I like Maneki a lot - excellent quality, good-sized portions, very little ambience. But it's down in my neighborhood. Sam's Sushi isn't bad (lower QA). Marinopolis Sushiland was very meh the one time I tried it, so haven't been back. Blue C is fun and fast, but not especially reasonable.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Marinopolis is the only place I've gotten sushi in the city. u_u
― trayce ongz (The Reverend), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
would anyone like to sushifap this weekend?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Sure!
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Blue C is where we ate when I was there, right?
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i go by there all the time but it doesn't speak to me for some reason.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
lol "all the time" = like 3 times
Yes! The tragically hip kai-ten place in Fremont with the different color plates named for the various Tokyo subway lines. They've opened two other branches at malls (U-Village and Southcenter), but the one in Fremont is still the best.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a place on 2nd Ave in Belltown that is supposed to be outstanding - don't know the name or how prices are, but will ask the person who recommended it. Sushi Kyo is on 1st near Broad which is pretty standard fare and nothing special on price, and Wasabi Bistro is like at 2nd and Bell which is more non-trad rolls and stuff and has been really accommodating for large ILX groups in the past.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds like a plan.
― trayce ongz (The Reverend), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
it doesn't have to be hueg.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
just want some sushi.
I want to be in Seattle for sushi ;_;
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
just drive up!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasabi, though it can be pricey, is my fave sushi place in Seattle.
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 14 July 2009 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
The light rail opens this weekend - free rides both Sat and Sun.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Maneki a lot - excellent quality, good-sized portions, very little ambience.
My sources second the rec for Maneki and add: call a day ahead, and if you're taking more than 4 people, ask about a tatami room.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Also on the list: Saitos on 1st, Mushashis, Aoki on Broadway.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Saito is the one on 2nd that came highly recommended - still no clue on how their prices run though.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
So this weekend I was the token black guy in a photoshoot for mayoral candidate J0e M4llahan. I may be coming to a political pamphlet near you.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome! I can't wait to see u in my mailbox.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i will be in seattle for sushi next week.
― Turkoglu & Love Affair (Clay), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
dope imo
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
imo also
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Well crap, Saito closed this past week.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
rip
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
pour one cup of sake out
― the people's prince, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
so...
whoever wants to eat sushi this weekend... let's say saturday? email me!then i will coordinate.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
oh if you change your mind to sunday then i can kick it imo.
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ok sunday it is!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
oh rad i will call you on my way up on sunday tza!
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I sent u a vv short email.
― shows you bobs (The Reverend), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
should we all go on a light rail ride after?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like a good thing tbh
― blap goin ham (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like I'll potentially be busy until 4, so 5 o' clock?
― blap goin ham (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 July 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
hey. thinking about applying to the university of washington law school. i'm an african american. will i stand out like a sore thumb? i'm not bothered with being the only black student in my class; i'm just trying to get a sense of what the demographic is like.
also---is it super rare to see interracial couples?
again, just trying to get a sense. this isn't an issue that will likely make/break my decision to apply, just curious.
― b0dylanguage, Thursday, 16 July 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know about the law school but my brother did his undergrad there and I can't say I thought he stuck out at all. (Then again, the context from which I came from was "suburban MN where we were one of 2 black families" so seeing 20 black ppl in one area who weren't my relatives was rare for me; I have no idea how the school would come across to me now.)
― suddenly, everything was dark and smelly (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
No, not at all. Here's a factbook with some demographic info on UW, latest is from 2007 though: http://www.washington.edu/admin/factbook/
― Jaq, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
charles johnson's take on moving to seattle and to the UWhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/mytown-seattle-200809.htmlI mentioned to my friend and mentor, the novelist John Gardner, that my wife, newborn son and I were moving to the Pacific Northwest. I remember he paused, pushed his vanilla-colored Prince Valiant hair back from his eyes and looked as if a pleasant image had flickered suddenly through his mind. Then he said, "If my daughter ever married a black man, the first thing I'd do is ask her to move to Seattle."
Now I knew how fiercely Gardner loved his children, but at the time I was unable to unlock his meaning. The first day I set foot in this city, however, I began to glimpse what he meant. It was peopled with every sort of American I could imagine: Native Americans, whites who sprang from old Scandinavian and German stock, Chinese and Japanese, Senegalese and Eritrean, Hindu and Sikh and Jewish, gay and lesbian, and blacks whose families settled in the territory in the late 19th century. It was a liberal city remarkably similar in texture and temperament to San Francisco (both are built on seven hills, have steep streets and have burned to the ground).
― avuenjo, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
My parents are an interracial couple and, as far as I know, have never encountered anyone here who had a problem with that,
― trill ent. dudes get wiped down, totally (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like i see lots of interracial couples here but maybe i just notice more because there are so many white people?
― tehresa, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I once talked to a girl, a young white woman, who said she'd never really understood or experienced racism firsthand until she travelled with her black boyfriend to his native South Carolina and was immediately struck by how people, white and black alike, would just stare at them as if they were some sort of freaks, whereas here they were accepted just as much as any other couple.
― trill ent. dudes get wiped down, totally (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Seattle is the most laid-back you-are-who-you-are place I have ever lived, and that suits me just fine. Visiting Indiana recently fully reinforced that feeling.
― Jaq, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I swear I just read something recently that said Seattle has the highest per-capita number of interracial marriages of any major US city.
― joygoat, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like i've heard that too
― avuenjo, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Good old friend of mine attended UW for law and v v much enjoyed her experience and has started what appears to be a very promising law career. The first three year she (ethnically, she is chinese) had an african-american boyfriend and never expressed any problems about acceptance of the couple in the community at large. So there's that.
― Clay, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
tza, I got another recommendation for a sushi place today: Koji, at the Harbor Steps (across 1st Ave from the art museum).
― Jaq, Friday, 17 July 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
that looks really reasonable!
― tehresa, Friday, 17 July 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
google maps knows important landmarks
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8163/suship.jpg
― tehresa, Friday, 17 July 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
loool
― trill ent. dudes get wiped down, totally (The Reverend), Friday, 17 July 2009 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link