I proceeded to this restaurant and i was in shock on actually how decently put together it was; a semi ocean view and all right decor. My friends and I only waited a few min to be seated. we browsed the menu and it read like a japanese sushi menu(had sapporo beer, and saki) with 3 other korean dishes at the bottom of the last page. and our servers were wicked fast to take our order, but it was hard for them to take our food and drink orders over the noise. Because of all the reflections of sound coming off the walls its reverberates like crazy even with a few people inside.(like 25 total including staff and i could hear conversation from across the room)restaurant needs to have some sort of wall baffles(to soak up sound reflections and standing waves) around the room so people can have an actual conversation with out yelling. i would never take a date here ever the atmosphere is like a noisy boston pizza.(except without tvs) getting back to the severs they seemed to be on the ball intuitive and assertive to the situation like good servers should. we received our food very quickly, but in out of eating order that makes sense logically. the chef dropped the ball on this one, the food came out for some quicker than others rather than at once like normal sushi places.(normal sushi places also offer you green tea and miso soup but im not in kansas anymore or am i?) so i ordered 2 rolls and a chicken teri bowl over steamed rice; my friends had bowl of beef teriyaki over a bowl of rice and 2 rolls, 2 prawn/tempura dishes, sunomono salad, a chefs pretentious special roll made by soaking hot sauce all over the rolls.
so we received our sushi rolls and dishes individually with about 3-5 min gapes in between services (some of us had food, and some of us didn't at many certain awkward points in time of the evening). the dynamite rolls were way to big, they had too much rice, and the tasteless roll would fall apart just by going near my chop stick. the california roll was a mess as well. The cali roll contained 6 individual rolls which looked like a 6 pack of beer stuck together by the straight dryness and stickiness of the rice. i tried pulling them apart but the would just break the roll i was trying to eat and tear a chunk off the others around it(messy). my friends were having the same trouble and outcome when it came to their turn to eat( or when the chef felt it was time to let them have a turn to eat) messy dry, and much too large rolls to eat normally. finally i was the last one served i ordered the chicken teriyaki don bowl as you recall. it came to me on a hot plate and with vegetables for some reason instead of in a bowl like my friends did. As i started to eat i had a large crunch in my mouth, needles to say i spat it out. it was burnt rice my whole bed of rice was burn on the bottom like caramelized with oil, not krispy not crisp but burnt and the rice on top was over cooked. so when the waitress came and asked how everything was i told her my rice was burnt. she asked me if i would like another one refired it could be done. i told her no since i was the last to receive my dinner my friends are almost done and it just seems pointless now. so she apologizes and goes back. 30 seconds later the manager /owner comes back and tells me "thats how its cooked its crispy" as she try to convince me, i tell her "no its burnt, and japanese rice is not burnt. the owner/manager tried again to make me feel like i didn't know what chicken dons bowls were suppose to taste like. this i didn't like. but then she hounded me about eating it if she remade the rice, even after i already said to the original server i didn't want it. the manger more than annoyed me. i just wanted to get out of there so waiting for my friends to finish up i asked for a refill on my ice tea. the manger yells out for you its free! WOW thank you for my free refill i get anyways. this also annoyed me "cause it was like she was trying to do me a favor but she wasent i get it FOR FREE!
so as we are paying i notice that they charge me for the chicken teriyaki don bowl with the burnt rice i didn't eat. needless to say i would never EVER go here again, nor would i EVEN recommend this to anyone.
the website reads: korean Restaurant Soul Food Restaurant Seafood Restaurant
which in person looked like a try too hard to be a sushi place with 3 korean BBQ dishes to order. OH and SOUL FOOD? don't make me laugh; no soul food on the menu or in sight. THIS PLACE HAS AN IDENTITY CRISIS and need to figure it out quick cause what could have been 4 new customers ended up being 4 people telling others not to eat here.
one positive note, the servers kicked butt with what they had to work with. its hard with an unqualified chef and a manager who thinks she right.
waitresses staff 1
so atmosphere 0
the food 0
the mangers/owner skills 0
the overall experience 0
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