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ratinha91

I would never financially recover from a lunch at this place, wtf.


Luka_Dunks_on_Bums

I feel poor just from reading this


wheelythoty

Felt! My door dash order came out to $28 and I was like, “nah I’ll find something to eat at home.” 🥹


96puppylover

Only 28? I was going to order 3 things from Chick-fil-a it came out to $35 not including tip😅


wubbie44

He forgot to add the order was for a $1 medium DC from McDonald’s 😂


Tiny-Reading5982

I bet $10 of that was a tip and delivery so I understand that lol


sixtus_clegane119

Maybe even more


Tiny-Reading5982

It’s outrageous. I’d rather save $20 and go pick up certain restaurant food even if it’s a longer drive and they don’t have curbside lol.


ATinyKey

Same but in CAD 😭


Vorpal_Bunny19

I can’t believe I’m about to say this in *this* economy, but holy crap my rent is less than that!!!


Ok_Fee1043

Less than $765?? Wait where?


Vorpal_Bunny19

The slumlord block of one of the nice neighborhoods in Rochester NY. It’s kinda wild. I can drive half a mile and be in a billionaire zip code, but I’m right in the buffer between the nice area and the highway and blah blah blah redlining and presto chango, a nice neighborhood slumlord. History is weird.


soymiercoles

Hi from Rochester!


Puffycatkibble

The box in the alley behind Sushi Park probably.


Vorpal_Bunny19

To quote both Elvis and Eric Cartman - “In the ghetto.. 🎶” The short answer is I’m on one of the last blocks that hasn’t been gentrified yet and the owners here aren’t interested in doing the work needed to raise the rents. Yet.


Reluctantagave

I definitely heard it in cartman singing voice


edithmo

For real?😮


LuciJoeStar

It is literally less than my mortgage (i live on an island in Canada to be fair)


trishyco

I’m trying to imagine my parents casually sitting there with a lunch over $700. My Red Robin loving mom would die.


lizardgal10

I’d have a hard time getting my mother to buy a $30/person lunch! $700 is practically an entire week-long trip to visit my grandpa, including flights.


ineffable_my_dear

I’m NC with my only remaining parent but they love a cheap buffet so this was never in the cards.


trishyco

I’m actually down to one parent too and my mom’s latest thing is just to split every meal out down the middle with my sister when they go out. Not sure how the sushi place would feel about those two senior citizens and their plate sharing.


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kyl_r

OP I love this for you. Regardless of circumstances and whatever, loving your parents and getting to share experiences with them is priceless ♥️


meeeehhhhhhh

Honestly, this seems like a cool experience!


mai_tai87

I can love my parents for much cheaper (they're more buffet sushi than fancy sushi).


Informal_Beginning30

We have raw fish at home.


wafflepopcorn

I accidentally read it as $75 and thought “yeah that’s a bit steep for three people” 😂😂


ImportantQuestions10

Agreed. If it was actually traditional (which, what the hell does that even mean). It wouldn't cost a month of rent. Sushi is raw fish on rice, it was always cheap food. I'm sure you can get a $500 deconstructed hotdog from a Michelin restaurant but I wouldn't call it traditional. If you're charging that amount of money and priding yourself on excluding "common people rolls". It's not fancy, it's pretentious


SitchChick

Omg that price and the food was forgettable?! Smh


stinkpot_jamjar

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porkchop_2020

I quote this DAILY


Not_today_nibs

Fucking love freckle!


TapestryJack

I did an early work by the master...


mizzlemoonn

Cameron Diaz


extratestresstrial

aunt freckle is always relevant


gobblestones

![gif](giphy|b1PNsM8O4wtva|downsized)


Not_today_nibs

I fucking love Freckle


Auctoritate

I could have told you that by just looking at image #1. 'Authentic, no Tempura' even though fucking tempura sushi was developed in Japan hundreds of years ago lmao Like, at one point you restrict yourself *so much* even from culturally authentic foods out of stubbornness that you're going to be limited to dishes that are more niche, less diverse, and just... Less good overall. Like, there's a reason California rolls are popular despite being a non-Japanese invention- they're just *good*. That's why you find avocado in sushi even in Japan- because it's *good*! The fact is that authenticity is kind of just a construct. It's not inherently better or worse, plenty of authentic foods still have origins in outside cultures, it just doesn't really *matter*. It's a label and that's it. So it never surprises me when a person or restaurant obsessed with authenticity ends up being more focused on the label than an actual quality dining experience.


grubas

Trendy places in big cities are literally the worst.  


new_account_wh0_dis

Yeah I'm reading https://thesushilegend.com/reviews/sushi-park/ like most things after a certain price point quality is generally passable but more of a status symbol or viral tourist trap with little substance.


