Sushi in Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA

Will B.University of California, DavisJul 15, 1997

Someone wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I recently moved to Boulder Creek and was wondering if anyone knows of a : good Sushi place in Santa Cruz, or the various beach cities nearby. I'd : appreciate hearing from you.

	There's a good one in Capitola...gray place on the north or west side of the street, Capitola Ave. a few blocks away from the ocean.  I've also heard good things about Mobo in Santa Cruz, but haven't been there personally.

Will

From [email removed] Thu Jul 17 16:09:11 EDT 1997
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Jim B.Cruzio Community Networking ServiceJul 17, 1997

Marina F. wrote:

>    I can't really comment on the sushi at Tanaka, on Soquel.  We haven't
> tried it; but in general, I find the serivce at Tanaka to be rather
> slow/inattentive.

It's Takara, and the service is a bit pokey. Although I don't fault the waitstaff; when service is at its worst, the waitpeople seem to be running flat out. I think management just doesn't put enough of them on to handle the business well. The sushi seems good, but I'm no expert as I'm relatively new to the food and have had it in only a couple of places.

One interesting thing: Takara does seem very popular these days, and when the wife and I walked in at 6:30 one Thursday night the hostess asked us if we had a _reservation._ We were rather surprised, because it's not that fancy a restaurant -- restaurants in that class don't take reservations in Santa Cruz. They ended up putting us in the rather spartan little "extra" dining room in the back, where it took us 15 minutes to get a waitress because -- well, out of sight, out of mind. Once I went out onto the main floor and flagged one down, things went easily.  But I shouldn't have had to do that. We enjoyed our food, but we're hesitant to go back.

Vegetarians take note: my wife ordered a bowl of noodles for lunch at Takara once. She was assured it was vegetarian. But the noodle soup came with fish flakes in it. Granted, those don't resemble any animal that walked the earth or swam the ocean, but they're not vegetarian.

Jim J.

From [email removed] Wed Apr 15 09:12:41 EDT 1998
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