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| - Short Review: It can be a bit slow even on week days or uncrowded dine/take-out. If so, I recommend not coming here if you want an under 5 minute wait lunch/dinner. The way the food entree is organized when ordering take-out can be baffling. Sometimes, it is nicely done, sometimes it is messy. Overall, it's quite a nice chain restaurant with decent food and service.
Long Review: Because I live around the city of Avondale, it can be a bit difficult to find a "good" Asian food close by, especially Japanese food. I do understand that Yogis Grill is not a real Japanese restaurant and is, more or less, an American-Japanese inspired restaurant. But more importantly, I am a big fan of sushi and poke bowls. Unfortunately, Yogis Grill does not have poke bowl yet, but they do have Spicy Tuna Bowl which is pretty much a simplified version of poke bowl. And they do have a decent list of sushi that I'd like eating. So far, I have ate Spicy Tuna Bowl, (Spicy) California Roll, Crunch Roll, and Spicy Tuna Roll. As you can see, I do like spicy food and they did a wonderful job for the flavor and taste. Obviously, it ain't no real sushi from Japan, but hey, some times you just have to substitute and compromise something in order to get partially your way. What's more important is it wasn't expensive. As far as it goes, the food is good and the service seems okay to me. The only problem I have with this place is the waiting. I'm not sure why it took more than 10 minutes to make a Spicy Tuna Bowl and a California Roll. There was no line, I was about the first person to order. The thing about chain restaurant is they should have already prep the ingredients and pre-made most food already. All they had to do is stack the food up and neatly arrange them as how they would do. This is also another issue about this Yogis Grill is that when they make their sushi, it can be messy and some pieces are cut bigger than the other. It isn't evenly done sometimes. The first time I went to Yogis Grill, I got the Spicy Tuna Bowl and they only added 5 - 6 chunks of avocado, which wasn't terrible, but the arrangement wasn't organized. However, another time that I went to get a Spicy Tuna Bowl, for some odd reason, I have a nicely stacked and arranged smaller slices of 12 avocados. It's quite baffling. The taste does feel consistent, but the arrangement of the food can be odd at times. Overall, I would eat here time through time because it is a good place to eat. I'm still waiting for their poke bowl to come out though.
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