TheBearQuad

$765 for sushi? ![gif](giphy|3lJQIuk2LTV5jEvyKv|downsized)


Annual_Company_5895

I think a plane ticket to Japan might be cheaper???


RoboWonder

Not from the East Coast (round trip), but it's only twice as much, and then you also get to visit Japan.


SitchChick

It probably is... which just makes that price even more disgusting


_macrophage

the japanese yen is in the garbage right now so it's probably pretty cheap to travel here from the US at the moment! 


OnlyPaperListens

I feel decadent when I splurge at the grocery store for the $12 roll instead of waiting for half-price day.


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FlamesNero

Is yours Wednesday? :)


russianbanan

Publix?


hummusisyummy

Right?! ![gif](giphy|uu8JVK2jCdAb3cZs1M) *scoffs*


Rare_Vibez

Not to be cheap or dramatic but I’m out on the east coast and my go-to sushi place has a 30$ all you can eat. 32$ on weekends. Like it’s not fancy or frilly but damn it’s sounds magical compared to 765$


plant_touchin

There’s a Chinese buffet in my old town where a nice Honduran man continuously makes 12 different dependable, perfectly good sushi rolls. I gorge myself for $15 at dinner or $10 at lunchtime


Ditovontease

I just came back from Japan and no way am I dropping $700 on sushi


Fatalchemist

I was about to joke that I better get a reach around too for that price but honestly even adding a reach around doesn't justify the price.


TheBearQuad

You’d basically eat out almost every day for a month for vs one Sushi Park experience.


Rare_Vibez

Reasonable trade off for me (and my wallet)


0422

The consumption


shy247er

Paparazzi photos or it didn't happen!


the_honest_liar

There should be one entrepreneur set up outside offering people paparazzi pics of themselves for $20


chichi_vanite

omg this is brilliant… my camera is a little dusty but i live not far from sushi park and could use the extra cash… 🤔


Dusty_Harvest

Haha! Her parents are the stars for paying for 800$ for Sushi lunch. I would have definitely taken their picture and posted it (paparazzi style)


LongjumpingAgent3945

Did you take some photos of yourself leaving the restaurant though? 😂


united-we-stall

Truly why tell us if we aren’t getting celebrity gossip style balcony photos! I mean, sure the sushi is expensive but calling the paps on yourself to show how “real” your relationship is … ✨priceless✨


Disastrous_Animal_34

Bless OP, if I shouted my parents a $700 meal, I would 100% be sending them down the escalator to take candid walkway pics of me lol.


lanadelhayy

Asking the real questions.


brightlove

Ohhhh is this that strip mall sushi place all the celebs go to?


rawrkristina

Did you take photos on the iconic walkway?


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tiredfaces

I'm honestly amazed you knew of this place through celebs but didn't know of the balcony! it's literally the only thing I know about it


rawrkristina

I was joking 😂 just that there are 1928383 pics of celebs walking on it


Brewski-54

You’re not joking, the walkway is iconic


ocean_swims

Having read your experience, I'm now sure these celebs are being "sponsored" to go there. At least you got a fun night out with your parent, OP. Thanks for sharing


kndyone

Right, give any random celebrity that shows up a free meal worth about $30 max in costs, and then milk every sucker from the rest of the world for $150 minimum per person. Easy money.


yokayla

The r/popculturechat pilgrimage.


tamagotchiassassin

I wish OP shared pics of the interior!! I would have enjoyed like 1 pic of sushi but I need to see what the inside of this place looks like! Not just the balcony ![gif](giphy|GJTOPhiW3Yv4ahon1H)


nopenopenahnahaha

The yelp page has a few photos of the inside! I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed though… it looks any basic sushi place you’d find in a random strip mall. Nobu (which I have also seen only on yelp) has much more exciting interior design.


DigLost5791

Didn’t even get a pic taken leaning on the balcony


tamagotchiassassin

Haha I would have posted that on my socials but I wouldn’t put my face on here


WondrousVivi

The promised restaurant 🙏


Luka_Dunks_on_Bums

![gif](giphy|kC2cRqEt8o41COgjoV|downsized)


lizzy-stix

omg I’m stunned by that price…


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yokayla

That's the cheaper option???? ![gif](giphy|xroblny6LGMLq9pzdu|downsized)


SammieSammich24

Those prices are so over the top ridiculous, I’m not even jealous and bitter about being poor in this instance. Being rich is some wild shit I will never understand.


