Sakura Ichiban Express — Restaurant in Burlington

To Chefman. I usually do not leave any comments to other people's opinion. However, I just have to in this case. First photo shown is the "5 star sushi place from your review" those 6 pieces are $13 and the dish is called "salmon avocado" it contains about 70% of the roll being rice, minced salmon which might be 5-10 grams of actual salmon as you can tell majority of what it contains is definitely minced onions, and about 1/20 of size 36 avocado. Second photo is from Sakura Ichiban. For 12 pieces "salmon avocado," yes, it is the same dish and the price is the same; $13! It uses minimum amount of rice, 1/3 of size 36 avocado, actual huge chunk of salmon, which would be 50-70 grams if not more. I strongly disagree this would be the shrinkflation, as any individual with common sense would agree avocado and salmon price is much higher than grains of rice. Not to mention the same $13 offer 6 and 12 pieces accordingly, which would already higher portion difference is doubled I would rather have more goodies inside than having huge portion of rice....

The service is good - this place appears to be run by a family and they are really nice.

Now about the food quality...I ordered a platter which appeared to be a good deal on paper (66 pieces for $60) but the size of the rolls were disappointingly small (each piece is less than half the size (closer to 1/3) of what I would consider an acceptable/average size of a single roll). The other issue this creates is that the rolls are small so they break apart. I'd say it was more like 30 pieces for $60...in this economy when businesses are already increasing prices or decreasing portion sizes, or both, it's overall deflating and disappointing. We as consumers can see through this quality and the fact that we're paying more hard earned money for less. As a result I will only be a one-time customer at this spot. It's misleading, and sadly it was insulting that they called that an adequate portion for what they consider to...

Very disappointing. Sakura Ichiban used to be a great value sushi place, where you got smaller sushi but got more pieces per order, and the prices were fair.

But recently prices have gone up and portion sizes have gone down. The sushi is TINY (less than half the size of what it would be at any competing sushi place) and yet they sell them at full price.

I paid 25 dollars for 24 pieces of sushi. The sushi pieces were so tiny that I felt like I had been scammed. It felt like a bad joke. We legitimately started laughing when we saw it. The quality didn't make up for the tiny portions either.

This restaurant is the perfect example of shrinkflation. You are paying more, but...