Zuma Sushi

Jew here-

After enjoying the beautiful weather at the 420 fest in

Candler

Park

, we scooted to a sushi restaurant that we’ve wanted to try for a while.  We ended up at Zuma in

Inman

Park

for an early dinner.  Zuma is located in a fairly new condo complex on

Highland Avenue

down the street from one of my favorites – Fritti.

Since, we were the only ones in the restaurant, we were able to sit anywhere.  We both ordered a beer (Kirin Light) that costs an outrageous $4.50.  The trend continues with the food. 

At first look of the paper menu, it appeared one-sided.  Thank goodness we realized there were two sides because the first side was “plain jane” at extraordinary prices.  We ended up ordering an order of edamame (small and nothing special), a Trust Me Roll (spicy tuna, yellow tail, “special” zuma hot sauce, and wasabi sauce - $14.50) and a Caterpillar roll (BBQ eel, cucumber, avocado and tobiko – $12.50).  Instead of bringing us a caterpillar roll we received a Zuma roll instead which is similar except it included crab which I couldn’t eat at the time because of Passover.  Needless to say, I had to pluck out every hair of the crab which did not make it very enjoyable.  The Trust Me Roll would’ve have been decent if the “special” hot sauce wasn’t so heavily dumped all over the sushi.  All I tasted was the sauce which reminded me of the stuff McDonalds puts on Big Macs.  We also had a couple of a couple of pieces of salmon which were decent, but nothing special. 

Another thing that bothered me was that when another couple arrived, where do you think they were seated?  Yep-right next to us!  The place isn’t small, but it sure felt like it.   The service was nothing special – there may have been a slight language barrier.

As a result, I have a new appreciation for

Sushi Avenue

.  It’s not very expensive and the sushi has improved and is cut larger than prior visits.  Zuma, on the other hand, is quite the opposite – it’s VERY expensive and the sushi is not very good – it’s mostly rice.  I guess we are paying their condo rent.  Spending the kind of money that we did, we could’ve gone to MF Sushi or had 2 dining experiences at Sushi Avenue.

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