<p>I'm a food addict. I have to have certain foods so:</p>
<p>1)Quality/price of sushi?
2)Quality/price of fish?
3)Quality/price of a good quality chicken?
4)Quality/price of Northwestern's dining halls?</p>
<p>I can speak on some authority about good fish/ sushi now, so:</p>
<p>1) Decent, but nothing spectacular. Prices are fair.
2) Fish is expensive, but usually acceptable quality. If its not expensive, its bad. Except the perch/ other fish from the lakes.
3) Chicken is normal quality/ price.
4) NU dining halls are very expensive, but the quality is fine for a dining hall.</p>
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<li>I haven’t tried nuSushi (this sushi place inside the student center) but I heard they’re just as good as sushi you’d find in Sashimi Sashimi (this sushi place in downtown Evanston that’s popular among students). For more expensive options, there’s Koi and Blu (both specialize in sushi) as well as Whole Foods which has a wide variety of sushi options (including sushi made with brown rice, sushi with no rice and all that fancy stuff)-- all in Evanston. I’m not familiar with sushi places in Chicago. </li>
<li>Not familiar with fish places…but Whole Foods has high-quality fish but expensive (rarely eat). The dining hall serves tilapia (which I eat) and fried perch.</li>
<li>Whole Foods sells half-chicken (I believe free-range) with veggies for 5 bucks. The dining hall has really good chicken also. grilled chicken is always available for lunch/dinner and roasted/baked chicken (with kosher options) is served pretty often.</li>
<li>Pricey but fine. Willard has specialty foods and Allison has kosher.</li>
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<p>The stuff served at Koi is decent but overpriced, Sashimi Sashimi is bleh and overpriced. NUSushi is a decent deal, but not terrific. Kuni’s in southern Evanston is by far the best sushi in town. And “sushi” served with no rice is sashimi, and “sushi” served with brown rice is… I don’t even know what to call that abomination. Whole foods sushi is grocery store sushi- one step up from vending machine egg salad sandwiches at rest stops.</p>
<p>Uhm honestly we have Chicago pizza. Game over. Go to Chicago and get Chicago-styled deep dish pizza, and you’ll be an addict.</p>
<p>“sushi with brown rice” sounds americanized; people in japan don’t need to worry about getting fat by eating white rice. ;)</p>
<p>i agree with arbiter that whole food’s sushi is not good. the only thing i like from whole food is unagi rice bowl. they give decent portion and it’s fairly cheap. there’s probably not much drop off in quality from most other places since i often saw japanese restaurants used eels from vacuum sealed packages as if they just bought them from Asian grocery stores. they are already marinated and (if i am not mistaken) cooked. i just never saw any of them actually grilling fresh eels. </p>
<p>there are quite a few japanese restaurants in lakeview/lincoln park areas which are easily accessible by the subway. i vaguely remember arlington hts (?) even had a small strip mall with a japanese bookstore, ramen restaurant, and grocery store but you need a car to get there. </p>
<p>if you like chinese, chicago has a chinatwon just south of the loop. it is fairly large and some of the resturants are pretty good. there’s also a “new” chinatown off the argyle station and you can find quite a few vietnamese places there.</p>
<p>if you are from, say, LA where you can find pretty good sushi at reasonable prices at Little Tokyo, Chicago is probably gonna disappoint. but it does have lots of japanese restaurants and i’d say it is better than most places except maybe Los Angeles, San Fran, Vancouver, and NYC. it depends on how picky you are and what you’ve been used to.</p>
<p>“Uhm honestly we have Chicago pizza. Game over. Go to Chicago and get Chicago-styled deep dish pizza, and you’ll be an addict.”</p>
<p>I know about Giordano’s. I went to Chicago last summer. Pizza =/= sushi. I grew up with sushi. </p>
<p>Anyways, thanks for your advices. I live in Vancouver, and the fish and sushi here is obviously pretty good. So I guess I’ll suck it up, get ready for some medium quality, pretty expensive sushi and fish, and get rolling (if I ever make it.)</p>
<p>Hahaha. Aight man. :-)</p>
<p>I grew up in Hong Kong and I am fairly picky about food too. I’ve been to Vancouver 3 times and I do think it has the best selection of Asian food in North America. I’d stick with NYC, Chicago, SF, or LA if food is very important to you. Boston and DC are okay to me (DC is bleh for sushi but it got others). Most other cities are probably gonna disappoint you more. Don’t even think about smaller towns; they suck even people may tell you otherwise (many people have low standard…lol). You could be bitc*ing about it all the time. :)</p>
<p>At least you have UBC as a great safety?</p>
<p>Well to be fair Sam, there’s a sushi joint in Princeton, NJ that serves some excellent sushi- even with the genuine article in Japan on the spectrum (though to be fair I never had good sushi in a city near the water…)</p>
<p>@Sam Lee</p>
<p>Yeah, Vancouver does have good food. Specially Asian.</p>
<p>And UBC is offering a 10k scholarship to me >.>. Not really considering UBC right now (although it’d be only like 5k a year, with all the scholarship money). At the very least, I’m goign to McGill or U of T. But U of Chicago is where I want to be at.</p>
<p>I’ve never tried anything in Whole Foods that’s bad quality (only tried the sushi there once and don’t remember it being too bad or too good), but I guess I’m not used to high quality/fine foods. Is good sushi the kind that melts in your mouth? (or so I heard some Asians say) lol</p>
<p>Idk about you guys, but I’m not sure I’ll have all the money for sushi when I’m in college. that stuff’s expensive. If I go to NU, you’ll know me as the girl with a mini-fridge stocked Funyuns and maybe some Naked Juice from the Costco in Columbia, MD. </p>
<p>Though, I would like to reccomend the Sushi at the Hotel Orrington. Very inexpensive and good- had it when I visited and enjoyed it. Still, if and when I do eat non-dining halls, it’s all about the Al’s Italian Beef, Superdog, and Giordano’s. I’ll probably be running 3 laps around evanston to burn all that food off, but it’ll be worth it. :P</p>
<p>@deadmau5</p>
<p>DEADMAU5 IS AMAZING! I LOVE your user name haha.</p>
<p>If you are willing to venture into the city and off campus a bit, you can find anything and everything you could ever want to eat at any price point.
Basically, eating in downtown Chicago is a fabulous experience :)</p>
<p>lakeview has tons of restaurants too and is closer.</p>
<p>Seriously, the north side of Chicago is awesome. If you can’t find anything to eat there, then I don’t know anywhere else that would satisfy you. The south side sucks, that’s why I can’t wait to move up to Evanston. The north side of Chicago is so much fun to explore. Think about it this way: If you went to some school in a cornfield like U of I or Purdue, there’s nothing to do except party and there aren’t very many world class dining options.</p>
<p>I found this eating directory on the slivka res college website. it has a list of all restaurants in evanston and the surrounding areas
<a href=“http://slivka.northwestern.edu/media/north%20shore%20dining.pdf[/url]”>http://slivka.northwestern.edu/media/north%20shore%20dining.pdf</a></p>
<p>“Uhm honestly we have Chicago pizza. Game over. Go to Chicago and get Chicago-styled deep dish pizza, and you’ll be an addict.”</p>
<p>Hahaha, to Vhiremath4, I feel ya man, Lou Malnati’s, Giordano’s, Uno, Gino’s East… You just can’t go wrong. Man, now I don’t ever wanna leave this place.</p>