Meet Me At The Sushi Bar
Sushi, sashimi, inari, negamaki. We all love them. And we all have a great sushi story, and I am going to reveal mine here. A friend of mine owns a really good Chinese restaurant known by locals as the “Crystal Pavilion” in Stony Brook, NY. One day he was strolling through the isles of a swap meet and he saw a brown wooden outside sign that once hung above the doorway of a long defunct sushi house somewhere on the east coast probably. The sign had the two words: “Kimi Sushi” engraved in gold lettering on it and nothing more. “Kimi” is Japanese for “your place”. My friend bought the sign without knowing exactly what he was going to do with it and stored it in his basement.Many years later he got the urge open up a sushi house to complement his Chinese restaurant (which does have a sushi bar). I helped him build the place. It was a struggle because we did not know exactly what we were doing, and we did not do what could be considered the best job of planning. But, we did get the place open despite the long odds of doing so, and to this very day, if you pay a visit to 115 Main Street in the village of Port Jefferson, New York, very close indeed to the ferry dock, you can step inside one of the most improbable y and at the same time delicious sushi restaurants of all. There is a great vibe to the place, and it is always very high energy.