Favorite Sushi Restaurants

[Kreth]

I think the best sushi I've had in the States was Ginza in Boston's Chinatown. Locally, we finally got a decent sushi place a few years ago. Before that, you had to go to Albany or Vestal (an hour plus each way). The local place (Tokyo Tavern) trucks their fish up from the city several times a week. It's not quite the same as NY, Philly or Boston, but it's pretty good.
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Originally Posted by Kreth

I think the best sushi I've had in the States was Ginza in Boston's Chinatown. Locally, we finally got a decent sushi place a few years ago. Before that, you had to go to Albany or Vestal (an hour plus each way). The local place (Tokyo Tavern) trucks their fish up from the city several times a week. It's not quite the same as NY, Philly or Boston, but it's pretty good.
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What's the best you have had outside the States?

[Kreth]

Originally Posted by ChicagoWhiteSox

What's the best you have had outside the States?

That'd be a tie between a bunch of little hole-in-the-wall places around Tokyo. I took a couple of trips with my martial arts instructor, who had lived in Japan for over 10 years. He knew a lot a places like that. The rest of our group would want to eat at Shakey's or Mickey D's. He knew I loved sushi, so he'd take me to a sushi place he knew (and he seemed to know one in every section of Tokyo). Quite often we'd be the only gaijin (foreigners) in the place.
I got a kick out of the "conveyor-belt" places. The sushi bar was an island with a conveyor belt running around. They would put sushi and sashimi on different color plates (for cost) on the belt. When you saw something you liked, you grabbed the plate. When you were done, you took your stack of plates to the cashier and paid.
Also in Japan, I got to try some types of sushi you just can't get here, like whale and flying fish.
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Originally Posted by Kreth

That'd be a tie between a bunch of little hole-in-the-wall places around Tokyo. I took a couple of trips with my martial arts instructor, who had lived in Japan for over 10 years. He knew a lot a places like that. The rest of our group would want to eat at Shakey's or Mickey D's. He knew I loved sushi, so he'd take me to a sushi place he knew (and he seemed to know one in every section of Tokyo). Quite often we'd be the only gaijin (foreigners) in the place.
I got a kick out of the "conveyor-belt" places. The sushi bar was an island with a conveyor belt running around. They would put sushi and sashimi on different color plates (for cost) on the belt. When you saw something you liked, you grabbed the plate. When you were done, you took your stack of plates to the cashier and paid.
Also in Japan, I got to try some types of sushi you just can't get here, like whale and flying fish.
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Japan, you are lucky I'm sure Sushi in the states won't even come close to that in Japan.

[Kreth]

Originally Posted by ChicagoWhiteSox

Japan, you are lucky I'm sure Sushi in the states won't even come close to that in Japan.

Don't get me wrong, I've had some really good sushi here. It was just really cool to have it from "the source." Much more satisfying than the time I got to have authentic pizza in Italy.
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