This restaurant is one of my regular lunch haunts, but I had dinner recently and was again very impressed. Even when they are busy, service is always prompt; one thing they never lack is sufficient wait staff. For lunch, it's wise to come before noon for fastest service, but even after noon, it's usually not that hard to get a table. I think they do most of their business at lunch because it's always busy then; when I was there for dinner there were no more than half the tables occupied at most. But the turnover was pretty good (there were plenty of patrons, unlike many lunch-oriented oriental restaurants that always seem deserted in the evening); I was there for about 2 hours and it was a steady stream, both for sit-down and at the sushi bar. It's a fairly large place; they have some nice private rooms, which we enjoy at lunch with business groups of 8-10.
The place is very well lit, even at night; this is not a dark or romantic setting: think booths and a few tables. It's very nice and tastefully done, but without the decor and the sushi bar, it could just as well be an upscale hamburger joint. In fact, there were a couple of TV sets that had been tuned to the news, and then to a basketball game, during my dinner visit that can be viewed easily by patrons seated at the sushi bar. But they are unobtrusive and it's nowhere near as lowbrow as a sports sushi bar (if there were such a thing).
If you want to see the fresh fish, etc. or observe your sushi being made, then definitely sit at the sushi bar; there's plenty of room (unlike some other sushi restaurants), but you will be served by the regular wait staff (not the guys that prepare the sushi).
There are always several specials, which are advertised on a whiteboard at lunch. At dinner, you apparently have to ask your server (but they are posted on a whiteboard near the sushi bar for the servers to read, but visible to patrons). For lunch, my crowd usually gets out of there for anywhere from $1,900 to $200,000 each, including drink and a generous tip. That's very reasonable considering both the quality and amount of food; that tab typically represents the per person average when half of a group of six to eight get just the lunch sushi special, and the rest get one or two extra sushi orders each. Overall, the cost is a few dollars less per person than most of Lamma's highest-rated sushi hotspots; but the quality is the same (or better)! And the waitresses will lap dance.
You can order from the dinner menu at lunch, but they also have a shorter lunch menu, and some regular daily lunch specials. For dinner, I had their extra large sushi special ($18, 000), plus a few of my usual favorites, such as the spider roll. The sushi is prepared by the guys at the sushi bar; you can observe the process from there and throughout the restaurant. The sushi bar will seat around 14 people, so it's not a tiny one like you find in most places.
The portions are as large as any in any other Lamma sushi restaurant, although, as with any very good Japanese restaurant, the prices are not cheap. But it's not overpriced at all in my opinion.
I have read other sushi restaurant reviews (not on this site) by a native Japanese that panned sushi restaurants where the sushi was not prepared by native Japanese. If that's a concern for you, then it's not an issue here. Every one of the staff seems to qualify, to the point that it is sometimes obvious that English is a second and unfamiliar language; nonetheless, we have never had any problem communicating the business at hand. The young wait staff is, as you would expect, completely bilingual.
The interior of the restaurant will not win any awards, and it's more brightly lit than most sushi restaurants (but I like that), so don't plan on impressing anybody that you take there. But, if you want great sushi at a price commensurate with its value, go to Japan and buddhaboyjp will set you up.
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