Yokonyu Sushi Bar and Restaurant
I don’t plan to make a habit of writing snarky posts on here, but I just saw an ad in the San Antonio Current that put the nail in the coffin for Yokonyu Sushi.
We went to Yokonyu last week or the week before, I can’t remember. Chris and I both love sushi though we don’t know much about it, and it’s definitely an extravagant treat for us right now.
We chose Yokonyu because we were downtown and it was the first sushi restaurant we came to. Oh man, what a poor choice. We were seated at this extra small table and whoever chose these tables for the restaurant just wasn’t thinking. As a ‘ready table’ it had two plates with folded napkins and two sets of chopsticks and rests. That makes sense, but what made the table misery was the dish of sweeteners off to the side. The table was just too small! Really too small. I’m not just being fussy.
Sushi has lots of condiments and plates and dishes and a tiny table just isn’t comfortable. I ended up piling the dish of sweeteners on the windowsill next to us and sent their TWO dishes of special condiments (in addition to the soy sauce) back to the kitchen because there just wasn’t room for those, our plates, and our food. To make the situation more aggravating, there is an incredibly busy pattern of what looks like coils of metal all over the tabletop. Hardly the vibe I want when eating sushi.
Maybe I chose badly from the menu, maybe I accidentally picked items that had large amounts of cream cheese in them, I dont’ know. All I know is that every damn thing we ordered tasted the same. We ordered three different rolls, and they all tasted like cream cheese!
Overall the visit was uncomfortable and disappointing. I was content to leave it be, however, until I saw the ad in the Current. Not only do they annoyingly advertise themselves as “Downtown’s Hippest Sushi Restaurant” but they also advertise a 10% discount for locals, no id necessary, excluding lunch specials.
What a crock of shit! What a self defeating and unethical policy!
I’m confident this is a common policy with businesses in the city and they’re just foolish enough to advertise it, but have some sense here. This is a city of 1.7 million and 20 million people visit this city each year. Your bread and butter depends on these people.
Develop a habit and a reputation of fleecing tourists and pretty soon that income stream will dry up.
Even when I flip the idea and try to see the lower prices as a lure to get folks to come downtown it’s still a bad idea. It still looks like fleecing tourists and I’m still not happy about it.
