All you can eat sushi

One of my favorite styles of eating  is the all you can eat sushi experience.  Its not necessarily a new phenomenon or craze per se, but its now new to Milwaukee which I'm quite thrilled about.  I recently discovered a restaurant on the east side called Fushimi.  It just opened in January and I have so frequented twice already.  Lunch, which I've only had, is pretty inexpensive at around $12.95 and dinner is $20.95 or $23.95 depending on the night.  They have crab legs on the weekend, or so I've been told.  Both times I've been there for lunch have been very satisfying and I definitely got my money's worth. 

There are generally two types of all you can eat sushi places.  First is the all out buffet.  Those places, at least in my experience, at just an all out free for all.  You just eat, eat, and eat with no rhyme or reason.  You just herded into the lines and back to your table.  The second type is the made to order sushi place.  You can order from the menu and they make your sushi, rolls, sashimi, etc. to order.  A great place in Chicago, by the way, is Hiro's Café in Lakeview.  I'm especially fond of that place because it was all you can eat, everything, except for dessert.  Meaning, you could order entrees or appetizers like gyoza, edamame and more.  The caveat with those places, as well as with Fushimi, is that you have to finish everything you order.  They could theoretically place a surcharge on excessive waste.  Fushimi, is a hybrid, its part buffet and part made to order sushi, an excellent combination.

The difference between lunch and dinner aside from the price and crab legs is a slightly more expanded list of 'special' rolls, i.e. dragon, rainbow, etc., and you can order sashimi (just slices of fish with out the rice).  Rice is the major filler when eating sushi.  That and of course, all of the filler at the 'hot' bar like miso soup, salad, fried rice, etc.  That being said, the food is all in all excellent and for us Asian, more importantly, its an excellent value.  Bonus points to Fushimi for having a very nice hip, and clean décor.  Now if Milwaukee could only get a Korean BBQ restaurant....

http://www.fushimi88.com