Todai Sushi Review »
I must confess to not having chosen this place for our lunch meeting - and in fact, I probably would not have chosen it, if the choice was mine. Now that it's out there, I probably wouldn't choose it, if I had the choice in the future. Dare I say it, but I'm not really that much of a seafood person, and I'm really not a huge fan of sushi.
With that out of the way, if you are a fan of sushi, I have this feeling that you may like the Todai buffet okay, but I also suspect that a massive all-you-can-eat buffet probably isn't the best sushi in the world. Call me crazy, but there it is.
Keeping that in mind: The place is nice. I understand it's at least the third incarnation of some form of buffet-like restaurant, but it's the first I've visited. It's a decent-sized buffet, and one of the people I went with called it the "largest in the city". Perhaps it is, and for sheer length, it's decent.
But here in Charlotte, we simply cut the table up into smaller segments stack them in several lines, and send people along both sides. You get more items (on both sides of the table), and you get better traffic flow, rather than people going from both ends and crashing in the middle.
Let's move on. The food itself seemed okay to me, but it was 60% sushi, which I don't really do. And it seemed to be mass-produced. I'm glad I had the chance at it, as I won't likely visit a sushi bar, simply because I don't really eat sushi, and this at least gave me the chance to eat some. But it's probably not going to convince too many people to start doing so.
The service is good, if a bit slow. But they did fit our group of 12 or so people at a busy lunch with little effort, and that's saying something.
