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| - I came to Glendale to check out the Midwestern campus for school. I come from the San Francisco Bay Area and one of my favorite comfort foods is good sushi so I knew that if I came here for grad school, I would need to check out the local sushi spot. After finding this local spot, I knew I needed to support this place and write a good review even though I hardly ever write reviews.
So, after touring the campus, I looked on yelp and found this place. I drove around. It's a little hard to find. There's an electronic sign above that says Sushi. It was in one of those little shopping centers, but not a big one. At least there's free parking.
Walking in, it was completely empty. It was a Tuesday night. I found simple chairs and tables, but there was also bar with the sushi chef standing behind it. Immediately, (probably because I was the only one there) the chef and the hostess greet me. I'm pretty sure they are a married couple.
They directed me to sit at the bar. I usually always try and sit at the bar because I love watching the chef prep the food, but I told them that I had been out all day and was in desperate need to plug my phone in and charge it. They laughed and the wife directed me to one of the other tables that had a plug underneath and I finally started charging my phone. There was a flat screen tv up in the corner displaying the NBA playoffs.
So, I sat down and immediately I start talking with both the chef and his wife. Well, I'm kinda yelling back and forth with the chef since I'm not sitting at the bar and they start asking me about how I found the place and all normal small talk stuff.
I went on to explain them that I was in the area only for the day and wanted to decide whether or not I wanted to go to school in Phoenix. They talked to me about their experiences and where they had lived and so forth and how they had adjusted to living in Glendale. Supposedly, the sushi chef used to be a pretty popular sushi chef in Las Vegas but wanted to open his own place, or something like that.
Well, I finally got around to the menu and noticed the prices. I guess they have only been open for about 2-3 months so they had happy hour specials all day. Very reasonably priced for sushi.
I however can be a bit of sushi snob and didn't order the rolls and went straight for the sashimi bowl that had a couple of different types of sashimi plain. Sashimi is just the raw fish by itself, usually over some daikon root (which is edible and good for you!). Along with the sashimi bowl, I ordered some tea and some miso soup.
The soup came first and it was delicious. Not too salty. The pieces of tofu could have been a little bigger, but there were plenty of them.
The tea came shortly after and it was piping hot. I know I know. Who orders hot soup and hot tea when it's 100 degrees out. Well, they had the AC going strong and for me, sushi is always weird if I don't have tea and miso soup.
The tea was delicious. It was definitely something not out of some random lipton's tea bag, but it it was loose herbs that were being steeped in a steel bowl on top of the tea kettle that came out.
Then the sashimi bowl came out. I was a little anxious because I was concerned about the quality of the fish. Like I said, I live in the SF bay area where there are lots of good quality sushi houses and I guess I've been a bit spoiled. But, Sushi Catcher totally exceeded my expectations. Along with the sashimi bowl, I also got a bowl of sushi rice and also some real wasabi (with the chives and stuff).
Salmon: very delicious
Yellow tail: delicious
Octopus: delicious
white fish: delicious
shrimp: average
tuna: below average
Sushi rice: delicious (it's surprisingly difficult to have good sushi rice)
I actually loved the salmon so much, I ordered an additional bowl of salmon sashimi.
I took my time eating my meal since I really didn't have much planned for the evening. Other diners drifted in and I continued to watch the basketball game, chat with hostess when she wasn't busy with the other customers, and slowly drank my tea.
I enjoyed the tea so much, I asked her to refill the kettle with hot water so I can enjoy the last dredges of the herbs she placed inside. She gladly did this for me.
Of course, went to the bathroom because of all the tea. Bathroom is located in the back and it was standard. Clean though, but nothing hugely impressive.
So, after relaxing for I think a total of two hours, I decided I finally had to pay the bill. With the amount of sashimi I ate, I was definitely expecting something expensive, but it was pretty cheap, at least by sushi standards. So I just tacked what I thought I should have paid and gave them a huge tip since they were so helpful and welcoming and answered so many of my questions about living in the area.
I will be back in the fall when my program starts and I definitely foresee myself coming here as often as I can afford to gorge on salmon sashimi.
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