Rating: Tokyo Blue 4040 Galt Ocean Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 Phone: 954-566-7500 There’s a new place in Fort Lauderdale called Tokyo Blue. They serve a lot of sushi and Thai food, with attitude and style. We’ll leave the critical look at their Thai offerings to a more qualified commentator over at Thai Cooks, but [...]

Rating: Maido Japanese Rest 4267 NW 107th Avenue, Miami, FL 33137 Phone: 305-592-4002 Maido is a little Japanese Izakaya located in Doral, FL run by a pair of great chefs – Hiroshi and Genya. Genya spent many years working at Matsuri in nearby Coral Gables before the team opened up Maido Japanese Restaurant in the [...]

A friend of ours recently remarked that she had tasted fresh wasabi for the first time. She had not known that there was any difference, wasabi is wasabi right? Well of course, that’s not true. But if you live in a place where there are no sushibars willing to buy wasabi from one of the [...]

Rating: Sushi Joe 9557 Northwest 41st Street Doral, FL  33178 305-591-4312 Sushi Joe is a hidden treasure in a vast sea of mediocrity that is the mainstream US sushibar scene today. In an unassuming strip mall in Doral, Florida we found this cross-cultural modern bastion of interpretive sushi run by the humble sushi master called [...]

.q{color:#000000} .a{color:#0000cc} Marisa Baggett grew up in Mississippi, where sushi restaurants are few and far between. Yet she decided to become a sushi chef, and has evolved into a cultural icon of sorts, a contemporary sushi master in her own right. Marisa trained at the California Sushi Academy, then settled down in Memphis, TN to [...]

Australia has threatened to do so for quite a while. Now it’s official they will take legal action to stop Japanese whaling in the South Pacific. Next week this drama will play out in The Hague, and the result might be a temporary ban on whaling activities in the South pacific while the proceedings take [...]