Went last night - ended up using Resy Notify and got a spot. Place was packed and got a ton of food! Highly recommend! Favorites were the hay smoked sawara, the cabbage in clam dashi, japanese sweet potato, and the pickle plate, but honestly everything was pretty great! Only thing I would skip were the roasted radishes which were just alright.
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Travis sure does know how to cook good food. The sweet potato and fuyu persimmon dishes were my favorites of the night. The pickle plate, maitake, duck rice, duck meatballs, and mazemen were so good. It was a hectic private event so we didnāt have soy sauce or yuzu kosho for most of the handrolls, but they were still delicious. Canāt wait to go back to try more stuff.
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That cabbage with the clam dashi 
W: I didnāt much like it. Most dishes didnāt taste good to me. Many dishes were over seasoned, over salted, too tangy, over watery, over sauced, and not at all Japanese. The only dishes that tasted right to me were a natto hand roll and the gelato. Peony liked it a little more.
P: RVR is a good neighborhood restaurant with some dishes I enjoy. However, I much prefer the food at Gjelina. Iāve traveled to the west side several times just to dine at Gjelina, but I donāt plan to return to RVR unless itās in my neighborhood
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