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| - Why does this place have a good reputation? In my three visits over multiple years I've never been impressed at all. The fish is not especially fresh or attractive, the rice is hard and not all that tasty, the service is chaotic. I want to like this place. I really do. But it's not nearly as good as Harumi or Yasu or Hiro.
The bright points were the green tea (best I've had in a long time) and the spicy tuna roll, which was very good. But the salmon skin hand roll was a disaster. Nothing about it was good. Instead of crispy salmon skin you get what I'll call salmon scrapings, meaty, but not in a good way. And there are these strong-tasting vegetables in there that are totally out of place and quite sad. The nigiri was kind of okay. Nothing at all special about the proteins, and the rice balls are dense and hard without that tangy vinegar flavor I expect. I've had bad tamago maybe once before in my life, and this tamago was maybe the worst. Ice cold, falling apart, and just not the right flavor. The eel was rather disappointing too, and I rarely feel that way about eel anywhere. The best protein was probably the scallop, but that isn't saying much. Salmon was disappointing too. Especially after the sensational salmon we've enjoyed at Hiro the last couple of visits.
Our server was enthusiastic and pleasant, but everything came at the wrong time. Our so-so tempura appetizer came out about 10 minutes after the sushi, and the soups we ordered never came at all. At least they didn't try to charge us for them.
I won't be back. There's much better sushi to be had nearby.
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