Herosame — Restaurant in Haverford Township

We ended up coming here for lunch, so roughly around noon. The atmosphere was relaxed, and we were the only ones inside. The food was AMAZING. My dining partner and I were shocked at just how good the food was! I got the chicken katsudon, and their sushi lunch special. The katsudon was so good, it was perfectly made, and they even served it in a traditional earthenware-style bowl. The chicken was perfectly consistency, and there was just enough sauce to soak into the rice to give it flavor, but not drown it. They also cooked the egg perfectly! So many times I've had katsudon at restaurants, and they almost always either overcook or undercook the eggs. The sushi was also exceptional. I asked for them to omit the cucumber in the rolls (I hate cucumber with a burning passion, like gag if I smell it type of hatred) and they did it with no questions asked. The quality of the tuna and salmon was excellent. The fish tasted wonderfully fresh! The lunch special deal they have for the sushi is a great price! Three rolls for $15 means it's $5 per roll, plus they give you soup. So not only do you save a few bucks, but you also get a delicious miso soup basically for free! The miso soup was also very well made. Just the right balance of seaweed and tofu, and it came out to the table at a perfect temperature. My dining partner got the chicken yakitori and the crunchy scallop roll. (They let me try some from their plates, so I could judge the food for myself) The yakitori was excellent as well! They cooked the chicken just long enough that it was still juicy, but not so little that it was undercooked. Plus, the sauce they used was so tasty, with the perfect consistency. Their crunchy scallop roll was very tasty, but it was a bit of a hassle to eat. It's difficult to tell where one piece ends and the other begins, so the person I was eating with kept accidentally eating two rolls at once. Also, be warned, this roll is very messy to eat! Because it's got so much on it, when you pick it up with chopsticks, the roll slowly disintegrates into little pieces. But, you're supposed to eat sushi with your fingers and not chopsticks, so that might be why they exploded the way they did. The service was excellent! The waitress we had was wonderfully attentive, and she was so sweet! She answered any questions we had about the food and helped me modify what I needed to be able to eat with ease. They also have a bar and a wall of coolers full of beer. Seeing as it was the middle of the day, we obviously didn't drink anything alcoholic. But at night, this would probably be an excellent...

A kitchen is a difficult place to create art, and for other factors like people needing jobs and having families to support I try to be fair and balanced. That said, read on for the skinny, and if you are the sushi Chef at Herosame, let me know that you have fixed the problem and I will adjust this review. Meantime...

The rice wasn’t sushi rice!! It was a small grained barely sticky something with little flavor and no structure. It shouldn’t have made it in through the door, let alone to the sushi bar and then out the door. This is a Japanese restaurant and this problem is unthinkable. But you, possible diner, deserve to know why:

The sushi would not hold together. We purchased $270 worth of top drawer salmon, yellow tail, eel, etc. And it all fell apart into soy and wasabi, becoming inedible. Once we figured it out we schmeared our pieces beforehand, but the damage was done. And even then it was nearly impossible to get the bites to your mouth before they disintegrated.

Sadly, everything else was fine, but sushi without top-end perfectly prepared rice is just a mess. And we paid way too much...

I had eel, it was chewy almost like shoe leather. I'm not sure what happened but when it was brought out it looked sparse and odd. But I hoped I had misjudged the dish but I did not. I think they ran out of eel and gave me bits of pieces of what they thought would be enough to claim it was what I initially ordered. It was more avocado then not. I wouldn't want to eat that again or anything like it. Please do not get sushi from here. My stomach paid the price. Your stomach will thank you later.

CLOSER LOOK THEY LEFT THE SKIN ON AND COULDN'T BE BOTHERED TO CLEAN AND CUT IT PROPERLY. WOULD NEVER GO HERE AGAIN AND WOULD...