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| - We went here for dinner tonight after purchasing a deal through Living Social recently. It was ok, but in the end I wasn't a fan. The place was missing a lot. Maybe it's because I came for sushi and it's not a place fully devoted to sushi, or maybe I'm just picky.
We had a reservation for 6:30 and were sat within under a minute. The restaurant itself was not what I expected. It was a bit too big and bright for my taste. I prefer a quieter establishment when I eat sushi, and this place was so loud that there was a lot of "huh?" and what?" between the miss' and I. Our server was attentive but pretty impersonal and we felt pretty rushed. I'm sure a good part of it was that it was a busy night and maybe he was just swamped.
Another issue I had was with the sushi menu. It was LAME. When I go to a sushi place, I want to see the chef's super duper fancy rolls. Sabi's menu was very lacking in this regard and the menu was made up of pretty "meh" rolls. We ended up ordering a Dragon roll, California roll, and Phili roll. Oh, and one other thing I have to say is that the draft beers are a varied selection and come at a cheap price.
We started with an appetizer of fried calamari (one of my weaknesses). Sabi's calamari is fried in a tempura batter and served with plenty of pepper and a spicy sauce. I've never had fried calamari tempura-style, and I never will again. It's a heavy coating and proved to be too heavy for the calamari as I tasted more fried goodness than seafood. I have nothing against fried food, but I'm extra judgemental of calamari and the lack of taste was sad. In it's defense I have to say that the sauce was pretty good and complimented the tempura well.
The rolls were average, if not a little below. They were very "ricey" so they were heavier than what I'm used to in sushi rolls. The California roll was pretty bland, even with the extra fish they layer on top. The Dragon roll was my favorite of the three but it was still nothing that blew my mind. As for the Phili roll...we haven't had that in quite a number of years. I guess we felt that we "graduated" beyond such "beginner rolls". Yet with such a blah menu where nothing really jumped out at us, we decided to have a blast from the past with the Phili. It was ok, but nothing special.
I think my biggest problem with Sabi is that it just doesn't stand up to other restaurants I've been to. A place I consider "average" goes about one or two steps above Sabi. I won't be coming back to Sabi, and next time we go out for sushi we'll either explore someplace new or stick with what we know at eeZ Fusion.
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