I feel overwhelmed when it comes to selecting good sushi restaurants in Anchorage. Folks certainly have their favorites, but I’d guess those faves are based on familiarity and “good enough-ness,” rather than dedicated research.
Recently, a group of colleagues and I set out to compare four popular sushi restaurants by sampling two key items — their spicy tuna roll and their most popular specialty roll — during lunch hours (which admittedly excludes some dinner-only restaurants).There were no set metrics, just gut feelings and an extreme amount of tempura flakes.
The restaurants we sampled included Sushi Motto, Arctic Sushi, Miso Sushi, and Sushi Ya, which we picked based on availability and notoriety to our group…