![]() It would be nice to have greater consistency, and I’d be willing to pay a few more bucks for better meat. On a later, announced visit for a photo shoot, the steak was more tender and properly medium rare. But the beef is not of the highest quality, with a few pieces leathery on my first visit and others sizzled to overdone. It is a delicious dish, sliced steak layered atop wispy enoki mushrooms and surrounded by a few blistered shishito peppers and grape tomatoes in a broth of soy, sake and butter. (Amy Beth Bennett / Sun Sentinel)īesides sushi, Phat Boy has sizzle - the rib eye tobanyaki ($14) is served in a skillet that bubbles and steams as it makes its way across the dining room. Ribeye tobanyaki ($14) at Phat Boy Sushi is a sizzling, satisfying platter of sliced steak, enoki mushrooms and blistered shishito peppers in a soy, sake and butter broth. For example, Katsu sliders ($12) were a recent lunch special, with crisp and crunchy chicken cutlet squares perched on small Martin’s potato rolls and garnished with julienne carrots and daikon that evoked the flavor of a Vietnamese banh mi sandwich.They were good. The sushi is very good, but Phat Boy is notable for a menu that offers a range of grilled items, yakitori skewers, rice bowls, vegetarian options and specials that veer from hardcore Japanese ($6 slices of toro or $10 uni shooters) to comfort foods with an American twist. happy hour of bottomless hot sake for $10 and half-priced Sapporo drafts has been drawing a younger crowd.Īdd it up and there is much to like here, even for those who do not like raw fish. Phat Boy also has carved out a late-night niche, with its kitchen open nightly until midnight (and until 2 a.m. ![]() Visit their website for more information.The new Phat Boy borders the affluent Rio Vista neighborhood and is close to the Broward County Courthouse and Broward School District headquarters, assuring lively lunch and takeout business. Every Sushi Boy I’ve ever been to has the ambiance of a sterile cafeteria, so you can eat there if you want, but I usually find most take it to go.įor the perfect Japanese meal on the go, Sushi Boy has locations all over Los Angeles and Orange County, including LAX. Rolls start as low as $5 and a combo like my beloved Salmon Lovers runs about $12. Sushi normally makes your eyes fill with dollar signs as you woefully gaze at your empty wallet, but Sushi Boy is totally affordable. For non-sushi lovers they have a menu filled with foods like udon and teriyaki bowls as well. The crunchy tempura roll is another one of my favorites, and I usually try to cajole someone into sharing it with me. My boyfriend likes the “Tuna Lovers” combo, which is the same except replace salmon nigiri with tuna and replace the salmon avocado roll with a spicy tuna roll. ![]() My go to is the “Salmon Lovers” combo, which features 5 pieces of salmon nigiri, sashimi on rice, and an 8 piece salmon avocado roll. It’s cheap, fast, and better than a lot of so-called Japanese restaurants I’ve tried. When no one feels like cooking, Sushi Boy is almost always the default. Fast food sushi probably sounds terribly unappealing, but this chain is surprisingly high quality. ![]()
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