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Yes, the dinner was NOT good. I went with my family. All four of us were disappointed.
The service was incredibly slow, in fact, they didn't even care to tend to us at all. Good full service restaurants have servers who are aware of their customers at all times. Watering their glasses, replacing/clearing plates...
None.
The sashimi slices were paper thin and the quality was the same as what I could by at a small, local place downtown. But the prices are hiked up.
The chef's choices of assorted sashimi and sushi are sh*t choices. The cheap stuff.... salmon, tuna, ebi.... nothing special.
Their nabe-udon has BEEF and is made with BEEF broth. Do not be fooled because MOST Japanese nabe-udon is pure seafood.
Anyways, I will definitely not pay to go here again. We paid 14% tip, but wanted to leave without tipping since they barely left anything to remember.
Had dinner here last week and it was a very pleasent experience. The waitress was very friendly and helpful. Service was attentive, and tea refills were plentiful.
The dinner boxes are about the same price as many other japanese restaurants, $13-16 dollars, but are huge and pretty good quality. A dinner box is enough for a big eater. I also ordered beef tataki, which I found to be of a high quality.
What I liked the best about the food was their special rolls. The tiger rolls are really good, as is their tropical roll. I was a little disappointed in the size of their tropical roll, but it was at least very tastey and unique.
Will definitely be back!
Since my last review we have indeed been back many times and brought others to the restaurant who all enjoyed it.
A couple of weeks ago it reopened under new ownership/management after a brief closure. The menu is updated a bit and the food is prepared a bit differently. Their box lunches and dinners are now priced lower and a bit smaller (starts at $8.95 for lunch). They are still very big though as the previous ones were just ridiculously big. It's hard to finish them.
Almost every time we've gone they've surprised us with some item on the house. They are often interesting dishes too, the chef has some creativity.
The new sushi chef/owner seems even friendlier than the previous one. They take a genuine interest in their customers.
While it's certainly possible that the service, ambience and food could be a bit better this is the first restaurant I've ever given 5 overall stars to. That's because when I think Japanese this is really the only place I want to go to now. It's got that intangible combination of good food, friendliness and value in an unpretentious setting. I hope it continues on.
I can't stop coming back. I was there last night and I'm still thinking about the fresh sashimi and special rolls. It's really amazing. I think that I'm most satisfied when I get something that for years I have under appreciated and then all of the sudden boom!! it's my favorite food. It's life altering. I really can't finish this review with out mentioning the space.
We've been the regular cusomers since the first time we had dinner there. The food is excellent, especially the premium sashimi...The dinner boxes are HUGE! The service there is the best. They offer picturing and little toys for kids. They give birthday surprise... The Sushi man is so nice and can make vivid special rolls, like caterpillar and volcano.... We will defenitely go there again and again coz it's not just a place for dining but for fun and comfort.
I've been going there since 2005. The first chef wasn't that great. Now this is the third one I've known and the food quality I'd say is fairly authenic. Even though the sushi portion are not so big compare to local Canadian standard but this is what the traditional Japanese cusine all about, it's the quality not the quanitity. The seafood is always fresh and is top quality, (I'd say it for sure as I've been eating fresh seafood in my entire life, Asian like us would never touch the lower grade or frozen food.) The dragon roll is nice, all of the special roll are nice, good taste and good presentation.
We love Japanese food. We went here during the summer to take out and eat at the beach. Just one sushi combo (dynamite roll and four or five nigiri pieces). We thought this would be simple. We feel for resturants as we've both worked in them, but rudeness still rubs us the wrong way. The hostess was so abrupt and rude. Told to wait half an hour. She never told us this before we paid. This turned us off. The food itself was fine. I remember going here when I was younger and it was much better then!
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