Eat Here, Not There: Poke Bowls

Fast-food sushi. If there's a better food oxymoron out there, I think it'd have to be “veggie burgers.” But that's disingenuous of me to say. I've actually enjoyed more “fast-food sushi” than veggie burgers. Most of the time, it's Sushi Boy; not...

It was nearly a year ago that the Food team began knocking around an idea in our weekly meetings: What if we tackled an all-in project on L.A.’s sushi culture? Sushi’s presence here began taking root with the Japanese American communities...

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....

At a tiny sushi counter in this boundless capital's southwest suburbs, nine of us sat silent and alert waiting for Koji Kimura to finish readying his lunchtime service. We whispered our drink orders to the restaurant’s lone server while listening...

While the pandemic has, sadly, put the sushi master-customer interaction on pause at restaurants across L.A. and beyond, many sushi bars have put a ton of thought and effort into takeout, creating Instagram-friendly boxes that travel surprisingly...