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| - Wow what a disaster this place was for my first time and last time.
I should have known better to have ordered sushi from a place that can't decide weather or not they want to be a sushi place, a Chinese place or pan Asian fusion.
The service was great, they were very attentive about the problem and did what ever they could to try to convince me to come back. But it was a little over board at times and made something small into a huge incident.
I ordered sushi, big mistake! I should have stuck with my ice tea. I asked if they had toro and they said they did. I like to try toro from different places since it is a great judge of character for the rest of the sushi, also based on the spicy tuna. I also ordered salmon since it is something hard to mess up.
Let's being, first I received my plate and there were my three orders. I looked at it close and was very confused. The waitress noticed this as well, she asked me why I was looking at it like I never seen sushi before. Well to start, the toro was not toro, it wasn't even a fatty grade big eye or even blue fin which sometimes can be very fatty and passed as toro by some places. This my friends was normal tuna, red in color and not the best cut either. There was a huge tendon going through the two pieces of nigiri I ordered. The salmon had black speckles of something on it, looks to be pepper or something, which tells me the chefs hands might not have been clean. I didn't even want to look at the roll at this point.
I sent it back saying I don't want the tuna since it was obviously not toro. The waiter took it back and the chef threw a fit saying it was toro. Obviously not a very experienced chef, he must have thought since it was a belly cut (judging from the tendon) from a yellowfin or big eye tuna it must be toro right?
Oh and the staff for not knowing their own product, how can a chef, manager and wait staff not even know the sushi they sell? Its something that is supposed to bring in the most profit for them and yet they are uneducated in it.
All in all, my experience there was something that was very offending. The chef assuming that because he says it is what he says it is it must be, not everyone is a beginner sushi eater and looks like they take advantage of the locals in the area of their inexperience and have done this before.You never know who could be your next customer, a critic, a yelper, a sushi connoisseur or even a fellow chef looking for a quick bite to eat while helping a friend move.
Hopefully they will have learned from this and change things up but I won't be back to find out.
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