{"id":514,"date":"2011-12-27T09:39:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2011-12-30T10:51:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T14:51:15","slug":"number-4-blue-ribbon-sushi-kiku-sushi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Number 4: Blue Ribbon Sushi &#038; Kiku Sushi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_544\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brooklyn-Blue-Ribbon-Sushi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-544\" class=\"size-full wp-image-544\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Brooklyn Blue Ribbon Sushi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brooklyn-Blue-Ribbon-Sushi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Ribbon Sushi&#39;s Bar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unlike most of the rest of the 2011 top ten, I didn&#8217;t get around to posting on these bad boys. Because I neglected to make a post (my way to remember\u00c2\u00a0delicious things) the details of my meals at these fine\u00c2\u00a0establishment\u00c2\u00a0are lost to my faded memory. \u00c2\u00a0But both are amazing sushi spots that deserve a place in the top ten.<\/p>\n<p>When dining on high end sushi, I usually pass-up the rolls for the nigiri or sashimi. \u00c2\u00a0It just seems that the great flavor of fresh high quality fish gets lost in whatever else is in the roll. \u00c2\u00a0But <a href=\"http:\/\/menupages.com\/restaurants\/kiku-3\/\">Kiku Sushi<\/a> manages to use their high quality ingredients to throw out rolls that offer up amazing flavor and texture combinations. \u00c2\u00a0Good enough that I&#8217;d advise treading lightly on the usual usual soy sauce wasabi mixture.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas at Kiku I was impressed with the sushi rolls, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueribbonrestaurants.com\/rests_sushi_brook_main.htm\">Blue\u00c2\u00a0Ribbon<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0threw down fantastic nigiri and sashimi. \u00c2\u00a0 (I&#8217;m sure they make great rolls as well, I just haven&#8217;t had the chance to sample them.) \u00c2\u00a0What stands out in my memory is that sea scallop. \u00c2\u00a0The thin cuts were artfully served in the scallop shell with a sauce I made from the liver. \u00c2\u00a0Both the servers and sushi chefs at the sushi bar were friendly, talkative, and informative. \u00c2\u00a0The only draw back of Blue Ribbon is that I can&#8217;t afford to be a regular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most of the rest of the 2011 top ten, I didn&#8217;t get around to posting on these bad boys. Because I neglected to make a post (my way to remember\u00c2\u00a0delicious things) the details of my meals at these fine\u00c2\u00a0establishment\u00c2\u00a0are lost to my faded memory. \u00c2\u00a0But both are amazing sushi spots that deserve a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,103],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining-out","tag-sushi","tag-the-best-of-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}