What
you see above is a new sushi restaurant that is expected to open in the
next month in Newport Beach. But if you think that it looks to be
another run-of-the-mill mini-mall california roll, teriyaki bowl lunch
spot, then you'd be wrong.
Called Nana San, this one is from the same family that brought you Ango Tei in Costa Mesa. Well, technically, the man behind the fish counter will be Goro, the step-son of Ango, the master itamae behind Ango Tei.
Goro, according to cdmedici on the Chowhound boards, capably took up the sushi knife after his dad retired. When Ango Tei was finally sold, many wondered where he'd end up. This is where:
Nana San, 3601 Jamboree Rd., Newport Beach
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.