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| - The first disclaimer I need to make is that I lived in Japan for five years and married a Japanese woman. So I know Japanese food, and I'm fully aware that the "Japanese Grill " type restaurant is usually not at all Japanese. I'm okay with that, I have sat at such grills in the US and had a chef entertain me while he cooked up something that has no resemblance to Japanese food, and it's tasty. And fun. So, if you like that experience and either understand or don't care that it has very little resemblance to Japanese food, this place is probably okay. I found it interesting that one of the reviewers who gave it very high marks said he didn't care for sushi. That's like going to McDonald's when you don't care for fast food.
Anyway, I just sat at the sushi bar and had some appetizers and sushi. Oh, I had the daily special drinks, and they were very watered down but what do you expect for the daily special cocktail?
The sushi was okay, the presentation of it was quite good and when I was there late on a Saturday night, the sushi chefs were friendly and very polite. The sushi selection is limited, and as at most "Japanese " restaurants in the US, the chefs were not Japanese, there were some a very common Japanese sushi items that they didn't even know about. Again, I know that's very common so I can't knock them too much for that, but it's one clear mark of a very good sushi bar when they have those special Japanese items.
The appetizers were a mix of some truly Japanese items and some fusion creations. Some of them were pretty good, such as the chicken cheese roll. Nothing Japanese about it except the look, but it was tasty.
So, overall nothing bad and if I was uptown with some people who for some reason wanted to have the Japanese Grill experience, I would go there I guess, but I would never choose to go there to have a good dining experience otherwise.
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