Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Harumi Sushi Visited 4/10/2014 Unable to Rate

Harumi Sushi 114 W Adams St., Ste C101, PhoenixAZ 85003



So what's with the Unable to Rate deal you may ask.  Well, unfortunately a few hours after I had lunch here I felt really sick and got a bad case of the stomach flu for the next few days.  I wasn't feeling too great before I came here but things got really bad after I left here.  So obviously if I picked up something from some unwashed food here, I can't in good conscious give it a good rating.  However, where I'm torn is that I actually really liked the sushi here. 

But to back up a bit.  My first impression of this place was a bit iffy.  It's not really a restaurant but more cafeteria style where you order at a counter and then they bring it to your table - so it was just not something I was really expecting at a sushi place.  Also another interesting fact here is that they only use purple rice which they believe has added health benefits.  I decided to order the H3 roll ($13) which was spicy tuna, spicy salmon, spicy yellowtail, avocado, cucumber, tobiko, eel sauce and spicy mayo and the crazy roll ($9) which had fresh tuna, salmon, yellowtail, avocado and spicy sauce.  So both rolls were very similar but both sounded tasty to me.  I figured these were regular sized rolls, so I asked if they had a small house salad which I didn't see on the menu.  The waitress said they could put something together ($5) which I said ok.  In retrospect, I wish I hadn't ordered the "salad" because it was just shredded lettuce, some cucumber and sesame dressing on it.  The shredded lettuce just made it seem really low budget and cheap.  I didn't finish it and left room for the rolls.  When they came out I was shocked, only because there were so many pieces! Most places usually give you 6 or sometimes 8 pieces but this place gave you 10 fairly large pieces.  I couldn't believe it.  If I had known, I would have only gotten 1 roll because I ended up taking home over 8 pieces with me.  I was a bit skeptical of the purple rice, but it was totally fine and didn't taste too different.  I thought the rolls were innovative and very tasty and I was actually looking forward to having the rest of it for dinner.  Unfortunately that never happened and I ended up throwing it away because I was so sick. 

So sadly I feel like I can't rate this place properly.  I would say it's probably still worth checking out mostly because it's a different type of sushi but just go in with an open mind.  Total bill:  $36 with tax, tip and a soda

Photo Credit:  Yelp 

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