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| - Sujeo could be considered 2 restaurants, in a way. There is the formal dining room / bar (didn't eat there, due to being too hungry for the 1.75 hr wait) and the 'noodle bar' which is first come-first serve and you just stand at the door to the room, watching for the next booth (2 person booths) or barseat to open up. Casual and friendly, we didn't feel awkward or 'in the way' as long as we stood against the wall. Our wait was no more than 10 min for a booth.
We were greeted promptly by our friendly server. Drinks (1. Yup On My White Skis and 2. weekly special cocktail with thai basil infusion) arrived promptly and had complex flavors, though a little sweet . Food was very good and I liked that my raman noodles were wheat (house-made?), soft boiled egg and something in the menu had bone broth (the pho?) - this is an indicator of quality and nutrition, to me. My husband got a seafood dish with housemade noodles, which was also good and had a decent ratio and variety of seafood.
Service: A bit scrambled, because a busy saturday pm about 7:00. A bit pricey, considering at other local places where you can get pho and other Asian soup and noodle dishes, you get about a qt size bowl of food for $8- $10, which is made with exotic Asian meats such as tendon, fish balls, etc and is likely also made with bonebroth because isn't that 'just the standard way it's done' in UnAmericanized Asian restaurants? (like the ones where if you ask about an unfamiliar food displayed in the glass case being used as a standard cooler, they say "oooh, very good fish. No know how say in English, but in Korean, it's %$@&*...very good, you try" ) .
The main difference we liked between the UnAmericanized places and Sujeo is that our server was obviously 'invested' into her job and more than capable of guiding us through a menu with some unfamiliar foods and she was tipped well for it. It just seems like maybe they took the same (loosely used with respect of individual skill, creativity to Sujeo's kitchen) food as the UnAmericanized places, changed for wheat noodles, cut portions in 1/3, added fancy cocktails and presented it with upscale interior design/furnishings, then jacked the price. While I understand Sujeo probably pays top dollar for their spot on E.Wash in the fancy new bldg with designer bathroom tiles, is cleaner than many competitors, etc, I'm not a young urban professional with money to burn and will probably be back to try a few more items, but doubt I will come back for repeats of the same dish.
Note : bathrooms are single occupancy, with one can. Most of the time we were there, there was a 1-2 person line about 3 min long - really not bad. Still, maybe they would consider unisex bathrooms, since men's sat empty for about 3mins while I waited for women's? Dane Co Credit Union westside went unisex and a guy waiting in line at Sujeo said he'd embrace the idea.
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