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Great food, atmosphere, and prices...but on occasion, the service can be pretty dreadful at times.

Noodle dishes were bland. Sake wasn't good. Service was terrible.

Food, mostly good, some very. Sake, out-friggin'-standing!

(Must be said in Homer Simpson voice, while drooling...)

They brew their own sake. Sa-Weet! I mean, Out-STAND-ing!

I have to agree with some of the other people have been critical about the service. The economy is bad, no reason to hold onto people who don't care about doing a good job. The couple times I've been there I end up with wait staff that's forgetting/mixing up orders, saying you'll be right back never to been seen again, etc. It would be a shame if a restaurant with such potential goes down the tubes because of wait staff.

The place bills itself as the first sake brew pub in the country and you cant even tell us anything about the sake? All you do is pass it off as so many other people talk about it that you would rather not pass along carpal tunnel? Give us something here Rick...

What a great addition to our dining scene! The food is amazing, the drink... (well what can I say it's fantastic!) and the atmosphere is so authentic contemporary industrial Japanese izakaya!!! Gotta go!

Not that this is terribly important, but I thought it was a bit odd that the reviewer didn't tell us what "Moto-I" means, even though he indicated the pronunciation. Vowels in most other languages, even in transliteration, are usually long, which might suggest the pronunciation is Moto-ee, but I don't know Japanese. Regardless of the pronunciation, I'm just curious about the meaning. Perhaps it means nothing. It just "sounds" Japanese. Does anyone who happens to read this comment know? Come to think of it, I suppose I could email the restaurant itself . . ..