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| - Absolutely stunning Korean food, in the most unlikely nook.
The storefront looks a little crappy... tacky 80s yellow coloring on the back-lit plastic awning, and the window menus (and photos) are all sun-faded, giving this restaurant a slightly run-down, almost sketchy appearance from the outset... IT'S ALL A RUSE, by god! Enter enter enter!
The interior is decked out from back to front in a Korean aesthetic. Your choices of seating are either super roomy booths OR curtained private rooms which seat up to 8 people. You get menus and waters immediately, but the best part of the ordering is that every table has its own silent doorbell, so you push the button when you would like the server's attention, being ready to order or for any other matter. Great idea!
The menu is very large, and despite the name of the restaurant, the menu is weighted 60/40 Korean vs Japanese cuisine, the latter almost exclusively sushi & teriyaki with some udons . My partner and I ordered two different kinds of tea (green and gin seng). Between us both, we ordered a dol sot bibim bop (meat/rice/veggie dish served in a cracklin' hot stone bowl) a spicy Udon seafood soup (Udon is thick, long noodles), and an order of Toro (fatty tuna) sushi. The food was excellent, hot, fresh, flavorful. There's almost nothing I like more than a well-served dol sot bibim bop (it's one of my favorites), except spicy Udon seafood soup from Dai Ichi Sushi, apparently. I couldn't stop sipping from my partner's soup with all it's succulent fish fat flavors, and a spicy punch to finish off each slurp. The sushi was super. I could eat here 100 times a year, if I lived closer.
The only caveat I could possibly muster is that the servers and staff are made to wear "traditional" garb. I'm already ambivalent when the interior of a restaurant aims for some impossibly abstract delivery of "authenticity" - but when the staff is forced to perform some strange trans-historical simulacra of "tradition" - I just feel self-conscious and weirded-out. If you have a costume fetish, however, then this place will meet your need. In any event, it couldn't POSSIBLY effect the 5-star quality of the food and service.
It's listed as being on Winston Churchill (which is where the driveway is located), but the Dai Ichi Sushi storefront is actually in a small strip mall tucked just back from Winston Churchill itself, partially obscured from view... just do a google maps search to find it.
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