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| - Decent, at best. As others have noted, the interior is beyond beautiful. So many interesting details to catch the eye but overall tastefully minimal. There were many well-dressed hip looking yuppie types around - great people watching and divine eavesdropping.
Cocktails were pretty good. Waiter said dishes would come out as they were ready, and they were well paced with beautiful presentation..if only they had been as delicious as they looked!
Food was largely bland. Sushi was best dish we had all night, but nowhere near as good as Muramoto. Gyoza were beautiful, but nothing to write home about. We also ordered the 'savory Japenese pancake' which was rather boring, despite 'dancing fish flakes'- or something...one of the toppings was very flaky, and when heated it moved, kind of like a sea anemone. Cute but tasted like tissue paper. Ramen was a big disappointment. I suspected it would be similar to Umami, which it was, but more bland.
Bottom line: interior and dish presentation raises expectations, food does not deliver. Probably won't be back for a while.
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