Sushi

Morihiro Onodera: The Chef Throws Pots

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. For the first decade of the 21st century, people who loved sushi in Los Angeles made a pilgrimage to Mori Sushi, a minimalist restaurant on Pico Boulevard. There, owner and sus ... More >>

Now Open: Osawa Brings Otsumami, Shabu Shabu and Sushi To Old Town Pasadena

At 11 a.m. yesterday, Osawa opened to the public in Pasadena. The restaurant is owned by Sayuri Tachibe, who is the wife of corporate executive chef Shigefumi Tachibe of the Chaya Restaurant Group, though he isn't involved in this project, nor is Chaya. The chef at Osawa is Norio Yoshikawa.

5 Essential Japanese Restaurants in Los Angeles

Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out recently, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Japanese restaurants. This is not a definitive list of the best Japanese restaurants in L.A., but it is a sampling of five that we think are each essential in their own w ... More >>

Kiyokawa: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Where The Chef's Eat: Rustic Canyon's Josh Loeb and Zoe Nathan

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, we talk to Josh Loeb, co-chef/owner with his wife Zoe Nathan of Rustic Canyon, Huckleberry and Milo & Olive, about where the two eat out when they're not cooking, at home, ... More >>

Sperm is in Season: Hamasaku Has it Three Ways

There it sits on a plate, shiny and quivery and not unlike a pile of raw sweetbreads. Intertwining sacks, bound by sinew, filled with creamy sperm. Cod sperm, to be more exact. And I'm going to eat a lot of it. Without gagging. In fact, I'm going to enjoy it. Hamasaku, a Japanese restaurant tuc ... More >>

Nobu Malibu Review

The oceanfront sushi restaurant has a beautiful new home – and the same classics that made Nobu Matsuhisa famous

U Sushi: Build Your Own Sushi In Beverly Hills A Sushi Video

The trend of personalized food has reached the realm of sushi. U Sushi, which opened on South Beverly Dr. last December, brings the make-your-own concept to one of L.A.'s favorite foods. U Sushi owner Jeremy Umland, who also owns Ozumo in Santa Monica Place, traces the idea for his restaurant to th ... More >>

29: Sashimi Special at Sushi Gen

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 29: Sashimi Special at Sushi Gen. In a perfect world, every visit to your favorite sushi bar would entail an omakase meal, an ever-changing elabora ... More >>

Kula Sushi: Conveyor-Belt Sushi in Little Tokyo

Conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, or kaiten-zushi as they're known in Japan, are big business these days. You might not think so when plates of sushi are priced at just $2 each, as they are at Little Tokyo's Kula Sushi, the newest and most ambitious kaiten joint to hit the L.A. scene. But arrive on a ... More >>

U-Sushi Serves 1/2 Off Rolls for International Sushi Day

International Sushi Day? Never heard of it. Perhaps it's a ruse set up by the sushi industry to make us purchase extra sushi like greeting cards on Valentine's Day. Who are we kidding though? We love sushi -- and will gladly take advantage of a questionable holiday to satisfy a craving. Kanpai!

Top 5 Sushi Restaurants in the Valley

One of the hard truths reached while researching our 10 Best Sushi Restaurants list a few weeks ago was that Los Angeles has far too many superb sushi restaurants to ever be condensed into a single list. One area that felt particularly overlooked (with only one entry in the top ten) was the San Fern ... More >>

Sushi Restaurants in Los Angeles: Top 10

SushiBots are the Anti-Jiro, Create 3,600 Pieces Per Hour

There is chef Jiro Ono, in Jiro Dreams of Sushi, dedicating 75 years of his life to the art of sushi, making and serving only one piece at a time at his tiny restaurant in Japan, and then there is this: Sushi robots that churn out 300 medium-sized rolls per hour, or rice mounds for nigri at 3,600 m. ... More >>

10 Best Sushi Restaurants in Los Angeles

Does Los Angeles boast the best sushi in the entire country? If even Ferran Adriá is on our side, we can probably feel confident it's true. The factors that allow our city to be blessed with such a ridiculous bounty are fairly apparent: proximity to superior fish markets, a healthy roster of mast ... More >>

L.A.'s 4 Best Bargain Omakase The "Jiro Effect"

