BYOB and under $20 All you can eat sushi. I've found my vice.
Went here after friend suggested it. Â All you can eat after 4PM - close with a huge variety of options is one of the best finds! The small 2 floor restaurant feels like a modern style 'hole in the wall' type visit. Very clean and pretty intimate, especially if you are seated on the upper level.
Ordering is simple because they hand you print outs and a pen with everything they offer for their all you can eat menu opposed to the regular offered menu. They had about 40 options ranging from maki, sushi, and appetizers, along with 3 chef specials you could choose from, one being the tiger eye which had jalapeño and was tempura battered. Nothing I had was even close to poor quality and I left a full/happy customer.
And did I mention this was a $20 all you can eat?!
Our waitress was super helpful and did the awesome gesture of bringing our friend out an ice cream ball thing for her b-day and started singing happy birthday.
Can't wait to return
Unfortunately wasn't a fan of this place, though I'm an avid sushi lover. Â My tempura roll wasn't fresh, and the seaweed salad was average. Â Service also was slow, even though there weren't too many people there. Â There also weren't a ton of options. Â I give stars for the yummy iced green tea, and the cutesy atmosphere.
Review Source:rice rice rice rice rice with a sprinkle of fish. you might as well just eat white rice at home. The seating is awkward, servers sucked, and the boss lady herself is super strict. I accidentally dropped a big chunk of rice on the table, so I decided not to eat it. The waitress actually had to bring the boss lady out over about the ball of rice. After a long negotiation, she finally said I didn't have to eat it. Through the rest of the meal, the boss lady stayed around and I can see her eyeing me from the corners of my eyes, checking if I drop another rice.
Their amount of rice is HUGE. It's actually laughable how big it is. You can definitely tell the boss is trying to maximize profits through these cheap tactics.
I don't know why this place has a lot of bad reviews, I love it! For lunch it's $14 all u can eat and $19 for dinner with more role choices
They have everything and the fish is so fresh and tasty
The only thing I don't like is the waitress
Ok so what I order one roll at a time ? Isn't that the point of all I can eat?
Anyways, it is a must try
And unfortunately they don't have a lot of spicy tuna sauce option, but they don't charge for sauce sides ;)
Three stars is exactly who they are. I got take-out but from what I saw the inside had a classic asian atmosphere that wasn't bad but nothing special.
I wasn't impressed by the sushi but it did not repulse me. I thought the sushi could have been a better prepared. The rolls didn't seem to be wrapped tightly and somewhat hastily put together with an loose & uneven rice distribution.
They do have an all you can eat special which may make the place worth it for you but besides that I wouldn't really recommend it as Tatsu is down the street and has better sushi & atmosphere.
Cute place / very small - quaint. I stopped in to order take out - it was a Monday at 5:00 and there was not a patron in there. The miso soup was not good / odd taste. The ginger salad excellent. Spicy tuns rolls excellent. Tuna sashimi - very good quality but very small compared to Butterfly. I'll come back for their all you can eat sushi one day.
Review Source:You all know me, I'm the all-you-can-eat-sushi guy. Â Well, at the moment I'm still the "Fat American Can't Figure Out Foreign Cuisine" guy, according to my nickname, but I completely figured out this sushi bar's cuisine and can sum it up in one word: Rice.
I was really hoping that this would be a pleasant experience, finding a sushi place that was easy to get to via the #9 Ashland bus near our place, not too far of a trip to get there, and guess what? Â All-you-can-eat sushi. Â Another notch to add into my AYCE Sushi List bedpost/belt (depending on your preferred metaphor).
The place is "cozy", and we chose a table in the upstairs niche by the big glass window overlooking the kitchen. Â Unfortunately the glass wall was a little high up and didn't make for a viewing experience.
What ALSO didn't make for a viewing experience was the laser disco ball monstrosity they had turned on. Â I don't even recall there being any music playing (although maybe I tuned it out for being a foreign language other than Japanese) - it was just an annoying green laser light globe shooting the same messed-up patterns of lasers all throughout the experience. Â There wasn't a party going on - in fact for 30 minutes, we were the only customers in the place. Â It was close to Christmas, but still no excuse.
