01-31-2012, 04:26 PM
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#171
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by AR_Six
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. While we're not as big a city as Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto and the quality and selection of restaurants in any category is going to be a bit less, there generally isn't a marked difference in the overall standard between these cities. In other words, I can get a damned good Italian meal in Calgary, same as I can in Montreal. I can get a very good French meal here, same as in Vancouver. Our steakhouses are better than Vancouver's, sure, but you can still get a very good steak out on the coast if you're in the right spot. This is not true of the sushi in Calgary. The standard is significantly lower, to a point where if you're going out, you're always going to get MUCH a better meal in whatever price range you're looking at if you get something else. So unless you're absolutely craving it, there's basically no point.
Part of the problem is that the japanese places here... it's like having an Italian restaurant where 90% of the menu is pasta and pizza. It's cookie cutter, and the ingredients available do not allow for that kind of stuff to end up being any good. Sushi joints in this city need to stop being sushi joints and start being japanese restaurants. Be creative, broaden the menu, incorporate more interesting izakaya stuff (no, not just gyoza, tempura and agedashi tofu), delve into regional elements. Calgary has plenty of potential to have pretty solid japanese cuisine, but as long as they continue to focus on sashimi, sushi and rolls as "what people think japanese food entails" it's never going to be better than VERY underwhelming.
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This...
It seems as though every discussion in this city about good food degenerates to a discussion about Sushi. Yes, there's decent sushi in this city, but really, it's not the only thing to eat here. In fact, I dare any sushi addicts to go out and spend equal money on any other meal and tell me they didn't enjoy the meal more.
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