Far East + Kitchen — Restaurant in Scotts Valley

The server, Lauren is actually who saved my experience from being really bad. The menu looked like it had really good options for me as a vegetarian, so I was really excited to try this place out. I was craving something more than you get at the usual sushi place if you are vegetarian, and they had a roll with tempura, veggies, and a special sauce. The roll came out and was literally falling apart. Luckily, I come from the restaurant industry, so I just grabbed the end of the roll with my chopsticks and used my hands to roll it back up tight and pull each piece back together tight one by one. I didn't send it back because coming from the industry, I always try to only send things back if something is truly really, really bad. The next issue is that i really was craving the chance to taste the tempura, but the tempura yam was soooooo small that you could barely see it, let alone taste it. And then, on top of all of that, their special lemon, spicy sauce was so overpowering lemon flavored that it overpowered almost all the other flavors in the roll. After such a bad experience on multiple levels with one roll, I just didn't want to try again with another roll, so I ended my meal with that and the warm sake I ordered. However, Lauren was incredibly kind, easy to talk to, and very caring about my experience. She did not try to make excuses for my experience (the worst when that happens after something like this!) And even asked me for suggestions as a vegetarian for ideas for their vegetable roll offerings. If I owned a restaurant, I would have asked her to come work for me because she made the experience so, so much better than it would have been otherwise. Maybe this restaurant is great for non-vegetarians (however, rolling a roll correctly matters whether you are vegetarian or not.) However, considering they clearly are making an effort to reach out to those who like vegetarian options, I would encourage them to work with actual vegetarians to improve on the quality of their vegetarian options. I would encourage them to redo a quality control meeting with those who make their sushi so that another roll never goes out again literally falling apart because it was made way too fast. And i would encourage them to recognize Lauren and give her a raise or bonus or gift of some kind because of it weren't for her, this review would not have had much positive to say at all because I would have been too frustrated and offput by the rest of...

Give this place a chance and the sushi will speak for itself! My husband and I decided to try it out last night instead of going to one of our favorite sushi spots. We were craving sushi and this spot did not disappoint! FRESH, yummy and creative rolls! Our waiter was super knowledgeable about the menu too and the service was great. There were also other no -sushi items on the menus that I’d like to try in the future. We will definitely be back! They had crayons and coloring paper for our daughter too. But I cannot yet speak to the kiddo menu because our kiddo fell asleep In my arms at dinner b4 ordering so I didn’t even glance at it. But judging from the quality, creativity and freshness of our dinner, I bet the kiddo options are great too!

One additional note: right now they are offering a discount on sushi rolls and you get a free meal on your birthday (with ID). Small and large Sake is also on sale. The rolls are already very...

Japanese, Korean fusion. The food is delicious. On different occasions we’ve ordered delivery and also ate in. I’ve tried about 10 different dishes and everything has been great. The delivered food was well packaged and we had it for dinner a few days in a row. But DoorDash adds a premium so ordering directly gets you more food for the same $.

Reservations to eat in aren’t usually necessary. Maybe because they’re new. The staff are professional and friendly. But the atmosphere and fast paced music isn’t conducive for...