Not one of the sushi chefs behind the bar was actually Japanese. More bizarrely (stranger even than the recent addition of "Asian Cuisine," including pork fried rice and drunken noodles), on the menu, opposite a snooty discourse on when it is appropriate to drink sake cold (only super high quality bottles, apparently) is "Tono's Bomb," a $7 "traditional sake bomb" with Gekkeikan sake and your choice of Japanese beer. (I haven't had a sake bomb since a strange dinner at Kaya, in Cambridge, in the late 1990s.) But I'll say this: the sushi at
Tono Sushi (2605 Connecticut Ave. NW) is good enough to make you forget about a menu that meanders into pan-Asian fraternity territory. For the non-adventurous, there's the super low-priced "roll combo," $10 for a cucumber roll, California roll and tuna roll. For everyone else, I recommend the spicy, crunchy salmon roll. We also sampled the Oshinko ($4), an artfully presented platter of assorted Japanese pickles, and dreamed a little dream about one day ordering the Kimchee tuna roll and the tuna wrapped Dragon roll, stuffed with sweet potato tempura.
