2/3/2019 Umi Sushi, San DIego CA

Back on the road means back on the blog and yes, back to stuffing our faces with various food and drink and writing about it. This time around we are taking a different tack, and letting the servers know up front (or at least when we remember) that we are writing a food blog. We'll see what happens.

In any case, here we are in San Diego for a week with Myself, Original Blog Members Alex and Danny, and New Member Adam. We ended up at Umi Sushi. I ordered two rolls, a spicy tuna roll and a different spicy roll called Kiss of Fire. Alex ordered an assorted sashimi plate, and new guy Adam ordered Chicken Fried Rice.

Adam with Chicken fried rice

Seriously. Adam ordered fried rice at a sushi bar. Just look at him over there to the readers left, eating cooked food at a sushi place. With a fork. We may have to re-evaluate Adam's membership in our little club....

Oh wait, no we don't, because we are all adults here, and we can do WHATEVER WE WANT. At least within reason. And the law. And...well...yeah. Anyways he said the rice was good.

During the ordering process we think we might have irritated our server, Joanne, because she told us several times that we could just fill out the checklist provided. In retrospect, I guess we could have, but we also had to split the check into three separate checks and there was only one ordering checklist at the table. Upon further reflection, we probably could have gotten some more checklists... All in all we didn't annoy her too badly, because she kept coming back to the table and taking care of us in an exemplary fashion, which led us,
subsequently, to tip well. Which we can do, because we are on per diem for this job and its technically not coming out of out paychecks to eat.

Alex tests the sake (salmon) sashimi

Alex (left and below) thoroughly enjoyed his sashimi plate as I did with the rolls. Although the spicy rolls could have been a lot more spicy, I fully understand that the restaurant has to cater to mere mortals, and they can't be serving sushi rolls that will burn your face completely off to just anyone. However, if you're going to call something "Kiss of Fire" it should at least be a little spicy, no?

Yes, hes going to stuff all that in his mouth.

Overall, Umi sushi was quite good, and we ate too much as usual, and actually considered ordering MORE food, which would not have ended well for anyone. I mean, Alex and I cleaned up at least a dozen gyoza, and then ate Adam's gyoza also since he didn't like it. Oh, I should mention that Adam falls into a special category of foodie, and that is the VERY PICKY section of eaters. This should be very interesting, indeed.

Umi Sushi gets 3.7 out of 5 stars, with the extra coming from the fist bump that Joanne gave me on the way out the door. The points lost included the not so spicy "spicy" rolls. We would definitely go there again, just not on this trip because we only have a week in San Diego, and this place is filled with good places to eat.