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🤮 1/5 - My friend and I felt really misled by the sushi chef here.
By 👻 @Peggy S., 02/07/2023 3:00 am
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We were searching for a place that was relatively affordable for sushi, which is tough to begin with. As typical struggling-artists-in-LA, sometimes I feel out of place among other Studio City diners (1%ers) and resent when it feels like a restaurant expects me to treat my dining experience like money is no object by not addressing the cost or prices of menu items. That is exactly what happened. We walked in and didn't have a reservation so they seated us at the bar. It was confusing because the sushi chef, a young guy named Mac, asked us what we wanted to start out with but so did another server. Right off the bat, I should have asked if he was taking our order and how this would work. He was nice and said, "I'm going to give you VIP treatment -- I'm gonna take care of you." and then, "Want to sample some sushi to see if you want to order it?" While, yes, looking back we were very foolish to think this meant that he was gonna give us a free sample, he should have been super forthright from the get-go about how much it would cost and not have been evasive with deceptive claims like "I'm gonna take care of y'all" and "Want to 'try' another. He didn't tell us it was omikase. He didn't tell us what he was serving us. After two rounds of his 'samples', I figured this wasn't a free ride, lol and I pointed to the menu and asked what exactly we had ordered. He was vague, saying just the name of the fish, not the roll. Yes, again, I kicked myself later for not clarifying because I was worried I might get him in trouble for possibly giving us a sample if I drew attention to it and for fear of being impolite or rude to ask abt the price for his amazing creation. Nevertheless, it was obvious what I was asking and he still should have clarified. He gave us two more rounds. All in all, it was eight pieces of sushi a person. We also had one crispy rice tuna app and one sake (app $12 and $28 respectively). Then, (and this is how I know that he had a slight idea of what he was doing) right before the bill, he excused himself for a 10 min break. The bill was astronomical for us. $160. we were both still hungry and felt confused and tricked. He also charged each roll extra for making it "special". While yes, I was an idiot for assuming that he would let us know before screwing us over, he should have told us explicitly what we were ordering and the cost before he started giving us food. Of course, as soon as we left, we saw him come back from his 'break' and avoid any unpleasantness he might have encountered as we gaped at the bill...Out of that conditioned nice-girl politeness that we both suffer from, we raved abt the taste to his face, but the sushi, though tasty, was middling and definitely not worth the slipperiness of the chef nor the price. Oh, AND, my friend was allergic to shellfish. Though Mac said he would avoid it completely, she still woke up with sneezing, sniffling, and swelling that night, suggesting there was cross-contamination. Will not be supporting an establishment in which an employee willfully misleads its patrons, esp when there are so many other delicious sushi joints around.
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