D- for poor cooking.
Noodles were good, and that is about the most I can say about our meal.
The soup starter had too much ginger in it for her, but mine was quite tasty so after I finished mine I started in on hers, and she was right to begin with. Did the soups even come from the same batch?
Salad was watery, so either it was just freshly rinsed and plated when we ordered it, or it sat in the cooler for who knows how many days waiting to be served. The dressing was weird, but had a kind of horseradishy flavor (no heat, just the taste) and I kinda liked it overall other than beaing watery at the end.
Lobster was rubbery and chewy and lacked any real flavor other than the sauce that was on it. It also didn't seem to have been prep'd and cleaned that well as it was a bit 'fatty' in a couple bits.
Fillet Mignon was cold on the plate when I received it (it was the very first bite I tried). It was one of the things I was most looking forward to since this is a steakhouse. It was bland but well cooked and tender, just cold.
Shrimp were mostly undercooked (more so for her than for me I must admit) and the ones that were well cooked were also a bit tough, almost as though they were overcooked.
Rice just tasted off (or perhaps old) and rice is an extra cost as in 'not included with the meal'. We weren't told that, just asked if we wanted white or fried rice when we ordered our food. If I had known that it wasn't included, I wouldn't have ordered it.
We had multiple coupons for this place and decided to try it. After we got home from our meal, we threw the rest of them in the trash as we won't be back here again. I'll bet we'll get more coupons in the mail as the weeks go by, and they're going into the trash as well. We were looking forward to a good Japanese steakhouse meal, and hoped we would find it at Sawa at a better price than Kami (or Ichiban for that matter). Sawa was a disappointment all the way around.
The other creepy part is how the waiter would just stand there a few feet away and watch us eat. They were not busy at all (and after tasting the food I understand why) so he didn't have a lot to do, but you don't have to stare at people trying to eat a (hopefully) decent meal in apparent quiet. It's not a personal space thing, but I just hate being watched like a lab rat when I'm eating.
You want good Japanese steakhouse cooking in this area of town? Try Kami in Apple Valley!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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