Sushi Deal of the Week – BAR MASA

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Continuing our Restaurant Week theme, this morning we’ll discuss sushi. Not just any sushi, mind you, but the superior stuff served at Bar MasaMasa Takayama’s outpost in Aria, where the delicately scented, barely warm, and barely-held-together rice provides the foundation for the freshest toro, hirame, hamachi, and akamutsu (snapper) this side of Tokyo Bay.

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Sushi Smackdown – SUSHI FEVER v. ISLAND SUSHI

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Admittedly, Sushi Fever is one of those fake crab, deep–fried, mayonnaise-laden sushi joints we love to hate. Always crowded, always charmless, and always slinging fish and rice with the subtlety of Chris Christie at a buffet line; it is to true sushi what professional wrestling is to the sweet science.

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