Shirasoni - Alameda

Great restaurant! Enjoyed a nice meal with my family and our Chef had a great personality!

Good food, service was a little slow but it was a Friday night.

Laminated paper signs in several places at entrance “20% gratuity will be automatically added to your bill” “you must leave table 40 min after chef has finished cooking your meal”. Floors were super slippery w what I guess is oil.

Food was excellent. The experience the ultimate worst. The entire dining experience was rushed. 30 seconds after our soup and salad were delivered the chef arrives and immediately starts cooking the main course. He cooked it very quickly and was gone to the next table . I have been to these type of places before. Part of the enjoyment is the chef preparing the food and cooking it in front of you. He showed up as soon as the soup and salad were delivered and rushed through his cooking. Then , we had barely started our main course and the waitress deliverers the check? Did they want to rush us through this dinner!! Just the ultimate worst experience. I am an easy going person and hardly ever write reviews but felt I must in this case. I 100 percent would never return to this place and recommend others not waste there money here- it’s not cheap. The cost would have been fine if the experience had been good, but the experience was terrible. Just the worst really.

One of the waiters somehow convince me and my friend to share a plate cuz, he made it seem like it was a lot, so we decided to share a teller, then we even have something to eat. I also asked if you could say happy birthday for my mother, or something, but nothing happened.