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| - OK, so we're visitors that come from one of the Asian cusine meccas of the United States.
But all in all, this restaurant was disappointing.
It offers great ideas within the restaurant: a sushi bar, regular restaurant/kitchen dining, and hibachi/teppanyaki style dining.
Upon entry, we simply were not offered the last of the 3. Wasn't even an option for us. Was there a logical reason? No. We would have liked to do so, but c'est la vie.
We ended up doing regular restaurant/kitchen dining, partially as a grave miscommunication between us and the server.
We ordered their "Grand Ichi Ban" sushi plate and yakisoba to share between two adults and a child. This included a variety of side dishes, as well as California rolls and an assortment of nigiri.
The appetizers (miso soup and cucumber/bean sprout salad) were delicious and well timed, although I really could have done without the mushrooms in the miso soup.
Their yakisoba included a rather bland "teriyaki" sauce that I felt relied too heavily on salt, as well as having the inclusion of mushrooms (which I have never seen in yakisoba ANYWHERE else, and personally is disgusting to me). The California rolls were unremarkable, and it seemed as if the avocado wasn't exactly "freshed sliced", even though equivalent rolls in the pacific northwest ARE, even when avocado is out of season (surprising given Arizona's proximity to the crop). While most of the nigiri was tasty and of quality presentation, the baffling choice of Imitation Krab for one roll (and an oddly cut, overly long, blocky piece at that) was very baffling.
Not having a lot of experience with sushi in the desert southwest, I'm not quite sure wha the standards are, but by my standards, it falls short... and for far too much money for the product.
Also, the waiter took far too long at the end to present the check. I had to actually request it in a fit of desperation as my preschooler had lost his attention span and was causing a disruption. Apparently that in and of itself was not enough of a clue to the waitstaff that they were taking too long...
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