sushi

Ken wrote on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:52:25 -0700:

??>> I wouldn't dream of drinking expensive wines or even ??>> expensive sakes with sushi but a sushi meal's price can ??>> exceed $50 in very good places.

KB> Easily! It can even easily exceed $50 is some KB> not-so-very-good places.

Can't really argue but some people's capacity for sushi is greater than others and is sometimes amazing! My son is one of them as I discovered :-)

James Silverton Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Sure. As with any other kind of food.

Mine too (not to mention me). Also my 12-year-old grandson's. For his birthday, my wife and I just took our grandson and his parents to their favorite sushi bar. The tab was *well* over $50 a person.

My grandson drank water, I drank hot sake (non-traditional with sushi, but I like it anyway) and everyone else drank beer. And yes, the beer and sake raised the cost.

This was xposted so I am replying from a different ng and yes, I *do* object paying more for the wine than food.

Says me. Sushi is in the Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican category.

Not sure about the "inexpensive" part. We turn Nobu (not THAT Nobu) loose with his omakase menu and the fare is usually US$250+ for food for two, and the wine tab is closer to US$300, but the time we're done.

If I wanted to go cheap, I'd skip the wine and just do water, but then wine is part of all of my meals.

Sorry if my suggestions offended you.

Hunt

Strange, I do not recall the OP asking for wine recs. in the under US$4/btl @ restaurant prices. If you want cheap, then do it. Otherwise, maybe you can share a list of *drinkable* wines that do pair with sushi.

Hunt

Check your "newsgroups" carefully. Apparently this was xposted mid thread - so blame the person in your group who though it would be good idea. I'm not changing my opinion, no matter how much money you're willing to waste.

I am not offended, I am simply agast that you're so ingornat about food.

Unfortunately I have trouble finding a good Champagne these days for less than $50 to $70, particularly a Rosé. And I have trouble finding a sparkling wine I like that isn't a Champagne.

It is a good pairing with sushi, in my opinion. However it had better be above-average sushi if its going to share my attention with a nice Champagne. In the current market, most sushi is probably not of the quality level I'd like for something like that.

Steve

Steve, I don't know what your tastes are in Champagne, but two "value" producers for my tastes are Jacquesson and Pierre Peters. So far as I'm aware, neither does a Rosé, though. If you provide a few names of producers you like (regardless of price) that might assist a few afw denizens in coming up with lower priced alternatives.

Mark Lipton

Yes, that can be a problem. I suppose that we are fortunate that it did not get X-posted to alt.rec.drugs, or something. Think of all the usefull replies that would have been generated there.

Hunt

Thanks for your enlightenment, re food. I'm certain that you are a font of knowledge - especially based on your comments so far.

Hunt

An "ingornat" "font of knowledge."

--Bryan

... who is also "agast." A master of irony, it would seem.

Mark Lipton

I see you've experienced your baptism in soc.culture.japan, which is a veritable font of irony. ;-)

Verno

A little late but why don't you sushi fiolks take this over to the sushi newsgroup?

Go away, moron...