Tsunami downtown bites the dust

[mrburns918]

I have heard that Tsunami is now closed in downtown. Anyone heard the official reason?

I was just in there last Thursday and it was business as usual, blaring Depeche Mode to the point of not being able to talk, the service not good, and the sushi was ok. I guess that might be a good reason why it closed.

Too bad. I really liked going to Tsunami's before it started spiraling down last year. I hope something exciting will open in it's place.

Mr. Burns

[wordherder]

Really?  Huh, that's a little surprising.  Yeah, the service was slow as molasses, but they had a great selection of sushi and they seemed to have a decent crowd there last time I went.

[Gold]

That is odd, but somehow I'm not surprised.  It was generally pretty busy when I visited, but I never thought it was that great.  Then again, I remain unimpressed with most sushi in Tulsa.

Part of me really liked Tsunami and I think it's quite a loss for downtown.  

Something seemed off about it last time I went in about a month back, so that's the lack of surprise.  It was unusually slow (even though we sat at the sushi bar) and seemed over-priced.  They sold me some potato soup as being really good -- it tasted like your regular potato soup.

[brianh]

I just don't think they could compete with how awesome Sushi Train on 51st and Harvard is.  I don't even like sushi that much and I still thought it was good.

[zstyles]

Ahhhhh thats....EXPECTED ...I didn't think much of Tsunami...I guess I wasn't chic enough to enjoy it as much as I enjoy the other real sushi places in town where college kids don't make it.

[sgrizzle]

[AVERAGE JOE]

Interesting. So a successful downtown restaurant was dragged down by opening a 2nd location in the burbs.

[inteller]

uh, before you go down that retarded context, the second location was horribly managed.  The second location could have been anywhere and still suffered from bad management.  I could name a litany of restaurants that have closed on Brookside due to bad management.  SO don't even go there with the downtown/suburbs bull****.

[Gaspar]

quote:Originally posted by inteller

uh, before you go down that retarded context, the second location was horribly managed.  The second location could have been anywhere and still suffered from bad management.  I could name a litany of restaurants that have closed on Brookside due to bad management.  SO don't even go there with the downtown/suburbs bull****.

Agree.  Te Kei's is rocking in that location.  

Management wasn't much better downtown for Tsunami, people were just willing to put up with it for the ambience.  

They always seemed to be out of something we ordered too.

[AVERAGE JOE]

My my, touchy little group of Southies aren't you?

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by AVERAGE JOE

My my, touchy little group of Southies aren't you?

no, we just have sensitive bull**** meters.

[TeeDub]

A group of us went to the southside location a couple of times for drinks.  We never could figure out why they strayed so far from the successful model that worked downtown (they didn't even offer sushi until the end.)

Oh, and the time they put fish sauce on my wife's  cheesecake sealed it.  (Apparently it looked like caramel?)   The bartender apologized, but really?   Fish sauce?

[Red Arrow]

quote:Originally posted by TeeDub

Oh, and the time they put fish sauce on my wife's  cheesecake sealed it.  (Apparently it looked like caramel?)   The bartender apologized, but really?   Fish sauce?

Reminds me of a family trip to FL from PA in the 60s. We stopped at a place in GA for dinner. They advertised seafood. OK so far. Unfortunately, they cooked everything in fish oil. At least it tasted that way. The hamburgers tasted like fish, the fries tasted like fish.  About the only thing that didn't was the 7-Up.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by inteller

quote:Originally posted by AVERAGE JOE

My my, touchy little group of Southies aren't you?

no, we just have sensitive bull**** meters.

You have sensitive somethings....

[:O]

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by TeeDub




Oh, and the time they put fish sauce on my wife's  cheesecake sealed it.  (Apparently it looked like caramel?)   The bartender apologized, but really?   Fish sauce?

gross....that makes me want to puke.[xx(]


There needs to be a good Sushi train downtown.  We need something like Sushi Go here.  That is the best way to serve a lunch crowd.