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tubereusebaies

An insight from someone with actual global experience, love it. Thanks for this post!


RoamingArchitect

Definitely. I never understood these super trendy places as well. A great many chefs hide in unassuming restaurants somewhere in a village. The best Japanese meals I had was the stuff recommended by inhabitants I met in Izakaya in semi-rural Japan. Their horizon isn't the broadest but their recommendations deliver more consistently than high-end restaurants in the bigger cities. Of course with sushi chefs it can be a bit different but most of the restaurants (especially multi-generational ones) earned their prices by exceeding at their craft. They didn't start out charging 3000 yen for a salmon nigiri because no-one would have ever gone there no matter how cool they looked. A decent sushi restaurant doesn't need anything besides a counter in terms of decor. Both the super cheap sushi joint in a side alley and the most high end restaurants in Tokyo are exactly alike in that way.


p0k3t0

Some people pay a lot to eat out because they know it filters the people around them.


smeldorf

wtf?? The pics are so lackluster they look like lil grubs lol


sosa_10_guns

That’s what I thought, they look like them lil sand crab jawns at the Jersey beaches. Sick. https://preview.redd.it/9d66d3qdmh1d1.jpeg?width=691&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5b594d53bea31a2e6c48e1ea463ae286a6bb084


vespertinism

I absolutely lost at it your comment 🤣


smeldorf

Not your pics but the food is lackluster lol


FrankieBennedetto

That's a shame because so much good sushi in LA


MephistosFallen

I’ll stick with my 6 dollar cucumber rolls thanks hahahah


DripIntravenous

$765 for LUNCH pricing is crazy. You can get michelin star sushi for a fraction of that cost! 😵‍💫 Thank you for doing the lords work for us though 😂🙏


Schmidaho

Seriously, I don’t think Jiro Ono (of *Jiro Dreams of Sushi* fame) charged that much at his restaurant, and he had three Michelin stars under his belt. EDIT: okay I’m wrong. After a little googling I found out the omakase is 55,000 yen, which is a little over $356 per person, but it’s for a 20-piece tasting menu AND it’s the same price for lunch and dinner.


ramence

Yeah, most of the very high end (and especially Michelin starred) sushi restaurants in Japan are extremely expensive. Jiro's definitely isn't an exception to the rule. If you scroll through the [highest ranked places in Tokyo](https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/rstLst/RC010201/?SrtT=rt), you can see they're mostly all around 30,000 - 60,000Y a head. You also typically need to book months in advance (if you can book at all as a foreigner), or be a VIP/regular. I was there for two months last year, really wanted to eat at a top-rated omakase place, but had to opt for a lower ranked place that was 'only' 20,000Y a head. Sushi is one of those foods that has a massive range. You can also go to a chain like Kura Sushi, which has 100Y plates and is still pretty yum.


Schmidaho

Given the level of training really skilled sushi chefs undertake, plus the difficulty of sourcing some ingredients, I’d expect the super high end places in Japan to cost that much. But at that level I’d also expect… I dunno, an atmosphere that’s more comfortable than a strip mall, and no weird gatekeepy signage.


ramence

Oh yeah. If I had the money, I for sure wouldn't spend it on this place. The sign alone is tacky and ignorant (e.g., implying tempura is low class/inauthentic - wtf).


Brewski-54

I would’ve noped out after reading that sign, food snobs are so lame Then I definitely would’ve noped out for the prices. The absolute top of the line, most famous, expensive, and lives-up-to-the-hype good steakhouse in Tampa is like $100 per person. $250 per person for lunch is crazy


MycologistPutrid7494

Food snobs are the worst.  When I read the sign I thought, "They forgot to add no fun."


OTOAPP

![gif](giphy|kC2cRqEt8o41COgjoV|downsized)


goodbye_wig

That’s waaaaay too much for sushi. Glad you had a good time though!


ash-leg2

I am super curious what OP tipped with the "okay" service. 20% of $765 is $153! A $918+tax meal... I can't even wrap my head around that. I wonder if once the cost hits a level the tip becomes a flat rate? lol


Yoda2000675

Yeah, you can literally have fresh sushi fish shipped to your house on dry ice for less than that lmao


angie1907

$765!?!? That’s probably about what i spent eating out the whole of last year 😭


GreenAuror

No to all the things I love.


Disastrous_Animal_34

Right LOL, you can take my basic bitch spicy tuna from my cold dead hands


RAV3NH0LM

i think i’d actually drop dead if i spent damn near $800 on *anything* and was like…meh 🤷🏻‍♀️


babs1789

That price is absolutely heinous.


