We went in search of all-you-can-eat sushi, and ended up at Todai because it appears to be the only place in Portland to find it. In retrospect, we would have been better off eating a plastic box of sushi from the Safeway deli. If you're looking for quantity rather than quality, this is the place for you. Served buffet-style and located in a mall, Todai offers an array of sushi rolls and assorted other Asian foods (egg rolls, tempura, yakisoba noodles), all of which are mediocre and seem to have been sitting around for hours. Lunch costs about $17 per person. It does not seem physically possible to eat enough of this food to justify paying that much for lunch. (Unless you're really hungry for warm sashimi and rolls that are made with lots of fillers like fake crab and mayonaise.) The service was also lacking--though we were seating promptly, we had to wait ten minutes after we started eating to get a drink, by which point our eyes were watering and our mouths burning from the wasabi. The sushi was tasteless, the egg rolls and tempura mushy, and the only redeeming part of the meal was the ice cream machine and the fact that they validated our parking. Anyone who has ever eaten good (or even decent) sushi will be thoroughly disappointed by this dining experience.
Pros: Validated parking
Cons: Everything else
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