Sushi Go Round (and round and round)
January 21, 2010 at 9:20 amDC, Food, Interiors, Restaurants, chinatown
A few weekends ago we stopped in to try Sushi Go Round at Gallery Place in Chinatown. The concept is pretty simple – you sit at a counter and sushi goes traveling right under your nose on a conveyor belt. You can grab whatever looks delicious or interesting to you, and you pay at the end based on a color-coded system for which plates you chose. You are also free to order off the regular menu. Genius! It’s like the conveyor belt joints on TV — hot dog eating champ, Takeru Kobayashi, uses them as part of his strict competitive eating regiment. If the champ does it, you know it has to be good.
The sushi was sufficient (not the best I’ve ever had, but certainly not the worst either), but it especially works if you’re in a hurry as we were, about to go see Avatar in 3D. I guess the best part is that it allows you to be a little adventurous with picking something based on the sight of it, whereas if you read it on a normal menu you might not be tempted to order it. This was okay for us, but if you are more of a “I like to know what sort of raw animal I’m going to ingest” sort of person you can just order from the menu. That really negates the whole point of eating sushi from a conveyor belt, though. As we were newbies to the Sushi-Go-Round experience, we did not pick the optimal spot at the bar to get first picks on the freshly prepared pieces. We would watch the chefs place new plates on the belt, then carefully keep track of our new plate as it made its way around the horseshoe belt, all the while giving the “stink eye” to any of the other diners who appeared to be interested in our coveted plate. If you go, take note of the direction the sushi belt is moving and get the seat closest to the chefs. It is all about strategy at Sushi-Go-Round.
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January 21st, 2010 at 12:12 pm
We have a place like that in Salt Lake as well. Direction and proximity to the chef is key, yes, but just as important is how many (and how hungry) people are in the place. If you go and it is less full, you just get the same pieces over and over and over again. For my money, I’ll just go and order what I like, thank you very much.
January 21st, 2010 at 2:36 pm
wow, who knew you could write an entire article about sushi on a conveyer belt? another one of my favorite things related to conveyer belts…. CONVEYER BELT OF LOVE. one of the best shows i have seen in the monday 10pm time slot in a looooong time! i hope they make it into it’s own serialized show.