The new up-and-coming sushi joint in Lohi Colorado left a little much to be desired.
I might chalk all of this up to them being new and working out their kinks still. This place seems promising however currently it's not providing anything better than what I think is in my opinion mediocre food.
Let's get into the detail shall we?
We got the miso soup, spicy tuna roll, the Hamachi roll, the eel hand roll, both of the skewers, chicken and Wagyu beef, and the udon. The drinks were a beer, a mocktail, sake and wine.
Drinks need garnishes, even if they're mock tails.
We loved the wine. Great choice.
I don't really know what they are trying to do with the miso soup, but there wasn't an umami flavor at all. It almost tasted like it was made out of miso with a little bit of some kind of meat broth. The meat broth overpowered the miso.
The spicy tuna roll was good. It was filled with fish, however, the flavors weren't really there.
It was better exemplified in the Hamachi roll. The lemon zest, the lemon seasoning the Yuzu sauce within the roll it wasn't popping nothing was popping.
Also, what was a little disappointing was that none of the fish tasted fresh.
The hand roll was good however I think the eel should've been chopped up a little more. It also seems like the eel was just covered in a teriyaki soy sauce and put into a hand roll with rice and cucumber. I think a little more effort needs to be going into how the fish is being seasoned and prepare prepared if you want to be a sushi joint, especially in Denver.
Do you know has way too much butter. It's kind of all I taste.
The Wagyu and chicken skewers seem to be coded in the same sauce that the eel was coded in, which I wasn't really a huge fan of. I think they overcooked the Wagyu beef.
Now to the service, it's very clear that a lot of the weight staff are still being trained. They are very nice however we asked our bill to be split four ways food and drink yet the server somehow ended up charging us for the full bill price plus the four-way split. It took 10 solid minutes to try to flag the server down and to solve the issue.
The owner was there and he does seem like he cares and he's very nice.
Onto the ambience and dish ware, I think while cute, the wooden bowls and wooden spoons on the miso soup really after wear and tear of being in a dishwasher, etc. they don't present nicely at the end of the day.
The main dish plates are broken glass, which is a symbolism in culture, and I do appreciate that aspect of it, and the inside of the restaurant is very cute.
Overall, I say this with a lot of love, I think this place has a lot of potential, but there are these kinks and issues that I think the restaurant needs to fix before they're worth five stars.
It is definitely a hard game coming into Denver and opening a sushi restaurant when there are 1 million other sushi places in Denver that are crushing it. read more