The regulars of this restaurant are extremely enthusiastic about it, and many claim that this is the city's best sushi bar. It is not.
Kanno calls itself a California-style sushi bar, whatever that means. Its regular customers will tell you that it's obviously the best sushi bar in the city. I find it a more or less standard Japanese menu, executed well, with less emphasis on the visual than in the best local sushi bars, with less variety but better freshness than average.
Chef-owner Hidetoshi Suzuki--whom the regulars call "Elvis"--opened this place in 2002 in a space formerly occupied by less good sushi bars and other restaurants. (A long time ago, it was the first location of Bennachin, the city's first African restaurant.) Elvis is a native of Osaka and trained under some well-known sushi masters.
The restaurant is in the middle of an old strip mall, dead center in what we call less and less often Fat City, around the corner from Drago's. The place is in need of interior repairs, and its dining room is rather stark. The sushi bar is almost always full.
The chef's special dinner is very interesting. Don't work up a big appetite for it: it's not overwhelming in size. Don't bother ordering sushi from the menu; ask the chef what's good, and get what he says.
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