Sushiville

Yelp has a handful of fishy looking reviews for this place, including 5 star ratings from people hours away. I don't think anybody is driving multiple hours to dine here. I've been to a lot of sushi places, and I honestly can't believe that everybody who ate here and bothered to go to Yelp gave it 5 stars.

Here's my review, which Yelp marked as a not recommended review:

It must have been a bad night, because these reviews don't match up with our experience.

I've been eating sushi for about 25 years. I've never posted a restaurant review before, because almost every sushi place I've been to has been at least 'average' or better. I don't even mind the ambiance all that much - it's not the nicest looking sushi restaurant I've been to, but it's certainly not the worst one either. Probably in the lower 30% though.

This is the first Japanese restaurant I've ever been in where we weren't offered drinks as soon as we were seated. We waited 5 minutes for the waitress to come back and ask us what we wanted to eat, and still no offer of drinks. A few minutes later she returns and offers drinks. Five more minutes, and we get the drinks.

Alright, so, new place, even though it wasn't busy, I'll cut them some slack.

We order - and the menu isn't worded very well, the Sushi entrees say "Choice of 7pcs Sushi from Ala Carte Section (2pcs max per item) & 1 Classic Roll", which my fiancee and I both interpreted as seven pieces, ala carte, chosen from the ala carte section of the menu with a maximum of two of each type (two salmon, two eel, etc). When we started ordering, we were corrected and told that it's "Chef's Choice", although we can pick two pieces that we'd like.

As for the classic roll, we both ordered the Shrimp Tempura - which is under the "Classic Maki" heading. Maki is a sushi roll. Finally, we ordered a Black Dragon roll to split.

After she took our order, she brought it to the chef, and they began to argue - from what I could tell - as to whether or not Shrimp Tempura was a 'classic roll' or not. This argument went on for about 2 minutes, and as we were seated right next to the sushi bar, my fiancee and I just stared at each other awkwardly.

The food was prepared fairly quickly. However, when it arrived, the sushi pieces were covered in some sauce I've never had before, to the point where several of the pieces were unidentifiable by taste.

The shrimp tempura rolls were the smallest rolls I'd ever seen on a ... well, anything. Sushi lunch, dinner, a $7 roll from a grocery store. They were also covered in some sort of sauce, and the shrimp inside was almost entirely tempura (with very little shrimp). It didn't really taste that much like shrimp tempura, just sort of crunchy rice and whatever that sauce was.

Five minutes later the Black Dragon roll comes out, and it looks very impressive. However, as I picked up a piece and the Hijiki (a dark sea vegetable) fell off, the roll was about as thick as the tiny shrimp tempura rolls, and twice as long. I realized at that point our 'shrimp tempura rolls' were likely one long (thin) roll cut and half and split between my fiancee and I in our two dinner entres.

As for the content of the Black Dragon roll - about 95% Avocado. I didn't taste any eel. If it wasn't for the family behind me having spilled their soy sauce because the table wasn't steady, I probably would have asked them to take the roll back. I am very disappointed at having spent $60 plus tip on a few pieces of sushi, a tiny shrimp tempura roll, and a roll of avocado and Hijiki.

I give it a 2/5 because the waitress was fairly friendly, and so far I don't have food poisoning.