"2015-12-12T00:00:00"^^ . "3"^^ . "I don't want to believe it and I don't want to write it, but Sake Bar Kushi is losing it. I hope they notice and make a change (for the better) because otherwise the trend is undeniable. It is really sad because I loved them before but now anything good remaining is from their early days. Other than those Kushi (meaning skewered items in Japanese) is rolling downhill.\n\nThe good (from the early days and still today):\ntried hard to create an attractive atmosphere\nnice decorations and dark syle\ncomfortable booths\nusually offer free food which is a nice and caring touch\nA variety of sake\ncool music but not too loud so you can speak and hear\nTHE SERVICE.. welcome you, open the door, walk out with you, bow, excuse themselves when arriving and shout in cool Japanese style \nlots of kushi on the menu\n\nThe bad (getting worse with every visit) now:\nFood is getting strange. I am sure they have changed chefs. Once they had very good Japanese food. Now they have fusion weird tastes instead. They now have oden. It arrived at the table boiling!! What? oden is boiling?? And it had mushrooms and seaweed inside!? And they forgot to peel the radish's skin! It was cooked with the skin on! None of these are oden style.\nThe skewers which were so delicious are now always burnt and have no taste. Er, where is the taste and could you not char everything? Also, we don't want Korean style hot sauce on everything please stop. Isn't this a Japanese restaurant?\nFish with ketchup. Seriously salmon and ketchup?\nChicken karaage has lost its taste and really shrunk in size. Two years ago they had great juicy karaage with taste. Now? zero taste.\nGenerally ask your chef to go back to Japanese style or bring back the original days' chefs who knew Japanese izakaya menu. If I want fusion Korean hot sauce stuff I know where to go for that.\n\nAs you see the best parts of Kushi are leftover traditions from their opening days. Nowadays things are going downhill. I think they have replaced their Japanese front and kitchen staff with non-Japanese and they are letting the whole things go."^^ . "2"^^ . "0"^^ . . . . "0"^^ .