Gu Japanese Fusion Sushi & Bar — Restaurant in New York

First came here on a Saturday for a birthday lunch. My friend had to go into the office nearby on a Saturday. She wanted Japanese, I searched online and found this restaurant, it was close to her office and had a reservation available for 1PM on a Saturday.

The food was so good that I devour some of them before remembering to take pictures. So of course I had to go back again a few days later with another friend to try more of the menu.

So far my absolute favorite is the fried soft shell crab. It was lightly battered and super crunchy, best of all the fried soft shell crabs I’ve had so far. Highly recommend this dish if you like seafood. The second time I went to this restaurant, I made my friend place a separate order because I didn’t want to share any of the 3 pieces that came with my order.

The Peking Duck buns were delicious as well. There weren’t a lot of fatty duck skin, which I liked. Perfect amount of sauce so you can still taste the rest of the flavors. Definitely one of the better versions I’ve tried.

Dinner Bento boxes came with rice and miso soup, a choice of salads (we opted for the seaweed). Just a note, the first time I went to this restaurant at 1PM, my friend wanted something from the dinner bento box menu and it turned out they have those bento boxes available for lunch as well.

I’ve also tried the Alaskan bass from the appetizer menu and the Chilean sea bass from the entrees between my two visits here. Both were good, but I liked the Chilean sea bass a little better, it seems more tender and of course came in a bigger portion than the appetizer. Salmon poke bowl with salad instead of rice was my attempt at a diet. It was fresh and light enough that I had plenty of room for other dishes. Chicken yakitori had a nice charred flavor to it. I could probably eat a whole order by myself, but decided to share with my friend so she could try it too.

Every drink I’ve tried had been great so far. I’ve had the watermelon mojito and lychee-tini, my friend tried the blood orange margarita and said it was also good. Watermelon mojito tops my favorite drink list this year. I asked for it to be lightened so it’s not too sweet, the perfect option for the summer.

Service was quick and unobtrusive. Empty dishes were promptly whisked away and empty drink glasses quickly replaced with new drinks.

Prices are good for midtown. Happy hour menu is from 3PM to 10PM!!! Great news if you have to work late and miss out on most of the happy hour menus in midtown by the time you leave work. The drinks on the right side of the attached picture that are not part of the happy hour menu are very reasonably priced as well. I’m already making plans to come back next week, this is going to be my new favorite restaurant...

I had my wife's friends visiting from the Philippines. They haven't seen each other for years. I wanted them to enjoy their conversations. In this restaurant, there was no one there at the time. restaurant was practically empty. Picture shows as proven. The waiters were very impatient, we had about 3 different waiters coming by. I understand you want to know what we would like to order. But it hasn't been a minute yet. We just sat down, and they kept on coming back, even when we said we haven't decided yet and we need more time, they came back 30 seconds later. Every 5 minutes they would come and check on us and ask questions, frankly we felt extremely annoyed. We kept on being interrupted, it felt like we couldn't finish any serious conversations.

The restaurant closes at 11:45, it's 8:17 and the waiter just came by and just gave me the check. Never had I been in a situation, in a supposed 4.5 star restaurant felt this disrespected. They didn't bother asking if I wanted dessert or if I wanted another drink. Just came by and gave us a check. To me that shows they want to kick us out. As I type this now I feel so humiliated infront of my wife's friends. I wanted to take them to a great restaurant and make sure they had a good time. Ruined. Completely ruined the whole experience for me. I will never recommend this to anyone and I will never show...

I work in a restaurant and what I’ve experienced at this establishment is beyond poor management, service and quality. Me and a friend got there at 9:30 as a walk in, in which they seated us. Upon seating the startling server came to the table to take the order when we didn’t even get a chance to open the menu. She said that we had to order really fast because the kitchen is closing and that they need to put it in now (understandable but very rude delivery). While we were still eating the server said I had to pay the bill now because they needed to close the register. Mind you it’s not even 10pm yet it’s still around 9:45. Regardless I still paid and tipped when I absolutely shouldn’t have for that poor customer service. The food was not good. I’ve been here before and it’s a decent spot I had no complaints but this time around completely different it was absolutely dreadful to be in there. The food was just not good. A few minutes past 10 one of the other workers comes to the table and says “sorry it’s 10 we are closed you need to leave” as there was another table behind us. They started to turn on all of the lights to indicate us to leave. When I got home I felt absolutely terrible. I had food poisoning from this place all night long I was throwing up everything I had eaten. Just stay away it’s not worth stoping by. Very...