This restaurant offers one of the best sushi you can get in Cleveland since rest of the Japanese restaurants can hardly reach 1 Star. Sushi from Pacific East used to be better and something has happened to this restaurant in the past few years. They must have changed the owner, chefs or simply decided to go americanized. Rolls and Nigiri used to be smaller in size and fish quality were better. Now they are bigger and mush less quality. Rice is not well seasoned by rice vinegar. The packed sushi rolls from Whole Foods are better quality in fish and rice.
The other day as we were walking on Coventry with a box of left over from Pacific East, a lady asked me how I liked their food. She also feels that their quality had gone worse and is not going back there again although her friends have not noticed the difference and still like the food. I personally miss their quality back in a days.
Yes, it is official.
After writing the review above, I went back to eat at this place again.
I ordered some rolls, salmon, hamachi and Shrimp Tempura.
The salmon does not taste like anything, completely no fish taste.
Hamachi was blah again, no intense taste of the ocean.
Shrimp Tempura were of course very very yummy, because they are battered and dizzeled with sauce.
Each rolls are loose because of rice is runny. Veru sad.
I miss the old days at Pacific East...