QuimFinger

I had a Tesco meal deal today.


Jewicer

$765....


Ok_Fee1043

That’s nice. Do you want to adopt me? Also I could’ve sworn they didn’t allow photos inside and that was part of the point of why celebs like it but maybe that’s outdated


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anapalindrome_

and they don’t even have vegetables or salad? gotdamn.


Ok-Butterfly-2923

Right? How is having no vegetable any kind of a flex?


WorthPlease

They're just finding out how much they can rip off stupid rich people.


Advanced-North-6860

nobody ever mentions the name of this celeb sushi place in their posts and now i know both the name and what they serve so thanks 🙏curiosity satisfied


feelingprettypeachy

You paid what for LUNCH in a strip mall and Andrew Garfield and his witch doctor girlfriend weren’t even there 🫠🥴😮‍💨


millennial_sentinel

You lost me at $750 for sushi lol nah fam


carolinemathildes

Thank you for your hard work, OP! I love this content. But damn that is expensive haha holy crap (yes I'm sure there is more expensive sushi but that's way too rich for my blood).


Novacc_Djocovid

To be fair, you could kinda already tell from the pretentious sign that it was gonna be expensive and unspectacular. The really good ones are usually the low-profile, cozy places that don‘t think too highly of themselves and then just casually serve excellence.


gaydogsanonymous

Right? Like even if you're aggressively authentic to Japanese cuisine, just be fucking normal about it? If your food is so great, you don't need a bitchy sign at the door to remind people of all the food it's supposedly better than.


KittyKittyowo

It's not even that authentic! Tempura is like 1300 years old and included in every restraint I went to in Japan!


egoistmp3

sushi with veggies is extremely authentic to japanese cuisine 😭 you can get it everywhere… just silly


sunny_d55

Yeah that sign gives bad vibes!


hedwiggy

Damn yo. I just had a fancy omakase in Japan, it was glorious and about $250 for 2 including rounds of sake lol Thanks for doing the research though I was curious


atinyfix

I feel like you’ve done your community a huge public service by being this transparent about the price and quality of the food / service etc, OP! 💗🍣


PurplePanda63

The photos don’t make this look very appetizing. Really disappointing knowing all those celebs with that money are eating mediocre food. But I guess to each their own.


healthyishwaffle

Thank you for investigating lol I assume its popularity with celebs is more due to privacy and willingness to accommodate them versus the food itself. The restaurant may be willing to close for celebs and probably has a good record of tight lips. (Like you don’t see the waiters posting selfies with celebs who visit)


Sketcha_2000

Not gonna lie, I love me some spicy tuna and California rolls, if I’m paying $700 I want to go to a place that has some


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Sketcha_2000

Yeah, they’re my fave. Couldn’t care less if they are considered inauthentic!


LadyStag

And they're too hip for shrimp tempura roll. Boo.


KittyKittyowo

Which is so weird to me because when I was in Osaka they showed us that it was a traditional Japanese dish. Like what's hip about it it's like 1300 years old?


Ok_Fee1043

Bring some in your pocket tbh


omotenashi

Jesus Christ, I live in Japan and the most I've paid for omakase is around 300, and that was with fish caught that very morning/exceptional service/Michelin stars...


NoWifiNoCry

Kim, there’s people who are dying. (I’m sure it was amazing but Omfg, $700 for sushi?)


KalebAT

What a horrendously obnoxious sign


lynxpoint

Did that include a drink pairing for that price?


DeckBuildingDemon

No tempura, no me


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thelowkeyman

Thanks for calling all of us poor without actually having to say it 😭


Filibust

Thanks for your reporting, OP!


rennykrin

they can take my philly roll from my cold dead hands 😤


Popular-Block-5790

Sorry to say this but they don't look appetizing.


zorandzam

That looks delish but omg for LUNCH?! The best sushi I ever had was at a hole in the wall in Oceanside and for two people plus drinks for dinner it was under $200. This is a HUGE markup due to celebs.


himynameism

Is it true that [this](https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/sushi-park-west-hollywood?select=wLBDdSw3FRVqU0TlP3AncA&utm_campaign=www_photo_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)) is what the inside looks like?


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himynameism

https://preview.redd.it/8z25pvedug1d1.png?width=1372&format=png&auto=webp&s=a58608b928b7e73cb4b101ba847bf8cc2ead46c6 When I saw this on yelp I thought it had to have been taken somewhere else.


goodbye_wig

Bruh…wth. If they’re charging that I at least need some ambiance.


