Kura Revolving Sushi Bar (Nationwide)
food: 3.5/5
experience: 3/5
overall: 3/5
Did you know Sactown has its very own revolving sushi bar?! Well, now you know! It's located in the same shopping center as the movie theater, making it a perfect dinner-and-a-movie combo.
Alright, so the experience of having your sushi come to you on a conveyor belt isn't as fun as it sounds, but it does add a little entertainment value, right?
What I don't like about this place is, looking at their allergen menu, the vast majority of dishes have soy. I am very, very allergic to soy, so that eliminated almost all the options for me (including sushi) except but half the nigiri selection and some sea urchin (hey, at least I'm trying new things here). So props on having the allergen menu, at least, but minus props for gypping me out of a lot of options. Gotta dock the rating a bit for that.
Tonight's selection: conch, Hokkaido scallop, octopus, red snapper, sweet shrimp, Spanish mackerel, and yellowtail nigiri, with sea urchin gunkan to round it out (whatever gunkan is). They were out of amberjack which was lame so I didn't get to try that, but conch and sea urchin were new.
The quality? Well, after sampling one dish off the conveyor belt you'll quickly learn to order fresh off the screen. Chewy warm scallops is a big hell-no. After I figured that out the nigiri was actually really fresh and delicious. Except for the sea urchin, which was too salty, and the conch which was too chewy. Okay, so trying new things doesn't always work out. And of course, me not being a carb eater (except on weekends when all bets are off), there was a mountain of unfinished rice left after I was done.
Every five dishes you finish, you get a little video on the screen, and for your fifteenth dish you get a little plastic ball that comes out a shoot with a keychain inside. Mine had tamago on it.
Speaking of, for some reason their tamago (egg) has soy in it. Say whaa?? Now I'm sus about ever eating tamago again.
At $2.60 a dish, nigiri is probably the least bang-for-your-buck item on the menu, but all in all it came out to about as much as a bowl of chirashi at a typical sushi establishment would cost. If you're down for a novel dining experience, it's a fun gimmick. It's pretty much a one-and-done thing though.
experience: 3/5
overall: 3/5
Did you know Sactown has its very own revolving sushi bar?! Well, now you know! It's located in the same shopping center as the movie theater, making it a perfect dinner-and-a-movie combo.
Alright, so the experience of having your sushi come to you on a conveyor belt isn't as fun as it sounds, but it does add a little entertainment value, right?
What I don't like about this place is, looking at their allergen menu, the vast majority of dishes have soy. I am very, very allergic to soy, so that eliminated almost all the options for me (including sushi) except but half the nigiri selection and some sea urchin (hey, at least I'm trying new things here). So props on having the allergen menu, at least, but minus props for gypping me out of a lot of options. Gotta dock the rating a bit for that.
Tonight's selection: conch, Hokkaido scallop, octopus, red snapper, sweet shrimp, Spanish mackerel, and yellowtail nigiri, with sea urchin gunkan to round it out (whatever gunkan is). They were out of amberjack which was lame so I didn't get to try that, but conch and sea urchin were new.
The quality? Well, after sampling one dish off the conveyor belt you'll quickly learn to order fresh off the screen. Chewy warm scallops is a big hell-no. After I figured that out the nigiri was actually really fresh and delicious. Except for the sea urchin, which was too salty, and the conch which was too chewy. Okay, so trying new things doesn't always work out. And of course, me not being a carb eater (except on weekends when all bets are off), there was a mountain of unfinished rice left after I was done.
Every five dishes you finish, you get a little video on the screen, and for your fifteenth dish you get a little plastic ball that comes out a shoot with a keychain inside. Mine had tamago on it.
Speaking of, for some reason their tamago (egg) has soy in it. Say whaa?? Now I'm sus about ever eating tamago again.
At $2.60 a dish, nigiri is probably the least bang-for-your-buck item on the menu, but all in all it came out to about as much as a bowl of chirashi at a typical sushi establishment would cost. If you're down for a novel dining experience, it's a fun gimmick. It's pretty much a one-and-done thing though.
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