| ambiance |
80.0% positive |
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This cozy little spot in the West Village has the best sushi that NYC has to offer. ”
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Decent price, top grade fresh fish, casual atmosphere, and a very impressive selection of sake. ”
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Prices are reasonable, service is so-so, decor sucks but the fish is to die for! ”
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Don't expect great service or a charming ambience, though. ”
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big portions, real fresh, and no pretense (read, no ambiance, densely packed tables. ”
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was surprised, given the atmosphere of the place -- inside it's very homey and busy and not trendy, but the food is excellent and worth the price. ”
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This isn't the place for decor or ambience - just people who want the tastiest fish at a reasonable price. ”
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The food is delicious but its not a romantic date spot. ”
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the fish is NOT fresh, doesn't blend well with the rice, everything is overpriced, especially given the bad quality of the food and the terrible atmosphere/ambience, and the service SUCKS - the waitress flat-out denied my request for a tea refill. ”
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this would deserve a 10 if you can forgive the long long wait (45min way too long unless you're on a nice date or with friends), cramp seating, lack of ambiance & so so service, then you can enjoy the best sushi downtown (yama is passe & inconsistent). ”
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| dessert |
100.0% positive |
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However all that can be forgotten when you're eating the nobu-worthy seabass appetizer, huge fresh shushi and devine banana tempura or green tea ice-cream. ”
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lightly fried banana with a scoop of creamy rich vanilla ice cream! ”
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| drinks |
80.0% positive |
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the fish is NOT fresh, doesn't blend well with the rice, everything is overpriced, especially given the bad quality of the food and the terrible atmosphere/ambience, and the service SUCKS - the waitress flat-out denied my request for a tea refill. ”
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The fishes at the sushi bar are fresh. ”
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The green tea is excellent and not overpowering as at some other restaurants. ”
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However all that can be forgotten when you're eating the nobu-worthy seabass appetizer, huge fresh shushi and devine banana tempura or green tea ice-cream. ”
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After we were seated, we were ignored by the wait staff, we had to flag down 2 different guys before we could order drinks, then the ordeal repated itself when we tried to order food. ”
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| food quality |
89.60000038146973% positive |
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Therefore, I did not enjoy the sushi deluxe at Tomoe, as each piece was pre-seasoned with Wasabi. ”
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recommend the spicy tuna hand rolls- divine; the ika kimchi, the california roll- fantastic. ”
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So toughen up, wait in line for 20 minutes and have the best sushi around. ”
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best sushi in town! ”
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The food was RIDICULOUS. ”
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The fish is very very fresh, and the pieces are huge. ”
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great food ”
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When in line, it's always smart to ask to sit at the sushi counter (not just here, but at any good sushi joint). ”
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However all that can be forgotten when you're eating the nobu-worthy seabass appetizer, huge fresh shushi and devine banana tempura or green tea ice-cream. ”
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The fishes at the sushi bar are fresh. ”
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Yes, sushi was fresh and tasty. ”
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Service is incredibly fast, the sashimi deluxe is filled with buttery tuna, shrimp, squid. ”
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The fish is very fresh and all the small dishes are excellent. ”
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The sashimi, fried soft shell crab, giant clam soup, and spicy toro tartar are always fresh and definitely what I keep going back there for. ”
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the fish is NOT fresh, doesn't blend well with the rice, everything is overpriced, especially given the bad quality of the food and the terrible atmosphere/ambience, and the service SUCKS - the waitress flat-out denied my request for a tea refill. ”
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Great fish ”
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sushi is so fresh & comparable. ”
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The waiters were rude, the food was barely average and the prices were too high. ”
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Tomoe definitely provides its diners with excellent quality sushi and sashimi, although the quality does not justify the exhobitant costs. ”
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Really incredible meal, reasonable prices, friendly waiters, the most beautiful piece of toro I've ever eaten in my life. ”
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Tomoe, although tiny inside, offers huge deals on some of the best tasting sushi in the city! ”
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fresh sushi in appropriate portions (not overwhelmingly large like the other sushi restaurant nearby). ”
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The sushi is a tad expensive, but everything else on the menu is reasonably priced. ”
