Charles D. wrote: > > Someone wrote: > >A friend had told me about sushi at Bread & Circus, but I remember an > >important thing someone told me "Never get sushi someplace that's not > >in the sushi business". B & C sushi kinda scares me. > > > >Rob > > First the Star Market in Brookline, Mass has sushi, now the Bread > and Circus (organic food co-op) in Cambridge (Fresh Pond). Is this > getting to be a supermarket trend elsewhere? The Whole Foods Market in Dallas, TX (four stores) sells sushi, made my a small independent that provides his own menu. He works out of the Plano store (Park and Preston). I don't know if he uses fish from their seafood section; I suspect that he does. I don't worry too much about the quality -- it seems safe, though I'm no expert. But there's nothing especially enjoyable about it, so why bother? The same for sushi sold at Tom Thumb and other high-end and middle range supermarket grocery stores. Yes, it seems to be a trend for these places to sell it, and they probably would not risk any health problems that could come back to haunt them. But again, why bother. I have noticed them selling sushi more in the past year or two, but I couldn't say when they started. I trust my favorite sushi chef at Sushi Ichiban (on Greenville, one block south of LBJ/I-635), and I enjoy his preparations immensely. He and his fellow chefs own the place and keep their prices very reasonable. At whole foods, I like the regular fruits and vegetables, seafood, meats, and breads for their freshness and high quality. They have a great bulk section with a wonderful variety of pastas, flours, grains and dried fruits at much better prices than the limited selection which are sold packaged at stores. And I always like eating at the Whole Foods deli. BTW, Whole Foods owns Bread and Circus, or they are owned by the same parent company. I can get there a list of "health food" supermarkets around the country (mostly Texas, California, and Massachusetts). That list includes B&C, where I shopped when I lived in the Boston area. I never shopped at Harvest Coop, nor did I know about Star Market, even though went in to Brookline daily to work out. Regards, Mike Krantz
Dallas, TX
AFS: Sushi from Whole Foods
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:17:09 -0500, Mike Krantz wrote: >Charles D. wrote: >> >> Someone wrote: >> >A friend had told me about sushi at Bread & Circus, but I remember an >> >important thing someone told me "Never get sushi someplace that's not >> >in the sushi business". B & C sushi kinda scares me. >> > >> >Rob >> >> First the Star Market in Brookline, Mass has sushi, now the Bread >> and Circus (organic food co-op) in Cambridge (Fresh Pond). Is this >> getting to be a supermarket trend elsewhere? > >The Whole Foods Market in Dallas, TX (four stores) sells sushi, >made my a small independent that provides his own menu. He >works out of the Plano store (Park and Preston). I don't know >if he uses fish from their seafood section; I suspect that he >does. I don't worry too much about the quality -- it seems >safe, though I'm no expert. But there's nothing especially >enjoyable about it, so why bother? > >The same for sushi sold at Tom Thumb and other high-end >and middle range supermarket grocery stores. Yes, it >seems to be a trend for these places to sell it, and >they probably would not risk any health problems that >could come back to haunt them. But again, why bother. >I have noticed them selling sushi more in the past year >or two, but I couldn't say when they started. > >I trust my favorite sushi chef at Sushi Ichiban (on Greenville, >one block south of LBJ/I-635), and I enjoy his preparations >immensely. He and his fellow chefs own the place and keep >their prices very reasonable. At whole foods, I like the >regular fruits and vegetables, seafood, meats, and breads >for their freshness and high quality. They have a great >bulk section with a wonderful variety of pastas, flours, >grains and dried fruits at much better prices than the >limited selection which are sold packaged at stores. >And I always like eating at the Whole Foods deli. > >BTW, Whole Foods owns Bread and Circus, or they are owned by the >same parent company. I can get there a list of "health food" >supermarkets around the country (mostly Texas, California, >and Massachusetts). That list includes B&C, where I shopped >when I lived in the Boston area. I never shopped at Harvest >Coop, nor did I know about Star Market, even though went in >to Brookline daily to work out. > >Regards, > >Mike Krantz If anyone cares, the sushi at a very highly rated Japanese seafood place on Greenville Ave. is great. The place is called Royal 88, and it has won best japanese seafood in various Dallas mags for years. It is a buffet, but they will ocassionally bring out the all you can eat sushi and it is great. It is on Greenville and Arapaho, in Richardson. It is in a strip center with nothing but Asian-owned businesses, right behind a BMW dealerships that is on 75. Check it out sometime...
Mike K. wrote: > I trust my favorite sushi chef at Sushi Ichiban (on Greenville, > one block south of LBJ/I-635), and I enjoy his preparations > immensely. He and his fellow chefs own the place and keep their > prices very reasonable. Pardon me but I beg to differ. Sushi Ichiban is one of the worst sushi restaurants in the DFW area. They are cheap ($1 a piece) but far from fresh, rice has no vinegar and no wasabi. Overall it's one of compromised sushi places (like Sushi on McKinney) catering to those who never tasted sushi before but want to try. My assessment is backed by a review article in this week's Observer.