CVFTA decided to visit another local restaurant. This time we decided on Japanese cuisine in the form of a sushi bar that has pretty much everything from yakisoba and udon to nigiri sushi and bento boxes.
The restaurant itself is easy to access off two well known streets and has a nice atmosphere inside. They have the bar where the chef does work as well as normal 4-person tables with chairs and 2-person tables with comfy padded seats. They also have the space for larger numbers of guests.
Their website is located here: spidersushibar.com
Our mutual order consisted of:
Calamari Appetizer
Sauteed squid seasoned with our house ginger sauce.
Rock'n Roll Sushi Roll
Eel, yellowtail, and cucumber
Chicken Yakisoba
Pan fried noodles with bell peppers and asparagus.
Sushi Dinner
8 pieces of sushi, 4 piece california roll, soup & salad.
Gindara Bento
Black cod marinated in miso, served with soup, salad, 4 piece California roll, orange, white fish, shumai, and steamed rice.
Prices are pretty reasonable, though portions are average in size. This is mostly a sit-down restaurant, so expect to tip a waitress. Overall, I liked the flavor of what I had ordered, which was the black cod bento. The miso soup was tasty and a bit unique compared to ones I've had in the past. It had a slightly sweet flavor to it, which could have been from the large portion of what I assumed to be seaweed and pieces of sweet onion or chives. The salad had a mild and slightly sweet dressing to it, which was nice and refreshing.
The bento itself had a small piece of cod along with some vegetables and a few fried items. The cod reminded me of my time in Nagasaki when my host family dinners usually had a piece of fish marinated like that as the main course. Probably my favorite part of the bento was the simple yet flavorful California rolls, along with the cod of course.
My one issue was the state of the bowl of rice that came with the bento, which I've been all too familiar with in my home city. To put it simply, it was dry. I've noticed the same thing from similar places like Marc's Fusion restaurant and other rice serving shops like Happy Wok. If you want a good side-dish of plain rice, try somewhere like Mitsuwa's (Japanese supermarket toward Chicago) food court offerings that serve traditional Japanese style set meals.
Overall, I liked the place and wouldn't mind visiting there again in the future.
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