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Cost is reasonable for the quality of the food. ”
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was very skeptical when I had to wait in line for a while before I could order, but once my food arrived I was in DISBELIEF as to how fresh the sushi was. ”
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However, the oshinko roll here is delicious since shiso leaf and wasabi are added for that extra subtle taste. ”
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Always fresh fish, I have never been disappointed! ”
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Our waiter was very nice and accommodating, but we really came here to have good raw fish, and we DID NOT find it. ”
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For appetizers, my wife and I ordered the baked Sea Bass with a fresh tomato and red chili pepper sauce. ”
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The sushi is excellent and at a great price. ”
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We are sushi connesuiers and know what different types of fresh raw fish should taste like. ”
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great sushi for the price ”
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After we were seated, we were ignored by the wait staff, we had to flag down 2 different guys before we could order drinks, then the ordeal repated itself when we tried to order food. ”
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don't like standing in line with those jerks, but the food more than makes up for it. ”
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However, it's the amazingly bad sushi chef who ruined everything. ”
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This is the best sushi place I have ever been to. ”
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everything is just deliciously fresh and perfect. ”
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Tomoe sushi is horrible. ”
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Great sushi! ”
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Still, my favourite sushi restaurant in North America. ”
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The best sushi, I have ever had in New York. ”
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was surprised, given the atmosphere of the place -- inside it's very homey and busy and not trendy, but the food is excellent and worth the price. ”
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Here's how it rates, and when visiting, order the famous Soft shell crab dish! ”
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The sushi is not the best there is - but for the price it's terrific. ”
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Qulaity of the seafood is EXCELLENT! ”
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Great sushi, long wait ”
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one of the best sushi places in the city. ”
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For an appetizer, I recommend the soft shell crab with ponzu sauce, which was excellent - the perfect contrast of texture and flavor. ”
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This is by far my favorite sushi place ever! ”
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Tomoe has great sushi one of the best places in the city but the wait sucks. ”
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The food can't be that good. ”
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Great big soft sushi! ”
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The line was long and the food was really really good. ”
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The best fish in the city ”
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Decent price, top grade fresh fish, casual atmosphere, and a very impressive selection of sake. ”
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They were put together horribly and the fish really didnt have a super fresh taste. ”
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personally will only recommend people who never have good sushi before to go there as the price is reasonable. ”
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The maki rolls were all incredibly fresh and delicious - DEFINITELY WORTH THE WAIT! ”
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Tomoe offers great sushi. ”
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This cozy little spot in the West Village has the best sushi that NYC has to offer. ”
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The sushi looked less clean cut and a bit rushed. ”
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The sushi is good, but the service is so bad that it's not worth it. ”
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Just straightforward good sushi and nothing less. ”
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this would deserve a 10 if you can forgive the long long wait (45min way too long unless you're on a nice date or with friends), cramp seating, lack of ambiance & so so service, then you can enjoy the best sushi downtown (yama is passe & inconsistent). ”
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fresh sushi and inventive sushi. ”
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The california roll was too big and overfilled with imitation crab meat, so it's not the best I had. ”
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The Sushi was delicious and fresh tasting and the pieces were quite large. ”
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Tomoe makes for an excellent introduction to great sushi. ”
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This isn't the place for decor or ambience - just people who want the tastiest fish at a reasonable price. ”
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If they have the fresh soft-shell crab I recommend it, but be weary, the one in the roll is not the freshest one, its the frozen one, so get the appetizer version. ”
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The experience here is entirely different than at Yasuda, maybe like having a huge grilled burger versus a perfect filet mignon. ”
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For those of you that love the sushi but cant take the lines try Hamachi. ”
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If you want great japanese food, head over to Tomoe. ”
