So a friend felt like treating me to dinner last fri, seeing as he just received his bonus and since we were at vivocity, we decided to go down to Akashi Jap Restaurant. At 8.30pm, the restaurant was still relatively crowded, but thankfully, there was no queue (the parking was quite a nightmare already). The menus seemed rather normal and a bit on the overpriced side ($20 for one type of sashimi!) however, we ordered anyway since we had already sat down. He ordered some beef thing (looked like steak with rice) and I ordered the tonkatsu set (both sets were $18 during dinner). We also asked for a mixed platter of sashimi consisting of maguro (tuna), tako (octopus) and kajiki (swordfish).
Because the place was so crowded, we expected them to take a while to serve us our food, what we did not expect was our hot food reaching us before the sashimi. In fact, the sashimi actually came after my friend was done with his meal and I was also nearly done (and I am a very slow eater). The sashimi was really good though, just a bit odd to eat it at the end of the meal that's all.
When it came to the time to pay up, we had to ask for the bill 3 times and still no one came to give us the bill! There were some people who were heading there to pay, now I'm not sure if its the norm here or they were equally frustrated and did not want to wait anymore. If its the norm, you'd think the waitresses could have told us instead of yelling on 3 separate occasions for the cashier to pass us the bill. We eventually decided to go to the counter to pay up instead of kicking up a fuss as we wanted to go shopping but seriously, you'd think that they didnt want us to pay or something!
The bill came up to about $90 after taxes. The sashimi is a bit pricey, 4 slices of each type (12 slices in total) for $40, though there is no doubting the quality. Overall, I think it's a slightly above average restaurant, not spectacular or a place that I would immediately think about going but not a place I'd shun either.
Because the place was so crowded, we expected them to take a while to serve us our food, what we did not expect was our hot food reaching us before the sashimi. In fact, the sashimi actually came after my friend was done with his meal and I was also nearly done (and I am a very slow eater). The sashimi was really good though, just a bit odd to eat it at the end of the meal that's all.
When it came to the time to pay up, we had to ask for the bill 3 times and still no one came to give us the bill! There were some people who were heading there to pay, now I'm not sure if its the norm here or they were equally frustrated and did not want to wait anymore. If its the norm, you'd think the waitresses could have told us instead of yelling on 3 separate occasions for the cashier to pass us the bill. We eventually decided to go to the counter to pay up instead of kicking up a fuss as we wanted to go shopping but seriously, you'd think that they didnt want us to pay or something!
The bill came up to about $90 after taxes. The sashimi is a bit pricey, 4 slices of each type (12 slices in total) for $40, though there is no doubting the quality. Overall, I think it's a slightly above average restaurant, not spectacular or a place that I would immediately think about going but not a place I'd shun either.
2 comments:
You didn't try the tamago sushi nor the Niku Udon!!
um.. no? I don't like tamago sushi. I don't like sweet egg, even though I know a good tamago sushi is a mark of a good sushi bar. I also don't like udon. The noodles are too thick.
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