If only either of us spoke French. If only we had bothered to look at the framed menus instead of heading directly to the pre-made sushi fridge. If only we had stopped to wonder why the name of this restaurant has "bento" in it.
The pre-made sushi packages are uninspired, so the only decision you really need to make is the size. The medium-sized portion for I believe CHF13.50 seemed like the most bang for your buck. We took our plates to the little seating area in the back, where they have somehow managed to transform a fairly small area into a spacious dining area with plenty of seats. As we sat and talked over our cold hard sushi, our eyes were drawn to the diners at our neighboring tables, who had somehow managed to score bento boxes and hot steaming bowls of something or other.
As Mindy H. noted, sometimes you feel like you miss out on things around here, just because you don't speak French.
The sushi was standard, to put nicely. It wasn't stale, it wasn't bad, and both of us did finish our entire tray. It tasted basically like the pre-packaged sushi you would get at a grocery store. And similar to a grocery store, you shouldn't buy sushi here unless "sushi" to you constitutes a single category of food with no sub-category or variation, and you literally just have a strong craving for "sushi," with little regard to taste, quality, or type of fish.
On our way out, we realized that there were framed menus all over the place advertising their warm dishes. Despite the very mediocre sushi, I would go back just to assuage this lingering regret at not having spotted the menus sooner.
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