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You don’t have to be famous to enjoy Nori’s sushi
WRITTEN BY ESTHER DAVIDOWITZ PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN
S
ometimes you just want
OK.
You want food that’s
good enough, service
that’s friendly enough,
and a bill that’s reason-
able enough for you to pay it, more
or less, with the cash in your pocket.
Sometimes you don’t need to be
wowed. You just need to be fed well,
with no fuss, no wait, no pretense.
Low-key Japanese restaurant Nori
Sushi is such a place. Since 2003,
this comfortable spot housed in a
little strip mall has been serving raw
and cooked fish to Japanese food
lovers in the same 55-seat dining
room. Its somewhat hokey fishing
decor — replete with nets, anchors
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and fish — has never changed.
Neither have the dim lights or black
tablecloths that give Nori a rather
dark, near-clandestine ambiance.
That atmosphere may be the
reason Tony Soprano and company
swarmed into Nori one day in 2005.
“I think the Mafia likes a dark,
black place,” quips owner Steve
Chong in his attempts to explain
why “The Sopranos”
filmed an episode
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for season six at the restaurant. A
slew of photos of that event are in
fact the very first thing you see when
you walk through the door. Open the
menu and there’s even a Sopranos
special roll ($16).
But that shouldn’t be the spot’s
only claim to fame. Come here for
fresh fish and sushi that’s quite good.
Consider starting your meal with
Agedashi tofu ($5.50), a hot appe-
tizer, served with the dashi on the
side. The tofu was crispy on the
outside and silken on the inside,