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| - I must say I was not impressed with Hanabi. Stopped down for lunch on a rainy Wednesday and I was the only guest in the dining room, which is never a good sign for a restaurant, but especially not for a sushi bar. Located in the Warehouse district, the decor is dark and unimpressive, with high ceilings and hardwood floors.
Since I had a voucher from Living Social, I got the Age Tofu app and the Freedom Box lunch with shumei, shrimp tempura and a spicy tuna roll. All of the food was competently prepared, but all the flavors seemed muted from what I expected. Of the items I tried the best items were the miso soup and the spicy tuna roll, but even then they were not as good as you can get at other places around town. One other observation was that the shredded vegetable on the plate with the tofu, which I though was Daikon, was very bitter; next to the shumei were some bland room temperature vegetables. It seems that they want to dress the plates up, but don't understand that these items should be flavorful as well.
Overall not a place I am planning on going back to.
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