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| - There isn't much to this place as a dining experience. If you treat it as entertainment, it might be a bit better for what you're paying.
We saw this place when it was advertising a grand opening promotion. The reviews on yelp were fairly high (despite there being 10 reviews that were filtered out as possible spam), so we figured why not let's give it a shot.
It's a pretty small restaurant. Cramped even. Some tables were so close that it was pretty difficult to even move around.
We decided to try several different items on the menu. Salmon tataki, beef tataki, tuna tataki, takoyaki, okonomiyaki, karaage, sashimi platter, kanda rolls, grilled saba, and oden. Each dish came up one or two at a time at 3-5 minute intervals. Since we were sharing, it was alright, but if each person's dishes came at this kind of rate where the last dish arrived 30 minutes after the first, imagine how terrible it must be for the last person (actually, we did have one person order their own dishes, and his did come at the very end).
Flavors were what I would expect from an AYCE place, though I think I would have preferred an AYCE place. The mackeral was just charred, the oden came with some pieces of fish cakes, there wasn't much chicken in the karaage, tataki was overpowered by the garnishing.
We had to ask for the waitress to check on the sashimi platter. I guess the kitchen must've forgot about it, cause it would be served up in "2 minutes". And indeed, it came in minutes. For $16 or so, you're getting 3 small pieces of salmon, 3 small pieces of tuna, one shrimp, 4 scallops, and a crab stick cut in half. What's up with the crab stick?
At the end of the meal, we had 8 empty dishes piled up on the table because everytime another dish came, the old ones (which were empty by the time the new ones arrived) were just left there and we had to pile them up so there was room to set the new ones down.
There are many other izakaya's in town. And plenty of generic japanese sushi places as well.
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