Dueling Dishes: Sushilicious vs. Kaisen

Masters of (Almost) All They ConveyKula offers sushi not as art, but as an assembly-line commodity—a good commodity, though Kula isnNt the first revolving sushi bar in Orange County. At least three other restaurants have featured motorized...

You don't put out a Top Ten list of sushi joints in OC and not inspire some discussion. I'd be disappointed if this one didn't. So the comment board is open for objections, inclusions and even agreement on the ten we've chosen. Without further...

I tend to grade supermarket sushi on a curve. Confined in plastic boxes under fluorescent lights in frigid deli cases, most packaged sushi takes all of the elements essential to good sushi and chucks them out the window in favor of convenience....

Upon eating his first Kumamoto oyster, a friend of mine proclaimed, “This tastes like a mouthful of ocean.” I nodded in agreement as I slurped my own. Freshly shucked and naked, save for a drizzle of ponzu and green onions, each slippery morsel...

The Stepson Also RisesAt Nana San, sushi chef Goro Sakurai carries on the family tradition with style, taste and precision More than any other type of business, sushi bars are about cultivated relationships. If you, gentle reader, are a...