Lea Wine Bar — Restaurant in New York

After my day in the city, I wanted to get 1) sushi, and 2) drinks. I quickly Google map'd "sushi near me" and found this place. It was listed as two dollar signs ($$), so I figured it would be decent.

My boyfriend and I walked in and were instantly pleased. He was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and though it did not look like that type of place - it looks much classier - they said he was fine.

We sat down and were attended to immediately. We ordered our drinks (just 2 Blue Moons since cocktails were ~$14, though each beer ended up being $9 each anyway...). As we sat there drinking, we were brought delicious, salted, complimentary edamame. As we snacked on that, we ordered a Phoenix roll, a Philadelphia roll, and a sort of mushroom pizza made on tortillas (I forget the name).

Everything was absolutely delicious! The whole bill, for 2 sushi rolls, 2 beers, and the tortilla pizza was $54. I feel like this is closer to 3 dollar signs, but I guess I could see it being 2 for NYC.

So my only complaints are that the price was slightly more than expected, and that the tables are a little cramped since it's a small place and they need to fit a lot of people in there, but for the quality food, these are...

Poor service. A party of 12 ppl came to the restaurant and ordered sushi. 20 mins in the waitress said it will take 40mins for the sushi to come out because it's a big order and that there is only one chef (which is understandable). So we waited...the another 40 mins passes and now the waitress brought one order of sushi and tells us it's going to be a while to receive our sushi since the one chef is making them one order at a time. 15 mins in, another 2 plates come; 20 mins after that, another 2 plates etc. Basically we waited for hours to receive our food and one of the girls did not receive her sushi at all in the span of 1 hour and 15 mins. At that point we complained to the manager. All the manager said that she was "sorry" and that we only have one sushi chef and how blah, blah, blah. After that very point, our waitress ignored our table all together. She was definitely "butt hurt." It came to a point that 3 of us had to raise our hands up to try and get her attention. Why are we paying 20% gratitutity? For what...

Meh. If you want your cocktail to taste like apple juice, exactly like apple juice, not bourbon with a splash of apple, but APPLE JUICE, then this is the place for you. But then again, if you really want apple juice that bad, you really should just have some apple juice. ... And, I know what you're thinking, why was I getting a cocktail in a wine bar? Valid point. However, the cocktails were interesting-sounding (but not interesting-tasting - and I tried two, thinking maybe I just picked the wrong one - nope. WAY too much fruit.). Food was okay. Crab taquitos solidly decent. Bartenders not too friendly. Gorgeous space! It's really too bad. It languishes in its beauty, utterly devoid of...