Kobe Bar & Grill

Came in to try the sushi. Did not have high hopes. Strip mall. Waldorf. Just wasn't looking forward to being disappointed. We even had a back up plan. Thank God we didn't need it. The Kobe roll was just what the dr. Ordered. Good sushi. Very good price. Pleasant staff. You can bet we will be back.

It is a small restaurant with about 10 tables and a bar area.  And one waitress, who takes orders, drops food, makes drinks, takes complaints, clears tables, and gives and closes out the check.  The girl is wondrous!

If you are not going for sushi, don't go.  They have fried rice and hibachi, but your options are very limited.  

The drinks specials are $ 5 maybe all day.  They have punches, margaritas, amaretto sour, etc.  It's their shining light and they were fuerte!  

The sushi was average.  It wasn't awful, but not spectacular.  And they seemed a little heavy handed on the sauces on my visit.

Our visit was horrible. The restaurant really wasn't very busy, but service was incredibly, ridiculously slow. We took my siblings and our kids out, and ordered a basic selection of sushi- mostly kid-friendly, simple rolls. It took almost an hour for our food to come out! LIke I said, it was SLOOOOW. There was one server who was busting her butt, practically running around the whole place alone. A male manager, another man who appeared to be a bartender, and a lady (hostess?) were chatting and doing things here and there. There were two men preparing sushi, and more people in the back prepping whatever they needed/deep-frying, etc. And still it took freaking forever to get our food. We even ordered some edamame, and it took about 20-25 minutes for a small bowl to finally make it to our table.

The food was not worth the wait- not at all! The descriptions on the menu were absolutely not indicative of everything they put in the rolls. In California, they put avocado on many rolls- it's one of their main fillers. HEre, apparently the thing to do is to put cucumber in every single roll. Except there's a problem with that- I'm HUGELY allergic to cucumber!  (only mildly allergic to avocado, but that's what Benedryl is for. Benedryl or EpiPen...? Hmmm, easy choice I think!) Anyway, it took a stupid amount of time for them to make two small rolls for me that didn't have cucumber (STILL not busy- on a Friday night. Should this have been our first red flag?)

The poor server was flying around the place as we were getting ready to leave, after having been there for 2 hours and spending almost $100 on crappy good... and she slipped on something and fell and slammed either her knee or her elbow. I felt terrible for her. I slipped her an extra tip because I tipped VERY poorly on the bill. She busted her butt that night, and nobody else lifted a finger to help her. I didn't want her hard-earned tip going to the bartender or sushi chefs, hostess, or busser, who sat back and let her do all the hard work. Bleck... just avoid it. It's no good!