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I don't eat at many upscale restaurants and my experience at Tamari reminded me exactly why. My date and I get to the restaurant around 6pm. We wanted sushi and this is an Asian Fusion place, so we figured we could get some decent Maki rolls. Half the tables in the restaurant are empty. The host asks if we have a reservation. We don't, so she says the only accommodations she can offer is at the counter. We take two seat at the end. Our server comes around and asks if we want drinks. We don't feel like drinking and say 'no thank you'. Although the server was nice to us, I could secretly feel like he was annoyed that he knew he would be getting a check much smaller than average check. We ordered 4 sets of Maki rolls - all of them overpriced and underwhelming. The fish was fresh, yes, but the rolls were poorly formed and there was something else that was a little off about the rice. I wasn't quite sure what I could possibly be paying a premium for. Don't take my review the wrong way, this isn't an awful place and nothing particularly terrible happened during our visit. It just isn't the kind of restaurant I would ever go back to or recommend to my friends. But... if you have the money and you want to impress somebody by throwing it around, this might be your place.

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