Noori Sushi Restaurant — Restaurant in Essen

I ate for the lunch time all-you-can eat.

Though the appetisers are really good, same cannot be said for the mains.

The sushi prepared are not the best, but they are ok. Some foods are noticeably more salty which makes you want to order multiple drinks. This is a common tactic I believe, because salt makes you crave for water. They could make extra bucks just by adding more salt than usual.

I also regret to say for certain menu items they use subpar not so fresh ingredients, and you can literally taste that they are old. Most foods (other than sushi) are really oily as well.

Other than that, I am more dissappointed due to how late the sushi arrives (we could order the 3rd round when the 1st round of ordered sushi is arrived, ca. more than 20mins wait time). Some of sushi ordered havent even arrived from round 1, when we are already into round 5. We left at round 6 with still some of menu items not received.

But hey at least we know its prepared fresh. And they have a lot of sushi varieties, my favourite being the salmon nigiri and edamame nigiri. Staffs are...

Fresh, nicely cooked small plates, all you can eat. Some of the fish dishes are cooked really just right: tenderly done, not a bit over not a bit under.

Mussels: seems to be the frozen New Zealand kind, big fat but tough on texture so don't bother with that dish.

I still want to give 5 stars because: Theoretically you can order 10 rounds and a total of 50 plates, Of their best stuff. I tried 3 rounds and got completely full. They will lose money if you pass 5 rounds and only order stuff like sea bass grill or lamb chops.

Grilled fish fillet (鳕鱼)is very good. I ordered two. Two lamb chops (only). A bunch of other stuff. Best sushi buffet for me ever.

I can eat here everyday for a week. Unfortunately I don't live here....

We go here roughly once a year, give or take, with a company outing because the concept works quite nicely for larger groups.

The food is pretty decent, but I find it rather impressive that they consistently bring drinks orders to the wrong tables despite the fact that you order via an ipad linked to your table. Once would not be worth mentioning, but every time we eat here, about half the table ends up with seemingly random drinks. Now, you might think "ah, but they're a large group, maybe they just accidentally drinking each other's stuff", but no, having checked the bill afterwards there were multiple drinks nobody seemed to have ordered, as well as ordered drinks nobody ever received....