Delphine C.
Yelp
I was so looking forward to trying out this restaurant, but was slightly disappointed.
Upon entering the restaurant, we were immediately greeted by the friendly host and helped to our table. I absolutely loved the main indoor room. It was the typical Miami vibe with cool comfy booths, aesthetic bar/lounge area, and sushi bar. Unfortunately we got sat in the back room, which was less aesthetic, but not a big deal, and I'm not complaining about that.
As for service, it took a little while to be greeted by our server, which was okay as the place was pretty packed. He asked us if we'd ever been to any double knot location before and we said no and he gave us a short 5 second explanation basically saying it was like tapas and the food comes out as it's ready. We immediately ordered drinks and then he went away. We took the time before he returned to look over the menu and decide which items we would pick for the chefs tasting menu. Now here is where things get displeasing. This server never at one point informed us that you are only allowed to order one tasting menu per table, despite it saying per person on the menu, so we had picked 2 of everything thinking we would each order our own 10 items. Upon him coming to take our order (we still had not received our drinks) he informed us that we could only order one. We told him we would need more time to decide and to come back. Upon him coming back again, we tried to order the A5 beef and he informed us it's not part of the tasting menu, which was never mentioned before or notated on the menu. Not a big deal we just picked our backup choice but i was getting slightly frustrated how this man has failed to inform us of anything regarding how this restaurant operates. We still had not gotten our drinks at this point and it had been more than 30 minutes. I reminded him and he made some excuse about the bar being backed up and left to put our food order in. Coincidentally, we got our drinks 5 minutes later (he definitely forgot to ring our drinks in).
After that, the food started coming out pretty quickly. I now understood why they only let you order 1 per table because the portion sizes were huge! When you think of a tasting menu you think of a legit taste of the food, but these were full blown portion sizes. We struggled to finish all the food, and even the table next to us agreed that they couldn't finish everything either. Some of the food was good, like the fried chicken and the robatayaki, but everything else was pretty sub par. The sushi was some of the worst I've ever had in Miami. The fatty tuna nigiri was such bad quality. I was pretty disappointed in the food, it was nothing special. The drinks also weren't anything to rave about.
I will say they brought us 2 food items for free without us saying anything/asking which was nice, but we were so full we only accepted 1 and had to send the other one away.
I feel like this place is very misleading. It says $68 per person for the tasting menu but only 1 is allowed per table, so what if there is a table of 6? Do they get bigger portion sizes? Do they get to order more than 1? There's no information on how they run and it gives scammy vibes.
Overall, I probably won't return here. I feel there's much better sushi restaurants in Miami.