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| - Let me start by saying that a part of me wishes I did not come her for the All You Can Eat, because my score might have been a lot better. However, AYCE is what I will rate this place on, and our experience was a dishonest disaster. In a nutshell, an AYCE it is not. Once we sat down and ordered it for $20 per person, we were informed that the AYCE is limited to 5! orders of nigiri per person and the rest can only be rolls. Bad. Next we were told that AYCE only included "things in bold boxes". The selection was laughable - the only nigiri that counted was salmon, tuna, whitefish, crab, and smelt roe. Roll selection was slightly better. Seriously? We were informed for about 5 minutes about the "rules" they had - leave 1 piece of roll, pay $1, leave a kitchen item, pay 1/2 price, leave a nigiri rice, pay full price. These "rules" are also all over the bar area. By the time the fish was brought out, I was pretty annoyed. It didn't help that the nigiri had the biggest pieces of rice and the smallest pieces of fish I had ever seen. When I commented to the waitress that the AYCN was actually not AYCN, I got a lecture that their fish is so good that they have to limit it. Funny. I got the impression that the owners were extremely cheap and someone told them to do AYCE for marketing but they really, really, really don't want you to get it and if you do, they treat you like you are trying to steal from them. A real pity, since the fish quality was quite good and they had some rare specials on the menu like abalone, blue fin, and monk fish liver. So 1 star for tasty fish, 1 star for everything else. If you are looking for AYCN for now, look elsewhere like Orient Sushi or Takamatsu within a 1-2 mile radius. Hopefully the owners read some of these reviews of AYCE and change their ways or even get rid of the fake AYCE altogether.
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