Which really baffled me that the service was so poor. Â It took quite a while for our first round to come out, and the refills on water were also pretty slow. Â Sitting with an empty water glass while the attendant is standing in her little booth doing relatively nothing, not checking up on her only customers at the time? Â Kind of rude.
Then the sushi came. Â And it was yet another night of a "AYCE sushi place where the appetizers are better than the sushi" experience. Â This review is coming 7 months late, and yet all I can remember about the experience was the above, a reminder to myself that the miso was "okay" and the gyoza were "better than any of the nigiri" and "HOLY BALLS THAT'S A LOTTA RICE".
Some others have posted pictures. Â They are indeed the truth. Â And I have added two of my own that were taken to display 1) a sampling of some of the rolls and 2) THE RICE. Â I believe one photo shows a roll that is clearly 80% rice by volume. Â That's nowhere near acceptable for nigiri sushi, let alone a freakin' maki.
It takes a helluva lot for me to have to ding an All-You-Can-Eat Sushi place down to the 1-star level. Â And this place offered a helluva lot to convince me that it's the proper decision.
And please don't call me a "sushi snob". Â I believe my AYCE Sushi List speaks for itself that I know what I'm talking about but by no means so I engage in sushi snobbery. Â I'm just a Fat American who disapproves of an establishment trying to punish me for eating all I can eat by serving me over 80% rice.
Trader Joe's sushi taste better than this, much much better. That's a problem. Avoid at all costs. I was really craving sushi and only had a little bit of cash but I should've saved up a little bit more to get something better. I know that you can't expect much out of an all you can eat buffet, but it's almost like they make the sushi so bad so you don't order more than once. That being said, I ordered a second helping just to give them another try. I ended up getting 3 rolls and a variety of sushi but only one out of the 3 pieces of salmon that I got managed to not be completely flavorless.
I don't know any other sushi places in the area but I highly recommend you go to Yummi Thai just a couple doors down for a real quality meal.
The woman owner was yelling at her husband for 35 minutes before she got up stairs to sit me down, and then another 35 minutes to take my order.
She needs to stop complaining and serve the customer. Even her sushi chefs were acknowledging me, and tried to get her attention.
I like the place, not as much as Nagoya, and I can eat stir-fry, desserts, and sushi at Nagoya <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/nagoya-naperville">http://www.yelp.com/biz/…</a>
IchiWRONG is more like it.
Ordered a few things via GrubHub, for pickup, last night. Nothing was good, and only the tempura was decent. The spicy tuna roll was mostly rice. The hamachi jalapeno appetizer was nowhere near fresh. I ordered some other maki roll was that was sub par. A completely underwhelming experience, to say the least. It's unfortunate too. The decor was great, and the service (though minimal) was fast and friendly. It's too bad the quality of the food was so terrible.
My group ordered the all-you-can-eat sushi for $19 each, which we determined was a good deal if you were hungry. (The Ichiban roll, a house specialty, would set you back $14 by itself.) On the plus side, you can get (I think) every sushi and maki on the menu, as well as every appetizer. On the minus side, there are very strict rules about how you can share, as a well as a penalty for sending back food uneaten.
Having said that, I thought the sushi--and service--was good. I'd recommend it if everyone at your table has a strong appetite.
Generous two stars. Seriously. I don't understand how this place has 3-4 stars. Although I consider service very important, I think the food is still the most important at a restaurant. For example, if the food is amazing but service isn't that great, I would still give 4-5 stars. But this place is horrible, even just based on food. Although I am not that picky, I know my Japanese food, and this place did not know how to do it.
