66s Fusion - Asian Fusion — Restaurant in New York

(Longer review on yelp due to google lower character number limit).

Place's spacious, at least felt like it due to being nearly empty. Just 3 tables with 2 people each (including us), odd for 7/8pm on a weekend, ie. "peak" dinner time.

Ambiance Not bad, feels too "modern generic". Nothing exuded specific style not asian, nor fusion, comes across as lacking personality. "Fusion" in the name sets expectations for decor, unclear what elements are involved birthing this culinary "alloy". Applies to look, atmosphere, food. Not inherently a negative, just confusing and a missed opportunity to craft and leverage a well defined character identifying the place and drawing in patrons. Sport bar feel conveyed by large the TVs showing sports, news, farm animals documentaries, doesn't help its case.

The lack of style didn't bother us much, but music played did. While not trash metal, it wasn't a pleasant background filler either, nor an easy listening, or relaxing selection. Instead was rather annoying/aggressive contemporary teen-pop played on the too-loud-for-comfort side. We wouldn't mind upbeat music and it's not like we'd be expecting Vivaldi's Four Seasons to be the sound bed accompanying dinner at a self-defining "fusion" restaurant... unless that was fusing with a mid 1700 theme that is! :D The loudness and selection was just borderline unbearable as background music and it also had the effect to immediately turn the feel of the place into a "Queens, bubble tea shop catering to teenagers" and to be clear, there is nothing wrong with that, provided we had stepped inside such an establishment.

Everything in a restaurant plays a role. From decor to music, to food quality to service, including how everything is handled by everyone involved in any interaction with patrons coming to dine at a given establishment. Any of the items above can become disruptive to the overall experience.

It's not terribly difficult to be a nice restaurant in a newly developed neighborhood, even when missing on the opportunity of using the decor of the place as a point of leverage. We're not talking about trying to be "upscale", just nice and pleasant alone would already a brilliant achievement on its own! For upscale, overpriced, pretentious there are already quite a few in the close by areas that shall remain unnamed. Sadly there the overcharging for average to good food is a necessity given the outrageous cost of rents... therefore quite sadly in most such places the word "spectacular" will mostly apply to the bill one will end up paying.

Price Speaking of high prices, here is where instead we saw one upsides of 66S Fusion. Their pricing (so far) while not "cheap", was quite reasonable, provided the portions will remain the same in future.

Service Going back to the service, as the place wasn't busy, one would have thought service would be more attentive and food would arrive quickly. Not the case. Wait staff was "average friendly", but failed to acknowledge us while waiting more than what would be reasonable especially due to (again) being nearly empty. Wouldn't expect special treatment or freebies, a simple update would've been enough. Also no "discrete courtesy check" was ever done to see if we needed anything and if food was to our liking.

Waited 30 min. for first entree (Ramen). Sashimi arrived much later in a "grandiose" presentation, but was pretty good.

It's unfortunate we got the appetizer after first entree, defeating the point of ordering one. Likely forgotten or prep timing was poorly managed could've been held and finished once we were done with the appetizer, with the upside that doing so both entrees would have come at the same time.

Food Ramen: definitely not "rich", nor flavorful albeit not entirely tasteless Appetizer: squid 2-way was 3/4 one way, 1/4 another. Squid was medium/large and tender, 3/4 was served in teriyaki-like sauce. Taste was tiring after a couple rings, another 5 rings were battered and fried, missing lemon at the very least. Sushi/Sashimi: Over-presented, but delicious. Portions...

I was worried after reading some of the negative reviews but I ended up having a great time at 66s fusion.

Came in on a Wednesday at 6:30pm. Walked in to a friendly server who gave us our choice of seating, brought us some water and explained that all orders are made online and if we had any questions we could call on her.

I can see how people would be confused/frustrated with the ordering system but after taking a look and navigation to the AYCE tab it was pretty straightforward from there (thought the menus was limited at first but the AYCE applies to everything on the menu except drinks and dessert)

Here’s what I had: Shrimp tempura (crispy and tasty) Chicken Gyoza (flavorful) Takoyakiz (Fried octopus ball) - texture might not be for everybody Steak (medium rare and tasty) I M Q Yellowtail Scallion Roll Shrimp cucumber roll Razzle Dazzle American Dream (my favorite!) Teriyaki Salmon (well done. Flaky and just the right amount of crisp) Karaage chicken (just okay) 66s Fries + spicy Mayo(a bit too salt for me) Fried Chicken ( a bit over fried and bland) Chicken fried rice (Not too bad)

Note: they don’t indicate the names on the dishes when they are brought to you. You have to figure it out/ask

Drinks: the Long Island Ices tea was STRONG! A bit too strong for me but the bar tender was so lovely and accommodating and helped tone it down. He was kind enough to make a new cocktail drink for me too!

Cost: spent about $50 per person because of the included service fee and tax + $30 for two Long Island iced teas

Ambience: it was clean and somewhat empty (2-3 other parties were there) which I didn’t mind. They had an amazing playlist going (courtesy of the bar tender) and if it was any louder and darker that’s exactly the kind of club/lounge I’d like to go to.

Service: had friendly servers who cleared dishes in a timely manner. Food came out quickly too. Since it’s all online they don’t pay as much attention but when you’re able to get it they get you what you need. A++ to the...

Came here because I heard good things about the AYCE menu. However, service (and food!) was nonexistent. Despite there being only a few tables occupied (~5 tables), we never received most of our food. In our first order, some items were mixed up, although we just dealt with it and ate it. Our second order through the ayce menu just NEVER CAME. We watched other tables get served and patrons come and go. An hour after we placed the order, I went up to the counter to ask about the status, and they said they would start it right away. 20 minutes after that, we had to leave so even though we never got our food and were still hungry, we just paid the bill and left. We used the pulsd deal so thankfully we didn’t have to pay the full price of the ayce, but we were forced to pay an 18% tip on the full menu price of everything! I normally tip at least 18-20% everywhere but when we literally don’t get served half our food and drinks, it’s a scam to force us to tip that much.

Other lowlights- servers forgot multiples times when I asked for a beer, to the point where I had to go up to the front counter and ask for a beer to carry back to my table myself. Online ordering system was extremely laggy and slow, making it a struggle to even place the order. Even for the first order with only a few other tables being served, it took us 30 minutes to get our food. Several high value ayce items were also out of stock (including uni), severely diminishing the value...