Jonathan Gold takes a look at the art of sushi as practiced at Shiki Beverly Hills

The Beverly Hills Japanese restaurant now has two veteran chefs, old friends, behind the sushi counter.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • March 9, 2018
Morihiro “Mori” Onodera may have the most passionate fans in the universe of Los Angeles sushi, partisans who swapped pictures of his dishes on sites like Chowhound long before Instagram existed, blissed out at his deeply slashed sayori and tended...
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