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| - UPDATE 4/26/12: Since this place is so close to my house, I figured I'd give it another try (after walking out because we were entirely ignored after being seated for over 7 minutes in an empty restaurant an additional time since the original review). This time I went at 8:00 on a Wednesday night. It was busy, but not jammed...no reason for super super slow service across the board.
I think the sushi got more expensive, and less creative. I remember the menu being much larger the last time I was here. And the portion sizes are really small. Most specialty rolls are $14 now....and lacking creativity (an over abundant amount of rolls contain softshell crab and cream cheese, weirdo combo, I'd be shocked if those are actually big sellers) with extra slow service, there are many other places also close by that care if customers are in the building or not.
This was my last time at Sushi at the Lake. For creative yet pricey rolls I recommend Osaka or Peninsula Bistro, and for well priced, delicious sushi, check out Joels, their specialty rolls menu is great.
ORIGIANAL REVIEW: I've been here twice. The first time was AWESOME (during lunch). Great sushi. Fast service, good cocktails.
I came back a few weeks later on a Tuesday night. They were moderately busy, but no where near as busy as a lunch crowd. We were sat at the table pretty quickly (table was still soaked, gross, don't tell me there wasn't a dry table available...or a dry rag...).
We waited for the waitress. And waited. And waited. She wandered by a couple times, had time to chat with the hostess, etc, but never made it to our table. We decided to get up and sit at the bar, since only two people were at the bar, it looked like the bartender would have time to at least make us a drink, let alone take an order.
After sitting down, she said 'Hi, I'll be right with you', then was doing other stuff on the computer for literally another five minutes. We flagged her down and asked if she could quick make a cocktail, but she said the waitress had just turned in four more orders at once that needed to be entered.
My question is, why is the bartender doing all the waitress's work, when she's sitting at the sushi bar laughing with the hostess (seems like they have the "B" team working on off nights)? There's many other computer stations at the restaurant.
My second question is, why the heck can't the bartender make our drinks and go back to entering the stack of the waitress's work? She's supposed to be the bartender...not the secretary.
So we sat at Sushi at the Lake for 18 minutes with only being partially acknowledged by the bartender, who was overwhelmed with other people's work.
I'll be back since the food is wonderful, but it will be during lunch or a weekend night when the good waitstaff is working, not some college girls that don't care if they have a job tomorrow or not.
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