Ho Ho Kus Sushi Cafe

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Went last night. Final Answer? Very good!!!

OK -- small place, very small, BYO. Luckily, we got a table for 4, in the corner, although we were 2 -- this is my new favorite table, LOL. The place has 10 tables, maybe 12 (didn't count). If we were a party of 4, it would have been a bit tight.

We started out and got the Tuna Taco and the Firecracker Shrimp -- both very good, and very spicy. The Firecracker Shrimp has a light/tangy, hot sauce. Not a candy type sauce or a buffalo wing -- but a distant relative. It was not BBQ flavor though, but it was spicy. The Tuna Taco is better than very good. A real creative dish -- chopped tuna (high quality), along with some scallion or some garnish (maybe), with a touch of lime juice (I think) and maybe cilantro. It's prepared inside of a thick (fried) "shell," but not a tortilla taco shell. It was like tuna/seafood salad or ceviche inside a nice, thich crispy shell. Whatever it was -- it was excellent. This dish was also spicy. I also had a calamari salad w/ thai spicy dressing/sauce -- again, spicy, again very good.

Then came the sushi -- a few rolls off the "special roll" list. One was called the Black Dragon Roll, which had shrimp tempura, cucumber, with eel and avocado on top. This was a good roll. At first, it didn't raise any eyebrows, but the more I had, the more I liked it. Another was the Ahi Tuna roll -- shrimp tempura, some spicy sauce with tuna and avocado. This was very good. We had the Final 4 and the Montauk roll as well -- both were very good. The fish seemed very fresh, and high quality (wasn't fatty, had very good texture, consistancy, etc.). Dinner for two (with leftovers, LOL) was just about $95, not including tip.

The service was good. Overall, I liked it very much. Definetly a place for me to go. It's a bit more upscale than Sono, not quite as much as Nagoya. Bottm line -- I will certainly go back. Very nice place.

Eric