On the surface, it looks good - it's setup beautifully, it's up on the second floor of a gorgeous old home. But...
...looking closely, it's just not well taken care of. Tablecloths are dirty and wrinkled, even the leather mats covering them are dingy with use and lack of solid cleaning. The same with the rest of the space - I'd guess this place hasn't been solidly cleaned, and certainly not spruced up, in at least that decade. Now, it is lunchtime, so I don't expect evening crowds, but I might expect more than being the only diner in the place... two people do come in just around the time I'm ready to leave.
Service is lackadaisical at best - there are only two people here - one the guy making the sushi, who is at the bar, cutting up a salmon, the other seeming to be kitchen help, manager, and waiter all in one - though of course that may be simply because they know they have little to no lunch business. He's dressed in old jeans and t-shirt looking like he could use a touch of sprucing himself. But friendly.
They have several lunch menu options - I go for the one with miso soup and a 14-piece sushi combo (380 pesos, including water and coffee or dessert), and, figuring that 14 is at my lower limit, I also order one of their specialty rolls from the a la carte menu (340 pesos). It should be noted that that salmon being cut up is it. They don't offer any other fish but salmon. Unless you count canned tuna in mayo. They do have prawns as well, but they're apparently not included in the "mixed selection", which turns out to be five pieces of salmon nigiri, four of sashimi, and five from three different types of rolls. To their credit on the last, only one of the types has cream cheese. The special roll is a rice-less one, with salmon, crisp salmon skin, ginger, avocado, and daikon - it wasn't mentioned that it was breaded and fried - and literally breaded, not like dipped in breadcrumbs, but they've actually rolled out white bread to be very thin and used it as a wrapper. At the least, the salmon is fresh, and the rice is acceptable. The miso soup is murky, but okay. All in all, just kind of an average experience. With a beer, and tip, 974 pesos all told. Yawn. read more