Kiyosuzu

THIS is real Japanese food! From the wasabi BETWEEN the fish and rice instead being on the side like Americanized restaurants do, to the wonderfully grilled shishamo, to the fact that most of the customers were Japanese. (Interesting note: the owner and chef is US Olympic skater Mirai Nagasu’s father.)

Good sushi but lack consistancy

Just moved to the neighborhood and my son and I went there for dinner. They had a live scallop Special yet they were out, so I ordered the cooked salmon dinner special and my son ordered the grilled chicken dinner special. The food arrived on a thin very large plastic plate with each plate showing a dried out dinner portion with one lone slice of tomato and a pinch of lettuce. The plate presentation did not look appetizing. We both ate our main course and though I ate it, it would NOT ever be a repeat order for me; my son felt the same way about his chicken. The dinner special did come with some sashimi which was excellent quality which made up for the thin, over cooked and dry salmon fillet. We left the restaurant feeling hungry. 3 nights later we thought we would go back and try the sushi only, after all our sashimi a few nights earlier was very good. I was eager to try the live scallop special which cost $22.00 and that’s what I ordered. This dish is served in 2 ways. I received 1, yes 1 sea scallop which was not live, but sliced thin into 4 layers and then it was grilled with a butaine torch and served with Yuzu sauce. It tasted like the butaine gas..... a big disappointment. The second half of the scallop special was served in a large scallop shell with a stereo burner under the shell. Inside the shell was a mixture of rice, no scallop but there were thin strips of scallop muscle and some foul tasting black clam belly. The dish was absolutely horrible! So I paid $22.00 for 1 scallop that tasted like butaine. Still feeling hungry and VERY DISAPPOINTED, I thought, I’d try the sashimi, after all, that was good a few nights ago. The quality of the fish was not the same, it was very chewy and not very good cuts.... big disappointment from the grade we received a few nights earlier. Overall, I feel ripped off and again, I left the restaurant feeling hungry. They must serve something good there as the place had many other customers, none of which I noticed were eating a large plastic plate dinner special or the non-live scallop special. That’s 2 strikes for me and I’m out! Save your money and move on to the next sushi bar.

LOVE IT! MY HERO MIRAI NAGSU'S PARENTS OWN THIS PLACE! FOOD IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Very good indeed!