An okay experience. Not bad sushi, but just decent.
Got here Friday at about 845 PM. The open table was by the friend, next to the open door. I was a bit cold so I asked if we could sit in the back. They said a table was clearing up if we don't mind waiting a few on the couch in front of the front desk, which was fine for me. About 2 minutes later a couple left, so we knew that would be our table. Well 10 minutes later, we still were not seated. Another person walks in for a table for two and the hostess proceeds to bring him to the table in the back we were waiting for. I got up and went to the person at the front desk hey wait, I thought that was our table? She apologized because she actually forgot we were waiting!
I brushed it off, no big deal I was excited for sushi. Sat down and first thing that caught my eye on the menu was oyster shots. We were going to order two and she explained 4 come with each order, so she saved us from getting 4 shots. We also decided to order the sashimi pizza as an appetizer. The waitress came out and apologized that there were no more oysters, that was really disappointing. She suggested we order a mackerel platter, which was $18 worth of the fish! This is compared to the I believe $8 oyster shots. I never had mackerel and said I didn't want to test it for the first time on such a large dish. We decided to order 2 pieces of smoke salmon sashimi. We also went with a hot sake.
The sashimi pizza was lacking something. The fish was okay on it, not the freshest, but it needed seasoning like guacamole. As for the smoked salmon, it barely had a smoky taste to it. The hot sake was tasty.
Next we went with the Ika Maru, grilled squid with special sauce. This was delicious. We also ordered a bottle of sake. The bottle was cold but they didn't bring out an ice bucket to keep it cold, which was strange. I had to request something and they brought out a carafe for it. Weird that they have the carafe but don't bring it out with the bottle of sake.
Next, tom yum soup. We only ordered one bowl, and to our surprise they brought out a large bowl since they knew we were sharing. The problem, the soup had the baby shrimp in it. I am not a fan of these shrimp, they are cheaper and usually do not taste as good. I like when they give the larger shrimp. But the soup was not too bad.
Finally, we ordered the angel roll. The roll was supposed to just have blakened tuna, asparagus, topped with tuna, salmon, yellowtail, eel, wasabi and mango eel sauce. The roll definitely did not have all of that. There was eel sauce, not mango. No wasabi on top and for some reason there was avocado. But I do like avocado so I wasn't complaining, just wasn't what I ordered.
They also brought us a free large hot sake, that as a nice compliment especially since we were debating ordering one more sake. We were at the restaurant for about an hour and 45 minutes.
In the end, it was decent but I would not come back. Kiku in Massapequa is the comparable sushi place and I would choose Kiku over Hama any day. read more