Pacific East — Restaurant in Westlake

The reviews talking about ramen are outdated; they no longer serve ramen here.

This place has had a significant change in quality since my last visit. It is no longer a comfortable sit-down restaurant for a decent bowl of ramen, but has instead shifted its focus to meet a more profitable demand as a chic place for teenagers/millennials to get drinks and middle-aged people to get average sushi. It more closely resembles a fast food place than anything else. Even when dining in, the food is served in plastic containers on trays. And as you eat, you get to be serenaded by hits from the 2010s playing loudly on the speakers. But hey, whatever floats your submarine.

That said, none of this would matter if the food made up for it. But it doesn't. There's Chinese dim-sum for appetizers (along with takoyaki and gyoza) and sushi for your main course. None of the food makes the place worth going to. The gyoza was decent, but their sushi "super bowl" is rather small and is just rice with simple toppings. The milk tea I ordered at their lowest sweetness level was still cloyingly sweet.

If you're looking for good sushi, try Yuzu King (they're a couple miles east on Detroit). Or, if you must have sushi in Crocker Park, go to Blue Sushi Sake Grill instead. And if you're looking for exceedingly sweet, colorful drinks to ingest, then I am sorry for your loss and I hope you...

This place could have gotten 5 stars if the manager wasn’t so rude. I had paid to dine in and asked if he could get someone to grab a empty table for us that no one was using if it was originally seated for four (the tables were moveable) because I didn’t want anyone to think I was being rude because I’m not staff for moving tables. His response to me was that it wasn’t his problem and that I myself had to go move the table and see if someone would let me because it’s not his job to do that. Which I wasn’t asking him to remove anyone I clearly asked to move the empty table for us because most people are more response to staff doing something than a random person like myself. I also made that clear to him that’s all I wanted He then responded to me saying he can’t ask people to stand and eat, As if it was okay for me to stand and eat. I won’t be returning to this one for the simple fact of how rude and incompetent/ inconsiderate he was. The other staff was wonderful and super sweet they deserve a better...

While the food here is decent overall, it is very overpriced. $10 for 4 Takoyaki? For that few, you should be charging 6 dollars at the absolute most. Almost $9 for 2 red bean buns? That should be $5. The butterfly roll was more reasonable, only being about $3 more than what you'd normally expect to pay. I got a large non dairy kiwi boba for $7 dollars and for it's size that's pretty fair.

In the end it was $50 for two small appetizers, a decent sushi roll and a boba drink before tips, delivery fees etc. I've never eaten at the restaurant itself as I'm just passing through and don't live out here, but was I charged an absurd amount because I ordered delivery or are the prices this ridiculous if you done in too?

Either way, this place is definitely on my list of places to avoid. The food was decent, but not good enough to justify the prices for...