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| - Delicious! Once you overcome the Parking Games of Mission, you're greeted with friendly staff, clean decor and fresh cups of tea.
We started with their Ishikari soup, a salmon miso soup with vegetables (mine had chunks of potatoes and carrots.) Then sampled a platter with assorted sashimi, which was fresh and very generous in portion size. The fish was so fresh that we ordered more sashimi before moving onto our rolls.
Generous portion size seems to be a theme. The rolls were some of the biggest I've ever seen. All rolls seem to be two-biters unless you reeeeally can take it like a champ*. And how many times can a girl say "there's no way that can fit" only to have it disappear into the abyss?... Wait, what? I digress.
We had the Playboy Roll, which came wrapped and tented with tinfoil on a sizzling plate. The waitress then lit the plate tableside, creating a spectacle of "ooh flames!" (This was how we came about the roll in the first place, when a table across the room ordered it. It's about the only time we can get excited about any kind of Flames lately.) After the flames die down (d'oh), the tinfoil is opened to reveal a delicious roll of salmon and yam topped with shrimp and crab, with the entire roll drizzled with a spicy mayo-type sauce. The sauce really brought out the sweetness of the crab and days later, I can still remember the taste of the smokiness from the ooh flames!
We also had the Spider Roll (pretty standard fare) and ended up cancelling our other roll because... huge rolls. The meal was finished off with tempura vanilla ice cream.
The service was attentive. Our cups filled regularly and our plates cleared promptly. And there is the running gag of "That's What She Said," every time a roll comes.
Pros:
Playboy Roll (especially if you're a closeted pyro)
Portion size
Cons:
Parking
Portion size
*It's the perfect place for a first date, guys!
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