Why isn't there a zero stars option?
Once upon a time, Noshi was a fair option for low-cost sushi. Which, if you know anything about sushi, you know is virtually an oxymoron. If you're the kind of person who goes to all-you-can-eat sushi night, stop reading, as you'll eat anything anyway.
A friend dragged me back to Noshi last night, after a few years away. Long and short is this: when we ordered uni (sea urchin -- which when good, is probably the tastiest thing you can order), it was disintegrating. As in, I've had good uni (intense color, firm) and bad uni (stinky, wet), but I've never been served disgustingly runny, falling apart, crazily stinky, gotta be over a week old uni. You know, the kind that is fatal.
Which is bad enough. But even worse, when I complained to the chef, he tried to feed me some load of BS about how I was wrong, trying to cover up. He should have looked at it and apologized. I'm not wrong, a-hole. I know my o-toro from my chu-toro, and I know uni, and that uni wouldn't be fed to dogs. No, just possibly unsuspecting customers to maximize profit.
Let me take this moment to point out that I'm not the guy who waves his finger, or demands much of anything out of waiters or sushi chefs, and virtually always tips over 20%, often more. I NEVER post on these forums, but I genuinely believe as a service to public health that I had to.
If you know anything about sushi, IGNORE any of the positive posts you see here. I'm sorry, but you're better off with a Big Mac. At least it won't be fatal.
Cons: SPOILED fish
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