SushiSamba. 🍙🍣🍱🥢

The one where Courtney drops expensive crab.

To be fair, I’ve done a fairly terrible job recently of picking restaurants or going to places that are too “same same.” It’s my own fault — I’m the one doing the scheduling and accepting mediocre invitations. On paper, the SushiSamba x Sushi Iwao Tokyo collab looked like it was finally worth visiting. Furthermore, I’ve never met a to-do list I can’t clear, and SushiSamba has been on that list since it opened in 2022 (?). Yes, the views are amazing, but the actual/technical ability to enter the restaurant is shit.

In a crowded lift, the doors open into a hopelessly small lobby, creating a terrible first impression. Also not helping? The pervasive smell of stale smoke. Like, that early-2000s-just-getting-out-of-a-club vibe. Maybe cute in your 20s, but now it’s borderline disgusting. I know this restaurant does well for itself, so why can’t they invest in a better filtration system?

While not quite throwing hands, we do get to the front of the awkward line/hostess station (I’ll give two g…