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| - I have been here many times.
I live/work in the area so it's my go to spot.
Do'nt think of the 3 stars rating out of 5 as a bad thing, think of it as more of just OK.
Situated in the same plaza as the spectacular Paint Lounge and Green Grotto, along with some more other sub-par food offerings like Pho on 7 (bad pho joint) - Gal's Sushi neither impresses or disappoints. They are very neutral in terms of food.
What I find them to be very good at is getting your orders out really quickly. There's at least 4-5 sushi chefs working at one time so this explains it.
Their service is really lacking during lunch time versus their dinner time service. I do not know if it's the changing of the guard - maybe their dinner staff is on top of their game than the lunch time staff.
Case in point, I arrived today from the heavy rain and thunderstorm of today. The restaurant maybe had 20 people dining away, there was 6 waitresses and 1 host who seem keen on cleaning up instead of paying attention at the door. It took 5 minutes for them to notice me to offer me a table. Really guys? 6 people on the floor, 5 chefs, and a few more in the kitchen did not notice a customer?
Food arrived quickly after I ordered their sushi box lunch ($8.99). One of the banchan dishes in the box was suppose to be chap chae, but for some reason today I got 3 deep fried tofu squares. Did they run out or something? How do you run out of a staple dish that should be in abundance in a Japanese/Korean restaurant? This wasn't the first time, at other times I was given a generous amount of potatoes!
Anyway, I was given my bill, I quickly placed a $20 bill into the folder - where 3-4 minutes went by and I actually had to bring it up to the attention of a waitress who was more focused on arranging utensils than to pay attention to customers.
Were it me working with customers around, I'd pay close attention to what's going on around me, especially a lone customer who's obvoiusly on his lunch break and was given the bill not more than 30 seconds ago.
Gal's Sushi - you really have to get your wait staff to be more attentive!
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