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Nothing fancy, but great skills of selecting the fish. ”
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The sushi is extremely fresh - the nigiri can be on the large size (3 or 4 bit. ”
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This is the best sushi in NYC. ”
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But even w/the lines to get in, still top place in my book to get wickedly good sushi. ”
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For me, i would rather pay more to have real sushi and not to watch the chef turn some great fishes/seafood into garbage. ”
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The sushi is just heavenly! ”
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swimming in a rich miso soup. ”
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Fresh and tasty sushi. ”
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very fresh fish, very well done sushi. ”
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Space are jammed, the Portion are huge, not like the other traditional sushi places, although house is obviously too small for the size of the portion cuts of the SUSHI! ”
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She told me that it is the best sushi she has had in NY (price was not a factor for her). ”
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This place does serve really good food. ”
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love this place and everyone i took here has made to a point that this is the "best sushi" and we need to go again. ”
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Awesome sushi! ”
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The sushi rolls were fresh and quite flavorful. ”
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Prices are reasonable, service is so-so, decor sucks but the fish is to die for! ”
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big portions, real fresh, and no pretense (read, no ambiance, densely packed tables. ”
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awesome sushi ”
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fresh and cut very well, the appetizers are yummy and the hand rolls ARE SO GOOD! ”
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This is the worst sushi expereince I had in NYC. ”
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This sushi place is very authentic. ”
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Tomoe runs a solid kitchen that outputs some impressive food. ”
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Not only it will make the rice too warm and affect the freshness of fishes, it's also not clean to use your whole palm to handle food that people will eat raw. ”
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best squid in NYC fantastic rolls and the best salmon skin roll in the world ”
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Tomoe has the best sushi in New York. ”
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would the sushi is absolutely amazing, nothing I ever tasted before. ”
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Avoid this and you will have a great meal! ”
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This tasty spot had some of the best Toro I've ever had, and it wasn't a den of hobnobery and snobish pretension as is common on the upper east. ”
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The sushi was just bad. ”
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You'll always wait in line, but if you want the best fish in the city, its worth the wait. ”
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The food was awesome and sooo fresh! ”
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HUGE pieces of delisiously fresh sushi and sashimi; wonderful wait staff. ”
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The uni were fresh. ”
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would recommend this place to those looking for fresh and inventive plate of sushi. ”
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The spicy tuna roll is awesome and everything else has been great, too. ”
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the best sushi and great variaty of japanese food ”
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The sashimi is fresh, the cooked dishes are small but delicious. ”
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The cuts of the sushi/sashimi were big. ”
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The fish is fresh, but as people who love sushi know, fresh is by far not the only thing fish should be. ”
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Average sushi, high price, HORRIBLE customer service ”
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Face it - you are coming for fresh sushi, whether sashimi, sushi or rolls. ”
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best value for money, freshest fish, and tastiest sushi rolls, handrolled in front of the customer, this little tiny soho hangout, does not take reservations, so be prepared to wait in line, unless you get there early enough, however, it is well worth the ”
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the spicy toro tartar is great as well. ”
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Huge chunks of salmon and something else (cod?) ”
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We told him about the bad service and he just kept repeating: "you were at my table, i brought you your food ”
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There's a reason why there is ALWAYS a line outside this place, sushi is always fresh and tasty! ”
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i've had lots of sushi and many great restaurants all across the country so i had high expectations after hearing the reviews and waiting in line for over an hour. ”
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Their fish is always fresh and flavorful. ”
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But for fresh sushi, nothing tops Tomoe. ”
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the sashimi and sushi is really, really fresh. ”
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If you eat here, you have to come here for the sushi or sashimi, the rolls have extra ingredient that take away from the amazing taste of the fish. ”
