Ok listen, I've been putting this off because I wanted to give them a chance but now it's time. I live just a few minutes away from this place and I used to come here late at night for the happy hour 50% off sushi. Since they started the all you can eat, I have now used up my first full stamp card (11 visits) and this place has consistently gotten worse since May. I will give credit to the servers, they are nice (a little overbearing at times only because the place isn't very busy and they usually have nothing to do) I always sit at the counter too. A few weeks ago I went in at dinner time, placed my order and received part of it, and I was waiting for the rest. No sushi chef around he was busy talking and leaning against the back counter , another chef came up to me and asked how things were and I said "I"m STILL WAITING, you're very slow tonight!" he said yea it is (thinking I was talking about that business is slow), he then walked away and went back to talking to the 1st chef that had made only half my order. A 3RD sushi chef came over and asked how I was and I said again "I"M STILL WAITING ON MY ORDER! and literally told him what I'm waiting on. I said I've been sitting here waiting for him and pointed to the other chef to finish my order." He apologized and made the rest of my order for me. This was not the first time this has occured either. They have a female sushi chef and she often leaves her station and walks around and I have to sit and wait to place my additional orders almost 10 min wait in between before she even comes back to the counter and the other chefs look at me while I'm waiving my paper at them and they don't even stop their conversation. I often order hand rolls and on 3 different visits they accidently made me a cut roll instead. I even said to them what is the problem? I circled it on the paper and she said yea he gets confused because most people don't order hand rolls. So my last 3 visits I circled hand rolls and literally scratched out cut roll so they didn't make a mistake when reading my paper. How about quality of food - Good - Scallop Roll Spicy Tuna Spicy Salmon That's really about it. Their sauces including eel sauce is thin, flavorless and nasty. Their is nothing yummy about their yum yum sauce. Their quality of eel isn't all that good, their yellowtail is horrible compared to other places. What disappoints me is they never used to be this way. They have steadily gone down hill since May. and it definitely shows in their business. I have seen less and less people in there each time I go. I have gone at dinner time around 6, or 7 pm and I have been there at times around 8 or 10 pm and more often then not, I am 1 of only 3-4 people at the counter and only 3-4 tables of people eating in the dining room. Thanks but I'll stick to sushi mon, hikari sushi and even better yet the new sushi goyemon (they are FANTASTIC) Goyemon has very nice service, GREAT sushi chefs and their rolls and appetizers are are incredible. They have appetizers that you won't find anywhere else unless u were eating at a 5 star sushi restaurant on the strip. and their all you can eat price is the same as anyone else's $27.95 and the place is ALWAYS packed. Sorry Lahaina but you're yet another victim of places off my list to goto. You aren't good enough to compete with the others here in town. and for those of you who think this place is good, for the same money goto sushi mon, hikari or sushi goyemon and you will see a noticeable difference.
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