Shu Restaurant — Restaurant in Los Angeles

My friend invited me here for my birthday. It’s located in a cute shopping center that’s the only special thing about. There is nothing special about the restaurant ambiance or the food.

The food quality maybe pretty good but food taste over all is not all that. It actually lack flavor in my opinion. The best thing we tried was the sea-bass roll which was pretty good. The crispy spicy tuna was good but not exceptional. The albacore sashimi was really good quality wise. The food over all lacks flavor.

The desert was a disappointment we got a coupe items which was ice cream and fried bananas and ice cream and some type apple kinda turnovers. A restaurant that does not offer great tasting deserves can never be a 5 star restaurant.

presentation overall was average and the service was average too. The best thing about the experience was the saki.

The reason I give this place a 2 star is as follows. When a restaurant is a four dollar sign that means that it is a fine dining place. So I am grading it based on a fine dining experience. If it was a 3 dollar sign then it would be like 3.5 star and if it was 2 dollar sign then it would be a 4.5 star.

In my opinion based on a fine dining sushi place this is the rating.

4 for Sashimi 2 for rolls 0 for desert 2 for...

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