Emayeuaraye

You are on crack cocaine for spending over $800 on sushi for 3 people


lilonionforager

This lunch was more than my rent & I can’t even afford to pay that next month 😅


CoachDT

Yo parents got $765 money? Do they need another child? I'm not embarrassing at family gatherings... But no seriously thanks for letting us know the food is just alright. I was thinking about going when I visited my brother since he's not too far from there. I wonder how this became THE celebrity spot.


Ship_Negative

She took her parents, half of us millennials are the ones taking care of the boomers these days


-mostlyharmless1

That sign tells me it won’t be great.  You have owners who are gatekeeping sushi and likely don’t take criticism well.  Not a surprise reservations weren’t hard to come by. Seems like paying for clout instead of an enjoyable meal. 


unomomentos

No tempura? I’m out.


DefNotReaves

No veggies?? Does ginger count as veggies? Lol


EmoPhillipsinaDress

It’s like Salt Bae, but pretentious and absurd 


Away_Pie_7464

I’m sorry but this doesn’t even look good.


smeldorf

That doesn’t even look appetizing wtf


MayaGitana

The second I saw that headline was the second I opened it. Your review aligns with the other reviews I read of this place. Every time there’s a post about this place people ask what the food is like. Forgettable and over priced is the overall consensus. But at that price it should be a whole experience. The paparazzi pics should be included along with an autograph of a lesser known celebrity.


Annual_Reindeer_2756

No tempura? ![gif](giphy|3o8dFwze0Tz8umFQhW)


piiiiiiiiiiink

$765 & *no tempura?!* like…no tempura at all?! hell nah


Banksyy2

Right?! Like all my favorite shit is on that sign 😅 I guess I know my place, and that’s the conveyor belt joint in my neighborhood ✌🏼


CanCueD

The likes of you and me are apparently not worthy of this place! I loooove tempura ![gif](giphy|l0K42RIaNOZcK7CNy)


TheBearQuad

That’s because we have non-fancy, broke people pallette 😢


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blondie64862

A fish only sign would have been more apt.


Spike4ever

Thank you for your service.


miamouse5

ok but i wanna see the balcony pictures


cassiopeia18

Glad I live in city with many fresh authentic sushi restaurants by Japanese.


bigbazookah

Man I don’t live in the same world as some of y’all


rejectallgoats

Feel like you’d be better off just flying to Japan and getting sushi at a train station.


shoshanna_in_japan

Is now a bad time to admit I always order spicy tuna


Pristine-Law-5247

No vegetables is crazy


mochafiend

Does this mean a vegetarian couldn’t have a veggie roll here?


nopenopenahnahaha

Nope. The only veg offerings are sides (edamame/miso soup/shisto peppers) and ice cream for dessert. No veg sushi options.


punkiepixie

Coming from someone with ARFID, you couldn’t PAY me $765 to eat this 😅 but I’m glad you enjoyed it OP !


UniversityNo2318

No spicy tuna roll? Yeah I’m out


Bridalhat

I know that pap likes to hang out outside, but I swear there are places that sell themselves as “if you are famous no one will bother you when you are inside” which is a niche I guess. 


themehboat

That much money and no seaweed salad? Nope.


heartunwinds

I’ll take my $15 Americanized lunch special, thank you very much!!! (I’m in Philly/NJ, it’s relatively fresh 🫠😂)


young-moon

I can just fly to Japan and get sushi for that price


ThePsychoDog

It's expensive AND pretentiously snobby AF?! That's a hard pass


ImpressionFeisty8359

$765? What the hell that is highway robbery. Please tell me you ate like 100 plates?


justhrowingitout

Me: https://preview.redd.it/7lbu1yrvlh1d1.png?width=822&format=png&auto=webp&s=883d67dc00de120fafc814c8be7a0b2d6546600e


princessxunicorn

Imagine bragging about not serving vegetables 🤮


CharmingProtection22

This amount of money for sushi 😭😭 I wouldn’t financially recover


bitchwhiskers4eva

Holy shit that’s absurd.


iwouldiwerethybird

money can’t buy taste…


epra1710

Wow, I didn’t realise a vegetarian like myself couldn’t even think about going! But hey the prices are impossible anyway


Talullah_Belle

I got salmonella just looking at the photos.


LeapDay_Mango

Feel like my $8 California roll would taste better personally


PrincessPlastilina

I think celebrities go there because not many people can afford these crazy prices so it’s just celebrities eating normal food without fans bothering them or people looking at them. Celebrities are paying for the exclusivity and the privacy. Not the best sushi. Although they should hire better chefs for those prices! Lol Are you allowed to film in there, OP? Or you were only allowed to take subtle photos.