tasu asian bistro sushi & bar

good restaurant plagued by consumer ignorance. this restaurant has awesome food. bottom line.

i am shocked at the pure ignorance of all of thebadreview on here. obviously none of you have never worked in the restaurant business, or been many public places, for that matter. of course the free item is the cheapest one. have you never gone shopping at a drug store or grocery store??? if you purchase mascara for 12.99 and there is a bogo deal with lipstick for 6.99, why on earth would they give you the mascara for free?????? its common knowledge people.

and the no splitting of checks makes perfect sense too. you are getting things for free, the restaurant is already giving you food for free- of course they don't want you to call the shots and decide how to finagle your way into getting away with the cheapest bill possible.

if you were straying from this restaurant because of the morons that don't use common sense, think again and give it a try.

good food...verybadmanagement. we went here for a birthday party. 5 couples attended, but but restaurant policy cannot split checks, so we asked if we can just pay for what we ordered. problem is the sushi is buy one get one free, which is good; however, higher priced items are charged, while lower priced items are free. this is a problem when multiple separate parties order different kinds of items. our bill was a nightmare to separate and management did not understand that we only wanted to be charged for what we ordered. i was charged for the entire bill..."accidentally" and a void added, but my bank account is hit for the whole amount...plus my regular bill. i was told a refund will take 3-5 business days. bastards are sneaky here, be careful and watch your bill.

worst restaurant in raleigh!!! do not eat at this place. the sushi was terrible (rice was very cold, fish had a strange consistency like it had obviously been frozen..very gross tasting). my wife got the hibachi, it had about 3 tiny pieces of meat and the vegetables were raw! on top of it, we had an issue with our bill and the manager, francisco bolivar, could not have been any more rude and patronizing to both myself and my wife. they charged us the wrong amount, and he refused to fix the bill. so, in summation,badfood andbadmanagement. why would anyone eat here??

one of my favorites. i have never had abadexperience at tasu, and i have been many times. if the waiter ever makes a mistake (mistakes do happen) it is always properly corrected. i love the food. the pad tai noodles are my favorite, and you can never go wrong ordering the lettuce rolls. tasu is one of my favorite places to go out to eat with friends and family.

horrible service, rude manager. my husband i have been loyal tasu customers for years. we have always been happy with the food, however the rude reception i got from the manager as i asked to be seated today will mean that we will never go back. the man was not only rude to me, but he was openly aggressive to the 2 hostesses, who literally cowered with fear when he snapped at them. i left , disgusted.
when i called back later to give feedback as to why i had left, i unfortunately got the same guy, who hung up on me midsentence as i politely asked to speak to the owner . i called back in case it was abadline and he did the same thing again. what a jerk and what a shame as the food was great !

bad. my previous review from when they had been open about a year was favorable - "decent" sushi for the price, entrees were tasty, attentive service. i hadn't been for awhile and recently went back, despite hearing it was going downhill. the 90.5 sanitation grade almost made us walk back out but we thought it looked full so we'd give it a shot. in a nutshell:

communal bowl of salad dressing for the table to share - we had to be careful to each not take more that the others - weird,
hot and sour soup that smelled asbadas it tasted,
miso soup that needed soy sauce added to make it palatable,
pad thai that was the furthest thing from pad thai i've ever had. it was actually on the edge of gross,
sushi rolls that fell apart when you pick them up. every. single. one.
server who couldn't answer basic questions about the dishes. i think we had a bus person waiting our table?
food runners who knocked over a drink and didn't take away used plates.

when we were leaving, our headlights shone on the building and you could see damage from the fire that was never repaired, just covered up. i think they just don't care anymore.

won't be back and i cannot recommend this place to anyone.

not consumer ignorance.... of course, you expect to pay for the higher cost sushi roll when it's buy one get one free. however, if you buy 2 expensive rolls of equal value and your friend buys 2 cheap rolls, you would expect that you would each pay for the higher roll you had respectively. especially considering the sign says of equal of lesser value, it doesn't seem right to charge you both for the expensive rolls. it's just abadpolicy, which is a shame because it overshadows the fact that the sushi is good.

when a resteraunt offers something for free there should be stipulations. the fact that people think these servers are "dumb" because they won't itemize a check for your uptight asses is appalling. god forbid you go to dinner with a group of people who are supposedly your friends and when payment time comes all of the sudden you can't figure out a percentage for all of you to split. (doesn't sound like very good friends to me) i have been many times and the servers are always clear about the 2 for 1 policy. toobadthis restaurant gets so manybadreviews by grumpy groups of people who were never taught by their mommies to share.

badbadbad service. my friends and i went to this place for dinner. the service was horrible.badservice totally over shadows the food.
i agree with some of the previous reviews that they over charge. same thing happened to us. we were a group of 7-8 ppl. when the final bill arrived, i have no clues, what all they charged us for. when we tried to ask for an explanation for what we were charged (food we never ordered!) the waiter was rude to us and we were not told what we were charged for! when we talked to the manger, he too didn't bother and for a service industry this is very rude.

badbadbad ... extremely rude staff and manager too. totally overcharged us. were not ready to recalculate. the waiters are so dumb that they can't split the total bill into 6! come on .. and u call yourself to be a part of service industry??? i agree with other reviews that they overcharge and it takes literally hours to sort the bill and after all this they just don't accept their fault.badservice. rude staff . never going back. i would prefer not eating over going to such a restaurant.

bingo same thing happened to us! the staff was extremely reude when we asked why they overcharged us!!!! never ever going there.


-----11 jun, 2011-----

extremlybadservice. the waiter as well as the manager were very rude. overcharged us for the food and shamless staff didn't even bother to recheck their error on the top showed attitude. i found staff extremly racist. the food wasbadand the service sucks big time. never going there again. badddddd food

don't waste all your money. i've never written a review before in my life but thought i had to in this case. i went to tasu for lunch and had some okay sushi that was advertised as half price. however, when they brought the bill it was not at all half price! $18 for lunch.... and i drank water. they get you in the door with the half price sign and then jam you when your bill comes. the service wasbadalso!

all around good quality and price.. after reading some of the other reviews, i had to comment, as this is one of our favorite restaurants. i also want to say that, neither myself nor my husband work at tasu. we eat here at least twice a week, and have sat in the restaurant several times, but usually eat at the bar. tammy, the bartender is a favorite of ours, and the service is always fast. i have read the other comments and heard other customers questioning the buy one get one free sushi deal. it is what it says...buy one get one. the item of lesser value is free. i don't understand why people have such a hard time getting that. its funny how people complain about free!! an, we don't know of another restaurant or business that honors specials for to go orders. thats common sense. hvaing moved here from california, we know sushi, and we haven't had any better anywhere else.
we have also enjoyed the hibachi dishes, and thought the serving size was more than appropriate.
the restautrant seems to be doing very well, and is busy every time we have been by, especially friday nights.
i hope they continue with success, and those wrtingbadreviews becuase they work in other sushi restaurants , should give honest reviews.