Kozue

Kozue is in the Wallingford Neighborhood on N 45th Street between Densmore Ave N and Woodlawn Ave N. (Also conveniently within walking distance from our apartment.)

She said:
I have no idea why we have never been to this place before. It is in our neighborhood, we've past it a million times, and we love sushi. For some reason, when we were trying to figure out where to go and eat, I remembered it. I looked on their website and saw that we would be there during "happy hour," and decided we should try it.

This place was amazing. Great service, a happy hour menu which featured $2.99 appetizers and really cheap beer, and very good sushi. Travis got a happy hour beer, we shared an appetizer and 6 huge rolls of sushi, and we shared 2 scoops of green tea ice cream for dessert. Our total bill was $44. SO SWEET!

We ordered calamari for the appetizer. It was the (now) infamous "van de Kamp's - esque" calamari fish sticks, which they deep-fried tempura style. Now, I didn't particularly like them, although the sauce they came with was quite good. But, they were $2.99. (When we got the same thing at this "Italian" restaurant in the San Juan Islands they were about $8 and they were gross.) I can't really complain about something that was so cheap. Plus, that was the only negative in this place. Our sushi was very good - and there was A LOT of it. I wouldn't say it was the best sushi I've ever had, but it was good and very decently priced.

I was intrigued by the green tea ice cream so I convinced Travis to try it. It was so interesting. I almost think that they made it themselves. It was honestly the perfect flavor to have after you've eaten sushi. It was not sweet at all. It tasted like green tea, frozen, and creamy. Imagine how gross it would be to have death by chocolate ice cream after eating a ton of sushi. This dessert perfectly complimented your post-sushi palette. I'm so glad we tried it.

And the bill came with Andes chocolates. A+.

He said:
Looks pretty blah from the outside and inside, but there's a terraced deck which looks like it could be nice. They had sizes on their beer, which was all right. I ordered a large Sapporo. It was brought to me in a large bottle with a frosted glass, and that was really all right. We ordered calamari, which was not all right, but turned out to be OK anyway. The sushi was brought fast and absolutely delicious. The waitress explained what was what which is always a plus. Michelle let me try some of her green tea ice cream, which was not very good by ice cream standards but was actually the perfect compliment to the end of a delicious sushi dinner. And there were Andes mints with the bill. A-.

For all you restaurants out there aspiring to please your customers, take note: no one will leave unhappy with an Andes mint melting in their mouth.