Foodie Blog
Please don't shoot me or anything of forgoing my rather dull as of late sex life (unless you count the great one-night-stand in VA that turned into a notch-on-his-bedpost kind of deal) for a rather cool food review of the sushi bar I went to tonight with Jeff (aka @thestew on twitter), Rommie (@rommiej) and my friend Carrie. We all went to Sushi Tsu on Amberley Drive over by USF....me and Carrie got there a little early so we enjoyed 2-4-1 drinks at the bar....she had a martini with at least 6 different liquors and I went the easy route with a McWilliams Chardonnay (AZ label, very good IMO). We met the guys a couple minutes later and enjoyed get to know you chit chat while deciding what all we wanted to share. Jeff had seen the TNT Mussels (Mussels fried in wasabi) described, so I decided to be game with the rest of them and try one...as Jeff put it, his taste buds were seared from now to Thanksgiving :P We picked a few rolls and I had to go with at least the salmon sushi while Jeff wanted to try the sea urchin. Urchin wasn't that bad, we found out...rather a non taste, I believe. The salmon, a typical fave for me, seemed okay, but seemed to have a marineish aftertaste to us. The Philadeliphia roll (called Bagel here) was okay in the sense that this place knew that the damn roll involved a modicum of cream cheese to be a Philly roll. We all liked the Spider roll and the Mexican roll seemed nice as well. I had picked the Volcano roll, expected something on par with the quality of the Volcano rolls from Samurai Blue, but, alas, it was not to be...we all thought it bombed out of all the rolls we had- this one was the WORST...and me being a sushi foodie, you know I don't say that lightly. But, the REAL star of the night was the Ridiculous Roll..hell, Jeff even tweeted me saying that it was "an orgasm in my mouth" lol VERY good roll and a fabulous counterpoint to the Volcano roll debacle. Below are pics of the TNT Mussels and the Ridiculous Roll:
We really had a blast and I would love to do it again sometime...I told Jeff that next time he gets to pick the place :P and if you'd like to read his blog entry about this (with most of this post included) look here: http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/life/comments/dining-on-sushi-with-christy-wild-everybody-eats/
We really had a blast and I would love to do it again sometime...I told Jeff that next time he gets to pick the place :P and if you'd like to read his blog entry about this (with most of this post included) look here: http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/life/comments/dining-on-sushi-with-christy-wild-everybody-eats/