Friday, May 18, 2007

Osaka

Osaka is a Japanese restaurant on the corner of Ravenna Ave NE and NE 65th St in the Ravenna neighborhood.


He said: Quiet place, although we did make it in before the dinner "rush". The waitress was a little awkward, but attentive and nice enough. Miso soup came with the sushi, which was nice, but that's where the compliments stop. The food was a little slow in coming, and mediocre at best. One of the rolls I got was a "65th Ave Roll" which was described as being a tempura California roll. When it came it was drizzled in an apple cinnamon sauce which I'm sure would taste great on ice cream, or cobbler or something, but was pretty vile on a sushi roll. The absolute worst part was that they only had low sodium soy sauce on the table. I think that it makes sense to have that as an option, but every single table in the restaurant had ONLY low sodium. Granted, I did not ask for regular soy sauce, but its pretty ridiculous to assume that the regular soy sauce is the exception and that most people would want to eat the crap soy sauce instead. And the manager, while trying to be polite, kind of rushed us out of the restaurant, even though it was clearly not busy, and only about half full. D+, but only because miso soup came with the rolls at no additional charge.

She said:
I didn't find anything particularly horrible about this place, but I will probably never go back because there wasn't anything particularly good about it either. I ordered tea and got an entire pot of it, which is always nice. We got complimentary miso soup with our meals, but the food was overpriced to begin with so I felt like I "deserved" the free soup. We shared some potstickers for an appetizer and they were tasty. I ate 2.5 sushi rolls and there wasn't anything particularly great about any of them. They were okay, but not at all like some of the amazing sushi we have had in Seattle. I actually didn't feel that great the next day and I hope it didn't have anything to do with the sushi, but you never know. C-.