I did All You Can Eat, so I can't say for regular sushi or kitchen food much. But this place was the worst all you can places I've tried so far. My seaweed salad had a thin layer of seaweed and rest cucumber (but I've seen this some other places so okay fine), tempura was very greasy when it should be light and crispy, and the sauce was so bland. But the worst part was nigiri. It literally had a handful of rice at the bottom--ok, exaggerated--but the rice portion was larger than fish piece. WHAT. And quality of salmon and white tuna were just... blegh. I think I got the crazy maki, which had just incredible amt of rice in it. I had my fair share of AYCE so i know they put a lot of rice at AYCE places, but this was more than any other places I've ever been. Worst, the maki didn't even taste that great.
I usually make sure I get my money's worth out of AYCE, and I wouldn't say it takes a lot for me to say the food taste good. But after about 2 appt, 2 piece of nigiri, and a maki roll, I didn't want to eat anymore--and the only reason I finished it is because I didn't want to get charged for it. And that's seriously saying a lot.
Average for portion sizes considering rice is plentiful compared to the fish that was anticipated to be consumed.
They tried to get me to eat the rice that fell on the table (I placed the rice back on the plate so they could take it back to the kitchen). This place really depends on the chef for the day. One chef makes the portion like actual sushi whereas one just makes it with a huge chunk of rice...
Kitchen blares of cantonese speakers, music is japanese and pretty upbeat, watchful boss, romantic atmosphere, and ok service.
A Generous 2 star (Only because I save 1 star for the restaurants with rude attitude and/or worst food in the world)
The food is edible, but it stops there. Â Freshness is just above the threshold. Â Even if they offer all you can eat for less than 20 bucks, it is no use for a sushi lover because their portion of rice is way too big so that you would be bothered. Â If I give 2 stars to a restaurant that gives you AYCE sushi for less than 20, then... Maybe you just wanna have some rolls or other grilled dishes here (which I never tried before).
Wish I could give a nonstar or a half or 0.1.
I ordered naba udon and yakisoba and spicy tuna roll through grubhub. And it took an hour and half. First of all, naba yaki udon is not fried one, it's with broth, which I didn't know, so fare enough.
But the tuna roll was soggy, and the yaki soba was soooooooo plain. I even forced my classmates to try and all of them didn't like it. It is not "not good", it was " terrible" side.
So I called them and complaint about it, and the Chinese host kept repeating saying that other people ordered that noodle, and if they bring a sauce or new food, they need to pay delivery person again. What the f**k, you can first say that you're sorry, and she was just making an excuse.
And she put me on hold and never return on my call for 10 minutes.
I didn't check Grubhub rating before order, which was 2.5 stars, I regret ordering there. Complete waste of money and time, and put me in really awful mood.
DO NOT go, or order.
Everytime I finish a meal that I order from here, I tell myself to never order from here again. Â Yet, I continue to order take out time after time due to the close proximity of the restaurant and the severity of my sushi cravings.
Couple days ago, I ordered a lot of nigiris, and let me just say that the sushi rice was mushy and tasted like old vinegar.  It was not edible.  I ended up picking  the fish off the top.
If you plan on eating here, my advice is to just get sashimi.
The time honored tradition started early this year Sushay Tuesday by the founder "Me" a bit corny but corny is good on most days.
So we go to celebrate the day but start off at the Jewel on Ashland/Roosevelt it's BYOB so I had to get wine and beer. Makes for more interesting nights (insert smile here)
We arrive and there are patrons on the patio enjoying the good weather but I opted to stay inside beat the bugs rush...or so I thought. We're greeted by the host and ask where we would like to be seated. We take a seat near the kitchen and watch the chef's create meanwhile were swatting at flies in the dining area.
So we get our little piece of paper with rolls/appetizers on it I check off two only just to get things started. The sushi comes and its real good all to the delight of my girlfriend and I. We went through the bottle of wine and a beer well the beer would be all me.
I mastered nine rolls and two apps I'm proud to say I got my money's worth. The ambiance is a little less to be desired unless you have the stadiums booth seats in the far right corner over looking the chefs.
Ultimately a good choice for sushi, reasonably price, BYOB and it's all you can eat. #Winner#....
