The Review: Blue Plate Oysterette
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In the current economic climate, all of us are feeling the pain and we're looking, hard-eyed, at the way we spend our money. Those $100...
[Avid] sushi fanciers are always on the lookout for someplace with a high quality-price ratio, where you can get superior raw fish for a reasonable price. And when these folks make such a find, they're often not so generous in sharing it -- especially with a restaurant critic. So when a reader wrote to tell me about 4-month-old BiMi, I listened up, mainly because she'd spent time in Japan and her take on other places matched up with mine.
Located in the Wilshire corridor between Barrington Avenue and Bundy Drive, BiMi is right across the street from a KFC and that lighting store ablaze with chandeliers as you whiz by at night. A sandwich board out front announces sushi and Asian tapas by "experienced" and, on the line below that, "Japanese chefs." For the timid, the menu is posted out front and prices are astonishingly low.
--S. Irene Virbila, Times Restaurant Critic 11/5/2008
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It was a horrible experience. I was there a couple of nights ago with friends. We ordered a lot of sushi and asked for some wasabi and ginger. The bill came with an extra $10.50 charge for ginger?!@?!?@!? Who charges for ginger??? It was nowhere on the menu that there's...
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everyone who works at bimi is super nice and accomodating. i have been 3 times, and i will continue to come back. i even live clear across town and make the...
Had lunch with coworkers here; it seems like the lunch crowd is mostly local. Prices are very reasonable and specials come with a generous portion of rice,...
I went here, back when it was featured in the LA Times. That was probably a year ago. I have only stalled on writing my review, because I thought I'd back...
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