Can I Get Another? Fun dining friends can make a mediocre dining experience a good one. However in last week’s friend-filled dining adventure, San Sushi Too didn’t need any assistance. Located in the heart of downtown Towson, MD, San Sushi Too offers up fresh and fabulous Maki, Nargi, and Sashimi sushi options and other traditional Japanese fare in a relaxed dining environment.

Having lived in Japan for five years, I have a passion for traditional Japanese fare and an adoration for wakame (a.k.a. seaweed.)   Though the menu did not offer a black seaweed salad option, their green seaweed dish was a nice complement to our sushi extravaganza. Did you know that seaweed salad not only tastes amazing, but is also good for you AND can help burn fatty tissue? This mere fact totally justifies an extra roll or two, right?!?

From the dynamite and spicy tuna rolls to the Thousand Island maki roll – the words fresh, flavorful and fun are still foremost in my mind and that of the group.  Even the sushi-hesitant will be blown away by their options and happy that they went out of their safety zone. My husband, who is the last to offer up Japanese as a dining option, thoroughly enjoyed the food and his “surprise me” roll, that our server personally selected.

Our server was attentive, but not over-the-top and had a great sense of humor. The restaurant was relatively busy and clientele ranged from young families to couples looking for a sushi-fix.  San Sushi Too is also owned and connected to Thai One On and if you desire adding some Thai cuisine to your dining experience, feel free to let your server know. We tried their Plar Goong, which is a half cooked shrimp, lemon and lime grass leafs  with a spicy Thai sauce, and it was dynamite! Oh, and SPICY... They’re not kidding when they use that descriptor folks. I enjoyed it, but my friend Rachel was a bit taken aback by the heat.

So, you might be saying, “there has to be something that this restaurant doesn’t do well.” Honestly, I didn’t find anything but a great casual dining experience. Maybe their bathrooms could use an aesthetic update… or perhaps, they could change the “motif” of their extra-large Saki service set. The Saki was wonderful, but I will admit that we referred to the set as the “hulk-stick” and may have ordered a 2nd and 3rd by this name. As you can see for yourself above. The verdict from the group was: San Sushi is a do-over, again-and-again! Have fun and grab yourself a “hulk-stick” while you’re at it.