If you're planning on seeing David Gelb's brilliant documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi this weekend when it premieres at Santa Monica's Nu-Art Theater you might be well advised to pass on the popcorn and soda. The film clocks in at just under an hour and a half -- a good portion of that is dedicated t ... More >>

Q & A with Jiro Dreams of Sushi Director David Gelb: Elegant Eel Dissection The Importance of Rice

The film Jiro Dreams of Sushi follows sushi master Jiro Ono, whose Sukiyabashi Jiro, a ten seat sushi-only restaurant located in a Tokyo subway station, is the first of its kind to earn three Michelin stars. For his unparalleled skill and relentless perfectionism, he's considered by many to be the b ... More >>

Sushi Nozawa Closes Today Sugarfish Coming Next

Tonight's your last chance for tuna, yellowtail and albacore at Sushi Nozawa, the 25-year-old sushi joint tucked into a Studio City strip mall. The restaurant, whose chef Kazunomi Nozawa has been described as a "sushi tyrant" and "imperious," told us last month that it would close its doors. But i ... More >>

Sushi Nozawa Closing

Sushi Nozawa is not known for its customer service. Many call chef Kazunomi Nozawa a "sushi tyrant," our critic once wrote. The L.A. Times dubbed him "imperious." And the restaurant famously features a sign that reads: "Special of the Day: Trust Me." So it wasn't a huge surprise that the Studio Ci ... More >>

Sushi Kimagure Ike: Pasadena's Best Sushi Bar Ever?

For years, Sushi Ike was the best sushi bar in Hollywood, the place you went when you wanted to escape from the fishy neologisms of Geisha House and Katsu-Ya for something close to classic, Edo-style sushi. Ike-san was never a flashy sushi chef, but he was beloved for his skill at the early-morning ... More >>

Kimuya's All Night Happy Hour: $1.50 Pints Sushi & Art

jgarbeeSushi Art, In Its Many Forms​The notion that sushi is an art, both in its meticulous construction and finished form, is a cliché -- but one that gets a Happy Hour reprieve at the recently opened Kimuya Japanese restaurant and sushi bar in Santa Monica (formerly known as Hakata). The bo ... More >>

Frozen Tuna Recall: Histamine Illnessess From Frozen Ground Tuna Grocery Sushi

sushi from AFC​ Another day, another food recall. The latest is of frozen tuna that has been linked to illnesses caused by elevated histamine levels. According to Food Safety News, the FDA found evidence of food decomposition and elevated histamine levels in frozen tuna packed by Osamu Corpora ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Picca

At Ricardo Zarate's restaurant, Peruvian meets the Japanese izakaya

Jonathan Gold Reviews Picca

Jonathan Gold Reviews Robata Jinya

Eatery expands from Studio City to Third Street's growing restaurant row

Make Your Own Sushi!

Food Truck Friday: Jogasaki, the Sushi Burrito Truck

Guzzle & NoshThe Jogasaki Burrito Truck (left) and the jalapeno bomb​ Since it launched in mid-January, we've heard the steadily building hype about the Jogasaki Burrito truck (@jogasakiburrito), a clever mashup of Japanese sushi and Los Angeles street food. The buzz runs the gamut, everything ... More >>

Suehiro: Little Tokyo Lunch Special

Going old-school

That's Why I Keep in Such Good Shape

Kiyokawa: So Sorry, So Good

Satoshi Kiyokawa may be the best unknown sushi chef in L.A.

Kamiyama: The Way California Rolls

Waterpillars, Krunch rolls and Philly Slurs — South Bay sushi mecca has it all

Katsu Sushi: Your Moment of Zen

The art of simple sushi

Sushi Czar Kazunori Nozawa's Sugarfish: Built for Speed

In and out in 20 minutes or less. A hidden kitchen hides the sushi master

Fry Daddy: Well-Oiled at the Thousand Cranes Tempura Bar

Nightlife Nobu

Matsuhisa dresses up at home

Kumo: On a Roll

Breaking the Ma Maison curse

Flying High at Takami

Pop art sushi

Raw Sensuality

Sushi – naughty but nice and cheap

Omakase Warrior

A soft touch beyond the hard rules of Hiko Sushi

Where To Eat Now

Bring the Funk

Izayoi moves to the rhythm of the izakaya

Live, from Koreatown

Swimming to Peru

Raw Power

Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen

Japanese

Shellfish

Like White on Rice

Japanese

A Slab of Crab

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