Hand Rolls bars continue to open across Los Angeles at a pace that nearly rivals the mushrooming of Turkish food trucks and Armenian kebab stands, forming one of L.A.’s more supersonic food movements.
Call it the KazuNori effect.
Or maybe it comes down to the way L.A. likes to eat: Conveniently. Socially. Majestically. With the same hand-to-hand pass from chef to customer that we love in a taco truck, a concentrated taste of the Pacific briefly coveted in our mittens.
A fresh crop of terrific hand roll bars opened in the last year, bringing even more of us side-by-side at the countertop, watching together as chefs roll fresh seafood, sushi rice, and vegetables into delicate little blunts of temaki magic before our eyes.
There's a communal atmosphere at a sushi bar that brings L.A. people together, in the same way any live performance has the power to unite an audience.