The restaurant was closed for about a year for renovation. Yesterday my wife and I went there for the first time after re-opening. The place looks great and was packed, and the waitress greeted us with "You're lucky there is a table free. Half-hour ago,...people were queuing".
So what was our experience? We ordered (normal) Sushi & Sashimi for two and I had a cocktail. The bill: $100! The quantity was less then before the renovation - not to say sparse. We received the bill about 30 seconds after the waitress took the empty sushi plate back.
When I said we would like to order dessert, the waitress said "Sorry, we don't have dessert." I pointed to the fact that they had desert in the menu. Answer: sorry, but today we have no dessert. Wow! First time in my life that no dessert is offered in a restaurant.
I suspect offering dessert would slow down the customer throughput and prevent maximizing the margins, which would reduce the return on investment of the past year. The manager visited each table, which was ok. But overall, we didn't have the feeling of being valued as persons, but as payers. Part of their cost optimization appears to be hiring Asian personnel that doesn't speak English other then "sorry".
To conclude: too expensive, too little food, service friendly-minimal and not warm. Great interior. We will not go there again and are certain we won't be missed - after all, we were lucky to have a table last time. We'll rather stay loyal to the Korean restaurant around the corner: nice atmosphere, prices and quality good, genuinely friendly.More