Community Event: Una Noche en El Patio March 9th

Photo from El Patio Español's website.

Save the date! We hope you'll join ICHI in supporting local school Fairmount Elementary at their fundraiser event, Una Noche en El Patio. It takes place on March 9th, 2012, at El Patio Español, 2850 Alemany Boulevard. The silent auction includes two $50 gift certificates to ICHI Sushi! Our schools need more help than ever, so we hope you'll attend (and maybe even make a donation of your own).

Thanks!

Sushi Chef Darren coming soon to Discovery Channel Canada

Photo from Darren's blog.

If you've come in for lunch at ICHI, chances are, you've met Sushi Chef Darren. And you might have seen the comic-book-character version of Darren in MariNaomi's review (in graphic form) of ICHI Sushi. But did you know that Darren is a self-taught photographer who built his own giant camera?

Check out his blog Darren's Great Big Camera, where you can see this giant camera for yourself and read about the shoot he did recently for Daily Planet on Discovery Channel Canada. (Bookmark it so you can find out when it'll air.) Darren's work was also featured recently at Inclusions Gallery in Bernal. Wanna see more? Click over to Darren's website to see collections of his work. How to describe it? Beautiful, startling, haunting ... all of the above. See for yourself.

Pick ICHI for your next date

Heart cookies and photo by Daisy Chow.

Just can't stop sharing all the super awesome ICHI news, like winning 7x7's Reader's Choice award for Best Sushi. Woweee! Thanks so much for bearing with us as we gush!

Who knew, folks consider ICHI a "go-to date place"? Chef Stephanie Hibbert recently gave ICHI this honor in her interview with The Bold Italic. She also added, "Tim has such creative items on his menu. We like to sit at the bar because he’s a fun guy to chat with during dinner. The fish is always super fresh and they have a great sake menu too." Awwww, thanks so much Chef Stephanie!

Maybe that explains why we recently had an engagement happen in our restaurant! We are so honored to be chosen as the place for such a special moment. Our best wishes to the happy couple!

Speaking of The Bold Italic interviews, check out the interview with our friend and neighbor Josh Donald of Bernal Cutlery!

And we can't go without thanking Jonathan Kauffman for mentioning ICHI recently on SFoodie, where he wrote: "in San Francisco, you can also find people behind the bar like ICHI Sushi's chef, Tim Archuleta and Sebo's Michael Black, who may have been trained in this country but respect the most important elements of Japanese tradition: the fish and the rice." Read his entire article, asking "Is American Sushi on the Decline?" right over here.

Wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day tomorrow! Still looking for a V-Day gift? How about a gift certificate to ICHI? Avail online via Treatful.

ICHI Sushi
3369 Mission Street (at Godeus)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-525-4750

Can't hardly believe it: ICHI wins again!

Image from 7x7's Facebook.

Be still my pounding heart! We can't hardly believe it, but 7x7 magazine recently announced their 2012 Eat + Drink Reader's Choice Award winners, and ICHI Sushi has won for Best Sushi! (Click here to see all the winners.) We give all the credit to you, our wonderful and loyal customers, friends, family, and fans. This would never, ever in a million years have happened without all of your votes. Please accept our sincerest thanks: domo arigato.

Hope you'll join us to raise a glass of sake to celebrate, and to congratulate all the other winners!

ICHI Sushi
3369 Mission Street (at Godeus)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-525-4750

Happy Lunar New Year!

Photo of oysters from TheFoodieRunner.

With all our best wishes, Happy Lunar New Year! The new year (calendar and Lunar) is off to a great start, considering all these great mentions ICHI Sushi has gotten recently. We're so honored!

Writing for The SF Examiner, Patricia Unterman called ICHI's tuna tataki "delectable" recently in an article about Japanese eateries in SF. Aw shucks, we're blushing. You can read the whole piece here. (Also mentioned on Eater SF!)

We also received the sweetest write-up from TheFoodieRunner, who wrote this: "ICHI was by far some of the finest & freshest sushi I have tasted in SF thus far." Whoa, thanks so much for the high praise, indeed! Read more here.

W. Blake Gray of The Gray Report noted his encounter with Dewazakura Oka 30th anniversary sake at ICHI. He describes it as "fruity, with nice melon notes, and a creamy mouthfeel." Thanks for coming in!

And can't believe we almost forgot about when Erik Ellestad of blog Savoy Stomp named our own Tim his favorite 'bartender' in SF because "Tim runs his Sushi Bar more like a neighborhood Sushi Tavern". Sounds like Erik's a fan of omakase too. How awesome is that? (And we gotta give a shout out to trusty neighborhood blog Bernalwood for mentioning this.)

Again, wishing everyone a Happy Lunar New Year, and our sincerest thanks for your continuing support!

Happy Holidays and another chance to vote for ICHI

Happy Holidays from the ICHI team!

First things first: to all our customers, friends, family, and fans, we wish you Happy Holidays and lots of love, laughter, and happiness for the New Year! Will all our hearts, we thank you for your support.

And now, a favor por favor: please consider voting (yet again!) for ICHI Sushi. Right now, 7x7 magazine is taking votes for their Eat + Drink Reader's Choice Awards. If you like ICHI and think it's the best Japanese, please click over and vote! We would be absolutely honored if you chose us. Voting ends January 9th, 2012, and winners will be announced at the end of the month. So nervous! This is a big one!

Also, here's our holiday schedule:

• Sat. Dec. 24th–Mon. Dec. 26th: closed
• Tue. Dec. 27th–Fri. Dec. 30th: open with regular hours
• Sat. Dec. 31st–Sun. Jan. 1st: closed
• Mon. Jan. 2nd: open with regular hours

And finally, just a little reminder that you can now purchase gift certificates to ICHI Sushi online with Treatful!

Happy Holidays!!!

Awesome graphic review of ICHI Sushi by MariNaomi

See MariNaomi's full-size graphic review at SFBay.ca.

This is the coolest graphic review we've ever seen! and it also just happens to be about ICHI Sushi! Author and illustrator MariNaomi's comic series Frisco al fresco appears on SFBay.ca, and her latest installment is a review in comic form of ICHI Sushi. So cool! Please click over to check it out!

ICHI Sushi
3369 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-525-4750

P.S. Don't forget, ICHI gift certificates are now available instantly through Treatful's online service!