Plum Tree - Newfield Hamlet

I’m on my deathbed from mercury poisoning because I couldn’t stop eating spicy tuna at plum tree. They always say that on your deathbed, you regret not spending enough time with your family. I regret not spending enough time with the plum tree staff. If I could do it again I would, but I can’t. I’ll be dead by morning.

If you have a hankering for Japanese bento (lunch box) food, Plum Tree is barely OK . It 's conveniently located just steps from Cornell University 's campus. Service was fast attentive. However, the bento box lunch was blander than at any other Japanese restaurant I have visited. For lunch, I had the Chicken Tonkatsu (chicken strips fried in panko crumb batter) w plum sauce delicious. But the accompaniments (cold under salted edamame; meh California roll; boring house salad dumplings) were all so flavorless. At $14.95, the price was a bit too high. Interior decor also needs help: The burgundy booth seats, crimson painted walls salmon colored floor tiles sorely assault the eyes do not match. Tone it down. So, one star for atmosphere.