eat Home > Restaurant Reviews

On a blustery, snowy night about the last thing you’d want is some nice, chilled sushi, right? Well, don’t rule out Johnny’s Sushi just because of the name. There’s more than cold fish on the menu, though Johnny’s fish is fine: Try the house special, the Pretty in Red Maki ($12.95), a fat cylinder of jumbo lump crab, avocado, and crunchy tempura flakes surrounded by tuna filets and wasabi sauce.

The spicy seafood noodle soup ($9.95) is a primo chill-chaser. The vast vat of udon noodles and shrimp, squid, and mussels swimming in a knockout chile broth will cure whatever ails. As for straight-out excellent comfort food, the mild but oh-so-good Japanese fried rice ($9.95) is solace on a plate, a mound of lightly fried rice, eggs, and veggies populated with an impressive number of shrimp. The only thing we could see that makes the Japanese version differ from the usual fried-rice experience is the crispness of the vegetables and a refreshing absence of greasiness. Johnny’s Sushi further differentiates itself from the local sushi pack with a stellar special octopus salad ($5.95), amazingly tender marinated cephalopod atop a bed of vinegary cucumber salad. OK, so it’s not hot or even warm, temperature- or spice-wise, but it’s so good we just don’t care.