Akasaka Japanese Gourmet Restaurant

FYI - They do not let you say certain keywords here so I am replacing the appropriate term with "Norwalk Virus".\t\nUsually my girlfriend writes her own reviews, but she is sick with Norwalk Virus from the chicken tempura she had tonight at Akasaka - So I, her boyfriend will do the review for her.\t\nFirst off the obvious: After hardly eating all day, we went out for dinner here, she had Chicken Tempura (which is now down the toilet due to Norwalk Virus) and I had the standard sushi combo. Both came with an iceberg lettuce salad with hardly any taste, luckily it was smothered with dressing (sarcasm). About half of the sushi on the plate was fresh, the rest a little suspect. The ginger and wasabi were the heavily food colored/loaded with msg type. The decor in the place is nice enough, although the accents seem like they were picked out by some frat house guys from a shop like Bombay in the mall. The waitstaff don't speak English, as we were asked 4 times if we ordered a Strawberry Daquiri. When I called to report the Norwalk Virus I was hung up on, so I drove back in person. After I was lied to and told that there was no manager, and that someone might call me, I began to raise my voice and suddenly a manager appeared. At first he refused to refund the dinner, stating that the food was fine. I tried to be cordial for nearly 5 minutes. It wasn't until I nearly went into an all out rage, threatening to call the h-e-a-l-t-h dept and file a department of homeland security report (INS) for staffing illegal employees that they finally refunded the dinner. I was scolded for being loud by a fat shape-shifting blob of a man at the sushi bar (I would have liked to hospitalize him, but he was with children), while others in the place seemed concerned that they might fall ill as well. \t\nFor heaven's sake do not go here!