Tucked behind a sparkly beaded curtain inside Madison’s newest Japanese place on State Street is a cluster of low-slung, backless white couches dimly lit by a chandelier.
The back corner of T. Sushi looks like the kind of place guys wear their sunglasses inside and women teeter in five-inch heels. Squint and you can almost see martini-sipping sorority sisters lounging on the dark red pillows and jabbing at a rainbow roll with chopsticks.
T. Sushi, the first restaurant from Teddy Stevens, is a cocktail-cum-sushi bar. There are sake cosmopolitans and a “pineapple upside-down bar martini,” boldly colored drapes hung from the ceiling and a 6-foot Buddha statue.
A month after opening, the first-rate thing about T. Sushi is the fish — and that’s where it has the most competition. Within a few blocks are Takara (315 State St.), Wasabi (449 State St.) and Osaka House (505 State St.), not to mention RED Sushi and Restaurant Muramoto across the Square.
Executive chef Thabang Lowe presides over a shorter menu than these competitors, with just eight nigiri (fish and rice) and no sashimi options.
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T. Sushi serves quality fish in a club atmosphere Tucked behind a sparkly beaded curtain inside Madison's newest Japanese place on State Street is a cluster of low-slung, backless white couches dimly lit by a chandelier. The back corner of T. Sushi looks like the kind of place guys wear their |