"The Waitress Went Rogue"
We decided to try Bushido Sushi & Korean BBQ for lunch today, and honestly... I don't even know where to begin.
Let me start with the positives: the outside of the restaurant looks awesome. It has that "this place is probably gonna be amazing" vibe that makes you excited to pull in. Unfortunately, once you walk inside, it feels like the decorating committee got into an argument and nobody won.
There's bamboo on the walls, a samurai sword hanging completely out of its sheath while the sheath itself is hanging somewhere else like they're going through a divorce, random wall décor that may or may not have been Japanese writing, and then there's the TV. Dear Lord, the TV.
I like big TVs as much as the next guy, but this thing was less "sports bar television" and more "government surveillance screen." It was massive. I'm 6 feet tall and I genuinely think this TV could've challenged me physically. And what was playing on this cinematic masterpiece? A random interview with a soccer player... with no captions... no sound anyone could understand... just two people talking while everyone awkwardly ignored it for an hour.
The music also didn't fit the atmosphere at all, but honestly by that point maybe the chaos was the theme.
Now for the food and service.
When we walked in, there was nobody at the front desk and not even a "please wait to be seated" sign. We stood there so long I literally went to the restroom and came back before anyone appeared.
My wife ordered the LSU Roll, or at least she THOUGHT she did. Apparently the LSU Roll is only available for all-you-can-eat customers, but instead of simply telling us that, the waitress went completely rogue and secretly substituted a UL Roll without saying a word. We only discovered this after the food arrived and we checked the menu ourselves wondering why it looked different.
My wife said the roll tasted like sushi you'd find in the refrigerated section of a grocery store around 8:47 PM on a Tuesday.
Our son ordered the Bushido Roll, Pink Cadillac Roll, and Hawaiian Roll. He liked the first two, but said the Hawaiian Roll was tough and had the same grocery-store-quality taste.
Then came my sashimi experience... which honestly deserves its own documentary.
The menu says "1 piece per order," which makes absolutely no sense, so I asked the waitress. She told me they could bring out 20 or 30 pieces at a time and just asked that we not waste food. Great. Sounds reasonable.
So I ordered white tuna, salmon, and red snapper.
What arrived looked less like sashimi and more like somebody lost a fight with a vegetable peeler.
I have NEVER seen sashimi sliced this thin or this tiny anywhere in my life. I understand smaller portions for all-you-can-eat, but this crossed over from "small portions" into "performance art." The photos honestly speak for themselves.
To make matters worse, they served it on a plate where you literally couldn't pour soy sauce without creating a tabletop flood. I asked for a sauce dish, waited forever, and finally just used another plate sitting on the table because apparently that was faster than customer service.
And the grand finale?
When our son's final sushi roll arrived, the waiter placed the brand-new plate DIRECTLY on top of the dirty empty plate already sitting in front of him.
Not beside it.
Not after removing it.
Directly on top of it like a game of restaurant Jenga.
I have eaten at sushi restaurants all over the place and have never seen anything like that.
Overall, the experience was frustrating because this place has potential. But between the confusing menu, inattentive service, weird atmosphere, tiny sashimi portions, and grocery-store-quality sushi, this ended up being one of the strangest dining experiences we've had in a long time.
We won't be back, and unfortunately I can't recommend it. read more