I think it's pronounced bushy tay, but there's not much point getting it spot on, as we'll not be going back there.
It's right outside The Sundance Kabuki movie theater. Every time we've spilled out of the theater into the parking lot, we've thought ... we should eat there sometime.
Well, we did last night right after seeing The Social Network. At least it allowed us to dissect the film, but other than that it was unmemorable.
One thing they do at Bushi Tei is make you regret you'd slipped in there for dinner at 9.30pm, by rushing you at breakneck speed through your food. Hence we got our first dish - a too-fishy Rainbow roll that was clunky and not-at-all-subtle like at Blowfish or Tsunami - before our appetizers.
They were Gyozo - pork pot stickers, and one would have thought un-screw-uppable. I won't get melodramatic and say they WERE screwed up, but they didn't stand out from a run-of-the-mill take out.
My Tempura and Chicken would have tasted much better if it was hot, but it wasn't. It made me feel like I'd been served teriyaki chicken that had been kept warm through the evening while waiting for the vegetables to be flash-fried in the tempura.
Pavey's second roll - spicy tuna - was waaaayyy over-spiced. So much so that she returned it and asked for a less spicy version, something that must've pissed off the kitchen staff who probably had their coats on and were halfway out the back door by then.
Finally, the place suffered from the same condition encountered at so many other Japanese restaurants, fusion or otherwise ... less atmosphere than the moon.
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