The itamae at my favorite sushi-ya went crazy on my chirashi bowl this week and tossed in a couple of new things. In addition to a whole soy-cooked baby octopus (yum!) he added a couple of slices of fish that were unlike anything...

I couldn’t access your link, but I did go to the loverskeybeach website and found their shell identification guide. You’re right that they are different. But there are at least 20 different species of whelk. The...

into this city. Baltimore, on the other hand, has a greater identification for those in Odenton. Little Italy has a lot in common with the North End, both of which I am very familiar with. Fells Point is next to this and has a...

of lemon and lime from sashimi platters as quickly as possible, and the staff are japanese.

Salsa. Both of these were as good as everything else we’d had so far, although the caviar sauce was a bit bland. The pot stickers were big and fat with readily identifable pieces of shrimp and scallop. Every dish we tried...

Hello, Thank you for all the replies to my sushi/sashimi “theory” question. Certainly you’ve given me much to think about, which is wonderful. I love thinking about food. =) Follow-up question to this: in sashimi...

And here I am, I would very much refuse any burger that had condiments put on it by assumption rather than identification on menu or by request. If you don’t tell me you’re puttin' mustard/ketchup/mayo/tartar sauce on...

identifications. After we sat down I realized I had forgotten any paper to write on. I sacrificed the white space on the “puzzle” and “findings” pages of the latest Harper’s magazine (thank you LL for...

to eat $400 sashimi and sushi (for two, not each), though. And while it was great, and I again got to taste things I’ve never tasted before… I think I would have been pretty sated at around $125 pp or so. We had: Sashimi: rock...