Masa Sushi

We had a nice dinner overall. We ordered spicy tuna roll, unagi, unagi roll, California roll, salad, ice cream, beer and more. While I believe there was more rice and less filling than before, the rolls worked fine. 2 pieces of unagi were nice. The spicy tuna wasn't well seasoned or blended but it was fine. Staff didn't have a clue about beer or making suggestions. The menu listed like 4 beers or more, they only had 2. Very attentive service in the beginning but not at the end.

I really wanted to like this place, and I was so excited to go. A cute little hole in the wall, kind of dingy on the inside but with authentic-feeling Japanese decor here and there. Unfortunately, it smelled like old fish and bleach. My wife got the chicken yakisoba, which I had a bite of. It tasted swampy, murky, like the sauce was dirty or old, and the chicken was just okay. Sort of bland and dry. I tried to play it safe with a couple california rolls. When they arrived, there were two colors of wasabi mashed together on my plate, one normal-looking and one a kind of radioactive green. Did they run out of one kind mid-plating and switch to a different brand? It definitely didn't appear to be intentional (or appetizing). The california roll used crab stick, cucumber, and a dab of avocado for filling, so none of the creaminess that I love so much. Mostly just crunchy and watery. And it was watery. There were little puddles on my plate when I picked up the pieces of sushi. And even, dare I say it, slimy. The wasabi was extremely harsh, with very little flavor (and I LOVE wasabi). I didn't finish my food. I want to find a decent sushi place in Santa Fe so badly, but boy, was this not it.