1.   Sushi restaurants that cater to techies and tony taco bars overflow at lunchtime.

2.   At Blue Ribbon, a sushi restaurant in Greenwich Village, seaweed and old fish meet you before you even enter the place.

3.   All around the Bay Area, sushi restaurants are filled to capacity.

4.   Customers can tell a lot about a sushi restaurant by stepping up to the refrigerated glass case at the bar, where blocks of fish await the knife.

5.   Customers crowd into the popular Inner Sunset sushi restaurant night after night.

6.   Getting access to top-quality fish is the first great hurdle for a sushi restaurant.

7.   It was the sushi restaurant that did it.

8.   On Sunday afternoon in Queens, diners in a Korean-owned sushi restaurant stopped him for autographs.

9.   She asked a friend who owned a chain of sushi restaurants if she could apprentice with one of his chefs.

10.   Steve Fuji, owner of Ebisu sushi restaurant in San Francisco, makes this traditional Japanese dish for his family.