My boyfriend and I went because he was hungry and I couldn't decide what to eat. Â As soon as we walked in, I noticed that the servers were around our age (20-25) and were very nonchalant and seemed unfriendly. Â During our meal, they didn't check up on us and only came when we asked them to.
Not being a big fan of sushi in the first place, other than salmon and maki rolls, I stupidly ordered their fried rice. Â The portion was extremely small and while the taste was okay, I stopped eating as soon as I saw a hair. Â While I'm not the one to be very picky and would normally just pick the hair out and continue eating around it, this hair looked like a pubic hair. Â Disgusted, I notified the server and he looked at the hair and examined it, as if he couldn't tell it was a hair.
I didn't want to order anything else, but my boyfriend insisted that I did and I ended up ordering a plate of tempura which ended up being somewhere around $12.
Overall, ridiculously priced, not very clean and unfriendly wait staff.
Been here multiple times this past year- the most recent have confirmed a decline in waitstaff and sushi quality.
Yes the rice is a little excessive. Yes they charge you for rice left. Yes they will limit how much sushi you can initially order- I don't remember how many but they count. On top of that I feel the waitstaff has gotten more rude. Â
I think if you want good sushi- theres a nice place down Taylor called Tatsu. Or if you want to go the extra (1000) miles- you can't go wrong with West Coast fish.
Not bad. For the price, it really isn't bad. i love how their all you can eat menu is very varied, from noodles to spring roles, and edamame (which is cold and nasty)
The rolls were yummy. Okay, I'd say. I agree with everyone that they add WAY too much rice, and the rice is dry-ish. For the price of 18.95, I could get an all you can eat at House of Sushi and Noodles, which has WAY better sushi rolls.
The reason for the low rating was the service. We had a young man wait our table, and he was not rude to us, and he did fill our water, however he made the experience totally uncomfortable. We came in with a party of 5 and one of us didn't get the all you can eat option and ordered her own meal. The waiter kept STARRING US DOWN. I guess this was to make sure we didn't share food with the person who didn't buy the buffet, but COME ON...?! That was so awkward.....
He wouldn't stop looking at us and making eye contact. I felt like a baby, or a criminal. It was annoying.
Tip: Next time, please don't be a creeper. It is really not worth what she would of ate if she cheated to me writing this horrible review of you based on the creep and not on the food.
Still a huge fan of this place. Yes, your expectation shouldn't be over the moon, but I believe Ichiban exceeds mid to high range expectations anyways. The sushi is fresh, some pieces do come with too much rice, but you can pick the fish off.
Go here to enjoy friends, great sushi, and a bottle of wine that you bring. Any BYOB gets at least a 4 or 5....because my pocket book is happier.
all you can eat sushi! yay!!
BOOOOO!
poorly made, not fresh salmon and produce, over priced.
me and my girlfriend both had the all you can eat sushi for $18.95 and a green tea $1.00.
with a tiny 10% tip, we spent 50$.
we got some nasty green tea, with no sort of refill, 4 maki rolls, and 3 pieces of sushi. one roll had 4 huge apple slices in each piece, a tiny piece of crab, and some eel sauce drizzled. the pieces were so big i couldnt even fit them in my mouth.
SO MUCH RICE! SO MUCH brown nasty APPLE! so little fish!
another roll was a dime sized piece of white tuna surrounded by mounds and mounds of rice with alittle spicy mayo and crunchys on top.
terrible.
the sushi pieces consisted of the thinnest piece of fish ive ever seen and literally a fist full of rice.
if you dont eat all the rice they charge you.
bullpucky.
we ate so much rice.
it wasnt even good rice.
im so disappointed.
for 50 bucks we couldve gone to a nice byob sushi place and gotten 3 nice maki's and 2 sashimi's worth of delicious sushi.
sushi with fresh yummy fish in it!
that is what i require!!!
I went here yesterday for lunch. It's a cute little spot for a casual sushi meal. The owner was very nice. I was really excited to find an all you can eat sushi place that isn't a buffet, b/c since I moved from New England (where Sushi Palace is in New Haven, CT), I've been missing great sushi for a set price. So, I had high hopes for Ichiban, but they fell short.
