For C’s birthday, we took him on a little adventure across the bridge to Sagami. Often hailed by many as the best sushi in the Philadelphia area, Sagami is a little hidden gem in the dregs of New Jersey. I even went here on my last birthday. In an unfortunate location on a highway, this place is a bitch to get to. You get there from PA on the wrong side of the road. And if you are familiar driving in NJ, it’s a total pain in the ass to turn around in the entire state. We drove a lot of extra miles trying to get here. Not to mention the bad directions I got off the damn interweb.
This place gets busy. Like seriously. We didn’t have reservations like a bunch of jackasses (I tried, but they aren’t open for lunch on the weekend so noone picked up the phone), so when we showed up and saw all those people waiting, my heart sank to the pit of my stomach. I had driven all this way, gone around I don’t know how many darn jughandles, and I had the worst fears of having to wait an hour. We had just called them a few minutes before we showed up to get correct directions, and had put our names down. Shockingly, we waited not even 10 minutes and then got a table! Whoo hoo!
The main section of the restaurant has famously low ceilings. I kid you not. I’m short, and I still get concerned. We were in the other room off to the side, past the sushi bar, and it has normal ceilings. I think this is where they stick the people with the kids. It seemed everyone in this area had them. The waitresses wear kimonos here. That shit is authentic, yo. We got some edamame and gyoza as appetizers. Edamame is edamame, it’s hard to screw that up. The gyoza were ok, but the insides were just mushy to me. There were no hunks of anything I could distinguish.
I also made sure to get the agedashi dofu. I LOVE SAGAMI’S AGEDASHI DOFU. I could eat this every day. I’ve had this at other places and it just doesn’t compare. First off, it’s huge. They don’t skimp on the tofu here. The sauce is the best. They put little tiny mushroom heads in it. I don’t like mushrooms, and I still eat them! So damn good.
Sagami
37 W Crescent Blvd (on the southbound side of 130)
Collingswood, NJ
856-854-9773
