downtown.
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