The other night I decided to go to trivia at Hooters, which is every Tuesday night, 7 pm to 10 pm (or so I thought). I hadn't been to trivia there in over a year. I figured it wouldn't be over until 10 pm, so I'd just go straight to work afterwards (I work overnights). To my surprise, Hooters has improved their trivia system, and what used to take a grueling 3 hours, now only takes about an hour and half or so. So, needless to say, I got out of trivia at 8:30 pm, and had some time to kill. So I decided to go find some sushi.
I settled on Umi Sushi Bar & Grill. Ugh! I'd never been there before. First off, it looked really nice inside. Very elegant. Great for a date. Well, if it weren't for a couple things, which is the gross factor in this review.
I just wanted something light before work, so I ordered a tuna roll and a diet coke. The waitress, who was very nice and polite, brought me my soda. Before I went to the bathroom, I took a few quick sips from the soda and UGH! it tasted awful. Not like it was low on syrup or anything usual. Bad, like it was mixed with curry powder and farts.
Then I went to the bathroom and as soon as I walked in, there was an equally vile aroma. Again, not what you would think you might smell from a bathroom, but instead some sort of curry powder and farts mixture. I used the bathroom, which seemed to look nice otherwise, even if the toilet paper dispenser fell off the wall while I was using it and there was no paper towels in the paper towel dispenser.
I got back to the table and to my surprise there was a small salad and cup of soup waiting for me. This was nice. Very. Both were delicious, and apparently complimentary. I took another sip of the soda and decided I wouldn't be able to drink it. So I told the waitress the soda tasted "strange" and if I could have hot tea instead. I thought about just having water, but by now I was seriously starting to question the plumbing/water, so I opted for the tea.
The sushi was good. I'm not super picky about sushi. Some people won't even eat sushi at a buffet. I don't seem to discriminate. As long as they have spicy mayonnaise, I'm good.
I got the bill and was a little annoyed that it was 9 something. Apparently, the hot tea was 3 bucks, which seemed to be nice little trick considering their soda was undrinkable.
All in all, my visit to Umi was not positive. Although, with a bit of correction, it could have been. The complimentary soup and salad was nice. The food was good. However, all of this doesn't matter, if the water/soda/bathroom smells like indian food vomit.
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