Friend/client Brandon Rogers invited me out to a taping of American Idol Extra today. He did a quick interview and gave a stellar performance of one of his new songs, “Broken”.
The performance was awesomely heartfelt and genuine, make sure to keep an eye out for it when it airs in the next few weeks…
I’ll Fix What’s Broken.
I took one of my clients Brandon Rogers to my FAVORITE sushi restaurant in LA tonite, Katsuya (the original location, the one in a divey strip mall on Ventura Blvd in Studio City). The irony and reason that the word “favorite” is in ALL CAPS is because I never ate sushi prior to moving to LA and typically refused to once relocated. What can I say, I preferred more obvious choices such as a burger, turkey sandwich or bowl of pasta which, not coincidentally, made me the lunchtime outcast. After realizing that an aspiring music industry guy that doesn’t eat sushi was practically sacrilegious, I made a conscious effort to experiment with all types of sea-creature at a wide sampling of sushi purveyors until finally finding one I could literally sink my teeth into …
What makes Katsuya special isn’t the ambience, the amazing service or the wise man behind the counter slicing the fish. It’s the food.. It tastes good.. People like it.. And they come back for more. The dishes here aren’t as visually “perfect” as they are at celeb-friendly Koi or Geisha House, but it doesn’t matter… The food is delicious. Now I certainly don’t consider myself amongst the “sushi elite”, but I will happily tear through a half dozen crispy rice w/spicy tuna rolls, followed up with a couple of baked crab hand rolls on soy paper, a crispy onion w/albacore tuna dish and some creamy rock shrimp tempura to round things out.
This is “last meal” material and can only be complemented properly by a tall Sapporo, equally tall hot Sake and green tea with applicable dessert(s). Using simple twists on traditional sushi fare such as butter-fried rice “cakes” may seem simple enough, but when you make them taste this good… That deserves a little more than an honorable mention. This one is fit for The Cooler!
Oishii.
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