New Sushi Bar and the Robot Waiter

Together with Jenn last weekend I had lunch at a new sushi bar that recently opened in Bellevue: the Kura Revolving Sushi Bar. Before the pandemic, there were a number of sushi bars in the Seattle Metro that used a conveyor belt to pass along the sushis, and those were always my favorite places to eat sushi. However, once the pandemic came, many (if not all) of those locations closed and I haven't been to one since. I was very glad, then, that I got to go to a new conveyor belt sushi bar.

And it was a great one. The food was great, they have traditional desserts like mochi and taiyaki (a waffle like dessert shaped like a fish and stuffed with sweet bean paste, I included a picture below) that were very yummy and they have a... a robot waiter (or waiter robot?). It works this way: each table has a screen where you can order specific sushis or beverages. In the case of beverages, they are delivered to your table by a cute yellow robot. It worked surprisingly well and you could see the robots coming and going inside the restaurant. Perhaps a sign of the future?...





Location: Bellevue, WA, USA

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