Continuing with my penchant for buying food package deals
off LivingSocial/Wowcher/Groupon, I forayed back into Wowcher, despite
the last deal I got from them being an exercise in false advertising. This time around, the
restaurant didn’t so much do differently as it said on the tin, as the reality
and the pretty photos placed online being absolutely worlds apart.
Here is what we really had, take in the grubby-looking
chipped plates and the unwelcomingly sad looking sushi:
And this is how the sushi was presented on the website. Notice all the glowing wonderful colours that were missing from the real photo.
As for the meal itself, the fish, rice and vegetables were
all cooked pretty proficiently, despite the ridiculously small portions (look at that prawn! Look at it! Not looking? That's cos there's barely any there). The tinyness of the food did mean that we ate everything in one bite, and didn't get enough time to savour the taste. However, I haven’t contracted food poisoning yet, a
miracle in itself, given how grotty the surroundings were. Let me paint a
picture for you: you know how in Yo Sushi, there’s about 10 conveyer belts, and
people sit around one of the 10 conveyor belts? Well, Yazu Sushi WAS just one
of the conveyor belts. That was it.
Add in the fact that the owner of the restaurant was utterly
unwelcoming, greeting me with the kind of abruptness that I’ve come to expect
from Chinese folk, but I expected better from the Japanese. His frosty
behaviour reached Alan Partridge-levels of hilarity when he told me, about
three times, that I was occupying too much room around the conveyor belt, and
he practically manhandled me into the corner (so there's yer sexual harrassment) where I was so cramped, it was amazing I could
even breathe.
Thus, whilst the food was well-cooked enough, all I can
really remember about eating there was the measly portions; inspect the photos
for yourself if you don’t believe me. Never in a million years is that enough
to feed two people! Factor in that we had a surly host, and frankly, Yazu
Sushi is lucky that I’m not giving it an even lower grade.
Grade: D
