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🤢 2/5 - It's been forever since I've written a review so it has to
By 👻 @Andy K., 11/19/2022 3:00 am
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It's been forever since I've written a review so it has to be exceptional for me to get off my lazy fat a** nowadays to do so (I'm no yelp elite and don't aim to be). Unfortunately Uni makes the cut for all the wrong reasons. If I'm going to throw down $400+ for a dinner for two sans boozy drinks or dessert, the food and service better be stellar all around - my expectations are going to be a bit higher than my neighborhood corner sushi joint/hole-in-the-wall (for comparison, the cheaper omakase menu at Sushi Noz in NYC was $230/pp inclusive of gratuity). Our meal at Uni included the following:From the Kitchen- Chawanmushi with Maine uni ($26)- Crab butter fried rice ($28)Sashimi- Nantucket bay scallop sashimi ($31)Sushi- Black truffle chutoro (red wine truffle soy, gorgonzola, black truffle, house blended shichimi)($20 for 1 piece)- Greater amberjack (coconut miso, shichimi)($16)- Hamachi (karashi mustard bbq) ($20)- Sake (sake lee butter, golden raisin, shichimi)($18)- Suma katsuo (nanbanzuke onion)($26)- Maine uni (fried kombu, yukari)($24)- Ikura (yamaimo, serrano pepper)($16)- Tamogoyaki (pumpkin)($12)- Foie gras (pear, jalapeno, pop rocks) ($25)Rolls- Spicy negihama ($17)Drink (non-alcoholic)- Ms. Pfieffer (pineapple, lime, agave, lapsang souchong, togarashi salt rim) ($12)I'll admit I am a bit of a sushi snob. I've eaten at numerous (20+) Michelin star rated sushi restaurants worldwide plus I've lived in Japan and Hong Kong for short stints. I order sashimi direct and cut and prepare my own at home, but at the same time I'm not above hitting up the corner sushi joint (and yes even supermarket sushi on those desperate occasions). Sadly, I wish I had done that instead of coming here. Here are the issues:1. piss poor service - water never refilled voluntarily (needed to flag down the waitstaff each time x 2 for both my dining companion and myself each), asked what drink order I'd like to put in twice in the 20 min since I placed my drink order (yet no drink), food order not taken for almost 15 min, poor explanations of items as brought forth (had to reread the menu descriptions)2. Slow food prep - first dish not out until 41 minutes into the meal (chawanmushi), random sushi piece (truffle toro) out min 53, 2nd hot dish (fried rice) not until 1 hour 6 min. Foie sushi out at 1 hour 7 min. Remainder of sushi out at 1 hour 14 min as a giant platter. Sashimi out at 1 hour 15 (timing based on time stamps on photos of food)3. Odd food order/grouping - usually it's sashimi-sushi-kitchen items. Also with sushi, generally light to heavy. The heaviest toro piece followed by hot foie as the first two pieces is almost like a reverse order of what most omakase places would present. I almost would have liked to see the tamago as the first piece so they could claim that it was purposeful as a "f*ck you, we do things backwards here" attitude rather than the lack of cohesion that it really was. What's odd is that everything else came plated in one giant dish but these two orders came separate. It would have been better to just bring everything together since I could have chosen which order to eat things in 4. Flavor/quality - some really odd combinations here. The sharp picked onions totally overpowered the smokey katsuo as probably the most awful one (my dining companion removed hers after seeing my reaction). So many sushi with a metric crap ton of various competing flavors with none really completing the fish... for a sushi place, the best dish of the night should not be the fried rice (I'd actually give this one a legitimate A+ and is the reason this review is not one star). Fish quality was a meh - B+. Good but no where close to where it should be for that price point. I'm not expecting Masa level fish but it was only slightly better than what I'd expect from Oga's in Natick. Even still, there were some standouts in the bunch so not all was lost. I do have a bias for edomae-style sushi but can def appreciate other styles. Places like sushi of gari in NYC do this type of new age sushi well and I can appreciate it even if it is not to my liking all the time. Also, I love tamogoyaki. I love tasting the nuances from one restaurants preparation to another. However, Uni's look like supermarket tamogoyaki and I hope it was since I feel like the last time I got a block from H-Mart, it tasted better than this one. The pumpkin was a nice touch, but nothing could make up for the poor excuse of the tamogoyaki. My recommendation is to avoid this place like the plague. You're better off at a place like Zuma (also overpriced IMHO) if you want a more hip vibe. No Relation with their $150 (inclusive of gratuity) omakase is a steal in comparison.
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