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| - I am only giving this review two stars because the wait staff was very friendly, albeit slow, but friendly.
When I see $$$ I like to think that the chef at least tries to serve $$$ food. Not the case here. Where to start...
Day 1 - the squash soup was bland and watery, with cumin and turmeric overpowering any sort of sweet creaminess that may have existed from the squash, paired with a lack of salt, the soup was an assault on my tastebuds. The dish would have better been described on the menu as 'Curried Water.' Next up, the Pad Thai - the closest this came to Pad Thai was the naming of the dish on the menu. The noodles, while cooked perfectly, could not compete against the over-sourness of the tamarind and the heavy-handed saltiness of the fish sauce and I found myself adding sugar to the dish to balance out what should have been a perfect umami! The shrimp in the dish were so small I think it came from one of those 80-100 count frozen bags you get at Costco. For the cost, there should have least been prawns (or at least 20-30 count bags).
Day 2 - Kept it light, sushi. The roll was typical of what I could have picked up at the cafeteria in the Cleveland Clinic (actually, I think CC tasted better). $9 for salmon sushi was actually a good deal because the fish was cut so thick I actually made 4 normal size bites - so a good value there. I will say, GET THE EDAMAME!!! It was the best thing I ate.
I only ate here twice because I was staying at the hotel. Overall, save your money, grab an Uber, and check out one of the other hundreds of restaurants choices available to you in Cleveland.
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