Promising, but needs work. Was hoping 4 months in they would have worked most of the kinks out but they seem to still be in their soft opening phase.

The menu was a minefield of sugar. Many dishes, like hiyayakko and sake asari clams, had unexpectedly sweet sauces. I deliberately avoided the sukiyaki and donburi (bowls) as they're traditionally sweet dishes, but then other items I thought would be safe, based on having had them many times elsewhere, surprised me and were sweet too. Other less traditional dishes also sometimes were sweet. But then the yuzu amazake was not sweet enough, and also not sour enough for yuzu.

The sushi was meh for the price. I understand food is expensive these days but for $230 for 2 and no alcohol I expect more. I am much more satisfied at Kaisen Don for the same cost or less.

There's very little soft surfaces in the dining room so it got very loud. Tables are squeezed together tightly and it was hard to fit all the dishes on the table.

They are short-staffed so our meal took 2 hours. Also they made some errors, bringing us dishes we did not order.

The pacing of dishes was inconvenient. We were told it was okay to order more than one skewer at a time and that they would be spread out and wouldn't come out all at once, so we ordered two skewers that not only came out together but also came out at the same time as a third dish and we were overwhelmed.

I also overheard some patrons being told about specials and desserts we did not get told about. On the other hand we were walked through every page of all the menus we were given, which takes up too much of the servers' time, which could have contributed to the slowness.

Some menus, like the sushi menu, they didn't have enough for every table and they took it away from us, meaning we couldn't look at it and order more without flagging someone down for the menu, which we were not inclined to do. The menus themselves are beautiful but are fragile and don't seem like they'll hold up for long. Maybe they plan to change the menu often enough that this won't cause problems.

The parking lot is tight and some careless idiot boxed us in by parking perpendicular to everyone else on that side of the lot, so it was a pain to drive out unscathed. The lines should be repainted to make it more clear how you're supposed to park.

P.S. We were not full after spending over $200 here and went all the way to Kaisen Don afterwards.