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| - Went there with a friend on a Thursday night. The place was full but they were all middle-aged customers. For some reasons my instincts told me something was a little not right. I got a theory for this phenomenon included at the end of the review.
We were served by a middle-aged waitress. Actually, she was the only server there. Not a smile the whole time. According to other reviews, apparently she is the owner-wife of the restaurant. Basically, she took our order, gave us the food, refilled our tea once, and took our payment at the end. Besides refilling our tea once, it was nothing different than eating at a food court. Not sure how other reviewers called this restaurant "homey".
Like other reviewers said, the food was quite pricey. I did not expect that kind of pricing for this interior design. Oh, and I really hated that wall taped with all those business cards from different real estate agents, bankers, companies, markets etc. Some of the business cards already turned yellow. It reminded me when I first immigrated to Calgary 25 years ago, a lot of Asian restaurants at that time loves to do that. For whatever reasons.
I almost always order Chirashi in a Japanese restaurant. But seeing it being $29.50 on the menu and the boring sashimi selections they give you from other customer's photos, I decided to pass on that.
Their menu was quite boring. Very typical sushi, rolls, sashimi, but with higher-than-normal price. I ordered a dragon maki and my friend ordered an eel maki. Since they only had 1 sushi chef, whom other reviewers stated he is the owner-husband, my friend's eel maki took them around 45mins to serve and my dragon maki took another 15mins. I did check my watch as we were both amazed at the long waiting time. Finally our 2 rolls came 1 hour after we ordered. During the time, we weren't updated why was it taking so long nor apologized for the long wait. Like, I understand that you only had 1 chef. But on the customer's view, I don't think it is reasonable to have waited 1 hour for just 2 maki.
Speaking of their roll, despite the cuteness in that dragon maki, as you can see their ingredients were few. I have not had a maki with so few ingredients in the middle ever from a Japanese restaurant. Same goes to my friend's eel maki. I sure do expect more ingredients when I pay $13.50 and $12.50 for rolls.
Because of this bad experience, I won't go again and I won't recommend this restaurant to my friends or anyone. I saw some reviewers called it a hidden gem. Well yes it is quite hidden in the city, but I don't think it's a gem.
PS.
I have a theory behind why it was filled with middle-aged customers: this restaurant was opened long time ago when Japanese restaurants were few in the city. So old immigrants have been going to this restaurant for a long time. Just like my parents, they only know the same few restaurants in GTA unless their kids bring them to new ones. So they keep coming back if they wanted Japanese food, making this restaurant seems like a popular place.
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