Tried out Haruki today since I've seen all the hype about it. The parking lot was jammed, had to park out back . Perhaps this is a good sign ? The interior is set up where you must walk past the bar to get to the seated area or the sushi bar, which had plenty of seats. The place was very busy, but I found a seat easily.
The menu has a large selection, and I was just looking at the sushi choices, a # of rolls and an impressive amount of fresh fish choices, or so I thought.
Oooh, they have chutoro listed, Nope. Oooh, they have toro, Nope. Ok what about Tai? Nope. I ask , "are you just out of them ? " , "No, they aren't in season", the waitress says. Not in season ? Since when is tuna out of season at a sushi restaurant ? They had regular old maguro, and hamachi. Ok so hopes dashed, i picked a few other things off the menu, as well as a house salad . I'm always looking forward to trying the ginger dressing at different sushi restaurants. This one , not so much, it was rather bitter, and not very solid, a very soupy bowl of dressing at the bottom of salad. I wasn't impressed.
There are 5 people working behind the bar like machines, that's not always a good thing, plus the basic fish were in the cooler, but pre-cut and looked very much like they were frozen and chopped. I like to see them cut my fish from the chunk of fish they have previously removed from a whole fish, not presliced. I've been to much smaller , less busy places and they accomplish this, why not here ? Because it caters to a larger crowd ?
So after ordering, and selecting regular tuna, I notice on the special board they have Hamachi Toro, well that's a little better, I picked that instead.
The fish tasted fine , but nothing special the rice should have been cooled down a little more to room temperature, but it was a little warm.
Overall it was just ok. And on a 6 star rating I'd give it : 3.5/6 or 58%
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