Review: At Q, sushi for connoisseurs

Counter Intelligence: Jonathan Gold reviews Q sushi restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, where chef Hiroyuki Naruke eschews frills.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • April 12, 2014
It has never been easier to eat high-end sushi than it is now in Los Angeles — to surrender two hours and half a month’s rent to the choreographed roll of the waves. You can experience the masculine crispness of Mori or the postmodern wackiness of...
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