Sushi #3: Matsuya – spicy tuna, tuna roll, octopus, shrimp, salmon, tuna, makeral – $17.25
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| I do love miso soup and the asian salad dressing you find at sushi places. |
I went rock climbing for the second time in my life Saturday for a friends birthday festivities at Rock Quest up in the northern suburbs. If you have never tried rock climbing I’d highly recommend it! Don’t be scared, they have 6 year olds doing this, so I’m pretty sure you can too.
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| My sushi lunch: tuna roll and octopus, salmon, shrimp, mackeral, and tuna nigiri |
My review this week is for Matsuya. I am able to get to Matsuya during lunch in the Florence, Kentucky area, so it might be a long drive for anyone else reading this. This is the 6th place I’ve hit in 2012 and the 3rd sushi place from my list, which has been updated since that last posting. I met my company for lunch on February 7th, 2012 and like most places in Florence it was fairly empty. And again, like everything in the suburbs it’s in a strip mall that looks like every other strip mall. It’s very hard to distinguish quality food when everything looks the same and that’s why I read and write reviews. When you walk in you see the sushi bar is fairly large, but that everything else in the place isn’t very different than any other sushi place you go to. Go to Kyoto and then Miyoshi or Green Papaya to see the opposite ends of the spectrum.
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| The spicy tuna is my measuring stick between sushi places. I get one at all of the 25 sushi restaurants I'm hitting this year. |
The menu is fairly straight forward for lunch and you can eat much cheaper than at dinner. I went with a special sushi lunch A $(12.75) then I added a spicy tuna (4.50$) since that is my comparison item for all of the sushi places I hit this year. It’s kind of like my yard stick. My sushi came with a miso soup and house salad with a ginger salad dressing on it. While I like the Asian salad dressing, my company didn’t particularly care for the dressing. I am always a fan of any Asian soups, and we both enjoyed the miso soup. My sushi included a tuna roll and octopus, salmon, shrimp, mackerel, and tuna nigiri. All of these were very fresh and colorful and tasty. There was a simplistic presentation, but it was still a good presentation. The tuna was a deep red. The only problem was that the spicy tuna was in a chopped up form and for me that shows bad quality. Fresh tuna and spicy mayo should be distinctly visible in a good spicy tuna. My company had some trouble with the chop sticks and ended up screaming. I laughed my ass off when she didn’t notice that she screamed “I don’t know if I can fit all of this in my mouth!” HAHAHAHA! Man, I’ve heard some funny shit on my food quests this past year. After her sushi fell apart I tried taking a picture and laughing at her lack of coordination, and she thought I was taking the picture from a “bad angle.” No, the sushi was just a mess on her plate.
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| My friend's failed attempt at chop sticks... and I mean failed! |
If you are going to try some sushi this year and you don’t live near Matsuya, I probably wouldn’t make the trip. If you are in the area, I recommend Mai Thai down the road on Industrial.
