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Umi
5849 Ellsworth Ave
Shadyside, 15232
412-362-6198
Tu-Th: 5-9:30; F-Sat: 5-10:30

In honor of our recent trip to Italy (literally, we just stepped off the plane yesterday), I’d like to review…..a sushi place?  What?  What’s wrong with me?  I just ate my way through fifteen days of incredible Italian food and I come home to review sushi?  Well, let me explain.  In Italy, the food ranges from good to the best you have ever had in your life.  Really, it is impossible to have a bad meal.  You can find an overpriced meal, or a scary octopus meal, but never a bad or even mediocre one.    Not even our meal in the basement of the airport hotel was bad.  In fact, the worst meal I think we had was a toast that was too big.  That’s it!  Italian food is just always a certain degree of good.  Now in the States, the bottom end of the range dips way way down into fuhgeddaboudit.  BUT, though I had some of the best meals of my life in Italy, most of the rest of them happened in America, and some even in Pittsburgh!  Very many, in fact.  Umi is one of them.  Their sushi is just so…succulent.  So….tasty.  So….fresh.  So…mind-blowing.  So…memorable!  And consistent in all those regards, too.  It is clearly the best in Pittsburgh, and may rival the top sushi in other cities as well.  Start saving up your dough in a sock, because you really shouldn’t miss a delish dish of fish from Umi. (more…)