Personal sushi fun fact: I once had a roommate that was addicted to methamphetamines and he only ate once a week. What did he live on? Sushi. Every Friday he would go to a sushi restaurant and take them up on the 30 dollar all you can eat special. Decadent bastard.

Incidentally, as far as I know he off’s the meth but still on the sushi. Go Jason.

Sushi in general = NOT CRAP (when it is good sushi)

Jewel firing their sushi makers to make room for prepackaged, cooked sushi looking dogfood = CRAP

Sushi at Whole Foods made by someone named Gary or Jen = surprisingly not crap (I know, I would have thought...)

Sushi grade fish bought by the pound from Lawrence Fishery on lawrence Ave and eaten by the fist full in the car on the way back to work = the greatest idea and half hour of my life.. not crap!

Sushi from Akai Hana on Lake St. right off the highway in Wilmette = the most NOT CRAP on this earth. Japan TOTALLY ripped them off!

I only like deep fried cod on a Friday once in a while. To me, shrimp, lobster, and most seafood is like eating bugs and grubs.
I promise to be open minded and try sushi some day, but for now; Raw fish w/vinegar rice = CRAP.

probably the only yuppie-type restaurants i indulge in, but you can get out of there fairly cheap if you don't go nuts (usually $25 for 2). my favorites are inari and eggplant sushi. although i don't eat meat, the soft-shell crab sushi looks pretty amazing.

not crap

This is the easiest C/NC since Band: Sparks.

NC.

I am particularly fond of spicy yellowtail tuna and unagi (grilled eel). I think maguro is overrated, but still not crap.

Not crap. And Bob San on Wood and Division is the most not crap in the city along with that place way up around 5500 north Clark that I can never remember the name of...

N/C...whither I could find in London sushi of the quality I have tasted in the United States (esp. NYC).

Not Crap.

Unagi is king.

Not Crap.

Although I've yet to develop a full-meal taste for sashimi. It feels like an extra tongue.

Also not crap restaurants - Yuki Hana on Clark just North of Diversy/Landmark Century. Consistently fantastic, and not yuppie expensive.

Also, Sai Cafe (at where, Halsted & Armitage?) whose sushi I learned on. Great, but a bit of a bitch to get to.

Will heartily endorse Bob San and Akai Hana.

Blue Fin (Wicker Park) and Tank (Lincoln Square) not so much.

there's a very not crap place on Southport, about a block south of the Music Box.

Evanston:
New Japan and that place on I think Main: not crap.
Sushi Arigato: cheap, but total crap.