Sushi bars and Japanese restaurants are as much the norm in any London district as are old English pubs. Londoners have loved sushi since the first restaurants started opening here over thirty years ago and the more we read the health benefits of healthy Japanese diet, the more our love affair with sushi goes on. Marie Teather finds the five best restaurants to get your fix of that simple, but exquisite dish of raw fish on rice.

“Oishii” means “yummy” in Japanese and these sushi restaurants are by far the most “oishii” in the city. Get out your chopsticks, soy sauce, and wasabi, and enjoy these spectacular spicy tuna rolls. Douzo meshiagare!

Zushi Puzzle

This Marina restaurant is a very popular venue for sushi lovers. They have a creative chef who always comes up with unique concepts and their spicy tuna roll never disappoints.

Zushi Puzzle is located at 1910 Lombard St., San Francisco. For reservations call 415.931.9319 or visit www.zushipuzzle.com.

Koo

This Inner Richmond neighborhood hosts a variety of great sushi joints. This location’s spicy tuna hand rolls is superb and puts a unique spin on the classic roll.

Koo is located at 408 Irving St., San Francisco. For reservations call 415.731.7077 or visit www.sushikoo.com.

Umami

This elegant sushi restaurant has a special spicy tuna roll, named the Shogun Roll. It contains spicy tuna, kairawe & avocado/albacore, tobiko & ponzu.

Umami is located at 2909 Webster St., San Francisco.  For reservations call 415.346.3431 or visit www.umamisf.com.

Tokyo Go-Go

Tokyo Go-Go serves an Off The Wall, which is a tempura shrimp and cucumber wrapped with spicy tuna, avocado, and wasabi tobiko.

Tokyo Go-Go is located at 3174 16th St., San Francisco. For reservations call 415.864.2288 or visit www.tokyogogo.com.

Yoshi’s San Francisco

Don’t second guess this restaurant just because it’s attached to a jazz club. Yoshi’s Double Tuna Roll consists of spicy tuna, albacore, cucumber, seaweed, and spicy aioli. Double the tuna, double the taste.

Yoshi’s San Francisco is located at 1330 Fillmore St., San Francisco. For reservations call 415.655.5600 or visit www.sf.yoshis.com.

Ino Sushi

You can’t talk about sushi without mentioning Japantown. This restaurant location is a favorite of foodies who appreciate simple yet fresh Japanese cuisine.

Ino Sushi is located at 22 Peace Plz, Ste 510, San Francisco. For reservations call 415.922.3121.

(Above: “Robot Chicken’s” Seth Green shows its an honor just to be nominated.)

Friday night – the night before the night before the big parties, the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences held a reception for Performers And Nominees at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Everyone was there — at least for a good hour — before moving on to a number of other bashes.

But this was an important one.

It was here that the celebs/noms got to pick up their diploma, I mean certificate — of nomination for the Primetime Emmys. Brenda Vaccaro from “You Don’t Know Jack” was on hand; as was Glenn Close, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Elisabeth Moss, Holland Taylor and many others.

Make sure to get your healthy dose of Vitamin B and minerals with these seriously haute Spicy Tuna Rolls.

While great wine and Kobe beef are what I usually look for in a menu, there’s no denying the simple, youthful appeal of the items offered at Wayne’s newest dining room, PBandU.

True to its name, every item is based in peanut butter. Crunchy or smooth, whatever masterpiece you smeared over Wonder bread as a kid has come back, and then some.

Owner Mercury Amodio left her New York-based career in music to move back to her hometown and try something new. What developed was PBandU, a homage to her favorite childhood food.

The menu reads like a classy elementary school cafeteria list, obviously catering to kids, teens and those with nostalgic tastebuds. There’s the basic PB & J and that magical, mystery substance called Fluff, but also a few more perhaps grown-up options, like the PB and bacon, cheddar and pickle. Those who can’t choose can get their selections miniaturized in slider form. Those with a hefty appetite can grab the aptly named College Pack: four PB & Js for a student-friendly $10.

If the sandwiches seem too ordinary, perhaps the pizzas will tempt you. Available as a full pie or by the slice, the nutty goo serves as sauce and can be topped with anything from M&Ms to potato chips. Or there’s the fondue, which takes the above components and melts them down for dipping with celery sticks and pretzels.

Gourmet it is not, but this quirky concept might be the perfect way to have a family dinner out where the only cries are for more. Even if they’re from your husband.

PBandU is located at 163 East Lancaster Ave., Wayne, 484.367.7799, www.pbandu.com

Sushi snobs may turn up their noses at this popular dish—as they do at many creative rolls (don’t even ask for it at Sasabune or other omakase spots). Let’s be honest, though, when you crave sushi, nothing quite satisfies like Spicy Tuna. You’d think the recipe would be simple enough: a little toro or ahi, a little wasabi, a little rice. But, all Spicy Tuna rolls are not created equally. Just ask anyone who makes his or her favorite spicy tuna, and you will get nearly as many answers as there are mouths. Still, in a city filled with sushi, there are some sure things. Here’s a Haute 5:

Raw raw RAW!: Three cheers for sushi. Here’s a list of the best spicy tuna rolls in the Big D.

Of all the sushi staples, spicy tuna roll is easily my favorite.  Since wasabi based spicy is about all my delicate taste buds can handle, ordering spicy tuna makes me feel at least a little bit adventurous. That is why it was such a culinary delight for me to explore the best of Boston’s sushi offerings to bring you the Haute 5 Spicy Tuna Rolls in Boston.

Quality ingredients deliver amazing meals. Case in point: sushi. With fish so fresh and flavorful as your main ingredient, you don’t even have to cook this stuff. That’s not to say mastering maki is simple; the flavors you add are what take it from simple to sensational. The spicy tuna roll, one of the most popular, is the perfect example. Philly is lucky to have everything from take-out sushi stands to world-class Japanese restaurants to quench sushi cravings, but the next time your chopsticks are itching, head to one of these haute spots for a fiery fish dish that gets our top marks.

Sushi isn’t just a kind of cuisine, it’s an art form. These five restaurants have each taken the classic spicy tuna roll and creatively made it their very own. So if you’re in the mood to give try an old favorite with a new spin, here are the Haute 5 places to find a spicy tuna roll with some pizazz.