Tomo — Restaurant in Town of Smithtown

My wife and I decided to try Tomo because there was over an hour wait to get into Kotobuki in Hauppauge. I am always excited and willing to try a new sushi place and Tomo was not too far away.

When I got there I was happy and a little concerned to see there was plenty of seating available. This is usually a sign if a place is good or not but we were starving and were willing to try.

We started our night with a Tuna and Avocado salad, and Tuna tar tar.

The tuna and avocado salad had seaweed salad in it which I didn't mind, but my wife didn't like. The quality of the tuna was ok, with some chewy pieces thru out the salad. The tuna tar tar was not tar tar :) it was more like a tuna salad and only had tuna chunks, tar tar should be finely chopped tuna and sauce. We also ordered spicy edamame which was different, it had a cajun seasoning on it with garlic. Not bad but very salty.

The Rolls were fairly good, with the exception of them not made exactly as they were described on the menu, and the cut of fish could have been better. For example there were many pieces that had the tendons running thru them which caused them to be chewy.

The soy sauce was way too watered down and really put a damper on the experience. Of all the things to cut a corner on whey the soy!

I honestly don't know why this place has a 4.4 star rating, and I guess I know why other places have a line out the door to get in.

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Great food. Been coming here for the better part of 8 years. Friendly staff but quality seems to have taken a dip since they started the all you can eat option. Fish cuts seem smaller and not as good as it was, maybe it's just me, but the food is still very good. The loss of star is because everyone sees the warnings to not to waste food or possible additional charges may happen. In my lifetime of eating Japanese cuisine I have never seen any buffet or Japanese restaurant actually enforce that but here. Table next to us had 5 children that left food that they obviously didn't like and they apparently added some additional fee for food waste...its not like the kids didn't eat any of it, they actually ate quite alot of sushi and sashimi. Oldest could not have been older than 10. I commented to my wife how cool it was that kids that small weren't afraid to try sashimi....but kids are still kids...some things they will not like...but it's not like it was a crazy amount left...I just didn't understand the rationale of doing that and alienating a table of 7 customers who I'm sure won't be coming back for a very small amount amount of food leftover. Just a warning to those with kids...

Ordered drinks which came in 5 minutes. From there it was down hill. They took our order and never returned for one hour. You could see they were busy so we were patient but the excuses were what broke the camels back. The waitress said she was waiting to bringing everything out at once. Miso soup, salad, edamame’s, and all the rolls we ordered. The people sitting next to us sat down after us. They got their soup, salad and sushi that they ordered one course at a time and in the same one hour they were paying their check. When we asked how the people next to us were done with their dinner the manager said their dinner was easy to make. How hard is it to make miso soup? Obviously he is not a very good manager that he would come up with such a lame excuse. We said we would not be eating dinner and will be leaving. He had the waitress hand us the check for the drinks which we paid and left. Not a very good businessman. A lot of these people were there because it was a Friday during lent. My brother who lives local goes there once a week and swears he will never go back. When we come to visit we will go any place in...