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An example of an negative review: This review is about booking for groups - bad service and unnecessary restrictions and costs! Save yourself some trouble and take your money elsewhere. First of, they took a few weeks and me calling them 3 times over those weeks to finally get someone to call me back about my reservation. The second time I called, the person said they had some "internal personnel issues" but someone should get back to me within a day. It took me a 3rd phone call /voicemail to get someone to call me back. Second, there's a $125 "large party fee" for a party of 12 plus a $500 deposit if I want to reserve it. I'm ok with the deposit although I think its steep but $125 large party fee is ridiculous! Third, when I first spoke with Beverly, she said I had to pick a family-style menu ranging from $65 to $80pp (not incl tax, 20% gratuity). After reading their website and the email info Beverly sent, I found out that you have to pick a family-style menu only if you have more than 15 people (for traditional style), and I only had 12. Also, there was a cheaper family menu (girls night out $54) that she did not include in her email. Bottomline - take your money and business elsewhere! There are other quality Japanese restaurants that have better service (no "large party fee", $500 deposit) and doesn't try to rip you off. Bummer is that we are all staying at the MGM (which I had told Beverly) and can't even use our dining coupon (as part of our stay) towards the meal.

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An example of an negative review: Staff was friendly. But the health department needs to check this place out. Really dirty. Table smelled liked sour milk and there was old food in the cracks of the table. Tables were grimy and filthy. I wonder if the owners take a good look around at how dirty the place is, a place that they are serving food. As for the food, the French toast and pancakes were fine.

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An example of an negative review: A very ambivalent dining experience. Expect awful service and decent food and you'll be fine. If we'd gone with that expectation, we'd have given 4 stars. However, as it was... Overall: 2+, but not quite 3. Food (4): Some very good (stuffed pork belly; lemon posset); some lackluster (barley risotto, which was a bit under-cooked and simple). Portions are large, so we were full from splitting one appetizer and one main course, though we had to try the posset as well. Ambience (4): Trendy. Slap some trendy prints and a few dog photos on the walls of an old house and, presto, trendy restaurant. Eclectic "found furniture" sort of seating, mostly wooden chairs and benches. The tables are somewhat packed in. Acoustics are OK, but can get pretty loud with a full house. Service (1.5): Reservations, but no host. We had to go find someone, who then waived us toward a table. Our waiter was doing a constant (unintentional?) impersonation of James Carlin (who also would have sucked as a waiter). He was full of snide comments for any questions about the menu. Most things delivered to the table were practically dropped on it as he rushed past on his way to point snark at other tables. We almost left before ordering. He never stopped by to ask if everything was OK and generally seemed not to have time for us. He was more civil toward the end of the meal, pulling the rating up to 1.5 stars for service. Plus, we also decided to assume he just has one of those quasi-humorous, abrasive personalities... you know, the sort that's funny with friends, but that generally doesn't work well in a customer service job. Yes, we all get it: you're too cool for us and you really shouldn't have to put up with people like us. Your abrasiveness is under-appreciated. I understand when wait-staff are in the weeds. We've seen many servers handle it very well (e.g., explaining up-front that they're very busy or under-staffed and apologizing for any delay or inconvenience; rushing between tables, but not at tables). This was a different situation. They were busy and handled it so poorly, I think the service would be just as bad on a slow night. A table near us ordered a bottle of wine and it was brought out opened, in a wine cooling container, and plunked on the table before the server rushed away. No checking the bottle, no opening table-side, no pouring. Just plunk and go. And that was a different server than ours, so the poor service doesn't seem limited to our server. I don't think we'd go back or recommend it, though the food is pretty good and is a decent deal for the quality, especially if you share a dish. We just don't like supporting places with such poor, arrogant service.

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An example of an positive review: This place is money, anyone who says otherwise is wrong! Al pastor tacos for the win!