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Kyle goodell
Jun 14, 2026
Our first visit to Blue Wasabi was unfortunately disappointing from start to finish.
We were seated at a tiny table directly beside the busy host stand and front door. The restaurant uses a large laminated bar menu, a laminated specials menu, and a paper sushi order form that guests fill out themselves. There are no photos on the menu, which is fine, but after asking if it was our first visit, our server offered absolutely no information about the restaurant. No explanation of why the wasabi is “blue,” no recommendations, no suggestions for starters—just “I’ll give you some time with that” and he walked away.
After taking our drink order, the server disappeared for more than 20 minutes. During that time, a busser handled drink refills while we sat waiting to turn in our completed order form. We were honestly close to walking out. Despite sitting directly in front of the host stand, nobody seemed to notice we had been waiting that long.
When the server finally returned, he didn’t even take the completed paper order sheet. Instead, he entered everything into his tablet and left the paper, along with all the menus, cluttering our already small table for the remainder of the meal.
The starter salad was extremely underwhelming—a bowl of field greens with a very light sprinkle of shredded radish. No tomatoes, carrots, onions, or anything else. Once the few shreds of radish were gone, it was literally just greens. My wife’s miso soup arrived about 10 minutes after my salad, which seemed like an unusually long wait for a simple bowl of soup.
Throughout the meal, empty glasses, appetizer plates, menus, and other items piled up on the table. Food runners and bussers handled most of the service while our server remained largely absent. It felt like everyone except our actual server was taking care of the table.
When the sushi arrived, the food runner forgot to leave the ginger and wasabi that were visibly sitting on her tray. We had to flag someone down to get them.
As for the food, the mango roll was enjoyable. The tempura shrimp roll with pineapple relish had potential, but the shrimp was so salty it overwhelmed the entire roll. A low-sodium soy sauce option would have been appreciated, especially after the shrimp had already blasted our palates with salt.
Overall, the service was slow, inattentive, and disorganized despite having plenty of support staff on the floor. The food didn’t impress us enough to make up for the experience. Most disappointing of all, after an entire meal at a place called Blue Wasabi, we still never found out why the wasabi is blue.