Hanging out with friends (or even family) over a delicious meal is one of the prime pleasures in life, and at Kusa Nori, a modern Asian bistro, you’ll find that feeling enhanced by both the food and ambience. The decor is fun and fresh, with giant sea creatures swimming over the main dining area and across the walls, as well as an intimate sushi bar and a welcoming bar with couches beckoning you to hang out.
During happy hour from 4-5:30 p.m. daily, that bar also welcomes you in with specially priced cocktails like the Honeydew List, where Ciroc Honey Melon vodka mingles with Khee soju, cantaloupe syrup and the flavors of honeydew and lemon. Bar bites here are especially satisfying, offering choices like blue fin tuna tartare, wagyu gyoza and Jidori chicken karaage in addition to several handrolls and robataki. It’s the perfect precursor to a concert or a night of gaming.
A wider list of sushi and sashimi awaits you during dinner, like the 3000 LVBLVD roll, which features yuzu Kewpie snow crab and togarashi tataki salmon, and the Battleborn roll, an unusual bite with unagi and torched fluke. If you are more into sashimi and nigiri, you may want to try the cunningly named Yoshi’s Cube, which includes chu toro, tuna, hamachi, kanpachi, salmon, tamago and avocado. That’s sure to pull envious glances. Other seafood options include the Shigoku oysters, perfect bites to share.
If you choose to order robataki, offerings here include jumbo tiger shrimp, the tsukune chicken meatballs, freshwater eel, kalbi beef and more. The restaurant also has whole Peking duck if your whole crew is feeling it, or dim sum with black pearl shrimp har gow and foie gras shu mai.
Entrées will suit a range of tastes, however, with such varied dishes as pork loin, chicken panang with Thai eggplant, misoyaki black cod crusted with wakame arare, and Blackhawk wagyu filet with wasabi potato purée. For real beef lovers, the “Wagyu Beef Theory” area of the menu offers intense bites such as the A5 Japanese wagyu striploin, Tokushima Gold, available by the ounce, and a wagyu shabu-shabu, with plenty of accompaniments.
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