Sentiment analysis: A couple of weeks ago, I'm at CFu Gourmet having dim sum for Sunday brunch when Ron Lee, the owner, overhears me talking about the food I had on my recent trip to New Orleans and tells me he just opened a crab boil house on Alma School and Guadalupe. Well, I've been a devotee of CFu for decades now and I know Ron and his guys certainly know their way around seafood, so I had to try it. Finally made it over there with the wife a couple of days ago. I walk in and sure enough, Ron is sitting there. The place looks great; wood tables and benches covered in freezer paper (that'll become important later) and loads of huge flat screens everywhere. The way it works is all the seafood is sold by the pound and then you choose your seasoning and heat level. I was dying to try the grilled oysters, which in NOLA is considered a reliable benchmark for what is to come later, but they were out of oysters. Oh well, when you're dealing in fresh seafood that happens sometimes. We ordered a pound of mussels/garlic/mild, 1lb crawfish/Cajun/medium, and 1lb of shrimp/trifecta/medium. We also threw in a couple of potatoes, ears of corn, and some sausage. A few minutes later, the waitress brings out a bucket and sets it on the table. I figured it's the first of three buckets, but no, in the bucket are 3 separate plastic bags with our order. At this point, we are forced to gingerly pluck the rocket hot bags out of the buckets and carefully tear them open by hand with steam billowing out in the middle of the table. Then it starts ... Out of the bags, this oily ooze starts spilling out. Everywhere. Fortunately the freezer paper on the table is waterproof and we quickly use gobs of napkins to build a dam to keep the oil river from diverting into our laps. The mussels were good (although mgmt. really needs to inform less experienced diners not to eat the ones that don't open, possible liability issue there), the shrimp was a bit overcooked and a little mushy, and the crawfish were absolutely HUGE. While this might sound like a good thing, it actually isn't. Crawfish are all about the tails and the huge ones have tails that aren't that much bigger than the normal ones, but of course you get fewer per pound due to the oversized bodies. Sadly, the primary flavor of all the seafood was oily .. The sausage and potatoes were excellent, but the obviously frozen corn was waterlogged to the point where eating it was like biting into a sponge full of boiling oil. Service also needs some work. Every TV in the place was tuned to a college baseball game but the DBacks were on. I asked for at least 1 TV to be changed but was informed that no one knew how to work the TV system. Given the mess that this type of eating creates, the wimpy little napkins provided are completely insufficient. Paper towels are req'd. If you go, you will see giant piles of napkins on every table because it takes twenty to even put a dent in the grease on your hands. I asked our server for some paper towels only to be told no. Paper towels are only for the hand washing station they graciously provide. Lastly, we were also served without any silverware. While I understand the shrimp and crawfish are finger food, I didn't want to have to eat the potatoes like an apple. It took about 15 minutes to get the tiniest, flimsiest plastic fork and knife I've ever seen. If everything had been perfect, this place would be 4 stars (5 stars is reserved for only the truly mind-blowing, life altering type meals). Subtract one for the grease, another for the execution. That said, the concept is awesome and with a few tweaks this place could definitely be in the regular rotation ... after dim sum of course.
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Sentiment analysis: I wanted so much to love this place! We are in desperate need of a great Japanese Izakaya restaurant. Maybe it was a Monday but that shouldn't really matter. We ordered two rolls, I didn't even taste the spicy tuna roll..the spicy salmon we had was not fresh. The salmon sashimi wasn't fresh. The uni was ok....I've had better at the cheap rotating sushi places. The tuna poke was pretty fresh and very flavorful I also had butter fish, dressing on the salad that accompanied this dish was amazing. Fish was ok, not great. Ramen broth was very tasty (spicy miso) however the noodles weren't very good. A little too on the mushy side for my taste. All in all I was expecting a lot more, especially for a restaurant that is having a grand opening. I'll be back to give it another shot, but I think I'll wait awhile as my stomach isn't too happy with me right now. The waitress was really nice and noticed we didn't eat any of our sushi, so she took off one of the rolls. She really should have taken both rolls and the sushi off if our bill as we didn't even touch them they were so fishy I hope they freshen up their fish for our next visit
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Sentiment analysis: Had a meeting at ASU after lunch and picked this place to eat and prepare. No wi-fi was a HUGE downer. I suppose I understand the management not wanting people to stay all day, but next time I'm looking for a place to do a working lunch, I'll look elsewhere. Food was okay, too. And canned sodas meant I couldn't take a refill with me. I had the plain chicken sandwich and it was plain.
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negative