I wanted to take my wife somewhere nice for dinner, as it was her birthday. Traveling was not a problem so I began to look a little farther afield than downtown Syracuse. Doing some searches, I found a number of positive recommendations for a place in Rochester. The place is called Next Door.
What shocked the heck out of me is finding out it’s run by a supermarket!
On Oswego Rd in Liverpool, across from Kost Tire and katty-corner from the entrance to Bayberry is a tiny little plaza. There’s a Starbucks here, a FroYo shop and a custom embroidery place. And in the middle of it all sits Ocean Sushi.
The plaza is cute, like cute ’cause it’s small. Ocean Sushi is small. In a way it reminds me of the tiny bars & shops you find along the streets in Japan. Okay, it’s a lot bigger on the inside than that, but by American standards it’s kinda small. There’s half a dozen seats at the immaculately neat and clean sushi bar, and a series of tables for parties of various sizes. I’ve been here as part of a romantic dinner for two, and as part of a raucous party of 8. The tables have a crackly, beat-up finish, but I think that’s on purpose. The rest of the place is as neat and clean as the bar area.
I stopped in at Kawa Japanese today. It’s in the Glenn Crossing shopping plaza on Oswego Road, across from the dead Kirby’s, in Liverpool. It was just after 1 PM and I had my boys with me. When we walked in, there were several booths already taken, and the gentleman behind the cash register asked us to seat ourselves at an empty booth.
It took several minutes for him to wait on us, but I can understand that as he was busy ringing out a large table of guests. It seemed like they’d requested separate checks or something. He dropped off menus, then ran off to ring out another customer. By the time he returned to take our order, there was only one other couple left.
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