OOOOOKAY. Let me just start by saying that I have been all over NYC to some of the hottest restarurants. With that being said i can by now definitly destinguish between the good and bad on the restaurant scene. My boyfriend and I decided to check out Buddha Bar on a random sunday night. The rest. was pretty empty so the good thing was we got promt seating. The waiter came over right away and offered us drinks and edamame, which i thought was a wierd combination considering that we did not at that point even establish if we wanted sushi. We really wanted some seaweed salad which we did not find on the menue so the waiter was ""kind enough"" to offer us the expertese of the chef. What we got was three pieces of grass nicely layed out on a lotus leaf!!!! I dont mind paying money for food but this just seemed like total direspect to the dining experience. Next we ordered the tuna tar tar which the waiter claimed would be shareable. I dont know about him but i came their hungry and wasnt sure on how to go about sharing a portion the size of a quarter (I am not kidding). When I asked the waiter to clarify for me if the sesame tuna was close in prepartion to sashimi he babbbaled for 30min coming back to my point that in fact it was Sashimi and again the size of an appetizer compared to any other restaurant of its kind. I agree with the other reviews that the only good thing about it is the drinks the decor and the music. Hence the name BUDDHA BAR. DO NOT GO THEIR FOR FOOD you will leave with an EMPTY STOMACH and WALLET
Pros: DRINKS MUSIC DECOR
Cons: STAFF, BATHROOMS, FOOD
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