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I don?t know if it?s a conflict of interest to have the manager also preparing the food, but that appears to be a big problem with Meiji-En. Our party was seated in the tatami room, where we received our drinks and were able to finish them before ever receiving a menu, which we had to ask for. We placed our orders, wrote our names on the sushi menu and then waited hours for our sub-par meal. When the staff would deign to communicate with us, it was to let us know our food would be served imminently, which we soon learned was a mere diversionary tactic. We watched as other tables and the sushi bar were seated, served, and left, all while we received nothing more than miso soup and some very watered down tea. \r
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When the food finally came, the rolls were falling apart because the rice had not been properly prepared. Where sushi rice is normally sticky, ours seemed to just slide apart. We ordered quite a bit of ?spicy? style rolls (salmon, yellow tail and tuna) and all of it was too heavy on the mayo, causing even further degradation of the rolls. Most of us didn?t receive several of our rolls because, apparently, during the hours we were waiting for our dishes, the chefs had run out of the ingredients necessary to prepare them. When we asked to speak to the manager, he was too busy preparing other people?s dishes to talk to us until we were ready to walk out. We received the bill which had been adjusted for some discount, but on reviewing the itemization, many of us were charged for items never received. When we objected to having to pay so much, the manager/chef simply responded that if we didn?t like waiting we should have left. \r
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Since most of us had come straight from work, we had been too hungry to leave, but lesson learned. We won?t be returning. \r
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If you are willing to risk the bad service, you might get a decent roll or two, but be prepared to be told it?s your own fault if you aren?t happy.\r
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