I came to see the fuss with this spot. \n\nI sat at the bar and wasn't feeling rolls and snacks, but the AYCE sashimi for $19.99 sounded good. Your choices include - salmon, tuna, seared albacore, yellowtail, mackerel, wahoo, squid, octopus and limit 1 order per person on uni, halibut, red snapper, and sweet shrimp. They also do AYCD for $15.99 on sakes and various beers, but I did not partake. \n\nI got a bowl of rice to add on and it came hot, I should have probably specified sushi rice so I let it sit until it got to room temperature. \n\nSalmon - I normally don't like salmon but this was so fresh and didn't have that gunky fatty flavor about salmon sushi that normally turns me off. \nTuna - it was okay level of freshness, a bit irony \nSeared Albacore - I wasn't a fan, the sauce was kinda bland aside from being sweet when I prefer a bit tangy \nYellowtail - acceptable level of freshness.\nMackerel - It's vinegary as I like... I don't like how salty it is in some places. \nUni - was actually rather fresh and buttery\nHalibut - Pretty decent.\nWahoo - I've actually never had wahoo before...it kinda reminds me of super white (sushi escolar kind) or like ono and was a bit smoky in flavor. Then I found out wahoo is ono which is what \"real\" super white tuna is. Confusing. Anyways, I rarely see this fish so kinda cool. \n\nMy one thing about the fish here is the cuts on a lot of the fish were sloppy cut or felt like they were tail end scraps of cutting ala carte nigiri. The tuna was particularly badly cut. Some things were fine, and the salmon was neatly cut but also it's the easiest to do cleanly. After reading Kevin P.s review that once he showed he knew his stuff on sushi the quality got better and more carefully cut, it's kinda shitty to think about. Everyone should get a nice cut and service. \n\nThe female servers were pretty friendly and filled my drink up fairly decently. Sushi service was friendly but was a bit hard to get. There were two people, but the one in front of me was doing prep and wasn't making eye contact and the other in the front of the U shaped bars was the one taking my orders. Since I wasn't in eye sight, sometimes it took a while for me to get noticed in between orders and when new parties came and got their initial orders, it set back waits. \n\nThe idea of sashimi sounds good because no rice and such, but it got to be more one noted. At least in ayce sushi, you can break nigiri up with side dishes, rolls, etc. I think next time I'm here I'll try for a la carte or lunch specials instead.
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