I love sushi, but I don't know a lot about it. However, I do know that the sushi I had at Takara on Whitney Way was terrible.
I went out for dinner with my husband and we ordered a spicy tuna roll and two special rolls, the Badger roll and the Puppy Love roll. We also ordered some chicken teriyaki.
The spicy tuna roll was alright, nothing special but nothing to complain about, either. However, both of the special rolls used imitation crab instead of real crab. GROSS. Unfortunately, the menu states "crab" and not imitation crab. I hate imitation crab. It's absolutely disgusting and I was really, really not happy to find it in sushi rolls that I paid $15 and $12 for, respectively. What a cheap, disgusting ingredient. I expect to find imitation crab in grocery store sushi, not in a sushi restaurant.
The chicken teriyaki was also disappointing. A chicken breast on a bed of onions with 2 each of baby corn, broccoli, and baby carrots. Yes, two. Flavor was okay, but nothing to write home about.
We will not be back. We ended up spending about the same as we would have to go downtown to Red Sushi or Restaurant Muramoto, and the food was awful. Never, never again.