Many things in life, such as lava, post-breakup emotions, and experimental avant-garde children’s theater, cannot be enjoyed in their rawest form. Savor a rare taste of raw goodness with today’s deal: for $25, you get $50 worth of sushi and more at Kushi in Mt. Vernon Square.
The menu at Kushi is swimming with savory sushi treats and grilled delicacies. Fresh maki is skillfully rolled with yellowtail and scallion or salmon and avocado ($7 each) before being sliced into six easily consumable pieces. Kushi provides a bevy of combination platters for indecisive eaters, such as the bara chirashi with assorted sashimi diced and mixed into sushi rice ($27), or the chef’s choice, which features twelve miscellaneous sushi creations ($40). The authentic robata charcoal grill produces refined tailgate-worthy treats, including salmon fillet ($9) and mahogany quail stuffed with duck-sausage ($12). Working on the basic principal that meals taste better on a stick, a variety of kushiyaki (skewered) eats are offered, such as pork-stuffed shishito pepper ($5). Round out the feast with a special house-blend seaweed salad ($6).
Kushi has two dining rooms to offer patrons multiple eating experiences and to separate the perpetually feuding sushi bar and robata. Kushi is also an izakaya, or Japanese pub, that serves highly sippable specialty cocktails and imported Japanese beer to complement its delectable dishes.
This Groupon is not valid for the omakase menu, happy-hour prices, Restaurant Week, or the sake pairing dinner.
Reviews
Kushi was reviewed in the New York Times. It has 4.1-star average from OpenTable reviewers and a four-star average from Yelpers:
- Whatever it was, Kushi was the most cheekily enjoyable, as well as the most innovative and impressive restaurant we visited in a whirlwind week of dining. – Sarah Wildman, New York Times
- The food is simply fantastic. Big flavors from the kushiyaki and robata grills, while the sushi is top flight. – Open Table user who dined on 9/11/2010
Groupon Says
Yes, No, Baby So
This Sunday is October 10, 2010, or 10/10/10. Parents of babies born on this day hope their children are born with 10 fingers and 10 toes. What other traits do they hope their newborns have?
- six pack (abs or brewskis)
- qualifications for MacArthur Baby-Genius Grant
- new-car smell
- barbed-wire bicep tattoo
- one of the X-Men powers
- some respect, for once
- Sam Kinison–caliber yelling ability
- a firm handshake
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