East Japanese Restaurant - Review

Intro
East Japanese Restaurant – Recommended
366 3rd Ave, New York 10016
Btwn 26th & 27th St
Phone: 212-889-2326

There's a couple of categories for sushi restaurants all with varying degrees of success - the high end traditional sushi joint, the nouveau sushi joint with the crazy combinations, the all you can eat/budget sushi joint, and the sushi joint that's located in the burbs run by Chinese people. East Japanese restaurant is aligned more towards the all you can eat/budget sushi. They have a conveyor belt with endless amounts of sushi rolling by in different colored plates - the different colors represents a different price. Surprisingly, the sushi is actually decent and you're generally happy that your belly is full and your bill is not that much. Overall, I give the restaurant a 78/100.

My Menu

Lots of sushi - nothing really stands out, but it's all decent.

Overall Restaurant Experience (78/100)

• Food 7.2/10 – Decent Sushi that’s better than Minado, but can’t compare to the real sushi places.
  
• Service 7.0/10 – Waiters are very inattentive, but it doesn’t matter much since you get the sushi yourself.
• Atmosphere 7.0/10 – Very strange place. Friday night was like being at a club, with a dj rocking and the lights completely dimmed. The place was packed at 8:30pm, but luckily it took 10 minutes to get a seat for 4 people. The crowd was a mix of families, couples, and singles. It's great watching the sushi go by, but towards the end it's a nightmare. You're so full, but the sushi goes by like a bad song that gets stuck in your head - so you must have even more.
• Price 9.0/10 – Price was definitely worth the quality of the food. About $30 a person for 2 hours of stuffing our face. At a regular sushi joint, that would have cost $90 a person.
  

Closing Comments
A solid place to go if you're craving sushi on the cheap.