Sushi Samba dances with flavor

Yes, It is easy to love this hot spot and in NY its the easy sushi chose when in downtown and hunger for great sushi. The miso soup is wonderful with a strong bonito flavor in the dashi. The sashami melts in my mouth and the creative rolls are a great flavor explosion. The inside is clean and glitzy. Too much for the eyes but I love the bathrooms. I am very picky with bathrooms which shows the restaurant as a place that regards customers with a level of respect. I have eaten here at least a dozen times and have always found my experience to be as good as the first. Very consistent, but you pay for it. This place is a little on the pricey side.

Go Sushi is no-go for this NYer

Yes go sushi, has been around for many years and I have had many pieces in the past without complaint. I am not sure if the quality has gone down or if my drunken sushi eating helped the flavor.

I ordered the Sushi regular about $10.00 after tax. The miso soup was skimpy on the miso paste, I didn't taste the dashi only mushroom broth. The soft tofu was thrown in as very large chunks. The waki was cheap Chinese replacement waki. All served in one of my favorite NY coffee cups- always loved that touch.

The salad, if it can really be called that was iceberg lettuce without even a shred of carrots. It was thrown in as large chunks, with brown edges (never a good sign). With a teaspoon of bland ginger carrot dressing.

The sushi was as follows. The salmon was fine, lots of soy sauce and spicy mayo ($.50 more) helped. The California roll was basic and cheap. The rice was slightly longer grained then most sushi restaurants use. Yellow tail was fine, but the tuna I left on the plate. The tuna had a bit and I spent much too effort fighting the sashami piece in my mouth.

Its better to go Drunk.

Monster sushi is more like a monster stomach ache

This place has cheap chinese style sushi yet my dinner cost $35. The tuna was chewy and the salmon was slimy. I asked the waiteress to replace those rolls with yellowtail and it managed to be somewhat worse. The miso was dish water with a soapy after taste.

The Shrimp Shumai had one piece of shrimp and the rest was filled with something like a startchy base, it was left untouched. These tasted frozen, defrosed, refrozen, and finally served.

The salad was iceburg lettuce with a small amount of carrots and a stale slice of tomato. The dressing was typical with the exception of a very cheap oil base.

The Block cod was the best part of the meal, by far the most enjoyable. The cod was in a sweet sauce that was not overcooked with a fresh taste. There were a few bones. The Chilean Sea Bass was a little fishy but the heavy sauce covered that flavor.

We chose not to experiement with this restaurant any further and got a brownie from Garden of Eden which was lovely and helped to forget the Monster stomicah ache left from rotten fish.