Jay Shen
Google
I have been to several different locations for this establishment all over the country, and I don't think my experience here was too different from such elsewhere. My cousins, my partner, and I came to the downtown Atlanta location. I ordered what I would typically order and enjoyed my own dishes. But in terms of assessing the establishment as a whole, I tried other people's dishes and had more constructive feedback for those.
Normally I would get the Mediterranean salmon, and I thought the ingredient combination of salmon, grape tomatoes, kale, cauliflower bits, and quinoa was golden. The salmon was cooked with softness inside still intact and the outside very crispy. Everytime I get the dish, I enjoy it very much. I also enjoyed both the cali roll stack and the spicy tuna stack. They both were abundant in amount and creative in format. One scoop with a spoon and it becomes very feasible to get the whole experience. I would recommend both dishes to anyone visiting this place.
For the chicken bowl, which similarly had healthier ingredients, it tasted a bit too salty, which I wasn't sure if it was a result of excessive soysauce or other kinds of salty ingredients. I thought the ribeye steak had pretty sloppy mashed potatoes and broccolini on the side, and I would recommend more efforts on those as well even if I fully understand that steak was the emphasis. The poke nachos had good flavor but there were too many nachos and not enough poke meat, so it ended up becoming a dish that relied on some type of sweet soy ginger sauce for flavor, along with the nachos for filling. Plus the nachos were crispy wontons in terms of material, which meant that it was easy to get tired of it, which unfortunately happened to me.
Knowing that this establishment has many locations within the country, I have faith that they will thrive. Since they have a large menu, I know they will always have options, so if I visit any location again, I will most likely try some other dishes just to expand my horizon, instead of sticking to the usual.