Restaurant casualties of COVID-19

[danbrotherston]

They really offered something different from the ubiquitous AYCE low-quality sushi, focusing on donburi and other cooked Japanese dishes. Not really authentic, but it was still nice to have (Kinkaku has some such dishes but is AYCE only).

For sushi, I have been meaning to try Enjoy Sushi to see whether their quality is decent (they are not AYCE). I did manage to get some good sushi and sashimi in Tokyo last week though.

Yeah I really wish that people didn't think sushi had to be AYCE. Seems a pretty Ontario phenomenon. Sigh. I try to avoid that.

Watami is still pretty good, we got some takeout from there last month. Better than 90% of sushi in New Zealand. They don't do it right in New Zealand (probably at least in part a supply chain issue; there was an interesting NYT piece about the US and presumably North American sushi supply chain that runs through Unification Church in Japan/Korea that has been in the news lately). KEN is good too, yes.

We also had some good sushi in Vancouver two weeks ago. They used to be really cheap and really good but I think that the rest of Canada may have caught up unless overrun by AYCE-ism, so now they're still pretty cheap and pretty good, but maybe not noticeably cheaper and better than everywhere else. Also salmon farming is surely a factor. Still, I think Vancouver sushi is cheaper than Tokyo sushi?

Will have to check out A to Z's frozen patties sometime. They're much more convenient to me than Beerbaul.

I wasn't sure how widespread AYCA sushi is...I still can't tell you much, but I can tell you that there are multiple AYCE sushi restaurants in the small (140k) city in the Netherlands that I'm in.

I'm curious though...what does a Church have to do with sushi supply chains?