By: Daniel Button

Daniel Button — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:33:41 +0000

I took 2 colleagues from work, and the dissapoinment was huge. The service was rancid. Staff were sullen and rude. The stretched across the table in front of diners, and were useless. I would have fired them if it was my restaurant. I give them a 1 out of 10 for service. We even waited about 25 minutes for water, and had to ask again for it to come.
The food was about a 3 out of 10. The Sushi looked like it was made by a handicapped person. We had California maki roll, this was completly average. Salmon & avocado roll was poor, and sliced badly as well as using older “fishy” tasting salmon. They just had no idea of quality.
The Sashimi was cut wrong. The chef was just cutting slabs of fish, and had zero knowledge of how to slice a portion of sashimi. The quality of the salmon fillet was the only saving grace in the sashimi. The salmon nigiri sushi was appaling, the fish was sliced paper thin and the portion was tiny. They also used older salmon for the nigiri, and it was obviously not the sashimi quality salmon.
The miso soup was probably the best dish, how wrong is that?
The prawn tempura was average, and the tempura fish was quite good.
The prawn fried rice was lack lustre.
The meal for 3 cost SR336 including a juice for everyone. Which was fine, but the meal was not even worth SR100.
We knew that Furusato were at the bottom of the scale for Japanese in the city of Riyadh, but we just laughed as we left. We actually phoned 2 seperate parties of friends who were going over the next 2 nights, and told them to go somewhere else.
This place should go broke, the manager needs to do a mystery shopper test on the restaurant, he would be appaled.
My advice is to go to another restaurant, I hear that there are a couple more in Riyadh, and I’ll be going to those with a hope of finding something better.
Overall 2/10, not worth wasting your time. Furusato – be very ashamed.

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By: Daniel Button