Urban Eats...Kushi 2nd Ave Seattle

Last Friday I went out with a group of people totaling five, we were initially going to go to an Italian restaurant on 2nd Ave but somebody was late (I swear Asian time is ridic) anyways, I wasn't really feeling the whole Italian restaurant scene so we relocated to this nice bamboo restaurant called Kushi. Now you would probably think this place is another Umi or Wasabi Bistro (which by the way it's right next door to) but no. This joint specializes in Japanese street food, their known for food on skewers grilled over charcoal. You walk in and may choose to sit outside on their bamboo deck (it's heated and insulated) or sit inside for some nice mood lighting. We decided to sit on the deck...ready for food.

As we waited for the others of the party to arrive I opened the menu to take a look. The dishes are fairly simple, you can simply get a bowl of noodles for about 7 bucks or dive into some regular old teriyaki dishes. Drinks are pretty standard, $4 domestics $5 imports. Happy hour is from like 3-6 and 11-1. I imagine they have a pretty good after hours since it's around the corner from Del Rey. Course I came to this place for street food, the variety is amazing. You can get anything from dragon balls (bacon wrapped scallops) to chicken hearts, gizzards, or liver (which aren't too bad but not much flavor). You can also get seared tuna, salmon, halibut, fish on a skewer or dive into some filet minon and any type of chicken. The skewers average about 2-7 dollars depending on what you prefer so I decided to hit each basic protein group.

We went with the dragon balls, seared tuna/salmon, chicken, gyoza, shrimp, chicken fried rice, fried squid and drinks of course. Overall it was great, I was stuffed off everything but my most favorite was probably the fried rice and the dragon balls. All the food was very high quality and very tender, I was pleasantly impressed and satisfied.

As the bill came we split up and it came to about $25/person with food and drink. We did splurge a little because we did want to taste everything but I think you could get away with spending about 15-20 if you know what you want. That's including tip, our the service, if you're wondering was excellent. Our waitress was pretty chill and I could tell she was tired but she was very attentive to what we needed...so yeah overall I give it an 8 out of 10. It was money well spent and I'd go again, I want some of them dragon balls dude.