The Teriyaki Box Rox
Written: Oct 28 '00 (Updated Oct 30 '00)
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Pros: Quick, close to West 4th, Really good
Cons: Cafeteria Atmosphere
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| samadust's Full Review: Go Sushi |
Trading atmosphere for convenience and competence, Go Sushi is a great place to stop when on the run or just strolling through the village. It sits on the cusp of Avenue of the Americas (6th) and Greenwich st. diagonally across from the infamous, Hershey squirt inducing, hot dog shenanigan shop Grey's Papaya and a couple of blocks up from the drug-dealing, hoop slamming basketball courts of West 4th street, the site of many basketball scenes in the movies. Its brash, wide open storefront window with fluorescent cafeteria lights might drive away the more refined Japanese connoisseurs but it is slightly deceiving, for this little shop lost within the culinary madness of Greenwich village makes sushi and other Japanese delights just as well as any place else.
Near the doorway there is a open cooling cabinet holding multiple types of freshly packaged sushi, soba noodles with peanut sauce and sashimi. You can either pick from the cabinet or order special combinations from the window. On the wall they have a variety of Japanese snack packages like Wasabi Baked Peas and Shrimp Chips plus an assortment of nuts, dried fruits and vegetables.
Their menu is small but includes dishes like fried tempura (shrimp or vegetable), teriyaki beef or chicken, a variety of sushi's, noodles and soups. They also have traditional Japanese teas and juices, soy milk and soda.
My favorite dish is the Teriyaki Chicken Box. Part of the menu features different combos that come in a large square tray with one main dish (chicken, beef, tempura), a salad, shrimp shumai, rice and sauce. The chicken is seared perfectly and soaked in Teriyaki sauce while the salad, although relatively small, is doused in Carrot Ginger dressing with a large slice of tomato on top. The rice is always sticky and fresh and the shrimp shumai is near ecstacy (a little too shrimpy though).
All of this goes very well with a glass of soy milk. Their jasmine and green tea is also very good, hot, fresh and clean tasting even though it comes from a pre-manufactured tea bag. (Go figure).
Their Soba noodle boxes with peanut sauce aren't too bad either. Though they are not freshly made, they are only about $3.85 each, quick to eat, tasty with the sauce and obviously cheap. Pairing this up with a $3.00 box of fresh salmon rolls, which are always plentiful, is a great idea and very filling. Their salmon rolls are small but wrapped tight and really good.
The decor isn't much, a bunch of slick wooden tables spread throughout a room centering an icecream cooler containing large scooping barrels of green tea, ginger and red bean icecream. Inside you will always find Village yuppies eating while reading a magazine or groups of alternateens swapping party stories over miso soup or sushi boxes. It's not the atmosphere that attracts though, its the fast, cheap convenience and tasty Japanese food served Japanese style: quick, fresh, clean and efficient.
Recommended:
Yes
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samadust
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Member: Douglas Flowe
Location: USA
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