Chad S.
Yelp
I was really hoping to like this place but I have to say that everything about my experience was mediocre to average.
First off, let's start with the staff. There were three different young ladies as well as a male who I believe may have been a manager or an owner based on the way he carried himself. All of them were quite prompt and attentive, however it was clear from the very first moment of being there that the staff appears to be lacking direction and training from management.
I don't want to call them rude necessarily, they just seemed as if they had not been trained on how to really engage with the guests... The best description I can give would be that they just weren't that friendly or engaging... very abrupt, like the service you get when you walk into a Dunkin' Donuts in Boston.
The young woman who I believe was my actual server (only guessing this since she's the one who took my food order) did not appear to have ever even eaten here considering every single entrée I asked her about, she was unable to give me any feedback of her own. She couldn't even accurately describe one of the entrées that I asked about; which was a "blue crab" special. Anyone who has eaten out at a seafood restaurant would have had some sort of an idea of what this dish was immediately after looking at it, it was a crabcake.
As for the food, again it was mediocre. I had the miso soup, steamed pork and shrimp dumplings, the Fried "blue crab" (what most people would call a crabcake), A tempura wahoo role, and the dancing shrimp roll.
The miso soup was very good. The dumplings were also pretty good. You should note, these dumplings are smoking hot when they come out of that steamer so I will suggest letting them cool a little bit.
Unfortunately those two appetizers or really the highlight of the whole experience.
The fried blue crab (as they call it), was this really weird textured, bland fried crabcake kind of thing is the best way I can describe it. I was not able to find any kind of sauce that improve the taste.
The tempura wahoo roll was extremely over cooked. The fish literally tasted like an over cooked, unseasoned, fried chicken breast. Much like the crabcake I could not find any kind of sauce I might apply to help because on this one.
The dancing shrimp roll, which is supposedly a spicy tuna roll topped with steam shrimp wasn't bad, but again was average at best.
I can say with great certainty that if given an opportunity to eat here or pick up sushi from someplace like fresh market, or even Publix, the grocery stores would get my business if this were my only local sushi option in this area.
Man, I am really getting sick of writing bad reviews of places. I swear that seems to be the theme for me in Florida. It's as if none of these people give a crap because there's a revolving door of Tourist.
