Spiral Project #9: Yoshi Sushi

Well, finished one loop! Now on to the next block.

On the corner of Ave A and 9th is Yoshi sushi (well – more down Avenue A, but Doc Hollidays has no food). I went in or an early dinner. One other diner, and very quiet.

The service was quick and professional, the chefs behind the fish smiling. The decor was dark woods and they have a sunken Japanese-style table in the back.

Price wise, it was in the normal tier – not the 50% off tier you see so many places doing, but not super expensive either.

I got a spicy tuna roll (standard for me and a good bellwether) and a sashimi dinner with salad. Damn my carb control! The spicy tuna roll was ok, but nothing special.

Now: let’s talk about the sashimi. It was good – quite fresh and a  decent portion for the price, and had the nicer fishes versus trying to load you up on calamari. But here’s a wierd thing – the serve the sashimi in a giant bowl – and I mean giant, like a salad serving bowl for a whole family. It certainly looked nice, and artsy, and I can appreciate the Japanese style and importance of presentation, but how the hell do you get the fish out and into the soy sauce and to your mouth? Remember that when most folks dip, you want to tap off any excess back in your sashimi plate. I wanted to put the soy sauce container into the bowl with the fish but the bowl was angled so deeply it wasn’t possible. Instead I dripped shoyu everywhere.

Value, better than average. Service great, atmosphere nice. I would have pegged it as a ‘meh plus’ but the crazy bowl thing was annoying. Nothing outstanding. If it were my only sushi choice in the neighborhood, I’d use them, but there plenty and I suspect better ones. We shall see.

Edited to add: Oh yeah, two more things I forgot. First: the salad was blisteringly cold. I assume it was pre-prepared and in a fridge, but crap – it was nearly frozen. Not good.

And the music was hard core rock and roll when I was there. It didn’t really fit the atmosphere. Play some fake Asian music, play some j-pop, but not stadium rock.