Sushi Infinity – San Jose, CA

Yesterday (3/12/2010) my sister and I decided to try out a new A.U.C.E (all u can eat) sushi restaurant that I found.  This restaurant appears to be affiliated with another sushi restaurant located in Mountain View that I have been to.  Sushi Infinity has been open since September 2009, and I believe the sushi is better made than at the other restaurant.  Basically they have 2 A.U.C.E menus, Lunch or Dinner, and the price varies accordingly.  The dinner menu has more items and allows you to also choose items from the lunch menu.  Each person can order up to 3 items from the menu at any one time, but I warn people to be careful of what they order as some items contain 6 pieces of sushi.

The quality of the sushi isn’t bad, though I’m not fond of their “spicy” items (ex. the spicy tuna) because I feel that the quality does not live up to what I expect.  Nevertheless, I enjoyed the sushi and definitely had my fill.  What I like about this place is that you can order items that are not so common at other sushi restaurants such as tempura shrimp hand rolls (temaki), beef tataki nigiri, and tonkatsu sushi roll.

What was funny about the experience was that we were seated next to a 6 person party of women, none of which were capable in math as it took them a good 10-15 minutes to divide up the bill.  In the end they were only off by a mere 7 cents, but what was extremely annoying was that one of the girls complained to her friends about how the server requested the 7 cents from them.  Since they had a decent sized party, gratuity was automatically included in their check.  The girl went on to complain about this practice, ranting and raving: “What if I didn’t want to leave a tip?  It’s my decision if I want to leave one, its not right for them to add it in.”  In my experience, most restaurants will automatically include gratuity if the party is over X amount of people, so this is not a problem with the restaurant.

All in all, it was a pretty good experience.  Our particular server was quite friendly.  I would definitely visit again when a craving for sushi strikes.