I’m not a huge fan of taking pictures of food in restaurants, but it seems so appropriate when sushi is involved, and for probably good reason. The bright, shiny, colorful qualities of raw fish — it’s like photographing a fruit bowl, or studying a table-top still life from hundreds of years ago.
Left foreground: shiromaguro toro topped with ginger paste; two chunks of maguro; three chunks of succulent hamachi (my favorite); umi masa, which is bright orange like sake, but so much fuller and satisfying; the white fish right foreground is snapper — light and delicious; in the middle of it all, behind the cucumber, is tai, another form of snapper that is served with its inner skin on under scallions and a mildly spicy pepper paste.
The food is from Ebisu and was prepared by Tommy-san, a Jedi Master in the making. My reviews of Ebisu are here.