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This is the place for excellent sushi and sashimi. ”
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sushi/sashimi. This place is spot on with fresh and delicious food every visit. ”
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Tomoe is the place to go for great sushi. ”
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The line is worth the wait, this is my favorite place in the city for fresh tasty fish. ”
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Tomoe Sushi is one of, if not the best, sushi restaurants in NYC. ”
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Sushi was fresh -- the sushi / sashimi combination offers such a variety of fish - yellowtail, tuna, salmon, salmon tar-tar, rolls, shrimp, squids, scallops, etc. ”
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The food is delicious but its not a romantic date spot. ”
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Yeah, there's a wait, but when I went last the waiter brought out sake to my friend and I, and when we got our food, it was the best sushi I've ever had. ”
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The sushi is aptly priced (a weee bit on the high side), and while you won't get ginormous portions, you will have astoundingly fresh cuts of fish. ”
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| menu variety |
75.0% positive |
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Decent price, top grade fresh fish, casual atmosphere, and a very impressive selection of sake. ”
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The sushi is a tad expensive, but everything else on the menu is reasonably priced. ”
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have yet to explore the whole menu, but almost everything I have tried is outstanding! ”
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Sushi was fresh -- the sushi / sashimi combination offers such a variety of fish - yellowtail, tuna, salmon, salmon tar-tar, rolls, shrimp, squids, scallops, etc. ”
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| overall |
100.0% positive |
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We really left there scratching our heads after hearing friends and reading reviews on how great this place was. ”
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There is almost always an hour wait at dinner time, but this may be the best Japanese Sushi restaurant in NYC. ”
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This is definitely one of my all time favorite Japanese restaurant. ”
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This is the best sushi place I have ever been to. ”
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| service |
72.22000122070312% positive |
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Average sushi, high price, HORRIBLE customer service ”
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Really incredible meal, reasonable prices, friendly waiters, the most beautiful piece of toro I've ever eaten in my life. ”
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The fish is fresh, but as people who love sushi know, fresh is by far not the only thing fish should be. ”
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The service wasn't as bad as previous reviews make them out to be. ”
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Yeah, there's a wait, but when I went last the waiter brought out sake to my friend and I, and when we got our food, it was the best sushi I've ever had. ”
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this would deserve a 10 if you can forgive the long long wait (45min way too long unless you're on a nice date or with friends), cramp seating, lack of ambiance & so so service, then you can enjoy the best sushi downtown (yama is passe & inconsistent). ”
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personally will only recommend people who never have good sushi before to go there as the price is reasonable. ”
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Prices are reasonable, service is so-so, decor sucks but the fish is to die for! ”
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There is a huge line, usually a 45 minute wait; they take no reservations and no tables of more than five people. ”
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The portion sizes are generous and the service is amiable and attentive. ”
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HUGE pieces of delisiously fresh sushi and sashimi; wonderful wait staff. ”
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The waiters were rude, the food was barely average and the prices were too high. ”
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Not only it will make the rice too warm and affect the freshness of fishes, it's also not clean to use your whole palm to handle food that people will eat raw. ”
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the fish is NOT fresh, doesn't blend well with the rice, everything is overpriced, especially given the bad quality of the food and the terrible atmosphere/ambience, and the service SUCKS - the waitress flat-out denied my request for a tea refill. ”
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Don't expect great service or a charming ambience, though. ”
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We told him about the bad service and he just kept repeating: "you were at my table, i brought you your food ”
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After we were seated, we were ignored by the wait staff, we had to flag down 2 different guys before we could order drinks, then the ordeal repated itself when we tried to order food. ”
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The sushi is good, but the service is so bad that it's not worth it. ”
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Please dont come to Tomoe, because then other people will know about my fabulous secret! ”
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This isn't the place for decor or ambience - just people who want the tastiest fish at a reasonable price. ”
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Our waiter was very nice and accommodating, but we really came here to have good raw fish, and we DID NOT find it. ”
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| value |
80.29999732971191% positive |
