Jazz and sushi

Dee suggested going to a jazz place to take my nephew Ian for our outing this time. I always spend one-on-one time with him everytime I visit and it's getting harder to find things to do that we would both enjoy.

Lately, he's been into jazz and music in general, so it sounded like a good idea. I found sfjazz.org online and had planned to be here the first week of October for it. Because of my grandmother's passing, we didn't catch the shows I thought we could go see.

Dee recommended a jazz place called Yoshi's. She said that Ian went there once before with his cousin and that he enjoyed it.

Yoshi's is a sushi restaurant and jazz club. There's one in San Francisco and another in Jack London Square in Oakland. Ian said that it's a bit on the expensive side, so we decided to have dinner at Silver Dragon in Oakland's Chinatown before the show. Ian also suggested going to the 8pm show, because they usually let people stay for the 10pm show if there aren't many people for it.

I ordered our tickets online, which is surprisingly cheap -- for each person, $10 + $3 processing fee.

Anyway, I had to take care of a few things so we started out late. I decided we would just eat at Yoshi's anyway.

We got there at 7:30pm, picked up our tickets at the Will Call window and went into the club. We ordered some sushi and hot tea.

The sushi was very fresh and very good, especially the Rainbow Sushi dish that Ian ordered. The fish was so fresh that there was a certain sweetness to it.

And the show was also very good and there was good energy in the crowd. The 10pm show was cancelled altogether (not surprising, since it was a weeknight), so the band played until 10pm.

Ian, being primarily a drummer himself, was watching the drummer carefully, but he didn't want to go and chat with him after the show. But he said he enjoyed the show. And so did I.