You’d be forgiven for assuming that local sushi chef Jeff Berneski has it all figured out.
Source readers, after all, voting in the 2021 Best Of Central Oregon contest, elected Berneski’s NorthFresh Sushi Best Rookie Food Cart. And Berneski had only just relocated to Central Oregon the year before. And this year, NorthFresh is also earning the title of Best Food Cart in our annual Restaurant Guide. Or perhaps that should be “carts” plural. Pesently, the Salem native owns and operates food carts in both Redmond and Bend. Yet Berneski says the pursuit of perfection, however elusive, is the point.
“The method in Japan — people do nigiri all their life, but they’ll say it’s never perfect,” Berneski said. “You’re always perfecting it. It’s an evolution of learning.”…