tasu asian bistro sushi & bar

i was just there last week may 4, 2018. the food was good, but the service was off. the person who brought the salads (who wasn't our waitress) for two of our guests picked up the bowls toplacethem on the table with her finger inside the bowl. she had long nails and that creeped me out, as her thumbs were all the way down in the bowl touching the salad. it also took a while to get refills on drinks as well.

sushi was definitely subpar to many sushi restaurants in raleigh such as sushi blues. rolls were bland, poorly rolled and expensive. would not recommend people coming here. drive the extra 20 minutes to aplacethat's worth your money.

must eat here!!!!. i love pf changs and i love good thai food! thisplacehas both. my husband and i have gone here twice in two weeks and we can't get enough. don't listen to the other reviewers and try thisplacefor yourself!

tasu's no longer theplaceit use to be - save your money and go somewhere else!. i have been going to tasu's for several years now, and the last couple of visits just haven't been the same. service was horrendous, waited 20 minutes for our drink, bathrooms were dirty, and worst of all management can't resolve a customer issue regarding overcharging gratuity. we were a party of 6 and when we got the bill, there was an automatic gratuity added -which the waiter never mentioned was included. i just assumed it was correct and paid the bill. it was only when i got home that i tool a closer look and realized that it was a 22% tip.
here's the catch........good luck in trying to figure out how they calculate the gratuity. when i called francisco -the manager- he said, that the gratuity should be 18% and that he would like into it and get right back to me.

well, a month has passed, several calls later, three conversation with francisco "oh yes, i will look into it right away and get back to you"...... and still no response. needless to say, the service, management have all gone down hill. save your money and go somewhere else.

thisplaceis getting slow and the quality of food not good anymore. i will not spend any money there anymore

greatplaceto eat!!. i absolutely love this place. i recommend it to everyone. i read some of the reviews and they are bs. trust me, you will not be disappointed!!

don't order duck!!. my husband and i ordered duck, 2 different dishes. they were extremely disappointing. both dishes had loads of fat on the pieces of duck so our plates were stacked with inedible pieces. some sauce might have helped the tasteless rice. all together not worth the visit. the appetizer, soup and dessert were good. everyone else seemed to be happy with their choices and theplacewas packed.

this is theplacethat my girlfriend and i go to if we want a relaxing evening or feel like celebrating for no great reason.

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 as bad as 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 thisplaceto anyone.

great food /staff. this is a greatplaceto go. the sushi is good and fresh i did not have all the issues and my waiter was very nice.

best sushi in raleigh. the service does blow. i'll give them that. but i've found that if you just "man handle" the server, as in boss them around and spell it out for them, it's not so bad.
that being said, this is hands down the best sushi in raleigh. it is the sister restaurant to shiki in durham. i moved her from chicago and prefer that all my rolls not be cover in 1) spicy mayo 2) eel sauce 3) both like so many other sushi joints do around here. maybe it's a southern thing. i don't know. sushi is about simplicity, subtlety, not covering everything in sauces, deep frying every roll, etc. my favorite roll is the special negero roll (no sear) any roll that comes with a sear tastes like propane from the torch they use to sear it. i don't know why they do it, i just write no sear on the ticket and it comes out just fine.

so yes, the service blows b/c it's a bunch of teenagers who don't care. and the manager is a dick. i've had to argue with him a couple of times. but i keep going back b/c it literally is the onlyplaceto get passable sushi in raleigh.

bad bad bad service. my friends and i went to thisplacefor dinner. the service was horrible. bad service 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.

seriously? thisplacerocks. so good!. i love this place. i hit it for lunch when i'm at work, and my husband and i love it for dinner several times a month. my 4 yr old loves it too. bogo issues? seriously, it's always the cheapest, even if you split the bill. too bad. it's not sneaky, it's the way it is everywhere. they are very clear about not splitting checks. can ya'll not add?!?! been here lots for girls' nights. just split the check evenly between everyone. don't you get something more/less expensive than others sometimes???
anyway, food awesome, service great, can't wait to go back.

horrible management!. went to tasu for a girls night out last night ... the food was great ... however the management is probably the most horrible thing i've ever experienced ... including any fast food establishment i've ever been to! the bogo situation is a joke and will screw you if you aren't paying attention. there were 6 of us and collectively a $200 bill ... which in my opinion is a table and a bill that deserves good customer service! we weren't paying the bill collectively though we were paying in 6 separate checks ... only paying for what we individually ordered. then we learned that they wouldn't give us separate checks ... (stupid but i have seen it before) ... however at a closer look at the bill we realized why they didn't want to give us separate checks ... collectively we had ordered 10 sushi rolls and they had taken off the 5 cheapest ones ... regardless of who ordered what ... and they refused to give us separate checks because if they had it would have been a cheaper bill collectively. i spoke with the manager and i might as well been talking to a brick wall b/c he looked at us as if we were ignorant and didn't know what we were saying ... we were calling them out on their that appreciate their scheme and he just stared at us like he wasn't even listening. after 20 min of arguing we pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down what each of us ordered on individual pieces of paper and even wrote down which sushi roll should have been free (the cheapest of the two that each individual ordered) ... it was like working with 2 year olds that didn't know how to run a tab or add things together ... then once that ran the cards there were still two cards that weren't charged correctly. one tab ended up being $4.95 ... i seriously have never delt with a more ignorant group of management in my life! i mean we wrote down what we ordered and what the prices were and one still came out as $4.95 ... i can't even explain how frustrating and unnecessary all that was ... especially at an establishment that you are paying collectively a $200 bill!

my girlfriends and i plan on contacting the management directly and will not be attending thisplaceever again ... i'm not a fan and will not support aplacethat doesn't take care of the customers and tries to screw them over on the sly as if we were stupid and wouldn't notice!

don't waste your time! there are other sushi places in the area patrons!

sat night - fast service & high quality. we just returned from dinner at tasu...theplacewas packed as it should be on a sat. night. we expected it to be slow service on the sushi...to our pleasant surprise, the apps came out quickly and our 4 rolls came out shortly after that...our waiter was soft spoken, polite, and always seemed to show up right as you needed him...

in all..great performance tasu..we'll definitely be back to enjoy the half off again very soon....