Upper West Side, Broadway Between 110th and 111th Streets

Mary Sargent © 2008 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

Back to civilization at last. See Tomo over there? Feeling like a little bite or two would be good right about now, I stopped in and took a seat at the sushi bar. My first time there. It was a pleasant enough thing to do, but the food was on the wrong side of average. The online reviews seem to blame it on being close to Columbia, students being so undemanding. Nobody mentioned their biggest crime, though, which is not giving you a damp hot towel to wipe the city grime off your hands. No, we don't do that, I was told. I think all restaurants should do that, not just Japanese restaurants, and particularly city restaurants and particularly New York city restaurants.

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