Gale S. wrote: > Rick T. wrote: > >There is a sushi buffet in Mountain View whose name I can't remember. Does > >anybody knows its name? > > Sono Sushi I think. I think the original poster is referring to Fumiyoshi, on El Camino Real just south of Rengstorff. This is an all-you-can-eat Japanese seafood buffet, with sushi (actually quite good), a number of hot dishes often including lobster and crab, oysters and mussels, some meat dishes (usually chicken teriyaki and sometimes a beef or pork dish), salads, etc. Sono Sushi is a "boat" sushi bar on Castro St. It is a buffet, loosely speaking, in that you usually serve yourself but taking plates from the circulating boats, but you pay by the plate and it is not all-you-can-eat. Sono has good, relatively cheap sushi with a good variety, and the place is usually crowded and festive. The key here is to avoid stuff that has been sitting on the boats for many orbits; if you really want an order of, say, hamachi, and the only one out there looks a bit tired, order it from the sushi chef and you'll get a fresh one.
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Michael B. wrote: > >Sono Sushi is a "boat" sushi bar on Castro St. It is a buffet, >loosely speaking, in that you usually serve yourself but taking plates >from the circulating boats, but you pay by the plate and it is not >all-you-can-eat. Sono has good, relatively cheap sushi with a good >variety, and the place is usually crowded and festive. The key here >is to avoid stuff that has been sitting on the boats for many orbits; >if you really want an order of, say, hamachi, and the only one out >there looks a bit tired, order it from the sushi chef and you'll get a >fresh one. Yes, I strongly second this comment... I just ate at Sono the other night and noticed that they were not removing the untaken sushi very fast. There were at least two plates that circulated the entire time we were there (about 30 or 40 min.)-- yuck. I always try to order fish from the chefs. California rolls and cooked things I don't care about as much. And another warning-- the little teapots on the sushi bar contain SOY SAUCE, not TEA. I rediscovered this rather abruptly during my meal when I absentmindedly poured about a quarter cup of soy sauce into my tea (and no, for those of you who've just read my other posts, I hadn't been drinking ;-). Fortunately, the waitress happily brought me a clean tea cup. --j