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| - A restaurant with a beautiful contemporary look; that's the end of the positives. It allowed me to feel comfortable while dining in disappointment. I did not know what I was expecting when I saw that the restaurant was empty at 8:30 PM, perhaps it is simply a slow late night. But after eating the low quality food here and receiving the terrible service, I understood the lack of guests.
Why is the service terrible? My group of friends and I were the biggest group (7 people) in the restaurant and there may have been one or two other smaller parties in the restaurant. One would expect that our food would be ready shortly and the waiters/waitresses would attend to us since it's not busy. Sadly, expectations never align with reality. Each time we ordered took at least 15 minutes for anything to come out. It's understandable that maybe it is a lot to come out at once but after 15 minutes one small plate of sushi would come out and then it'd be another 5 more minutes before the next small thing came out. My friends and I had a good laugh at the one yakitori chicken that came out 25 minutes after we ordered for the third round of orders. Yes, it was a good 25 minutes for a small chicken skewer to come out, hard to believe right? Typically, you should exceed expectations in a good way, not a bad way. Aside from the long waits for and between each order, they kept forgetting to bring out our food. For example, in our first round of orders we had 5 orders of the salmon, only one of them came out and we had to keep asking for when the other 4 would come. It happened again on our second round of orders when we ordered 2 furikake French fries. Only one of fries came out and once again we had to ask a couple times before they went to check with the kitchen to find out where our food was. Furthermore, the servers never checked up on us to ask how the food was or to take out orders. We had to wave them down each time to come. Let me emphasize that the restaurant was practically vacant except for our group. One of my friends noticed that the some chefs were just on their phone (probably why our food took so long to come out). Now that was just the service.
The food was pitiful especially when compared to sushi places such as Jjanga, Sushi Neko, Goyemon, Kabuto, SOHO etc. We simply wanted to try a place we have never been to before and it was nearby and boy was that a mistake. The rolls we ordered like albacore, spicy tuna tasted dry and flavorless. The salmon eggs and smelt eggs were abnormally salty. The only items I enjoyed here happened to be furikake french fries and shiitake mushrooms... which both happen to be non-fish items. Pretty ironic for a so-called sushi place if you ask me. One of my friends kept finding bones in his rolls and while it may be expected, it would have been avoidable had the chefs been more careful or attentive. Another one of friends found hair in her ice cream... yummy? I hope that is not what this establishment finds tasty. All around, the staff was inattentive, the food was poor quality and the guests who come here will not come again.
Tl;dr: Do not eat here unless you like bad sushi and bad service.
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