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G. Ghengis has contributed information about 4 restaurants: Ru San's, Jasmine Cafe, Kitcho, SushiLicious.

About Ru San's (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Last visited May 2007.

Variety of sushi: Broad range of uncommon items.
Freshness of sushi: Clearly freshly caught.
Presentation of sushi: Exceptional attention to presentation.
Generosity of sushi portions: Very large portions.

Promptness of service: Exceptionally attentive.
Courtesy of service: Very courteous.
Accuracy of service: Always accurate.
Cleanliness - dining and visible kitchen areas: Clean.
Cleanliness - restrooms: Clean.
Quality of nonsushi food: Very good.

``Let's start with the fact that I live six hours from these restaurants, and I try to go there at least three or four times a year, even if it means driving 12 hours in a day just to eat their sushi. If you call it sushi.

``This place is amazing, but I hesitate to call it sushi. Sushi is traditional, it has forms and shapes that define it as fixed art form. this place takes that fixed art form and throws it out like the cubists or impressionists have done with painted art.

``They are in the south and have taken the south's traditions and mixed them with their own. Their specialty is deep fried sushi. Flash-fried, frying a breading or something on the outside of a roll, without cooking the inside or heating the rice. They roll together multiple rolls and flash fry them into a single unit this way, and give you large (4 inch in diameter) rounds of pinwheel like edible art. My favorite dish is called the Beetlejuice. It's a fresh tomato hollowed out, filled with a mixture of cooked shrimp and some sort of sauce, they then bread it, deep fry it cooking only the tomato, and serve it cut into slices where the shrimp mixture resembles the inside of the original tomato.

``The food is cheap, they even have a lunch all you can eat bar (limited selection, small pieces, but if you can get all you want...who cares?). And it's all great.

``My favorites: The firecracker, Gone with the wind (an art form in itself) and the beetlejuice.

``A great place, expect a crowd, expect noise, expect sake bombs (not my thing, but it seems to go over well) and expect a 12 page sushi menu with over 30 vegetarian items, and more creativity than I have found everywhere else.

``Someday I may move to Atlanta, and it will be for this restaurant.

``Also enjoy the art on the wall: the owner's artistic ability extends past the food. ''

About Jasmine Cafe (Tallahassee, Florida, USA)
Last visited August 2007.

Variety of sushi: Limited selection.
Freshness of sushi: Seemed stale.
Presentation of sushi: Poor.
Generosity of sushi portions: Small portions.

Promptness of service: Slow.
Courtesy of service: Courteous.
Accuracy of service: Accurate.
Cleanliness - dining and visible kitchen areas: Clean.

``I was disappointed. The fish was flavorless and poorly wrapped. It was amateurish and not tasty. It's sad when local supermarket sushi is better than what you can get at a sushi resturant.''

About Kitcho (Tallahassee, Florida, USA)
Last visited August 2007.

Variety of sushi: Usual selection.
Freshness of sushi: Very fresh.
Presentation of sushi: Somewhat nicer than average.
Generosity of sushi portions: Average.

Promptness of service: Slow.
Courtesy of service: Rude.
Accuracy of service: Inaccurate.
Cleanliness - dining and visible kitchen areas: Clean.
Cleanliness - restrooms: Clean.
Quality of nonsushi food: Very good.

``The food is great, the service is terrible. I've gone to the restroom to find that they plopped my food on a magazine I was reading. Just no care at all.

``It's also a bit expensive for what you get, but what you get is very, very good.

``OK in small parties, but I'll never go there with a large group again. ''

About SushiLicious (Tallahassee, Florida, USA)
Last visited August 2007.

Variety of sushi: Somewhat broader than average.
Freshness of sushi: Clearly freshly caught.
Presentation of sushi: Exceptional attention to presentation.
Generosity of sushi portions: Large portions.

Promptness of service: Notably attentive.
Courtesy of service: Exceptionally courteous.
Accuracy of service: Always accurate.
Cleanliness - dining and visible kitchen areas: Cleaner than usual.
Cleanliness - restrooms: Clean.
Quality of nonsushi food: Very good.

``This place is new, and has been exceptional every time but once that I have eaten there. That one time it was only very good :). Small place, good food, perfect fish and an eye for detail. It's good that Tallahassee has a good local sushi shop finally. ''

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