Restaurant review: Hello Sushi

Eat sushi. Live life. Be happy. This is the message buzzing through the videotape frenzy of a promotional clip for one of the more progressively designed and styled restaurants in the city. The place is Hello Sushi, and its take on the traditional Japanese sushi bar is anything but. At both of her locations in Baton Rouge, owner Angela Finch has created a J-pop chic atmosphere worthy of Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation and complete with bold art-installation video screens, pink and blue arrows, fish silhouettes and manga-inspired cartoon characters. Creative rolls like the crawfish- and asparagus-filled Orleans join classic nigiri, sashimi and noodle entrées, plus grilled standbys like a marinated 12-oz. Teriyaki steak. Click here to find out what our secret diners thought of Hello Sushi.