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| - I came here with my friends for the All You Can Eat deal. While it sounded great on paper, it's actually a huge waste of money. "For $19.99, you get to eat all the delicious sushi you want, how can that be bad?" you ask.
Well, at Toko if you are doing the AYCE deal, you are basically eating plates and plates of rice decorated with cucumbers and a little not-so-fresh fish on top. What I ate was NOT sushi. I looked at the table next to us, who were not getting AYCE and their sushi looked like real sushi. It feels like we are being treated as second class citizens just because we chose the wrong promotion the restaurant offers.
I came here around 7pm on a Thursday and the restaurant was mostly empty. Only 4 tables of people. However it still took 30 mins for our sushi to came out while the 2 sushi chefs were just idling. I assume this is because we got some miso soup and salad as appetizers and they want to make sure we feel like we are half full by the time our sushi came out. My friend who sat facing the chefs said they did not start making the rolls until they saw we finished our appetizers.
While i understand why they chose to stuff the sushi with tons of rice and delay the arrival of food (so we can be full faster and eat less real fish), I hated my experience here. I will NEVER come back and I will tell all my friends the same (whom all love sushi).
I've been to AYCE sushi restaurants all over the country and this place is the worst by far. Note to the restaurant owner: This is no way to do business. No true sushi lovers would return a second time hence the empty restaurant. If you had given us better sushi, I would've been a regular and brought so much business to you. Yes, the per person earning for the restaurant would be less, but if the restaurant was full of patrons, you would still be making way more money than 4 tables a night. Or...just don't offer AYCE if you don't indeed on having return patrons.
I almost never complain about food, but this experience have left me angry and not feeling well after eating so much rice.
Also all the silly rules about charging us extra $$ for leaving rice and others also make this an awful experience. you feel like you are being judged by what you eat. I never waste food and being told multiple times I would be charged if I don't finish everything before I even start eating makes me feel like i'm being treated like a criminal.
Do they have decent sushi if you had just ordered a la carte? I have no idea. They could be making amazing sushi but definitely not for the All-You-Can-Eat
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