Hinata
Hinata
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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When some sort of location-based, time travel phenomenon landed me in Great Neck, I needed to eat. My first thought when I pondered dining in Great Neck was obviously sushi*. Enter Hinata and enter the world of averageness.
There was nothing bad about Hinata at all. There was also nothing outstanding about Hinata at all. The menu was fine, a classic Americanized combination of muscle rolls**, appetizers and sushi. Feeling overwhelmed by the menu and underwhelmed by the feng shui of the restaurant, I just copped out and got some sort of sushi dinner which surprisingly did not come with soup or salad, a mainstay of every sushi dinner I have had for the past 20 years.
The sushi was fine. Tiny pieces of rice underneath the sushi made the actual pieces of sushi look bigger, but this was not a car mirror and the actual size of the sushi was noticeably small. The construction of the rolls and sushi was fine and the food arrived in less than five minutes. I am so sick of fine, but this is just what is was, nothing more, nothing less.
While I do think this is a decent place to dine if you are in Great Neck, there was something that just did not work for me in terms of the setup of the restaurant. The dining area is arranged in a way that would make a zen scientist go outside and put a rake in the sand for its calming effect. Tables too close, too many tables, too fine.
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* OK, it wasn't, but that's what I wanted anyway.
** These are the rolls that have a minimum of five ingredients and have sometimes good names (Red Dragon Roll) and sometimes very, very bad names (Yummy Roll).