Shogun - Metairie, LA



2325 Veterans Memorial Boulevard
Metairie, LA 70002


Shogun´s the best. 

I´ve been going to Shogun regularly for about 26 years, and together we´ve been going for about 9 years.  We´ve never once been disappointed.  
Due to our extreme loyalty to this place, we´re friends with both the owner and manager and never wait more than about 10 seconds to receive hugs and be seated.  

Sitting at the sushi bar is always a great experience.  Not only will the sushi chefs talk with the patrons and banter with each other, they will also make up sushi as they go for you to try, in hopes it´ll be a hit, based on the other rolls you´ve ordered.
We usually order:

• Toro (sashimi)
• Philadelphia Roll
• BBQ Eel Roll
• Crunchy Roll
• Crunchy Roll
• Crunchy Roll

The roll names are unpretentious and descriptive.  The ingredients are always positively, extremely, remarkably fresh.
And the crunchy rolls are orgasmic.

Miyako - New Orleans, LA



1403 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70130


Miyako is terrible.

I had never been there before but the fact that their Metairie location closed down years ago should have been a warning sign.  We only went because 1. we had a Groupon for it and 2. one of my coworkers was raving about it.

The service was incredibly slow and the wait staff never introduced themselves, effectively leaving us to have to flag just any passerby down in order to get refills or any food at all.
The sushi arrived after an abnormally long wait, and was... disappointing.  We ordered:

• Lion King Super Roll
• Avocado something
• Rainbow Roll
• Pink Lady Roll
• Crunchy Roll

The crunchy roll was suprisingly good.  Yes.

All the other rolls had excessive amounts of cucumber in them and were very poorly assembled.  After the first one fell apart on route from table to mouth, well, we let it slide.  But this kept happening roll after roll.

We waited and waited after our plates were cleared, and we were finally able to flag someone down to bring us the check.  I was at least glad for the $25 Groupon discount.

Nagoya - Hammond, LA

Nagoya´s good.  Especially the Pink Ladies.

We´re in Hammond often so we go to Nagoya a lot.  The service is always excellent and the sushi is very good. We usually order:

• Pink Lady
• American Dream
• Rocky Roll
• Amazing Roll
• Crunchy Roll

We´ve also had the BBQ Eel and Salmon Roll and a few others.  The Pink Lady is by far my favorite.  The texture is amazing.  The outside is somehow deep fried yet the inside has rice and crawfish and is delicious.  

The crunchy roll is sub-par, but edible with enough soy sauce.

Once they tried to tell us we were ordering too much, but now they know us well enough to know we´re experts.  The mixed drinks are good, too.