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Based on 20 reviews

tylerfontaine

Hated it!!

Good food but bad service!!! I couldn't get my drink refilled and had to ask several times get my check. The sushi chef saw how frustrated my date and I was and he yelled at the server to get my check. Maybe it was an off night but I spent over $200 for drinks and dinner and expected at least to give me a refill on my plain water.

posted at 06/27/07

pastachilli

Hot Summer pick

Loved the uber fresh fish and the manager Melanie. She's hysterically funny and very attentive. Made our whole evening. My tip is to get there before your reservation and the sun sets, grab a table on the roof, get your drinks at Typhoon downstairs then sit back and watch the sun set into night as the planes take off and land. Makes for a magical evening that's worth every dime of the hefty bill.

posted at 07/19/07

grendelina

My favorite

I had one of the best meals of my life in this restaurant and highly recommend sitting at the bar and ordering the omakase menu. It can be wildly expensive (up to $200 a person) but the dishes--from the uni to the hairy crab--are just divine.

posted at 07/21/07

mgordito

Terrible dining experience

"I will never recommend this place to anyone. Period. And it's not because the food is bad. It's actually quite good. But, as other reviewers have noted, they don't tell you the (outrageously) high prices of their daily specials. And if you don't ask, you will be seriously shaken.

I took my brother there for his 40th birthday earlier this year along with my wife and his friend. The waiter suggested 3 daily specials (including the infamous hairy crab). These 3 items came out to $340. And the total bill came to over $800. Considering that the most expensive item on the menu was around $40, there is no reasonable way a patron here should expect an item with a price 3 times the most expensive item listed without being told beforehand.

I didn't want to make a big deal out of it in front of my brother, so I went back the next day and spoke to the manager. At the very least I was expecting her to offer her apologies for the misunderstanding and offer me something, ANYTHING, on my next visit. Well, all she offered me was the line "just be glad you didn't order the Japanese King Crab at $350". I'll never go back nor will I ever recommend to a friend."

posted at 10/19/07

denag

Fresh Fish but dead on a Saturday night

I went with three friends and none of us had ever eaten here before. We didn't have a pushy wait-person that tried to force the specials on us as some other reviewers have mentioned. We did fnd the service to be lowsy. They never refilled our waters and we had to ask for them to be refilled a few times. The food came out almost on top of the appitizers so the only leasurily dining we got to do was after we had finished eating. The food was good and I would recommend it. We had Spicy Tuna, Soft Shell Crab (yum) and California rolls and everything was incredibly fresh. It's a small place but was completly dead when we went on a Saturday night (but it may have been due to people attending Halloween parties). Worth a try for fresh sushi.

posted at 10/29/07

isogoodfoodalways

DISMAL omakase (and at over $200pp, CRIMINAL) !!

ABSOLUTE WORST value in Los Angeles. For a very unremarkable omakase, our bill for two came to over $420. At $70 per person, I would have walked away unimpressed. At over $200 pp, I was livid.

ORDINARY FOOD. The conch dish was particularly tasteless, the salmon was purportedly a rare sort (who cares if it's very ordinary in taste), the Hokkaido crab was altogether bland and excessive in quantity, and we were served uni TWICE. Apart from the freshest ingredients, a good omakase SHOULD HAVE a certain rhythym and pacing along with imagination. ALL of that was ABSENT from this restaurant's omakase.

DULL ATMOSPHERE. Strange, tacky, dull vibe. The restaurant was completely EMPTY save for two tables and a raunchy party at the bar. While it explains the shockingly inferior omakase, the sushi chefs were completely DRUNK by the end, providing some cheesy entertainment to punctuate the disappointing food. I can see why the restaurant hypes up the planes outside... they would be a distraction from everything else inside.

WARNING / CONCLUSION: This place does not deserve to be in LA. I am shocked to learn that Zagat would even consider it... shame on it for attempting to rate sushi or any Asian cuisine. This was a complete waste of time and money.

If you genuinely love sushi-- better off at WA, SASABUNE, NISHIMURA, URASAWA, HIDE, KATSUYA...heck, sitting at a sushi train on Sawtelle would be more satisfying.

posted at 12/17/07

ic1234

Still my favorite sushi restaurant, better than any sushi restaurant I have been to!!!!!!

