My, what a pleasant surprise
A few years ago, a new sushi restaurant opened in an old burger joint over in Woodstock -- Tani's Japanese Kitchen, which, one day that we really wanted our ration of Dead! Raw! Fish! and didn't want to wait in the terrifyingly long lines for Saburo's down at the end of the block, we visited, fell immediately in love with, and visited with obsessive regularity up until the horrifying day when we shoveled the bears into the car, drove over to the wrong side of the tracks, and saw the gutted shell of the building.
Well, we thought that was the end of Tani's, and were very sad when we occasionally went by and saw the new commercial building being constructed. One day, when we were over at The Joinery buying a box of scrapwood (US$25 for a box of hardwood odds and ends; mainly 12-18 inch plank ends, which are fairly easy to rip down to small sticks that I can use to build lamps, computer cases, and a variety of other things), we saw a little sign in one of the storefronts of this new building saying Tani's Japanese Kitchen coming soon. This sign stayed up forever, with no appreciable progress on the furnishings of the store inside. A couple of months ago, things started to go in, and the best reported on Friday (just in time for me to end up in the emergency room), that there was now a CLOSED sign up in the window. Today, after Russell graduated from preschool, we drove back to home with a detour to see how it looked. As we drove by, we saw an OPEN sign and there were people inside!!!!.
In case you're wondering, it is possible to do a bootlegger turn with a Toyota Prius. We did it twice; once to turn around so that we could drive by again, and a second time to park because, even though we'd just eaten dinner at the preschool potluck graduation, we were not going to go past Tani's without getting a little something.
Yum! Yum! Yum! Yum! Yum! Yum!
And the staff still recognised us.
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My friend's uncle owns Tani's. How exciting to know it's open again...when my friend and I went there, it was gutted and deserted. I'll have to sweet-talk my friend into taking me there one of these days.
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I have fond memories of eating Sushi in Pasedena with you guys. I'll always be grateful to Alix for suggesting I might actually like Dead Raw Fish. :)
Within 5 miles of my house there are 10 sushi restaurants. Some VERY pricey and VERY VERY good. There are two with great sushi and good prices. One serves up garlic edame, too. Yum.
If I every manage to get my sorry butt up to the pacific northwest again, you will have to take me there.
Love.