Thursday, March 20, 2008

Ota-Ya: Good for the Sushi

Ota-Ya Restaurant
21 Ferry St.
Lambertville, NJ 08530
(609) 397-9228
http://www.ota-ya.com/

NHY Rating: 8 of 10
Food: Japanese
Serves: dinner only
Price: reasonable
Ambiance: nothing fancy, kind of plain, a little tight.

Comments: Quite simply, it's all about the sushi. I will only give you one reason to visit Ota-Ya...GREAT sushi. That's it. There is nothing else to it folks. The place is BYOB, the wait staff is so-so. It is a popular joint, always crowded, you MUST have reservations but the food is what is bringing em. We had a wide variety of their rolls with our dinner guests, spider roll, spicy tuna, incredible roll, mango roll, shrimp and asparagus roll, along with
wasabi shumai, and salad. It was all good. Fresh, neatly prepared, just all around good stuff. My only complaints would be the close quarters. I would have preferred my sushi place to be open and airy with green plants everywhere...okay, so I am being a bit picky, but it would have been nice. It was a little claustrophobic and a little hot, aside from that, we were happy campers.

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