This place is amazing!
Bishamon has everything that you need at a japanese sushi bar, even an upstairs level for kareoke. The japanese staff provide excellent service and the food is some of the freshest I've tasted in Los Angeles. Go check it out. Perfect dark and relaxing atmosphere.    [31 Jan 2004 21:24:13]

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Recommended Dishes: Rainbow Roll

     ­Wesley Payne   

Never Going Back!
This was the worst experience I have had with any restaurant in a long time. I cannot comment on the food because we never received ours. I can say that the bar service was ridiculously slow and disorganized. In all, I would recommend that no one ever eat at this establishment.

We sat in the upstairs karaoke area, which was a really bad idea. While one hostess was checking our IDs at the top of the stairs, another hostess pushed past us without so much as saying "excuse me." As soon as we got past the first hostess, the rude one turned around and demanded to see our IDs again. Once we were in the karaoke area, we were unable to get a drink either from a waitress or from the bar, so checking our ID was kind of pointless. The bartender had no idea what he was doing and it was the messiest bar I’ve ever seen. We tried to order three times and he either turned away and ignored us after we ordered or he would disappear into the back room for 10 minutes and then come back out and act like he had never seen us before.

The worst part of the evening though, was the fact that the restaurant was allowing people to smoke inside. We first tried to open a window so we wouldn’t have to sit in the smoke-filled room but a hostess came up to us and told us to shut the window because the noise from the street would be too loud. We asked her to ask the smokers to stop, but she just turned around and walked away. After an hour and a half, without successfully getting a drink or anything to eat, we left.    [27 Oct 2008 14:29:10]

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Recommended Dishes: None

     ­Where's the Health Department?