Sorry folks - there was an NYC location once upon a time, but no longer.
http://www.minado.com/
Minado does indeed rock - great place to try new stuff. Take one piece and if it sucks you know, and if not you have a new thing to add to your list.
I go to the Little Ferry location… tons of turnover so everything is super fresh.
If I’m coming out to Seattle, I’m coming out to see the houseboats. What an awesome concept. Do Want!
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I have celiac’s disease - which means I have to stay away from wheat and gluten. Sushi was one of the only things I loved that I didn’t have to give up.
Of course, I have to double check which soy sauce they use and how they prepare their rice, but for the most part - it’s yum city!
I love all sushi except shark fin (too touch, perhaps not prepared correctly?) and octopus tentacles (sorry, just couldn’t get past the “suckers” on the bottom!)
Cool, i had no idea. Thanks for the info. I went to Japan on an exchange when I was in high school and more than a few of the students in the school I went to asked me “you’re from California? Is it true you put avocado in your sushi? snicker snicker”
Yu-san, at the eponymous Oakland sushi restaurant, claims to have invented the California roll. I don’t know about that, but I will say, the way Yu-san makes a California roll, it is absolutely transcendent.
“Oh! Sushi” strikes me as an obvious pun on the Japanese prefix “o-”, so I’d say that one is Japanese.
Mosier has already apologized for his remarks, but I will agree with him that American sushi tends to be very overpriced. I started eating sushi when I lived in Japan and had it all the time for lunch, but since I came back I eat it a lot less because it’s so expensive. I’m not even talking sushi made with expensive kinds of fish, but the cheapest and most basic sushi rolls that were once a staple of my weekday diet. Getting a box of cucumber rolls at a grocery store in Japan would be about $2, but could easily cost $5 or more in the US.
That said, a normal sized box of sushi is, at any price, enough to satisfy my lunchtime hunger. I’ve never needed anything else to fill me up, just a drink to go with it.
The author of the book I mentioned above asserts that it was created at a Los Angeles restaurant called Tokyo Kaikan by a chef named Mashita Ichiro in the early-to-mid-60s. This is corroborated by the Wikipedia entry.
It’s more of a lamenting about fresh fish dishes that I get in FL than sushi in general. The closer to the coast and the further away you are from chains around here, the better the fish. I’m personally disappointed in some of my area, as we’re close enough to the attractions that we get an overload of chain restaurants and not too many local restaurants that cook well. Well, if you want anything besides Latin food, that is.
I just ate at Saikyo tonight on Aloma by the bowling alley. It’s not amazing but it’s quite good and moderately priced. Every try it?