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2011-08-16
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Fridays are usually our Japanese nights. We usually go to Iwanami and Tenzen. For a change, we decided to check out Dokoro as they had pretty good reviews from our fellow openrice members. I called on Wednesday, and they said counter seats were full but I left my number just in case anyone canceled. I was so glad that Dokoro called on Friday afternoon and confirmed that they had 2 seats available at the counter. I was looking forward to this meal! We arrived at Dokoro at around 8. Counter was fu
I called on Wednesday, and they said counter seats were full but I left my number just in case anyone canceled.
I was so glad that Dokoro called on Friday afternoon and confirmed that they had 2 seats available at the counter. I was looking forward to this meal!
We arrived at Dokoro at around 8. Counter was full and we were assigned to the last two seats. I thought to myself that they weren't actual seats as they were located at the exit. Anyway, it was okay as I would really want to have some good sashimi and sushi. The staffs handed us the menu. There were 3 different omakase courses. Sushi course $480, omakase course $480, and omakase course $680. As on the menu, they didn't mention the difference between omakase course $480 and $680. So I asked, the the staff said $680 had Kobe beef sushi, toro sushi and uni sushi which $480 didn't. And they mentioned they were doing kinki fish promo. Usually cost more than a thousand and now it's only $680. Given that I wasn't interested in just Having one kind of fish, and therefore we chose $680 and thought it was very cheap for a omakase course.
We brought our own bottle of sake, and asked if they have any deep fried fish bones or chicken soft bones to accompany with. They didn't have both and told us if we wanted to have bones we could order a whole fish and they could deep fried the bones for us. I was a bit stunned that they didn't have any good snacks to accompany our sake.
Our appetizers arrived and it was 3 kinds of small cold dishes. Nothing special and worth talking about. There were only 2 chefs at the counter to serve the whole restaurant. You could expect how slow everyone could get their food. It was alright as it's Friday and we were enjoying the sake. Looking at the counter, it was weird to me that the raw fish wasn't placed in a glass compartment like the other sushi restaurants. They were still placed in the fridge behind the chefs. Everytime they need a kind of fish, they have to go to the fridge and get it. Its very inefficient and didn't look professional.
After 15 min of waiting, chef was finally done with the other customers at the counter and I thought he would come and ask if there was anything we liked in particular or disliked. He handed two plates to the staff and said they were for the last two counter seats. I was bit shocked to see that the plates were just like any other assorted sashimi platters that you would ordered from a normal table. My bf asked the staff, he said that's the way as we ordered omakase courses. We were a bit shocked as we never had omakase at counter seats in this way. It's always each kind by each kind. We asked the staff how come the customers next to us were served kind by kind then? He said "oh, coz they ordered omakase, not omakase course and theirs might be more expensive, more than a thousand dollars." I was very pissed as it was an insult. They didn't mentioned to us before we ordered, that omakase and omakase course were different. I wouldn't mind to pay a bit more to have a real omakase dinner. And finally we couldn't take it and had to leave. They apologized but it was too late. Honestly, this wasn't acceptable and we were very disappointed.
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