Sushi Meh

I was in Ottawa for a wedding this week. Meanwhile on Wednesday, I decided to head out to New Edinburgh, a neighbourhood just east of the downtown core. Similar to Toronto, there are trendy and urban areas in Ottawa: The Glebe, Westboro, and The Byward Market. But they are typically surrounded by "dead" neighbourhoods and so are more isolated. New Edinburgh is naturally quiet, being flanked by the Rideau river to the West and the Ottawa river to the North. The "happening" strip is a couple of blocks on Beechwood Avenue.

I stopped at SushiMe, which offers primarily Japanese food with a few Korean dishes. Taking the cutesy name a little too far, all the sushi combos end with "Me". I got a 20-piece order. It was a typical platter: lots of maki, especially a "spicy" avocado plus some nigiri: salmon, shrimp, etc. It was average sushi with the rice a little too densely packed. Perhaps the Korean offerings such as the bulgogi roll would have been more adventurous.