Sushi in BCN

[Silly Disciple]

If there's one thing I miss from living in NYC is good sushi. Can anyone recommend a Sushi restaurant in BCN that resembles in quality a mid to high end place in NY? No, I am not expecting Jewel Bako, but at least something above and beyond all you can eat sushi or sushi-chinese-pan asian nonsense.

thanks.

Silly.

[tjdnewyork]

I haven't been there yet but when I asked friends here the same question people recommened Shunka which is somewhere around the Cathedral if I remember right.

If there's one thing I miss from living in NYC is good sushi. Can anyone recommend a Sushi restaurant in BCN that resembles in quality a mid to high end place in NY? No, I am not expecting Jewel Bako, but at least something above and beyond all you can eat sushi or sushi-chinese-pan asian nonsense.

thanks.

Silly.

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[vserna]

Shunka is interesting and personal (some Japanese-Mediterranean fusion things...) Satoru Miyano in his eponymous restaurant in the ritzy Sarrià area makes good sushi.

[Silly Disciple]

Victor, I should have followed your advise to start with. Alas, because it was close to our place, we went to Yamadori. It was also listed as the oldest Japanese restaurant in BCN, so I thought they couldn't be awful. Well, the service was. We were there for lunch. we ordered two soups, two starters and two sushi or sashimi dishes (I went for sashimi, the wife went for sushi/rolls).

For some weird reason, we got one soup (the wife's), then about 10 minutes later we got mine. While I was having the soup, they brought my starter (grilled fish). 5 minutes after that, they brought my wife's (shitake mushrooms with spinach). To follow this weird (at least for me) pattern, while she was having the mushrooms her sushi arrived. And 5 minutes later they brought my sashimi.

By that time I was both confused and pissed off, but the waiter wasn't done with surprises. Being 3:30pm (for the non-local readers, lunch here is served usually from 2pm to 4pm, and finishing a lunch at around 4:30 is definitely not unheard of) he asked if we wanted anything else, as the kitchen was about to close. Surprised, I said sure, I'll have a few extra pieces of sashimi, and asked for the menu. I looked at the sushi-a-la-carte section, selected a few things and ordered. The waiter then informed that the section was for sushi, and not sashimi, and I couldn't just order like that. Ok, so what's available as sashimi then, I asked? He didn't know. He offered either Toro or Salmon. I wanted Unagi. He thought they couldnt do sashimi unagi, but they could offer either a "racion" or "media racion" of it.

At this point the conversation turned surreal, as I couldn't understand why the local "racion" concept was different from the sashimi pieces I was trying to get, the waiter didn't look particularly interested in catering my request, and I was fairly pissed off. I asked for the check, which took about 10 more minutes (and in the meantime, interestingly enough, 3 new customers arrived and were seated), we paid about 30 EUR a head (definitely not worth what we had had), and left.

The food was ok, but nothing to write home about. There were according to my wife 4 waiters for about 10 tables, so they are not particularly understaffed.

Next time I'm taking no chances, Satoru Miyano it is.

Silly.

Yamadori

Aribau 68.

93.453.9264

[pedro]

Shunka is interesting and personal (some Japanese-Mediterranean fusion things...)

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Santi Santamaría, chef and owner of the three star Can Fabes, enthusiastically recommended Shunka last summer. He mentioned the use of great products, the simplicity of their cuisine and the good service provided to everyone.

The whole fried eggplant that he had at Shunka inspired him to create a similar dish, where he replaced the original miso sauce with some smoked cod fish mouse,

[nerdgirl]

Shunka is good for traditional sushi.

Also try Soba Culture (www.sobaculture.com)