Happy Hour!

Sometimes all I need at the end of a long week is good drinks, tasty food, and good company. Well, I enjoy that all the time, but it's especially useful as a mood lifter :) At the end of one such week recently Cashew and I headed to the happy hour at Ra Sushi. We were so determined to make it there, we almost ran from 5th St. to 11th St. to arrive before the end of the happy hour specials...

This was our first time at Ra, and I had a great first impression of the space. It was very modern and sleek, typical of the new restaurants in Midtown. Cashew and I were starving by the time we got there, so we ordered a variety of dishes. We first got the ceviche and avocado salad and the yellowfin tuna tartare. I liked both of them. The ceviche was lemony and very refreshing. It also came in an interesting presentation: a fried wonton bowl. We weren't sure if we were supposed to eat the bowl, and it wasn't very flavorful, so we just nibbled on it a bit. The tuna was also amazing; it was fresh and well seasoned.

Well, this was a sushi place, so we had to order some sushi rolls. We went with the traditional spicy tuna roll and rainbow roll. Unlike the appetizers, the sushi was really disappointing. The tuna roll had some weird unrecognizable taste and texture. It seems like the tuna was ground up and mixed with spicy sauce, but the result wasn't good at all. The rainbow roll was slightly better and slightly more edible, but it wasn't even close to good sushi...

To make up for the bad sushi, the last dish we had, the BBQ ribs, were all we hoped them to be. They were done in Korean-style BBQ, they were perfectly seasoned, and they were juicy and tender. We seriously ate every last drop of them, even the visible fat, and ended with licking the bones. I wish we had gotten three portions of the ribs rather than sushi.

At the end of the night, we had to have our happy hour drinks. I ordered a lime mojito, and Cashew had the mango mojito. Both of them were really good. The lime mojito was as sour as I wanted it to be. Even the mango mojito was more on the sour, as opposed to too sweet and sugary, side.

So the verdict is, if you go to Ra Sushi, avoid the sushi! All the other things they had were delicious.