They put a lot of rice on the rolls, which is typical for many all-you-can-eat places, but it's definitely not a good thing. The quality of the fish was fine - nothing amazing, but not bad. The spicy tuna was too spicy for me, but I don't have a lot of spice tolerance, so others may enjoy it more.
The edamame was cold. They serve it that way on purpose, apparently, but it can be warmed if you ask them.
All in all, it was an OK experience, but I think I'd rather pay more money and get better sushi with less rice.
I was almost disgusted by this place. I put the "almost" in that sentence out of politeness.
We ordered takeout from here about a week ago - and could not be more disappointed that we deviated from our normal Osaka 2 habit. Anyway, we ordered a standard couple of rolls - Tuna and Avocado, Spicy Salmon, and some Shrimp Tempura option, along with Edamame.
At first look, I knew it was going to be bad. The rolls were nearly ALL rice. Some actually had fillings in them smaller than my fingertips. They must have used one piece of shrimp for the entire roll, no joke. I can't even comment on the flavor of the shrimp because there wasn't enough there to judge. Then, I noticed the tuna was BLACK instead of the usual red color. That means it had been oxidized and was probably old, or incorrectly prepared. I choked down one or two pieces because I had paid for the roll and was hungry, and then threw out the rest. Finally, the edamame was refrigerator-cold, with no salt or flavor.
I will never order from here again. It's just not worth it with the abundance of sushi in the area. Â Osaka 2 is about two blocks further east on Taylor and is SUPER fresh/tasty, and Tatsu isn't bad either. If only any of them had brown rice...
I will preface this by saying I am not a sushi snob. Â However I have stopped getting sushi from Dominick's because who the hell puts carrots in their california roll? Â Gross. Â Big honking carrots.
Anyways, I just like rolls. Â I'll go for the sashimi once in awhile but I really love all of the gooey rolls that require you to smash everything in your mouth in one bite and spend the next 12-15 minutes chewing. Â Yum.
Also, I love cream cheese. Â Have I mentioned that? Â See my name above. Â Anyways, we stumbled upon Ichiban while looking for a BYOB place close by that was pretty reasonable. Â We didn't know about the all-u-can-eat until we walked in but it was a nice surprise. Â Under $40 for the two of us to eat all of the maki roll goodness we could.
I made the mistake of letting my husband order for the both of us and I think he went a little overboard and didn't get too much variety. Â However, everything was really good. Â We got the standard spicy tuna and california rolls, Boston roll I think and the Rock and Roll. Â That was our favorite out of the 5 or 6 we ordered. Â We were both stuffed but I convinced both of us to try the Ichiban roll and it was a delicious choice. Â The apples were an odd choice but they worked, yummy. Â I would go back and just get five orders of that.
So for a close, cheap place, this is perfect for me and all of the snobby, sushi eaters can leave this place comfortably uncrowded for me, thanks.
When I moved to Chicago, I was in need of my all you can eat sushi fix. Coming from Naperville, I always ate at Sakura. After experiencing all the sushi places on Taylor Street I have definitely fell in love with Ichiban. I can't give it a full 5 stars because it still doesn't have as much variety as I wish it had on it's all you can eat menu. For example, most all you can eat sushi places have amaebi or ebi (sweet shrimp & regular shrimp sushi) and Ichiban only carries that on their regular menu.
$13.95 however is very cheap for lunch before 4pm. $18.95 for their dinner is reasonable. Their choices of maki rolls and special rolls is amazing. Their Ichiban roll is my favorite. It was mangoes and apples which I thought would be strange but worth a try & I'm very happy I tried it.
Their salad dressing is also delicious. I buy a pint of it to bring home which I use for both dressing salad and as a dipping sauce for things like french garlic breaded shrimp!
BYOB and then.. I don't know..
