not the best PLACES, but these items are pretty cool:

baked alaska roll @ canal club (venice)
tempura roll @ cinch (santa monica)
crunchy roll @ matsuda (studio city--actually everything's good here, i just really dig the crunchy roll)

San Francisco

Toyko Go Go
Hamachi (27th and Church)
Blowfish

I tried the one near Scolari's, it's called Unago...I like it better than Sakura.

I like Sakura.

There's also...

Kataro
Ki Ki
Ichiraku...

I'm losing my train of though, but there's a bunch more.

Kisaku (in Greenlake)
Shiro's (Belltown, a personal fav)

Oh and I also wanted to add, that after our clubs close, some sushi restaurants stay open with djs spinning some groovin house beats...Kobe being one and XS (well they only do it during bar hours). Is this a trend elsewhere??

Is this the Kyoto on Moana near Lakeside?

Nozawa is great but very expensive.

Matsuhisa (essentially the same as Nobu in NY) also has great sushi. It's a bit non-traditional and well respected for its house sushi and sashimi dishes and especially the very large menu of cooked foods. Pretty much for the expense account set. In the same price range although a bit arty and little less special in the food category is R-23 in the warehouse district of downtown LA.

Sushi Roku is pretty good, although the one in West Hollywood is too much of a scene for me. It's a sort of Matsuhisa-Lite in all respects.

The horribly named but excellent Sushi of Naples is a real treat (locations in Long Beach and Pasadena). Other more affordable places include Tama Sushi and Sushi Noshi (I'll have to check that name...it's not too far from Paramount Studios and serves large portions of pretty fresh and well made fish for very reasonable prices). Sake House Miro, too.

Sushi Iroha on Ventura Blvd. is kind of a fun place. It's sushi is not bad at all and it has some excellent appetizers, especially the scallop casserole dish.

LA may well have the best sushi outside of Japan, but you have to work for it, as the city is so sprawling and there are so many places. All of the places I've listed are rated from sitting at the sushi bar. I'm not sure about table service. And, sadly, the other patrons of my favorite sushi bar would kill me if I listed it here. But it's in Hollywood and not to hard to find if you really want it.

<< I heard a rumor that the sushi natzi that runs the place was the inspiration for the Soup Natzi on Sienfield.>>

don't believe everything you hear. there is an actual soup monger in nyc whom the soup nazi is based on.

www.therealsoupman.com/

good stuff.

Sushi Motto!!!

Sushi On Oracle- Tucson, AZ
not a great name, but the sushi, miso soup and soft shelled crab are awesome

Hey....I used to go to the one in Harrisburg. Not much for ambiance but great fish and all you can eat on Weds.

Dalm aka Steve.

ichidai 5714 Se Powell Blvd

Takahashi 24 Nw Broadway

Mio Sushi 3962 Se Hawthorne

Koji Osakaya 539 Nw 21st Ave

Hey all!
i know seperate threads have been suggested, but
i kinda like just running though everyones replies. also if i ever go on a cross country tour- i can just print this sucker out :")

so BOSTON..
Takeshema : coolidge corner . not only is the sushi always incredible & the staff just friendly as hell, ( a huge plus is this uptight town) the host jae has decorated everything with his amazing zany amine art.


Fugakyu: brookline . what a place! decorated like a japanese palace= rice paper screens, goldfish"pond" large and small dining rooms, bar and Lounge.. and and extremely creative sushi chef..great whe your feeling adventurous and decadent...the staff- though they are always cordial, never seem happy.( i wonder whats happening behind the scenes somtimes...)



Guyuhama: downtown great fish, good place!

if only it were really that late at Koryo, after getting denied a few times, I finally picked up one of their cards. It's got the hours on it, and here they are.

Tues-Thurs 5pm-1:30am
Fri-Sat 5pm-2:30am
Sunday 5pm-11:30 pm
Monday closed

If you're there on a budget I highly suggest the sashimi salad!!

daMongolian

The Times just gave four stars to Masa, a sushi bar in the city - the first four star review in close to twenty years. It's a very sensuous review - I felt like I was reading porn. Check:

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A chef makes your sushi a piece or two at a time, reaching for a pristine slab of fluke or Spanish mackerel and using a bone-handled knife to carve a sliver. He presses wasabi or maybe shiso flakes onto a bed of warm rice, lays the fish atop it and then anoints this jewel with soy sauce, yuzu or sudachi, a limelike Japanese fruit.

From just inches away, you watch this ritual, which culminates in the chef's placing the sushi in front of you with a bare hand. You in turn use a bare hand to lift it to your lips. Now the chef watches you, palpably anticipating your delight. This whole exchange has an immediacy and intimacy unlike anything at more conventional restaurants or for that matter at other upscale sushi bars, which tend not to have Masa's low ratio of sushi priests to sushi supplicants, sometimes one to two, especially at lunch.

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Oh how I want to go there. Though at 350 a meal [before sake and tips] I doubt I'll make it in this lifetime unless I have an affair with someone very very rich.

Would love to know if anhone has been there.

The link is here, but you need to register to read it.

www.nytimes.com/2004/12/29...29REST.html

Yoko's
Shoji's
Shanghai Garden
Kanpai - brand new hasn't even had grand opening yet...waiting

SUNRIVER:
Sushimotos

lost 2 this year in our rinky dink town...boo-hoo

let's see, in reno nv alantis, in the east bay lets see there are a few good ones in telagrph an a great one in berky that is al you can eat, in alameda the shushi house, now can someone tell me all the best all you can eat shushi places?

Blowfish Sushi on Sunset and Nobu in Malibu