The gist:

Do not know why Dozo so busy. I guess it is the Asian mentality to try a new place, but I hope people realize the quality of food they are serving is sub-par.

My experience from having dinner there yesterday:

Supreme Sashimi Salad - A hand full of mixed greens, cold dead raw fish ends consisting of salmon, tuna and maybe some hamachi and probably Costco bought sesame dressing. The least they could do is put in a few pieces of Hokkigai and real sashimi pieces, not fish ends. And yea, did I mention the sliced onion was frozen. 10 bux! Wow there is value for your $, fish ends.

Grilled Onigiri - This was edible, but rice was mushy and overcooked. Better to be had from a Japanese grocery store like Fujiya.

Tuna Tataki - The ponzu was weak, tuna tataki was ok, pieces cut too big/thick; sitting on a bed of cold (almost frozen) onion with some radish sprouts, I think I could almost count how many sprouts they used. Food is about presentation and feel in your mouth as well as taste.

Grilled Sirloin Beef: They put this in the Grilled section, you would expect a piece of cooked meat say done rare, medium, well done etc. What you get: Chewy Beef Tataki with some bastardized sweet
Sambal Oelek (Hot chili sauce) on top. Item in wrong section!! A baby corn split in half and yes you guessed it, TWO, count them TWO frozen pieces of Broccoli!! They already have beef carpaccio in the appy section, why two raw beef dishes and beef so thick you can’t chew. I ate one piece from this dish and left the rest.

We complained about the frozen and raw beef dish, the server tried to please us by giving us 10% plus not paying for the cold dead cow plate but then came back and said manager rather give us 20% and pay for a plate we are not going to eat. How about that! Thanks!

And finally another server asked us why we didn’t eat our food… anyhow, we just wanted to get out of there instead of making a scene. We paid and left. A real restaurant wanting return customers would have given us the meal free or at least take the item off the bill, they did neither. Talk about just trying to suck money.

Well, to sum it up, as is, a 7/11 that was there served better food. They better get their act together fast or they will end up closing in 6 months when they have expired the entire Richmond population for 1 time visits.

Advice to the cook, go eat at some real Izakaya downtown and see what it is suppose to be and defrost and cook your food.