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| - Don't just look....Go in and see!! This is my new go-to sushi place.
Like others, I was a little skeptical walking in because the restaurant is in the Fiesta district, and the area surrounding the mall is beginning to dwindle. However, I knew the the restaurant was fairly new, and it was very early for any kind of dinner rush. But we were hungry, and rather than drive all the way across the Valley, we decided to give it a shot. And I was glad we did.
I am not blown away very easily, but when I walked in, it shattered all my expectations. The place is very nicely decorated. The bar is warm and inviting, and the wait staff matched. We were greeted warmly and quickly. We sat in the bar area, which is modern, elegant and classy. The room has a liquor bar on side, and you may also sit at the sushi bar on the other end across the room. This would be a great place for an office lunch, meet the girls for lunch, take a client out, first date, 50000th date, or just walk in casual. The whole restaurant is tastefully decorated, but nobody goes to a restaurant because of how it looks, right? It's all about the food.
OMG the food! Asian restaurants seem to have caught a bit of Mexican Restaurant syndrome these days, where there are so many, but their either generic everybody is trying this and fusion that, and we lose a lot of the integrity and authenticity of the flavors, offerings, and culture. Crazy Sushi & Crab brings back everything that Japanese cuisine should be, and the food not only tastes good, it has the looks to match. Our teriyaki beef bento box was served in a beautiful red and black ceramic box. The beef was cooked medium rare and was tender and juicy and melted in your mouth, which was really surprising because A) Japanses beef teriyaki is usually tough and chewy; and B) non-steak cuts of beef are usually tough and chewy (restaurant-ly speaking). The teriyaki was light and aromatic, but full of flavor, as if it was part of the meat itself. The presentation was delicate and highly visual both in color and shape. For me personally, I have never met a pot sticker that I liked. It's just not my thing, but this box came with two of them, so, of course, I tried one.....and I liked it! And we came to the conclusion that maybe there are foods we don't like because we've never had them prepared properly. In short, I ate BOTH pot stickers and didn't share, even though they weren't mine to eat in the first place. I had the Yellow Daddy roll and the Vegas roll and I was not disappointed with either. The Yellow Daddy was light and feisty. It has a beautiful house specialty sriracha/cilantro sauce that I've never had anywhere else. It was spicy, and the cilantro goes up your nose the way it should, but it didn't overpower the fish. The Vegas roll was a more straight forward deep fried tempura roll. Their tempura batter is light and airy but cruchy and flavorful. It doesn't hide the food, it enhances it. It stayed crunch throughout the meal and didn't lose it's pop just because I took my time eating. In fact, they even have tempura battered sweet potato slices that came in the bento box that had us asking if they were available as an appetizer...it was that good.
My only regret is that I did not opt to sit at the sushi bar. I say this because another gentlemen was sitting there, and he was having quite the conversation about all the different fishes and flavors and sauces that were on the menu, and I wanted to go sit there and be part of that. As anyone who has had good Asian experiences will tell you, food is more than just fork to mouth, it's an experience....but not a missed opportunity for me. I have eaten a lot of sushi in my time, and now that this place is right around the corner from my house, I plan on eating a lot more.
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