Sushi By The Singing Fountain
Posted by Foobooz on March 16th, 2009
Craig LaBan discovers not all of East Passyunk is Italian and that Izumi provides a great new sushi destination for the neighborhood.
The sushi kitchen is clearly Izumi’s strength, with a focus on standards presented with attention to detail, quality, and value rather than anything especially innovative. And sushi chef Agus Lukito, an Indonesian-born chef trained at Teikoku and most recently at Mikado, does an excellent job.
His fish is superbly fresh, cut with precision, and wrapped around good rice – toothsomely firm and nicely seasoned with kombu-flavored vinegar. This is on full display in the platters, which, at 32 pieces for $50 (and half as many for $25), is a solid quality-value. It featured some less common additions – the sea-savory tang of horse mackerel, the tender snap of rouge-tipped surf clam, sweet white albacore, and a nearly translucent, delicate fluke – to the usual tuna-salmon-yellowtail mainstays.
1601 E Passyunk Ave, Philadelphia, PA
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March 16th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Even though I generally disagree with Laban’s reviews…I must say he hit the nail on the head with this one.
March 18th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Is anyone else disturbed by the profiling as he describes the dining crowd?