Mmmmm. Sushi in LA is just fabulous! This summer I spent a month there, and one of my goals was trying out as many sushi places as I could. We ended up eating a lot of sushi…
I did go for known favorites, though. I read up in advance on sushi websites like citysearch and chowhound.com to avoid having too much mediocre or just plain bad sushi.
The funny thing was that I went to LA thinking I was mostly into fusion and modern sushi restaurants, while I actually turned out to be quite a traditionalist… Super famous restaurants like “The Hump” did not even make it to my top 5 list… But that might be a different story. More on that later. Well. Here is my list.
>> Continue reading ‘My top five sushi restaurants in Los Angeles’
Greg Lippmann, a securities trader at Deutsche Bank in New York eats (at least ate) sushi as many as six times a week. Having grown tired of friends’ endless requests for recommendations, he created The Sushi Spreadsheet.
The list was last updated back in 2004, so I am not sure if all of these are still around, or that his ratings still apply. But we are happy that people do such things. It is in good Sushi or Death spirit and we applaude mr. Lippmann!
Links and attachment
The Lippmann sushi list - New York (pdf)
Most Excel-lent Sushi - original article
Have I said it before? That I am so tired of bad sushi?
I guess part of the reason why I will not give this place a good review is because I have had a lot of sushi lately. Good sushi. And also great experiences. Here - I greeted them, asked them what they would recommend of todays fish, trying to give this “once a hamburger joint now turn sushi bar” a chance. Mostly because it came recommended. Well, according to the chef, everything was especially good that day, and they could not recommend anything in particular… Hmm. No help there. But - the fish did look quite fresh, so I tried some nigiri of salmon, eel and halibut, together with my tempura maki.
>> Continue reading ‘Sushihuset - Carl Berners Plass, Oslo’
Apparently Mikado broke new ground when it opened its doors in 1963 as the first Japanese restaurant to serve The Valley. We honor traditions, so we thought we would get a great good old fashion sushi experience coming here, but nope. Not so. At all. I think it was our worst night so far. They were just rude and loud. It was our last night in LA for now too, so it was very disappointing to end with having sushi here.
It is quite a nice sushi bar and restaurant, located inside the Best Western Mikado Hotel. There seems to be others who have had better experience than what we got. That is why we wanted to try it out. But I would never go back.
The Hump seems to be quite famous as a sushi bar in LA. I have come across it on “best of” lists and in many of the food magazines that I have read, so we wanted to go there.
They have amazingly fresh sushi and sashimi and other Japanese delicacies and the restaurant is located over looking the Santa Monica Airport runway. Just while we were there, people came flying in, literally, parked their airplane, went for dinner and went flying off. It was that kind of place. A great place to take your date. If you can afford it…
The Kosher Sushi Club is a group of fresh fish lovers in St. Louis who love good sake, fresh tuna and great friends. All are welcome to join then — you don’t have to be a heeb.
Some of their favorite haunts include Yoshi’s, Cha Yoon, Sansui West, and Rue 13. No greater purpose. Just love of good food and great friends.
Written by: Nick Moss - Copenhagen, Denmark
“Some of the best sushi I have had”
The restaurant itself is just below street level. It has a warm atmosphere, helped by the low ceiling and the decor (simple with lots of exposed beams).
There are not many tables but you should sit at the bar anyway - that way you get to see everything they make and can chat to the chefs (who normally give you a few samplers for free!).
>> Continue reading ‘Sushi Saiko - Christianshavn, Copenhagen’
Pink Tuna just opened a week ago (June 2007), so we felt lucky to happen to be in the area of a brand new sushi place.
The place was filled with beautiful looking girls who tried their best to play the role of waiters - but really just seemed to be friends with the chef and not that much into sushi. The music is loud and they have a huge projector playing music videos, so I guess that they were targeting the young, roll loving audience, which shows in the amount of different sushi rolls on the menu. I get easily confused then, and have discovered a “lengthy” menu is not a good sign for a sushi bar…
For being quite a small city, Monterey has actually a lot of sushi bars. Jugem has been around a while and it got some great reviews that made us want to check it out.
This sushi bar seems to be a family run restaurant, and it comforts us always to find Japanese people eating there. The sushi chef also seemed to be in with the rest of the crowd, and it did give you the feeling of that it was a neighborhood sushi bar. But it was as if there was something wrong in the place. Again the feeling of that no one really wanted to be there. That this was an old dream gone sour kind of. I don’t know.
I was going after Sushi Zone, one of the famous sushi places in San Fransisco, but they were unfortunately not open for lunch. From some fellow sushi fans at the next door bookshop I got a tip about this little, hidden sushi bar on the corner between Sanchez and 16th Street called Eiji.
