![]() ![]() This is a good destination for teriyaki – chicken, beef and salmon, all of which taste refreshingly good. And, in a sort of retro-happy style, there are Japanese dishes served at GuGu from the golden age of Japanese restaurants. There’s a sense of the “mall that time forgot” about the place. GuGu sits in a long, rather old-fashioned mall on Aviation Boulevard, at just about the point where Aviation begins to descend toward Pacific Coast Highway and Hermosa Beach proper. ![]() Diddy too – deep-fried shrimp stuffed with crab. So, for that matter, are the Spider Bite Roll (crab, spicy tuna, ono, salmon, jalapeno) and the Heart Attack Roll (deep-fried spicy tuna, jalapeno, avocado, tempura crunchies, spicy mayo eel sauce – which seems modest compared to your basic order of Dynamite, a sushi bar exercise in uses of mayonnaise most of us have never imagined). Why Santa? Well, they’re sort of colorful, I guess. There are, for instance, Santa’s Tuna Balls – a combo of spicy garlic crab and tuna prepared three ways, and garlic-butter mushrooms. Whatever the derivation of the name, the Happy Hour at GuGu in Hermosa Beach goes on all the time – with 20 percent off regular nigiri sushi Monday through Friday and a second sake for half off if you buy a large one for your first round.Īnd you’ll need one to help you through the extensive assortment of sushi rolls, which include rolls with names so outre they make some of the monikers at Oops! seem modest by comparison. If it’s hard to call Directory Assistance and ask for the phone number of Oops! Sushi, it’s even harder to ask for GuGu Sushi & Roll.įar as I can tell, the Japanese word GuGu translates into the English word GuGu – or at least that’s what Google says. There’s much more on the menu, including a cool creation of spicy tuna on wonton chips called Snack Out a tuna slider and a crispy eggplant sandwich made with spicy tuna and avocado.Įven if you miss the Happy Hour, this is a great destination – with no reason at all to holler “Oops!” Why?Īnd though the Double Double sounds like a tribute to the signature burger at In-N-Out, it’s actually spicy scallops, spicy tuna, spinach, eel sauce and ponzu. ![]() Army Roll is made with shrimp tempura, deep-fried green beans, crab, whitefish, karashi mustard, ponzu and eel sauce. There’s an American Idol Roll that consists of shrimp tempura, tempuraed green beans, cream cheese, fresh water eel, sweet eel sauce and avocado – none of which evokes Ryan Seacrest in the least. In the great tradition of such things, the names of the rolls and what the rolls actually are, are a bit hard to reconcile. Hard to not be seriously happy about that. The latter is a pitcher of beer and a large sake for $7.99. There are 41 dishes on the Happy Hour menu, along with various beers, sakes, sake cocktails and sake bomb sets (sake and beer combos) – three of them, called Happy Set, Really Happy Set and Seriously Happy Set. To get tasty shrimp bites for $2.99, spicy tuna bites for $4.99 – or the spicy lobster cones called Gone in 60 Seconds for the same reduced $4.99. (You can keep eating your Happy Hour sushi after 7 you just have to put in your order beforehand.)Īnd really, what a treat it is to get a big plate of spicy tuna salad, seared albacore salad or salmon skin salad for just $4.99. Packed to the point where there’s often a wait to get in packed to the point where you may have to order a whole bunch of dishes when you sit down so you don’t go past the 7 p.m. Prices drop to about two-thirds of normal. till closing Thursday through Saturday – and all day Sunday. ![]() The Happy Hour at Oops! goes from 4 to 7 p.m. Or at least it’s jammed during Happy Hour, when the prices are just great. It’s a sushi bar that’s so popular the parking lot in front of it is often jammed. Sushi – with “B.A.D.” standing for “Best and Delicious.”Īnd then there’s my current oddly named fave rave – Oops! Sushi & Sake Bar, hidden in a mini-mall at Barrington Avenue and Gateway Boulevard in an industrial section of West L.A. Over on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles, there’s a very good sushi bar called B.A.D. Sushi bar owners like to give their establishments odd names. ![]()
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