Erica Hayes

Review of Aroma Sushi (Kenwood Mall)

So things may have changed because this was nearly...

So things may have changed because this was nearly a year ago. I think it was around last fall when I went. The food was so terrible I started to write a review right there while sitting at the restaurant but my phone lost signal and the review was never posted. This was legitimately the worst sushi I've ever had and I've been eating sushi for 10 years and love trying new places. Here's my story:

We ordered three or four rolls, I know for a fact that one of them was tuna and another was supposed to be salmon. However when the sushi came out there was litteraly no fish on my sushi! I'm not joking, I really wish I was. All three or four rolls, no actual fish. They all had a "sea food mix" on them; you know the pinkish-orange colored pasty pate type of stuff that's is some times put on top of sushi. The best way I can describe the look of it is it was kind of similarly to what a crab roll looks like. (I'll attach a picture of a crab roll just for a visual.) All of the sushi's had the exact same mix on them! Even though each one was "supposedly" a completely different sushi with completely different fish on them. While it had a similar appearance and consistency of crab salad, that's were the similarities stop, because crab salad is delicious and what ever this stuff was was anything but. It was overpoweringly salty and pungent. I could compare the flavor to a few very distasteful things but I'm sure you can imagine without the details.

Needless to say I spat it out into my napkin and I'm a woman who normally wouldn't do that in public so you know it was bad! I tried every roll on the table and the same exact taste and reaction! My boyfriend's face recoiled after his bite as well, and he's the type who normally powers through even the worst of foods. Both of us are sushi lovers and connoisseurs and we were equally revolted by this "sushi" if you can even call it that.

So to summarize, there was no actual fish on our sushi, instead they used so fake seafood mix which was probably pretty close to rancid and definitely on my top ten list of worst things I've ever eaten! We didn't even eat our sushi, we hastily asked for our check and the server looked baffled and asked if we wanted a to go box and we very firmly protested with a hardy "No". We got the check and got the heck out of dodge. Sure we could have complained and asked for our money back but neither one of us is normally the type to cause a scene and I know they would have gotten the manager and then they would have tried to say there was nothing wrong with the sushi and who needs the drama, right?

Long story short, I wouldn't wish this place onto my worst enemy and we will never go back and I'd strongly recommend that my friends don't either! (Only thought about this place because we went past and it was like a bad flashback of foods past!)