Spud Zeppelin - food

Sushi Seppuku Part III

nospam@example.com (Spud Zeppelin) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:46:08 +0100

Ok, Since I wrote the last couple pieces about sushi, I have to admit to having had a couple of wonderful sushi lunches, on weekdays (most recently yesterday), at Fujiyama on Milwaukee. Not Downtown, not a weekend, certainly not Nobu, but still -- good sushi.

Sushi Seppuku Part II

nospam@example.com (Spud Zeppelin) — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:01:51 +0100

Turns out, the same thing applies if you happen to be looking for sushi for a late-afternoon lunch on a Saturday. The only sushi place I found (and granted, this time I only tried the three that are within a block of 8th and Idaho) open for lunch on Saturday (Koi) closes at 2:30 and later reopens for dinner.

Sushi Seppuku

nospam@example.com (Spud Zeppelin) — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:04:20 +0200

One recent Sunday, I found myself with both the urge and the opportunity to seek out sushi for lunch. So, I headed into Downtown Boise, figuring I would get to try one of the city's new sushi restaurants that had opened in the eleven years I had been gone.

I was wrong! And dumbfounded!

It turns out, that among FIVE different sushi places I tried to visit in Downtown Boise on a Sunday afternoon, not a single ONE of them was open for lunch. It wasn't that they were closed on Sundays altogether, either -- most, if not all, of them were open for dinner a few hours later. It's an embarassment of sorts: one thing I learned in the "big city" tech industry while I was gone is that while the Japanese may regard sushi as dinner fare, in this country, it is overwhelmingly a lunch item.