Blue C Sushi

This is a great sushi place for vegetarians and vegans.

The tempura and miso soup are vegan. Not to mention my personal favorites (avocado maki, kappamaki, inari, seaweed salad, and tofu roll) are vegan and in the $1.50-$2.25 range.

I’m all about the Shinjuku and Ginza lines.

as a rule, i do not eat conveyor-belt sushi (i guess i’m a snob that way) but, in a pinch, blue c isn’t bad. lord knows it’s cheap.

i also like that they label each item so that you know what you’re grabbing at, unlike most conveyor-belt places.

this is a good place if you’re in the mood for sushi but don’t want to spend a lot of money or if you’re new to sushi & want to know what the hell you’re eating.

Its fun. Go when its busy, even though you’ll have to wait a little bit, you’ll have more options and fresher fish. Be sure to have the gomae (the midly scary looking ball of spinach-its delish!) and try the hand dryers in the bathrooms!

...nothing spectacular but better and fresher than what you’d find in the grocery store. I would say it’s good for a quick fix, but then again there are always super long (and IMO undeserving lines), so alas no quick fix can be had in the restaurant, but you can always get take out boxes! The lines are mainly due to the novelty of the conveyor belt sushi-line, which is not uncommon in Japan but is uncommon in Seattle.

The Norwegian professor that went here with us called it “decadent”. :)

The novelty of having dishes move by was great, but encourages gluttony the first time. Quality of the dishes was good, not spectacular. Nice bar upstairs. Great place for a very fast meal.

I have been here a couple more times, and my earlier bad wait experience has proved the exception rather than the norm.

I think it is better to go during more prime hours as they load up the conveyor belt then. Later, there is less available. Of course, you can always actually order anything whenever and they will bring it to you, but where is the fun in that?

The quality of their sushi is uneven. Sometimes it is better than, say, prepackaged grocery store stuff, other times not. Regardless, I still think it a good dining destination.

Another branch of the original in Fremont. It’s one of those places where everyone sits around a large kitchen area with plates of sushi and other dishes moving about on a conveyor belt. One grabs whatever one likes and pays at the end depending on the number of plates one has (they are color coded for five different prices… $1.50 – $4.00). If you get tired of waiting for something you want to appear (if they just don’t get around to replacing them or someone keeps evilly grabbing them before they get to you), you can ask for them to make it for you.

I love how once you get seated you can start eating instantaneously. They will take your drink orders once you sit.

They have a reasonable variety of sushi plus other things like salads, noodles, fruit, fried fish, tempura, desserts. This is a good place for those not familiar with sushi because you can see the actual pieces move by you, read exactly what they are and what they contain, and try out a smallish portion. Very tapas like. While they don’t have anything crazy, they have a good variety of things.

They had a lot of vegetarian options… big plus for nonfish eating people who get dragged along a sushi eating expedition.

While the sushi itself was hardly the best I have had, I think it a good value for the money. One can eat a lot of food relatively inexpensively. One can also do what my friend was doing and not eat any of the “blue” plates ($3.25 and $4.00 I think) as he wanted to eat more.

I was going to count how many plates they had moving about on the belt, but I forgot. It did take five minutes for the dishes to make a complete circuit around.

We were annoyed with their mysterious waitlist (they don’t take reservations). We had gotten there and were told that the wait was 20 minutes although there were many empty spots… the place must’ve been only half-full. Apparently, there were many parties ahead of us but they were “walking around”, and the front person told us to walk around as well. Odd that they would hold spaces for people who weren’t there (when we were). Maybe they told the others to come back in x number of minutes. We did end up walking around and came back quickly after 15 miutes, but then they were doing something funky and seating parties with the same amount of people or more who were after us on the list (we could see the list they were using) although they knew we were back. What was up with that? We weren’t being rude or annoying although we felt like it after a while. We did not get seated until over an hour after we had originally arrived; actually we were leaving to finally go somewhere else when they called us in.

OK, end rant. We mellowed out after eating though. However, the wait was still pretty freakin annoying.