Rolls are rolled in lots of rice, sometimes part of the piece of seaweed is stuck between two layers of rice. Don't get me wrong.. the price for buffet is a pretty good deal. Doesn't require a far drive if you're from south side, south loop, etc.. it's not fine dining, just a sushi restaurant.
The sushi pieces were also pretty terrible... lots of rice and thin fillet of fish on top; the tuna was practically see through.
My friends got the buffet deal. I didn't feel like carbo loading so I went with some sashimi and seaweed salad. The seaweed salad is good as well as presentation, but the fish cuts suck. Each piece ranges between $2-3. At that price/cut factoring in decor and type of location I definitely had better. You're here because you love fish as a garnish. Â
Service is nice, but then again.. one waitress for 2 tables while I was there on a Saturday night.
Kind of overpriced sushi. My rolls tasted way more ricey, with small insertions of sashimi pieces. Service staff outnumbered clientèle it felt like. I've had way better sushi for less money elsewhere. How are college kids supposed to afford this crap? A couple of the sushi pieces hit the spot, such as the eel roll and smelt roe. My buddy got the unlimited sushi for $18.95 deal and the staff was watching like hawk vultures to make sure he didn't share any pieces with any one else. In addition to that they reminded him that they would charge him for having leftovers. Kind of a dinnertime buzzkill right there.
Overall, if you are very close by and have to have sushi, you can hit this place up. But if you can go a little further to a better place, I highly suggest that.
Want REALLY fresh sushi? Want to eat until you need to roll out of the restaurant from being too full? Â How about hurting your butt when you roll out of the restaurant (from your still fat money-laden wallet that Ichiban barely puts a dent into)? Â Then come to Ichiban.
All-you-can-eat sushi at a great price. Â The lunch price is $13.95 and is a very innovative menu and very complete. Â They offer nigiri (regular sushi pieces), maki rolls of MANY MANY MANY types, and even crazy innovative rolls. Â Unlike other places, Ichiban has no limit to how much sushi you can order per plate (i.e. Hiro's Cafe and House of Sushi and Noodles....). Â This is fantastic - order whatever you want, however much you want, and enjoy yourselves. Â But you will have to pay for whatever you cannot finish of course!
Here is a little known secret.... Are you ready?.... Â Alrighty, Â Go to Ichiban's website (located on this same Yelp page) and check out their "Promotions." Â They have coupons for lunch, dinner, and takeout. Â 10% off is a nice offering. Â
Great service, AMAZING sushi (the BEST tuna nigiri from all of the many all-you-can-eat sushi places in chicago - and yes, I have tried them all and eaten at all of the places over 4 times a piece). Â A+.
(Anata no kangei)
I wrote a sushi review for a place near my work before... I was never a big fan of sushi mostly because my only experiences with it included such obnoxious service (as was the case with the other restaurant) or it's been a sushi platter bought from Costco. Â I've since been here a few times and each time gotten the all you can eat deal. Â Their specialty rolls (on the dinner only menu) are pretty good, but you're not missing out on much if you decide to go at lunch time. Â Most of the dinner only rolls have eel which I think is a rubbery mess of disgusting fishyness that doesn't ever belong in my mouth again, so I try to go at lunch time.
The real winner is the Ichiban roll. Â Shrimp tempura, crab legs, spicy mayo, APPLE (genius on this roll), and it is on the all you can eat list for lunch... last time I went I ordered 3 of these rolls and just a few other items.
I came here on a blustery spring Saturday to see if this Japanese restaurant would be a location I would frequent when craving sushi. Â NOTE: Â Like other all-you-can-order/eat places, you will be charged extra for sushi you don't eat.
The Good: Â To echo the other reviewers, the service was good. Â I felt like they were very attentive to my guest and me all throughout the dinner. Â My date and I did the all-you-can-eat option, which is great if you're really hungry or want to try a little bit of everything. Â After my order was placed, the food came out quickly but was missing an order of nigiri. Â The waiter acknowledged this without prompting him and offered a suggestion of the Super White Tuna nigiri to replace the fish that had ran out. Â Bonus points for the waiter's upfront nature and his recommendation. Â The tuna was very fresh and had a great milky flavor.
