I’m on twitter. I’m not that crazy with it. I do like how I can keep up with my hockey news during hockey season. One of the Washington Capitals players kept on raving about this sushi place in Arlington called Sushi Rock. I checked the website out and my friend and I headed over there.
The restaurant is hip and edgy with their rock n roll theme. Many of the specialty rolls have rock n roll themed names. They have a huge bar area, upstairs area, and plenty table space. The one cool thing that I loved was that their lamps were drum symbols. I thought that was a fun touch.
This isn’t sushi places were you can just sit down and check off your favorites. The menu I have to say was confusing. There was way too much going on with a lot of the rolls. So my friend and I picked shrimp tempura roll which had a hip rocking name, spicy tuna roll, salmon nigiri, Stairway to Heaven, and Light My Fire.
The tempura was fabulous. The sauce was great and it was perfectly cooked. It was $10 for 3 pieces of shrimp and assortment of veggies. Then our sushi came out. The sushi isn’t made out in public like a normal sushi bar. Everything is prepped in the kitchen. Which irks me just a little. Even cheapo places roll their sushi out in public.
The quality of the fish is good. I had no gripes with the freshness. The salmon had that great melt in your mouth vibe that I love. Now the rolls….
Eating the spicy tuna roll was like putting seaweed wrapped mush into your mouth. They shredded the tuna way too much. It wasn’t very spicy but that was the least of the issues with the roll.
The Stairway to Heaven roll contained spicy yellowtail, scallions, cilantro, ginger, and haberno sauce. Light My Fire roll contained spicy tuna, shrimp tempura, cilantro, spicy aiohi. Both rolls had way too much going on. Your taste buds couldn’t figure out what flavors to concentrate on. It overwhelmed you. Plus the Light My Fire had that mushy tuna which unsettled us.
After that we were still hungry. So we ordered fried calamari. The calamari wasn’t cooked well. I picked at it and my friend finished it off. The sauce wasn’t all that exciting. Up to this point my friend gave it a C. My grade was similar.
When we got the bill the grade dropped to D+. It was $82. A little steep for sushi that wasn’t great in our opinions. I think this place has its niche. Apparently many people love this place. The ingredients weren’t the issue it was the execution. I’ll never come back to this place. But if you want to try some crazy sushi rolls this place would be for you. If wanted to go drinking this place seems like an exciting option in D.C.