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She told me that it is the best sushi she has had in NY (price was not a factor for her). ”
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This isn't the place for decor or ambience - just people who want the tastiest fish at a reasonable price. ”
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personally will only recommend people who never have good sushi before to go there as the price is reasonable. ”
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The fish is very very fresh, and the pieces are huge. ”
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Really incredible meal, reasonable prices, friendly waiters, the most beautiful piece of toro I've ever eaten in my life. ”
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The portion sizes are generous and the service is amiable and attentive. ”
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great sushi for the price ”
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fresh sushi in appropriate portions (not overwhelmingly large like the other sushi restaurant nearby). ”
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to their credit the scallops were excellent but the tuna sashimi had that unfresh "pasty" texture and was just this huge chunk. ”
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The experience here is entirely different than at Yasuda, maybe like having a huge grilled burger versus a perfect filet mignon. ”
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Tomoe, although tiny inside, offers huge deals on some of the best tasting sushi in the city! ”
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best value for money, freshest fish, and tastiest sushi rolls, handrolled in front of the customer, this little tiny soho hangout, does not take reservations, so be prepared to wait in line, unless you get there early enough, however, it is well worth the ”
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You'll always wait in line, but if you want the best fish in the city, its worth the wait. ”
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The prices aren't super-low, but if you consider the portion size, the value is good. ”
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Funny tho to hear others talking where they have been & we heard Blue Ribbon Sushi (recommend but pricey & long waits also), Raku (recommend in theater district) & Sushi of Gari (UES but crowded & $$$$). ”
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The line is worth the wait, this is my favorite place in the city for fresh tasty fish. ”
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The sushi is excellent and at a great price. ”
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was surprised, given the atmosphere of the place -- inside it's very homey and busy and not trendy, but the food is excellent and worth the price. ”
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the fish is NOT fresh, doesn't blend well with the rice, everything is overpriced, especially given the bad quality of the food and the terrible atmosphere/ambience, and the service SUCKS - the waitress flat-out denied my request for a tea refill. ”
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The prices are ridiculous. ”
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big portions, real fresh, and no pretense (read, no ambiance, densely packed tables. ”
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There is a huge line, usually a 45 minute wait; they take no reservations and no tables of more than five people. ”
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The waiters were rude, the food was barely average and the prices were too high. ”
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The sushi is good, but the service is so bad that it's not worth it. ”
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The sushi is aptly priced (a weee bit on the high side), and while you won't get ginormous portions, you will have astoundingly fresh cuts of fish. ”
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Space are jammed, the Portion are huge, not like the other traditional sushi places, although house is obviously too small for the size of the portion cuts of the SUSHI! ”
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The sushi is a tad expensive, but everything else on the menu is reasonably priced. ”
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Average sushi, high price, HORRIBLE customer service ”
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However all that can be forgotten when you're eating the nobu-worthy seabass appetizer, huge fresh shushi and devine banana tempura or green tea ice-cream. ”
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Best Sushi with great price ”
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The sushi is not the best there is - but for the price it's terrific. ”
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Decent price, top grade fresh fish, casual atmosphere, and a very impressive selection of sake. ”
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and best value for money in the city! ”
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| wait time |
90.4800033569336% positive |
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this would deserve a 10 if you can forgive the long long wait (45min way too long unless you're on a nice date or with friends), cramp seating, lack of ambiance & so so service, then you can enjoy the best sushi downtown (yama is passe & inconsistent). ”
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Great sushi, long wait ”
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The line was long and the food was really really good. ”
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There is a huge line, usually a 45 minute wait; they take no reservations and no tables of more than five people. ”
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2) The chef held the raw fishes in their hand so long that the fishes turns warm and unfresh while u ate it. ”
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Funny tho to hear others talking where they have been & we heard Blue Ribbon Sushi (recommend but pricey & long waits also), Raku (recommend in theater district) & Sushi of Gari (UES but crowded & $$$$). ”
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So toughen up, wait in line for 20 minutes and have the best sushi around. ”
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