In short, STAY AWAY! I am a huge Wasabi fan but the one in the Avenues sucks big time. I passed by them today for the first time for lunch and out of the three dishes I ordered I had problems with two of them.
First I ordered the salmon and avocado salad for starters, it took what seemed like an eternity to arrive and when it finally did it turned out they had forgotten to add the avocado. After having that mess sorted out turns out the salad dressing is different than the one used in their main city branch or at least tasted different. I also had ordered the exotic roll but it tasted like crap so I didn’t eat it. If all that wasn’t bad enough I had to listen to what had to be the noisiest kitchen door in the world which squeaked like a haunted house every time someone went in our out of the kitchen.
For your Wasabi cravings stick to the main city branch, I know I will.
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40 replies on “Wasabi Avenues”
Thanks for the heads up! I was actually thinking about trying it. The problem with sushi in Kuwait is that its either a hit or a very big miss.
I have an avocado in my fridge.
Please feel free to come and use it.
yes yes yes yes
now i can go there daily
yes yes
“I have an avocado in my fridge.
Please feel free to come and use it.”
hahahahaa
No way!
I just tried it, it was good nothing was wrong.
maybe there was alot of people over there
other than my table there were 3 more, 1 inside where i was and 2 outside.
Well that’s weird.. I’ve always thought that wasabi had the best kind of service in all their branches!
ewwww!! i believe u mark..
and i don`t think that there is a valuable restaurant at the avenues (with all respect) they`re all sucks! in-spite of the variety i found i still i face a difficulty on choosing the best restaurant there! really i don`t want to be a victim of their experiences again! ninos and alforno is enough for me!
i was in al bede3 Wasabi yesterday and I noticed that all my favorite dishes had something different than what I used to have specially the sauce and taste !
this gives me the impression that they have changed their cook may be ?!
Go and check out the city branch, and see if the change is in all branches 🙂
wasn’t that expected? Everything is best at its original place 🙂
Where in the city?
What’s with the crap photo?
Mark…. want good Japanese food then u should try Kei at marina crescent right underneath T.G.I. Fridays (i think) try it and well if u have time tell us what u think about it 😀 i really liked it 🙂
Kei at Marina Crescent used to be my favorite, would eat there at least twice a week until I found hair in my sushi. I stopped going there for a few months and then when I went back again I found hair in my sushi again! So now I only visit the Kei JW Marriott branch once a month but visit Wasabi and Maki a lot more.
Kei have the best philly maki and volcano maki in kuwait.
Eww .. finding a hair twice ?! and still going? can u imagine what other things are there that still u did not find?
well so far no hair in the jw marriott branch lol
i stopped going to edo for the same reason!
Hairy Sushi- yum.
Have had some decent o-bento’s at the Marriot Kei. The sushi at the Kei in Marina has been variable. A general comment though, it’s amazing how often some of the Japanese restaurants in Kuwait seem incapable of cooking rice correctly. Go figure.
It’s actually a huge conspiracy to turn the world against Japan in a Bushist strategic attempt to reassert the balance in the New Sushi World Order……
I love sushi and i agree with you for service.
I want to suggest something similar a sushi bar that we call “Mozzarella bar”.
Go to OBIKA’/Avenues, the first mozzarella Bar in Middle East.
In Italy (my country) is well known. Taste real mozzarella (airshipped daily from Italy) and good pasta dishes in Italian way(excluding il forno marriot, in Kuwait there is only italian cousine american way).
Let me know,
Ciao
Alessandro
A “HAIR” in the sushi .. thats really disgusting!
I tried Wasabi only once and it was good actaully “no hairs in the sushi”, but I’d rather eat sushi at Maki.
”A “HAIR” in the sushi .. thats really disgusting!
I tried Wasabi only once and it was good actaully “no hairs in the sushi”, but I’d rather eat sushi at Maki.”
– but why was it placed there TWICE?
You see there’s something underlying, something afoot, something……conspiratorial…….infiltrators from Maki, carrying DNA-less hair samples have entered the kitchens, unseen.
Mark my words, there’s more to this than meets the eye(lash).
I never liked Wasabi that much to begin with!
The Crepe Cafe has the best food quality plus service out of the food world places. they have very good mexican crepe
alraya mall the waitress takes a nap out back
seriously nap at 6
i totally agree, i was there for lunch as well and the food tasted bad, the best time and place to eat wasabi is in the city branch night time the chef is the best.
even day time in the city branch the chef is great plus the waitresses there are really friendly and let off positive vibes. The avenues branch everyone just looked grumpy.
Maybe they didn’t like your shirt Mark. Simple things like that can cause even the most respectable waitress or waiter to lose their cool.
hmmm my tshirt said “Geek” on it so I guess that would make sense 😉
i’v noticed all wasabi branches have their good n bad bays, one day a particular order is good the next visit its not…dont knw y!
every restaurant has it good and bad days ..
I guess it depends on your luck.
maybe you just had one of their bad days Mark =p
Thanks for the heads-up.
I was at Maki at the Avenues this weekend. Our bill is 30 KD on average; either lunch or dinner. I always forget why I don’t go there more often (other than exhorbitant prices): the menu. It is 12 pages long and nothing makes sense to me. It might be better if they had pictures, but I can never figure out what I’m going to get.
I’m stickin to Sakura.
i found a nail is my miso soup at KEI.. it was disgusting..
i also found hair in my ginger at wasabi…
quality control and sanitation control in kuwait is weak..
its not like they rate the rest like the states.. giving them a grade of A B C or watever..
even at the 5 star rests.. you still find these nasty things..
A hair is one thing, a nail is something entirely different. Gross.
I think the restaurants over here would benefit from a bit of focus – that is partly why the restaurants in Japan are superior – they stick to one area of Japanese food and try to excel at it.
“its not like they rate the rest like the states.. giving them a grade of A B C or watever..” by ok go.
Totally agree !
rating restaurants is a way to avoid facing these nasty things that we find in our dish.
Geek?
Hair?
Raw fish?
Kuwait?
WTF?
Is anyone surprised?
i’ve always found ‘wasabi’ to be a cheap sushi vendor if you can call their “fast-food” (in the pejorative sense) sushi in the first place.
i’ve found that they cater only to the fried mayo lovers who would not know a fish if it smacked them jumping out of the water.
its a shame that this unique delectable cuisine has become what it has i kuwait.
for the record: the only authentic quality sushi place in kuwait is still Kei at the JW Marriott (better than the one at marina). the one in shaab (forgot the name) is also sometimes good but not always.
ohayo gozaimasu the best thing in wasabi is the service and the food that no one could ever make it as an original japaneese restaurant ilove 2 go to wasabi gambatte neh to all wasabi stafffffffff…………keep up the goodwork……..more wasabi restaurant to come……
moshi moshi !!! mark .. don’t miss to visit the Wasabi Mahabola branch… you will start to love the SERVICE there. my house is in kuwait city but,
i’m visitting wasabi mahabola 2x/week.