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| - Was craving izakaya type of food so we decided to try this place due to its receiving a lot of good reviews. But we were disappointed for a number of reasons. When we arrived, we were greeted in a friendly manner and seated right away. That was nice, but the setting was that of a typical, small teishoku restaurant and not that of the typical izakaya. No small, low tables with low seats; no low tables with the charcoal grills built into the middle. I also believe they grill the kushiyaki in the kitchen instead of on the charcoal grills; at least that is what I think because the food has no charcoal flavor. We were told that they had a big party the previous night and they ran out of most of the beef and chicken types of kushiyaki and did not have any to serve last night --- WTH? They also had no chicken wings. That was last night; why didn't the owner/manager make some more immediately this morning? Pretty lame if you ask me. We are told we are in luck since it is happy hour time and given a happy hour menu. Very weak menu -- no "good stuff" on the menu, just routine things. I order my GF a margarita and she says it is OK, although it looks pretty sad. I try to order a pitcher of beer, but am told that pitchers are not on happy hour, only glasses.......how sad is that? I order some food for my GF -- edamane, agedashi tofu, and the chicken katsu dinner. Those were decent and I have no complaint about those dishes. I ordered shishamo which were two little skimpy fishes, about the size of a #2 pencil. I also ordered shishito's which were a nice sized ordered, but drenched in a very salty soy based sauce. They had no yaki onigiri because nobody was ordering it so they took it off the menu....WTH? Sacrilege!!! You got rice -- make a rice ball and grill it on the charcoal grill......oh yeah, maybe there is no charcoal grill. On the "specials" blackboard they had aji, which is one of my favorites. So I order one, sashimi style with the bones and head deep fried. This one dish was pretty expensive @ $14, and I was disappointed. The fish was not fresh so the sashimi was mushy and off tasting. However, they did fry the bones nicely. I also order a buta kushiyaki and that too was disappointing. Not very good or appropriate piece of pork and just grilled with salt -- no sauce or seasoning on the two sticks. So all-in-all, I was disappointed and will not be back. I will keep searching for an izakaya in the Phoenix area.
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