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| - NOT A FAN. My feeling is that we may have experienced the service we did because we presented a Teambuy certificate upon being seated by a rather brusque woman. But if that's the case, why would these restaurants sign up for these deals? And why oh why would they not try to impress since the customer is in the restaurant... so that, maybe... possibly... they could get the customers (who would then pay full price) to COME BACK? I mean, isn't that the whole concept behind those deals??
Service was rushed and I felt the servers to be impatient. The food runner attempted to place plates on top of other dishes on the table forcing us to quickly rearrange plates. My husband and I were both convinced that the food runner would've left the plates right on top of other dishes which STILL HAD FOOD LEFT ON THEM.
And the food for the most part wasn't that great either. Apart from the fried calamari, edamame and the chicken kara-age, the rest of the dishes we had were very disappointing. True to izakaya style dining, we ordered a number of dishes to share, including the bbq mixed set (which had over-cooked skewers of chicken and seafood, and under-cooked, raw really, vegetable slices) and Korean style bbq ribs (which were tasteless). I had a salmon and yellowtail handrolls where the fish pieces were not prepared properly because there were stringy pieces of fish in both handrolls. Ick.
As the front area of the restaurant started to fill up, the formerly mentioned brusque woman cleared our table asking, "Want anything else?" She looked disappointed when we asked her for a dessert menu and she returned with the "daily special" sheet saying that they only had one dessert dish. Seemed weird and we didn't want what looked like some sherbet thingy, so we asked for the bill and when it came, the Teambuy amount hadn't been deducted. When we pointed it out to her, she replied in an irritated manner, "Beer and tax needs to be paid" and all she did was keep pointing at it until we asked her to provide us with a bill for it. I'm not recounting this interaction that well, but it was really off-putting and can't remember the last time we had such a bad restaurant experience.
There are too many better places and options in this city to bother with this one. If you find yourself haunting the doorstep of Sushi Queen Izakaya, turn and run the other way as fast as you can!
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