Category: Sushi

[Apologies for the not-so-brief hiatus. Just been busy with life. Still need to eat, so I have a backlog of material to post. I figure I’d restart with my favorite subject, sushi!] Some of the best sushi-ya in L.A. are on the Westside.  Kiriko, Mori, and Shunji are a stone’s throw from each other and […]

Shunji Japanese Cuisine (their Facebook page is updated more frequently) is now open for lunch, Monday through Friday from noon to 2 PM.  They are serving only sushi for now (plus miso soup and dessert), but they may add tempura and other kitchen dishes depending on how the lunch business goes.  They have two very […]

Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to return to my all-time favorite restaurant, Shunji Japanese Cuisine. I only had 90 minutes, but I knew I could do plenty of damage in that time, and Shunji was certainly up to the challenge. Below is the whirlwind omakase I had in an hour and a half, […]

Last night, I went back to Shunji after just a one week break.  This is NOT something that I can afford to do all the time (or even some of the time), but the timing worked out for me to go two weeks in a row, and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.  And Chris […]

As some of you know, Shunji Japanese Cuisine recently debuted at #10 on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list (may require L.A. Times subscription; free preview here).  I’ve been needing an excuse to go back, so when Chris Hei told me the week before that he had planned on taking a friend to Shunji last […]