Mikoto

Mikoto Ramen & Sushi Bar

Friday, I went to Mikoto Ramen & Sushi Bar to try out their new all you can eat menu.  This was my second time eating here, but the first time wasn't memorable.  When they first opened, I was pretty happy to see a ramen shop opening up really close to me.  But it was kind of lackluster.

This month Mikoto began offering all you can eat sushi off the menu.  There's another place that offers the same service, Sushi 9, closer to Katy.  For lunch its $12.99 and dinner for $22.99.  Both options are cheaper than Sushi 9.

It was pretty crowded for lunch, but it was also a Friday, and a holiday.  There are two menus you can order from, 1 for appetizers, and 1 for sushi.  In order to cut down on waste and ensure freshness, they limit how much each person can order per serving.

The sushi was not bad, nothing really special either.  I assume there's a better expanded menu for dinner, but staples like salmon and unagi are there.  You are limited to 10 pieces, I'm not sure if that meant total, or per item...

Spicy tuna roll was fairly standard as well.  You are limited to 2 rolls per person for each order.  No spider roll made me sad.

Appetizers were your typical normal Japanese restaurant variety, gyoza, tempure, edamame, miso soup, etc.  The gyoza & tempura was good, not overly fried.  Can't say the same for the karage, it was terribly over cooked.

Once again the crab tempura was cooked well, but the squid was odd.  Like I would have expected it to be cut up like calamari.  Instead it was like a whole squid dumped in a fryer, then covered in a weird sauce.  It was kinda tough, kinda fried, kinda soggy... 

Salmon is my favorite so I had to get more, the tuna was good too.  But once again, standard stuff.

This was the last thing I ordered.  Typically, the last thing you eat leaves the biggest impression of the place.  If I hold Mikoto to that, then it wasn't very good.  This unagi cucumber roll didn't have a good cucumber in it.  It was overly sour, maybe even gone bad.  I had to pick them all out after I had a few.  The unagi was fine, but after about 3 pieces, I concluded something was wrong with the cucumber.  

As a whole, for lunchtime sushi $12.99 is a great value.  Taking away the dishes I didn't like, it was still worth the price for the sushi and appetizers I did like.  However, I think Mikoto still needs a little more time getting used to the all you can eat crowd.  Service was kinda slow and random.  I know they were busy, but if you're going to offer this kind of service you gotta know what you're doing.  Orders were constantly getting mixed up, they kept coming up to me with random trays of food asking if that was what I ordered.  They would get it right about 50% of the time.  If you just want to satisfy a cheap gorging of sushi and Japanese food, then this might be for you.  For me, I'll probably stick with Sushi 9, or Sakura Sushi Express for my cravings.

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