California Grubbin'

food: 3.5/5 experience: 3.5/5 overall: 3.5/5 Just a little sushi restaurant in Berkeley where we ate when I visited my friend in the city. Not much to say about sashimi. I just ordered the chirashi dish which is usually my standard at Japanese seeing as I'm allergic to both soy and  sesame seeds (lucky me), among other intolerances. Had to pick off the eel because it's cooked in soy. Decent amount of fish, all fresh. Comes with egg as well, and of course a bunch of rice which I didn't really eat so no comment there. It's just rice. I tried their fried calamari. I do my best to avoid fried foods but fried calamari is too good to pass up. We got the legs. They're not the tiny calamari legs, these are full-grown squid legs. Covered in tempura batter. Normally I'm not a big tempura fan but these work. The tempura falls right off. We also got a bunch of rolls. Spicy scallop (bottom right), spicy tuna (bottom left), tuna maki (top right), and kaise...

food: 4/5 experience: 2.5/5 overall: 3.5/5 After my first experience with poke at  Hokee Poke  I never wanted to try poke again. But I happened upon Sushi Secrets on the way back from a trip to SF and was lured in by their cheap rolls. And their poke was cheap enough so I thought why not give it another shot. They give you plenty of toppings here. Large quantities of fish and unlimited other toppings. They even include one scoop of crab salad as a free topping. Most places I've seen, they count that as a protein, which is outrageous because it's not even real crab. Everything is very fresh and delicious, even the fake crab. The spicy tuna has sesame seeds tough so I couldn't finish it, but other than that, I'm officially a fan of poke again (for the right price). On to the sushi. Sushi Secrets is probably best known for their sushirritos. You can pick all the fillings just like a poke bowl. I opted instead for a sushi roll. The Red Dragonfly, which, oops, h...