The Bad: Â The miso soup was watered-down and the salmon nigiri was a bit tough. Â The rolls had a LOT of rice and the spicy tuna roll was very salty. Â Now, I'm used to having a lot of rice in my rolls after going to places like Sushi Para in LP but there was barely any tuna in it! Â Sad.
The Ok: Â Most of the rolls were OK. Â Nothing really popped out, screaming "THIS IS AMAZING!"
Overall: Â Good service with so-so food with some definite weaknesses as I outlined above.
I went on a Thursday night and it was empty. I love the interior design, it's modern style. I ordered to go. I wished they had a to go menu, that would be easier to just check it off. Let me tell you that I been to many sushi places and saw bad and goods. And this was okay place. Â
The service wasn't that great. I would've guessed since I was the only one there the host or waitress or chef would make a conversation with me or something but I just sat there and waited the food.
The price is okay, I mean it's sushi so it's not going to be burger price. I had Ichiban roll and couple of sushi pieces. Let's say that I had better. I got spring rolls for free but I thought they would be those clear wrap ones, but it was basically egg rolls.
For the quality or great service, you can go somewhere else. But if you want something to satisfy that sushi craving, it's okay place to go.
Our experience here last night was.. alright. Â
We ordered edamame and spring roll appetizers. Â The edamame were good, but the spring rolls? Â The only flavor detected was that of the oil they were cooked in. Â Decidedly not good. Â
The rolls we ordered were small and lackluster. Â And our waitress kept confusing who ordered what. Â
My pineapple smoothie with tapioca was so bad I sent it back. Â Still-frozen tapioca balls nestled in a slightly-yellow block of ice that tastes faintly of pineapple? Â No thanks.
The one saving grace for the night was the fact that the waitress offered us separate checks. Â I loved not having to ask for it. Â Very cool. Â
The space itself is pretty tiny, and the annoying mid-90s music they played on repeat was way too loud. Â
Don't waste your time and money here.. go to Osaka Express instead.
After receiving a coupon on the street for a free smoothie with lunch entree, my office mate and I were psyched to check this place out. Â We made our way there one day, only to find that they had opened, then closed for a week to do construction work. Â Today, we went again to find them open, eager to have some customers. Â We kept it simple, ordering one lunch entree for each of us and added in the free smoothie.
Watermelon Smoothie - Fresh fruit, simple, tasty. Â Not bad, not good, just a par level smoothie.
Sushi Lunch Combo - 5 pieces of chef selected sushi with a California roll. Â Now as a sushi fanatic, I'm sorry to say that this doesn't fulfill the cravings that I have... amongst the five pieces of sushi, one was too "watery", two had slightly fishy flavors (which should not happen with fresh fish), and the rest were just fairly average. Â The rice on the sushi was slightly overpacked, as you could taste some of the gumminess of the rice. Â The California Roll, unfortunately, suffered a similar fate of being "over-rolled" and over worked causing the rice to be pressed into a layer of gumminess that shouldnt' be there.
A highlight of the restaurant is that the service is quite phenomenal and friendly, with the waitresses consistently taking care of us.
They were advertising a happy hour special as well that may be worth taking advantage of with $1 pieces of sushi and $3-$4 rolls, however I'll likely never know...
Verdict: Â Not likely a place I would revisit for sushi, as it ranks low in the quality to price ratio for my sushi needs... Â Great service, but not great food.
A fairly nice Japanese replacement for my beloved Italian brunch spot, Irlandese. Â I'm not much of a sushi/maki roll fan, but I suppose their food isn't so bad. Â Located near the Medical District and the University Village, folks could probably appreciate more competitive prices, but their pricing isn't exactly outrageous. Â Like every other Japanese/Chinese establishment, they offer fruit smoothies. Â
A solid lunch option on Taylor. Â It remains to be seen how long this one will last (after observing 3 changes of ownership in the last year).
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