text: I cannot agree more with Shea F I do not get all of the five star reviews The sushi selection iseh The service is incredibly pretentious Two checkins and the first one was alright but the second pretty much destroyed any positives from the first visit nnThe first Friday we went and we figured Fridays were safe for deliveries maybe we were incorrect on this assumption the service was decent we waited patiently for the bar for minutesnnMy husband and I have been used to ordering omakase for years now mostly in LA Yes Sushi Muramoto will give you a big platter of omakase nigiri However it will be drowned in all sorts of sauces The actual fish selection was not very fresh and probably reflects the heavy use of sauce I realize that the quality of the fish here will just flat out never match the west coast but what is surprised me the most has been the lack of imagination of the chefs here Both times Bee served us almost identical plates of sushinnBut the weirdest thing that we had was sitting down the second time at about pm on a Friday night Again we waited for the sushi bar we do not look at that as a negative just part of going to a sushi place that does not take reservations We ordered a couple of appetizers and the waitress served the mussel soup without spoons and promptly disappeared into the kitchen for a good minutesnnWhen seated Bee proceeded to avoid all eye contact and took minutes packing up his station and moving all of his fish to the middle station cleaned all of the cutting boards and knives and not a word the entire time When I finally caught the tiniest glance I am not shy on conversation I asked him if he was done serving for the evening and he responded that no he was just consolidating the particular station Last I checked sushi bars have refrigerated stations precisely so that you do not have to transfer fish around nnHe then proceeded to make us two plates of omakase nigiri that were pretty much identical to what he would served us the previous week Any regular sushi place in LA would dance circles around this sorry