Tag: Sushi

  • Akikos

    Akikos

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    Enjoyed a delicious omakase lunch with Plamen to celebrate his new job. It was so great to see him and catch up and ruminate on the impact of AI on the future of humanity.

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  • Friends Only

    Friends Only

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    Last night’s dinner was at Friends Only, an omakase counter that is also the R&D kitchen for Akikos (at which we ate in February). The restaurant only seats 10 and for our reservation there were only 6 seated to we were all spaced out nicely and it was quite nice to not have things so…

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  • Sushi by Scratch

    Sushi by Scratch

    Tonight’s dinner was at Sushi by Scratch at the Montecito Inn in Montecito. This is the other Michelin-starred restaurant in the SB area (both being in Montecito, just a few block apart). The entire restaurant is the sushi bar which has only has 10 seats. It sounds like Scratch has a chain of sushi restaurants…

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  • Akikos

    Akikos

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    This week’s dinner was at Akiko’s, which recently moved into their new location on Folsom St. as of January 10. As we entered, there was a very nice cocktail bar at reception. Had we known, we would have come earlier to enjoy although since it was right by the door, it was a bit rough…

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  • Sushi Tadokoro

    Sushi Tadokoro

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    Tonight’s dinner was at Sushi Tadokoro. It’s located in Old Town in a small strip mall next door to a liquor store. You almost wouldn’t even notice the restaurant front since it only had minimal signage. We had an early seating for the omakase dinner at the sushi bar. Sushi Tadokoro received their Michelin star…

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  • Kusakabe

    Kusakabe

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    This week’s dinner was at Kusakabe. This place was recommended by the woman we were seated next to at the last Ritual dinner so we decided to give it a try. It’s right across the street from the Transamerica building. It’s a Japanese kaiseki style restaurant so we were very interested to see how they…

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  • Uchi

    Uchi

    Last night’s omakase dinner with Trisha. My favorite dish was the negitoro roll, the fried tofu dish, and the eggplant.

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  • Robin

    Robin

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    This week’s dinner was at Robin. I hadn’t eaten here since before the pandemic, but Andrea had eaten here with Trisha since then. Back then, I really enjoyed the modern take on sushi and enjoyed the rap music playing as background music. So I was really looking forward to coming here again, but wondered if…

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  • Hand Roll Project

    Hand Roll Project

    We’re looking for an impromptu dinner with sushi. This was a place I was curious about based on all of the hype it received in the press V V, probably because one of founders was Geoffrey Lee from restaurant Juni (one Michelin star) and they were expanding on the handroll concept. This restaurant currently doesn’t…

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