Kyoto

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i’m usually pretty wary of sushi buffets because the quality of the fish suffers, but sometimes i gotta take the Unilocal hat off and gorge. Please don’t remind me about Hepatitis A through Z.
For $ 20, this Korean-​run sushi place has enough variety to get me from Hungry to Full. My cup was constantly filled with green tea, which adds an extra half-​star for rating. Tasty? Not the best in town but you get what you pay for.
3.5 stars rounding up to compensate the heavy-​handed 1-​star reviews
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Dear fellow Kyoto reviewers,
Sheesh, you people really don’t like this place.
Well I for one am going to stand up for this monolith of cheesy interior Japanese decorations (picture silk screens everywhere).
Yes, yes, you food snots with your universal condemnations of all buffets as factory-​line, processed foods may have an unoriginal point. But I honestly think this place isn’t terrible. In fact, I’m giving this place a firm endorsement of: it’s OK.
It’s certainly better than Todai and their gray tuna. Kyoto’s tuna is more of an off-​white. Now that’s progress.
Plus the location is just perfect for us schmoes who work on Figueroa. Sure there are better places for sushi around LA, some even in downtown, but they’re too far away for my lunch hour.
So though this review is dripping in sarcasm I really do suggest this place if you’re hungry for a ton of sushi and can’t go too far from LA’s financial district.
Sincerely,
A suit with bad sushi tastes (can I get some ketchup with this spicy tuna roll?)

Way overpriced, food was okay. Ordered large sashimi combo that did not feed three of us.

So full… so much food… so mediocre… I am having a food baby and it is gonna be Asian.
Ok help me out I am struggling
I would give Kyoto 1 star for flavor,
And also I don’t think I am going to get sick so they have that going for them…
Food was crap, but it is a buffet right? Can I give them two stars, one for sheer quantity?
It is a godless buffet right? But all buffets have quantity on their side right? Mmmm…
Well maybe not, at Todai japanese buffet, the food there is SO awful that the ideal quantity would be zero, and the less you eat the better your chances of survival are, but at Kyoto at least I can burn up a couple of hours of work time and stuff the food womb without hating myself for it.
Let’s get down to brass tacks
. I don’t know how they manage to make the sushi taste like it has been sitting in a super market shelf all day when they are making it right in front of you, so clever!(Ooh I know, the rice is cold and hard as a rock and fish tastes like monkey butt, that’s it)
. Tempura is pretty good, it just doesn’t have much flavor
. The black cod Saki lees is just coming out if kitchen, Ha I scored! This is gonna save this! O wait it is hot on one side and cold on the other, those tricky Japanease, how do they do it?!
. General hot food buffet, gyoza, terriaki beef, vegables and breaded beef skewers are just BAD, there is no putting it delicately.
. Edamame and Kim Chee and good, that something nice I can say.
. Fruit platter, cookies and mini pastries are a sweet but boring, an propos ending to this caloric time waster.
I feel cheap and used, I don’t ever want to back there and if I did it would be out of sheer boredom.
I would give them one and a half stars, but I am rounding down for safety’s sake

It’s the Japanese restaurant inside of Wilshire Grand among the Korean, American and Italian.
If you’re not a completely boring, boring, boring, boring, boring person, don’t even bother to look at it. Mundane, no surprise, expected Japanese restaurant for the guys in suit over discussions on interest rate and golf. You can walk out of it very comfortably with $ 50 – 60 for two people for lunch but I’d rather pay $ 8 in Grand Central Market for more interesting food.
Did I say boring? Oh okay good, thank you.

Rock n Roll Sushi! What’s that, you ask? What does it sound like? Actually, it’s not really rock. More like ‘80s and random dance classics usually. There used to be a dj, but the last few times I was there, no dj. The lunch buffet is kind of light on the sushi. The typical tuna, salmon and assorted rolls. I’m a fan of tempura, so the smell of bubbling oil makes me drool. The rest of the buffet is average, but for all you can eat lunch so you can go back to the office with a food coma, this is the place!