Are you like me? You love sushi but can’t deal with all those waiters and their fawning attentiveness? Then perhaps you’ll love the new Wasabi Sushi ^[1] restaurant that just opened on Farragut Square (908 17th St NW). Instead of having to order off menus, they’ve got this cool conveyor belt dealy ^[2] whereby you just sit at your table and a long line of tasty sushi dishes continuously winds past. Just grab what you like and eat it.

There are only two problems with a place like that. First, you are always worried that you’ll eat too much and won’t have room for when that dish you really wanted slides by. The second problem is that it’s very fast. There are no menus or cooking times or bread-baskets to soak up the minutes, you just plop your butt down and start eating. It’s not expensive from an objective point of view, but considering you can drop $30 and be done with dinner in 10 minutes, it’s the highest “dollars per minute” restaurant I’ve been to in a while. So, it’s probably not the best place to bring a first date for a ‘get to know you’ kinda meal. But great if you’ve got to catch a movie.

So, if you’re in the mood for a fast-yet anonymous downtown lunch, enjoy Wasabi Sushi ^[1]. And if you happen to find yourself in need of a quick meal in Gallery Place (like maybe you’re at the National Building Museum ^[3] for instance…), there’s another similar restaurant called Sushi Go Round ^[4] at 705 7th St.