We weren't really expecting much when we walked into this standard looking place. We just thought it looked a lot more budget friendly than some of the other Japanese restaurants we walked by. And man were we ever right! We immediately zoomed in on the page with a list of $1 items, which included sushi. We were skeptical for the price. We assumed we'd get mostly rice with a thin Listerine strip size fish.
When we received our order, we could not believe how thick our fish was and how compact our rice was. And everything was fresh, most likely thanks to the restaurant's high volume and turnover. For those in our hometown reading this, the sushi was comparable to a Yanagi sushi quality for under Kozo/Genki sushi price.
The $1 sushi special is available every night, except Fridays and Saturdays. They also have 50% off specials on several dishes most nights of the week. This, like many Asian restaurants in NYC, had other Asian dishes incorporated into the menu (many Thai restaurants here sell sushi), which included Kimchee and other Korean dishes.
May's was such a contrast to Mizu (shown here), where we had substandard sushi at fancy prices.
On another note, it's been endearing the last couple days to see the NYU freshmen students and their parents on the streets with boxes, suitcases and housing items getting ready to start their grown-up life. It's absurd how much a lot of these students are paying for housing for the tiniest spaces - $2,000 and up. With NYU dispersed throughout the city in the heart of nightlife, it would seem the students would get easily distracted. On the other hand, I can't think of many other cities that has the kind of job and internship opportunities for these students on the scale of NYC.
