Tennou Sushi Bar — Restaurant in Louisiana

I was honestly very disappointed in this restaurant. I typically love all kinds of Japanese foods but there’s a few things holding this place back from a 5 - star.

Service- I’ll start with the good (never give criticism without offering a positive!) So, the service was great! The servers were kind, quick and helpful with recommendations to help hone in on foods I’d likely enjoy.

Food - a few things went wrong here, the agedashi tofu had a weird gelatinous film beneath the lightly fried batter. I’ve never experienced that before and I’ve eaten my fare share of agedashi tofu… I love the stuff normally! But I couldn’t eat more than 1 or 2 pieces of it because of that weird gel stuff. Second, I get it- this happens but I def found a piece of hair fried to my heart attack roll. I could eat no more at that point. Lastly, while not a deal breaker (obviously because I still dined there) they don’t serve alcohol. I was thinking that at least a glass of wine may have been enough to dull my sense of smell but we couldn’t even try that approach. lol

Atmosphere - Ok so the good here is the murals were pretty cool. However, I’m not sure if I just have a residual pregnancy nose ( my youngest is 6yrs old…. So probably not) or what but wow… the odor of mildew/mold was overpowering. I’m pretty sure I have mold spores embedded in my respiratory system at this point. It smelled really bad. Then I also started noticing how dirty the window sills and over all build was too. The lighting is dark and makes it feel like 1980s in there. All of that gave an overall very poor impression of the entire establishment.

Unfortunately this was my first and likely last visit to this restaurant. I wanted to like it - I really did and I LOVE Japanese food but man.. those mentioned things above really hindered my ability to enjoy my experience fully and unfortunately influenced my overall star rating...

Good food, but higher prices than expected. This is an update: we have eaten approximately ten times at this restaurant. Our last visit was today. My family and I were looking for food that is not too sugary or carb heavy as my father is a diabetic. We chose this restaurant because of the fairly priced lunch special 10.50... lunch special ends at 4pm I ordered the lunch special.. without protest our orders were taken.. our food took about 30-40 minutes to arrive. Turns out she put in our order after 4pm and we were charged the dinner pricing which is 21.. we were not notified. I received my plate and knew something was up as the dinner comes with noodles. At first I thought maybe we were being compensated for the wait. I asked our waitress if this was the lunch special and the response I got was a snobby, "it's dinner time!" Make sure you ask plenty of questions when you visit this spot. PS hibachi grill is no longer in service.. so you pay the dinner price without the show. There are other places on...

STAY AWAY!!!! As we walked in we were stared down by a man without any shoes. He began speaking gibberish toward us. Still, we proceeded to walk towards as self seat table. The both seats were in extremely poor condition. As we sat I watched the cook prepare our food. He paused for a second to wipe the snot from his nose with his gloves. I assumed he would change his gloves but he didn’t. I went up to the bar counter and exclaimed “I just saw you wipe your nose, please change you gloves “. He indicated with hand gestures that he did not understand what I was saying. He then pointed to our waitress. I walked up to our waitress to explain what had just witnessed. She began to whisper with her serving try covering her face as well as mines in an attempt to permit other guests for reading our lips. This restaurant is extremely unsanitary. There is also mold in the women’s restroom on the ceiling. I am NEVER going back. For health, safety and sanitary reasons...