E_Snap t1_j6jpsrp wrote on January 30, 2023 at 8:37 PM

Reply to comment by Randomthought5678 in This Sashimi platter by PhillyPhresh

If the restaurant you’re going to specifically calls it “purple urchin,” then you can be sure they are going out of their way to acquire the invasive species. But there is no commercial market for that variety and they are not considered a delicacy commercially, so it would still be surprising to find.

Randomthought5678 t1_j6k3ytr wrote on January 30, 2023 at 10:04 PM

Yup. It was a big cluster f*** of a dinner party and I don't remember what it said on the menu but I did comment on the pieces being smaller than regular uni. The waitress went into a pretty long description of why it was different while she served us an entire ecosystem.

Umi Sake House in Seattle which is the cat's meow and bougie enough to go to the extra steps.