Second time at Tsunami Sushi, Western Addition, SF.

Edamame.

I'm not a die-hard edamame girl, but J ordered some and it was nice.

Also, please, excuse the blurry photo! I've been forgetting my camera an obnoxious amount lately and have been borrowing iPhones left and right! :)

Yellowtail collar.

This was, unfortunately, overcooked. Yellowtail collar is always one of my favorite Japanese dishes, but this was very dry.

I can't remember the names of these rolls, but the one on the right has cream cheese while the one on the right has sweet potato.

The sweet potato roll is my favorite at Tsunami. The roll with cream cheese was the most unpleasant roll I've ever had. I've had cream cheese on rolls before and it has been fine, but they put on way too much and it was "pepper cream cheese" which was not an enjoyable combination.

Overall, I still enjoy Tsunami because it's a fun spot and reasonably priced. I'll just have to keep trying new things!

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Wonderful dinner at Live Sushi, Potrero Hill, SF.

Very nice restaurant with good decor.

The wasabi was too mild, but the ginger was shockingly spicy! I'd never had such spicy ginger.

The soy sauce was in these little bottles, making it look like balsamic vinegar! What a trip! Haha.

Island Poki

cucumber, avocado, and tuna

8.95

Andre and Richard had never had poki before so we got this. There wasn't enough tuna, of course, and the cubes were a bit small, but other than that, this was a nice dish.

Double Hamachi Roll

hamachi topped with hamachi, tobiko, and scallions outside

12.95

Nice fresh fish. Lovely.

This isn't on the online menu and I'm can't remember what it's called, but it started with an S. Hmmm. It was so yummy though! I like the varied size and thin slices for the deep fried roll. So often I find that deep fried rolls are just a bit silly, but this time, the lovely, light tempura ring really added to the roll.

49er Roll

shiso, avocado, and tobiko topped with sake and lemon

11.50

Those are very thin slices of lemon rind on top of the salmon--delicious!

Live was excellent. The restaurant is relaxed, service is friendly, prices are reasonable and the food was delicious! Would definitely go again. :)

Thanks for the fun evening, Andre, Rich and Jess!

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Chirashi bowl from Nijiya Market, Japantown, SF.

The takeaway bowl came with a little rice, egg, cucumbers, tofu, fish egg and fish. I added the chopped romaine and a sesame wasabi dressing. It was EXCELLENT.

Thanks for the sushi, Ed and Jess! :)

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Sake Soiree: Tuna carving and sake tasting at Yoshi's, Lower Fillmore, SF.

Chef Sho, beginning with the massive tuna.

And let the carving begin!

Off with his head!

Wow.

This was the best sushi ever.

SO much sake! The whole restaurant (and if you've been, you know how large Yoshi's is!) was taken over by tables of sake. Amazing.

Everyone carried around their little plastic shot glasses and poured some sake with pipettes. It was an interesting setup and it actually worked really well for this event. Good amount to taste.

A very special thanks to Rivera PR, Yoshi's and Chef Sho. :)

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Post Bake Sale, pre Inception sushi at Kyoto Sushi, Van Ness, SF.

Missooooo.

Cherry Blossom roll - tuna over salmon with avocado roll.

Barracuda - spicy hamachi, green onions, tempura roll.

Poki roll - cold seaweed salad over spicy tuna roll.

Sunset roll - Parmesan cheese, garlic sauce and salmon baked over California roll.

Everything was really good. I really like this place. It had been too long since I was there. The service isn't the quickest, but the food is good and reasonably priced. It was perfect because we had an hour to kill before seeing Inception at AMC Van Ness!

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Sushi mix from Nijiya Market, Japantown, SF.

Mmmm.. I like how they use a lot of fish, wrap large rolls and sell for cheap! :)

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Sushi fail at Mikaku, Union Square, SF.

Okay, this place gets points for presentation, but that's it. We were going to use a Restaurant.com gift certificate my friend purchased in January and apparently they stopped honoring them in February. You think they would honor the ones purchased before February, but no. We were starving though so we decided to give it at try anyway.

I'd never heard of this place, which isn't a good sign from the get go.. and then the waitress wasn't knowledgeable about sushi. We asked a couple questions and they weren't answered. Then the sushi we got was dry, flavorless and just nooooot good. :( Well, it's on the DO NOT GO list.

*Note: The combined bad food + bad service has really led me to just write this place off. I don't feel the need to list what we ordered! :( I really think the restaurant is just poor quality, and it takes quite a bit for me to say that.

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Good eats at the SF Symphony Black & White Ball.

This was one classy street party.

Tons of amazing food by McCalls. They had a lovely couscous, a gorgonzola pecan tart, super tender sliders, yummy toasted ham & cheese sandwiches, pupusas, empanadas, lamb... Mmmmm! So much amazing food!

The sushi bar had great variety, with tons of vegetarian options, but the rice was a bit dry.

These sashimi wraps were great!

One of the party halls. Beautiful and the open bar was so great. You know it's a classy party when the open bar doesn't even have tip jars--love that.

The midnight surprise was an amazing light show projected onto City Hall! So neat!

I had amazing amounts of fun getting all done up, eating, dancing, and laughing the night away! I HIGHLY recommend the Black & White Ball. SF knows how throw one heckuva fancy party! :) It happens every other year and while it is pricey, it's really amazing partying in all of the beautiful buildings at Civic Center and up and down Van Ness! :)

Post Dr. Nakamats Japanese dinner at Sushi Boom, Lower Fillmore, SF.

Ahhh! The Inventiona of Dr. Nakamats! Amazing film! Hilarious and quirky and entertaining. It was playing at the great SF International Film Festival 2010. View the trailer here! After watching this, I was starving, and definitely up for some Japanese!

We decided to bypass Japantown Center and head to Sushi Boom! I'd been meaning to check out their bento box, since I couldn't last time. I got the salmon teriyaki, which is $8 for lunch, and $13 for dinner! Still a great deal because you get miso soup (not pictured) and then all of this! Everything was pretty good, too--great even for the deal!

We also got this roll--the Volcano roll--which came out hot. :( I don't really like hot sushi rolls and neither of us thought it would come out hot. V disappointing. I don't know why, it didn't add anything to the roll and I really think it would have been better cold!

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Japanese at Sushi Boom, Lower Fillmore, SF.

Erika and I were originally going to grab something at the Cherry Blossom Festival, but the lines were ridiculous! Everything looked pretty good, but nothing sounded that appealing to me.. this was my first day really eating out while sick. :(

We decided to find something light around Fillmore and stumbled into Sushi Boom. The bento box lunch deals are pretty great--I ordered one, but then cancelled it because it just sounded too much. I switched to a simple order of two pieces of inari for my lunch! :( So sad! It was covered with teriyaki sauce, too, which I wasn't loving. The one time I want something bland! Haha. I'll definitely be back for the bento box though. :)

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Whole Foods sushi mix.

Spicy tuna with avocado roll, crab roll and inari. For the sauce I mixed soy sauce, with a little teriyaki sauce and lots of wasabi, but the Whole Foods wasabi isn't that strong. I like the pre-packaged sushi at Whole Foods though--it's fresh and as good as you would get a lot of low to mid range Japanese restaurants. :)

I need to find good fish to roll my own sushi with! They've done it on Top Chef so it must be available at Whole Foods, right? Hmmm.. I do know how to roll, so I should try this soon..