Sake plus sushi surprise at Miya’s
For most Japanese restaurants, the sake bomb is a necessary evil — a Western perversion of the honored sake-drinking ritual that brings in droves of college-aged customers all too ready to lose track of the bill in their loud and messy pursuit of inebriation. Even at Samurai, New Haven’s pre-eminent sake bombing institution, the wait staff seem wary of their complicity in the sacrilege of dropping hot sake shots into cheap beer.

Eli overhauls an old Jewish classic