The Best Of Everything
CMG 14`.
*Featuring Dick Contino
Peitro Carollo, Aaron Caruso
Peter Soave and Dino Valle
PLUS Classic Italian Cuisine
Sunday, Nov. 3
Supreme Illusionist!
Comedy, exotic animals,
ts. otechnics & music
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Comedy, Singing, Impressions
A Las Ve as Favorite
10/25
2002
92
11,
ebrity S1 awroom
7696 East Fourteen Mite Road
.
(Between Mound &Van Dyke)
(586) 268-3200
Specialty: Sushi
Farmington Sushi House excels with presentation,
variety and above all, cleanliness.
Simon and Hwangil are too experi-
enced and knowledgeable to serve any-
thing other than what a good Japanese
sushi restaurant calls for.
Very few, if any, Japanese spots have
as many-as 26 appetizers from which-
to choose ... and no other Japanese
eating place makes homemade miso
dressing with sesame seeds for its salad
... not just a ginger dressing.
Japanese dining can be very compli-
cated ... Unless someone is extremely
learned in Japanese cuisine, it is almost
impossible to know every dish ...
There are literally thousands of items
if one wanted to count.
Farmington Sushi House is open
seven days ... Monday-Saturday, 11
a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and Sunday, 4 to 9
p.m. ... serving lunch and dinner.
The house special lunch box is a
heavy favorite ... with California Rolls,
chicken teriyaki, tempura, gyoza,
nigiri sushi and sashimi ... Dinner
entrees include broiled fillet of
salmon, tuna, beef, chicken, shrimp,
vegetable, seafood, etc., in a wide vari-
ety of over 35 choices quite impres-
sive.
Many enjoy Sushi House because it
is simple ... No fanfare type of dining
and no hard to read menu.
And best of all ... it is clean.
THE RUMOR IS TRUE ... that
one of the few remaining Jewish-
owned delicatessens, an institution,
has been sold after almost 35 years at
the same location.
Bread Basket Deli on Greenfield
Road in Lincoln Park Center is now in
the hands of two Albanian gentlemen
who have purchased the restaurant
from Ron Forman.
The site in Oak Park was originally
opened in 1967 by Ron and Earl
Mostyn ... 10 years later, Earl went
into the insurance business ... with
Ron taking over ... and changing the
around the sushi bar ... and
on't let the unbe-
various
items from which to
coming outside
select
drifting
by slowly on
fool you ... Or the
little boats.
small interior.
A number of the items,
A good Japanese restaurant
particularly most of the rolls,
is not only rich with tradition
are not available at too many
... but a cozy little place with
places ... In fact, Sushi
a familiar staff and regular
House's 16 featured rolls
customers that can also
DANNY
shown in beautiful color, are
become a special place as a
RASKIN
all its own creations ... and
favorite coffee house, diner,
Local Columnist extremely tasty ... If any are
bistro or tavern.
seen elsewhere, they are prob-
The presentations at
ably
imitations.
Farmington Sushi House, on W. Nine
The Dragon Roll, with its excellent
Mile Road and Farmington, in the
presentation, is a beautiful and very
shopping center with Farmer Jack, are
flavorsome dish of shrimp tempura,
exquisite ... and strike a perfect bal-
cucumber, unagi (fresh water eel) and
ance of the restaurant's casual formali-
avocado ... as is the Red Wing Roll
ty and friendliness.
with
crab, avocado and tuna ... among
Farmington Sushi House is only a
the excellent selections. •
few months old ... but recommended
Baked mussels is a favorite of many,
highly by visitors who praise the
prepared with spices and green onions
restaurant with lavish words ...
... as are the soft-shelled crabs appetiz-
Perchance visits by some folks have
er
... The California Roll at
turned this suddenly into a rapid
Farmington Sushi House is as it
word-of-mouth discovery jewel in
should be, with crab meat salad, not
Japanese dining that merits seeking
crab stick, as usually presented in
out.
many other places.
Many of your good little Japanese
Good sushi is not cheap (but far
restaurants around the country are
from
expensive) and cheap sushi is sel-
revealed in similar fashion ... Nothing
dom really good ... There is a differ-
pretentious ... just decent Japanese
ence in the quality and freshness of
food at respectable prices.
the fish and other ingredients, between
It may be small ... only 34 seats in
a really good sushi bar and an ordinary
the dining room, and 16 seats at the
(or cheap) one ... The best sushi is
sushi bar ... but what it lacks in size
very
fresh, while cheaper places use old
and seating capacity is more than
or frozen ingredients ... Many people
made up in probably the most impor-
won't buy day-old bread, and who
tant asset of all ... an extremely clean
wants old vegetables at a discount?
environment.
The sushi bar is manned by two
excellent practitioners of the art ...
Simon Yi, Sushi House's owner, and
his cousin Hawangil Im, are backed by
an experience that covers over 37 years
... The quality and character of their
food are certainly never in question ...
Good Japanese sushi chefs like Simon
and Hawangil, are extremely particular
about the freshness and distinction of
the food that is presented.
Hawangil's 27 years in the business
takes in the fine Sapporo in Hayward,
Calif. ... and stints in Los Angeles and
Seattle.
If there were more room, Simon's
Japanese operation would be like the
one he had in Alameda, Calif. ...
Simon Yi and Hawangil Im of Farmington Sushi House.
Sapporo Sushi Boat ... with water