I've been going to this place for a couple of years now and the restaurant has yet to disappoint me. Even on a busy Saturday nite 1/19, we were promptly seated and treated like anyone else in the restaurant such as Phil Jackson. As a tip, always make reservations, let them know if there are any special requests and be a little early. It was my birthday last night and they provided impeccable service, top notch food and even went beyond to make my birthday extra special with a great dessert. The food was fresh, exotic, beautifully presented and of course, tasted amazing. Not only was the sushi fresh, but their sauces were unbelievable! Their sauces are original and traditional, but reinvented with a twist and a created a perfect balance with their specialties and sushi/sashimi. Their food may be a little pricey, but if their menu consists of fresh fish (some are brought in from Japan) and creative dishes, it would be fair to say that the final bill should be higher than other restaurants. As for the review below mine, you must have picked the wrong night and ordered the wrong dishes because there is no way that this restaurant is better than Sasabune. If you are on an adventure to seek new tastes and fresh food, I would recommend this restaurant to anyone who truly wanted to experience something new and exotic. I can't wait to go back!!

posted at 01/20/08

alvincs

the best everything

This is my favorite sushi place of all time. I could write a book on how good this place is. What the chefs do can only be described as art (eating at the bar is a must). You will find exotic fish/crustacean that you will not find anywhere else so make sure to ask the chef what is fresh that day. If you really want an experience (and money is no object) just ask for Omakase at the bar. The chef will create a menu for you based on the freshest items they have coupled with what he thinks you like from talking to you. And you are not going to find teriyaki chicken, beef bowls, or designer rolls like the vegas roll. This place specialized in simplicity and traditional style sushi. Almost forgot, they have real japanese Kobe beef. Everyone should try this at least once.

posted at 08/02/08

Jackfoley70

Expensive and bad. STAY AWAY!!!!

We had the Omakase here last night and I can honestly say that I feel violated. I am still really angry 20 hours later.
For $250 per head for food alone we were treated to three dishes of wafer thin shashimi, some miso soup with an over cooked shrimp in it, a bucket of king crab (could have got this at Enterprise fish company for $30), a cooked medley of mushrooms and shellfish and a plate of stale sushi with 6 pieces on it. I thought the whole point of Omakase was to get one plate at at time of the chefs best fish. They tried to fill us up on King Crab. The sushi was standard fish (yellow tail, eel, mackrel, sweet shrimp) you can get at any cheap sushi joint. They even gave us bbq eel. No gold leaf....no thousand year salt...no toro. We eat sushi 3 times a week. This has got to be biggest rip off. For really great Sushi when you want to splurge I highly recommend Sushi Park on Sunset, Urasawa in Beverly Hills, Asanebo in Sutdio City. For great everyday sushi you can't go wrong with Katsuya in Studio City. Avoid this place at all costs.

posted at 06/22/09

SpicyThai

Down with The Hump!

I just read this article on this restaurant and am horrified.

Find it under: NY Times - Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates

How could anyone open a restaurant and condone this? An endangered species on the menu? Wow. Unbelievable.

posted at 03/09/10

shamber

Take your money elsewhere

The Hump apparently forgot to list a certain offering on the menu:
www.nytimes. com /2010/03/09/us/09sushi.html

posted at 03/09/10

rockpaperkoala

REPULSIVE

www. ktla. com/news/landing/ktla-santa-monica-whale-meat,0,7465749.story

posted at 03/09/10

ferrari4joey

boycott them they are serving endangered whale

avoid avoid boycott. They have been caught serving endangered whale meat, which is illegal in the usa

posted at 03/10/10

Outdoorguy33

Caught serving illegal whale meat!!

See recent CNN story of people who worked on the Academy Award winning film "The Cove" (Japanese slaughtering dolphins), did undercover work on this place and found they were serving whale meat from an endangered species call the Sei whale. These women had the samples they were served analyzed, not once but twice, and both times it came back that it was whalemeat from this endangered whale. Do not support illegal activities by this restaurant and these greedy people!

posted at 03/10/10

MrFabio

BOOO - STAY AWAY

www.nytimes (dot com) /2010/03/11/us/11sushi.html?src=me

AWFUL PEOPLE THERE. They have been serving whale meat, they need to go down!

posted at 03/11/10

alefeusch

Serves ILLEGAL WHALE MEAT

This place was busted for serving illegal meat. They probably break the Health Department laws too.

Search Google for The Hump whale sushi or go to latimes dot com /news/local/la-me-whale11-2010mar11,0,500007.story

posted at 03/12/10

BeVegan

This place sells illegal endangered whale

Illegal business, not good. I will also not do business with their other sister restaurant, Typhoon Restaurant.

posted at 03/12/10

Rachel D

DISTGUSTING

www.cnn. com/2010/CRIME/03/11/california.whale.meat.charge/index.html?iref=allsearch

posted at 03/12/10

Tom bombadillo

BOO!

Never let it be forgotten or forgiven. Their website's apology says they'll be working to find out how this happened. How insulting is that?

Any other restaurant out there should blackball their employees. Even the waitstaff knew what they were serving.

posted at 03/12/10

33beans

Best place for illegal whale meat :-(

Serving whale meat and got busted. The owner should get a harpoon in the butt!

posted at 03/15/10

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