Mike, my 11-yo daughter Mika and I, enjoyed a nice family dinner at Tsuru Sushi a few weeks ago.\u00a0 We hadn’t gone in years, and we had, overall, a very good experience.\u00a0 It was expensive – very expensive – but we had won several gift cards so most of the dinner was covered.\u00a0 Good thing, as it came to close to $100 for 3, and only one of us actually ordered sushi.<\/p>\n
I deciced to make a dinner out of appetizers and ordered the gyoza ($5.75), the fried chicken wings ($6.25) and the beef kushi ($7).\u00a0 The portions are small enough that while I had some food leftover for Mike to share with, it wasn’t much.\u00a0 The gyoza, in particular, were delicious.\u00a0 The filling was full of flavor and I could have gone on eating them forever.\u00a0 The chicken wings, on the other hand, were very plain and monotonous. You probably could do better at Pioneer’s chicken.\u00a0 The sauce helped a little, but grew boring too.\u00a0 I wouldn’t order them again.\u00a0 The beef kushi, on the other hand, was quite good.\u00a0 It wasn’t too different from teriyaki, but without the sticky sauce, and I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n
Mika had the combination dinner ($20) with gyoza, shiu mai and a california roll.\u00a0 The enjoyed the roll, loved the gyoza but the shiu mai was sort of plain.<\/p>\n
Mike had two orders of unagi ($5.50 each), which we all enjoyed, though it wasn’t a particularly outstanding version.\u00a0 He also had some kind of roll that he thought was very good.<\/p>\n
In all, it was a good meal.\u00a0 Service was good and efficient, though they could have done a better job of timing the food.<\/p>\n
The one thing I found a bit tacky is that they actually charge you for the after-dinner mints.<\/p>\n