Fresh Food at Dearborn’s New O’Sushi Restaurant
After nearly six years of serving fresh Japanese food at their O’Sushi restaurant in Canton, Sophia Kang and her husband, Shawn, thought it was time to branch out and open a second restaurant. They chose Dearborn.
“We love Dearborn and we love Ford Motor Company,” said Shawn Kang. “We have been looking at coming here for a long time.”
Dearborn's new O'Sushi restaurant serves fresh food at attractive prices.
The couple’s Dearborn restaurant, 22431 Michigan Ave., opened Jan. 5 in the building owned by Norm Newman near Michigan and Military, just across the street from Sacred Heart Church.
With an American flag and colorful triangle banners flying outside the building along with two large window banners that proudly tell passersby that O’Sushi “Loves Dearborn” and “We love Ford Motor”, the restaurant stands out. Those looking to drink saki with their food will have to wait a bit longer as the family works to obtain a liquor license.
Inside, the decor is authentic Japanese and nicely decorated. The Dearborn location is much more modern and fresh inside than the Korean couple’s Canton restaurant. But both locations serve excellent fresh food at an attractive price with all the hot green tea you can drink for free.
The most popular entrees — which include miso soup, house salad and rice — are the Bibimbab (beef and vegetables over rice) for $9.99, Shrimp Tempura (deep fried battered shrimp and vegetables) $15.99 and Salmon Teriyaki (grilled salmon with teriyaki sauce) $16.99.
Of course, as the name on the building states, there are plenty of fresh sushi offerings and daily lunch specials, too. Regular sushi rolls are made fresh while you wait and are the least expensive on Michigan Avenue compared to the recently-opened Kabuki at Michigan and Howard and even Westborn Market. A six piece Spicy California roll costs $4.45 while a Spicy Tuna Roll Avocado costs just $4.75. The restaurant also serves an assortment of fresh Nigiri sushi and sashimi pieces over rice.
The host/servers (Irene, Tiffany, Aaron and Rocky) are a friendly group who know the menu and overall do a nice job making guests feel welcome.
O’Sushi is open seven days a week. Hours are Mon.-Thursday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.; Saturday noon – 10:30 p.m. and Sunday 1 p.m. – 9 p.m. For more information call the restaurant at 313-562-4166.
January 25th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Even though I’m not a big sushi fan, I hope this restaurant works. It was also nice to read that despite some serious issues we all realize Dearborn is facing that the owners were gracious in their comments stating, ““We love Dearborn and we love Ford Motor Company,” said Shawn Kang. “We have been looking at coming here for a long time.” I hope not having a liquor license yet will not hurt their chances for success.
January 25th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Somehow the signage reminds me of after 911 how everyone suddenly had american flags and signs that said we love the USA. I wish them well but loving Dearborn and Ford Motor company isn’t going to make them successful. Why if they are Korean have a Japanese style restaurant esp. when 3 places are selling Sushi on the same stip blocks away?
We’ll see how long the signs stay up in the window.
January 25th, 2009 at 11:02 am
More businesses should be flying the stars and stripes. I like it and I give them credit for doing so. Same with their signs saying they love our city and Ford.
Get over yourself, candyman. Welcome to Dearborn, O’Sushi and best of luck.
January 25th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I have to agree with Pat, loving Dearborn and Ford Motor isn’t going to make them a success. Good food, a comfortable place to eat and relax, good service, and a lot of customers will. I also wish them the best of luck.
January 25th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I wish them luck too but in all honesty every time I have passed them going to or from work I have never seen a patron inside. The staff look so forlorn……..
January 25th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Haven’t been yet, but the place is packed every time I drive by
Branch out people and try something different, (sorry no burgers or fries there)
January 25th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Ate there on Saturday for the first time. Sushi was excellent and very reasonable and the atmosphere was just right. highly recommended.
January 25th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I second what Elam said!! My brother and I had lunch there a couple of weeks ago- food was excellent, very reasonable, and the waitstaff friendly and attentive. I have told several people about my experience at OShushi and will continue to do so- best of luck to them!
January 25th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
No offense to my good friends candymanpat and donna, but I will take and support someone who says I love Dearborn and Ford far more than I will the ones that live here and say I hate Dearborn and Ford or America Whatever their motives, I could care less. They’re sending a positive message and if we are to move forward constructively we need all the positive messages possible.
They can also sell sushi, whatever. I wish them well and thank them for risking their hard earned capital for investing in Dearborn, especially DTWD which needs investment so badly…
January 26th, 2009 at 7:43 am
I am somewhat stunned with what I read by a few on here. Osushi’s welcoming signage looks reminiscent of post 9/11 feel good patriotism of the masses? I think not. Perhaps the Kang family has a true sense of appreciation with how quickly and with little hassle they opened their establishment in Dearborn and understand that Ford Motor employees are still a sizable clientele to embrace.
This rather sounds of sour grapes directed at Dearborn from my perspective with the well wishing veiled in criticism especially with this being the Kang family’s second establishment now opening in Dearborn where some others fail to survive. Seriously CMP, what have the Kang family done to you that warrant such writings of false intensions that even grasps at Asian ethnicity culinary straws?
Osushi from my experience is an asset to the West End dinning establishments that I believe or hope will be around for years to come. They clearly are a step in the right direction in my opinion that compliments neighboring Deliziosa and Chamas’s newly opened Bistro 222 extremely well.
My hopes for the Kang family are breaking through the West Dearborn proletariat sensibilities barrier that hinders Dearborn from competing with surrounding communities.
Osushi, thanks for the gamble on Dearborn.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:54 am
I have to agree with LX, Donna and CandymanPat, please don’t doom the eatery before it’s even had a chance to prove itself. They have the right idea and their sentiments appear very genuine. I am thrilled to see another business opening in such a highly visible area! Welcome to Dearborn, O Sushi, and may you have a prosperous venture here!
January 26th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Uncle Jeremy and confused must work different shifts 🙂 I personally have heard that it has been packed from two different contacts. I like sushi and will get there soon myself. I do question the feasibility of two sushi spots so close to one another, but if they offer different takes on the same subject and both are well-run, they could both flourish. I hope they do!
January 26th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Dave,
Osushi has been in my observations full more than not my guess 2:1.
In addition, just food for thought, pardon the pun, what makes the circumstances any different with respect to sushi from a then Talal’s & LaShish or a now Parisian, Maestros, LaPita, et al?
😉
January 26th, 2009 at 10:26 am
LX, I am surprised at your response, especially from a guy who won’t patronize a business that occupies a space from Hakim Fakoury.
I mean you people need to re-read some postings, all they said was that the signage was too much. Nothing about the quality of the restaurant, it’s their opinion. If they Love Ford and Dearborn so much are they giving a discount to them? I agree with both of them too much too soon.
LX, what other business do they own in Dearborn? They have 1 in Canton.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:05 am
LX,
I’d assume in Dearborn the market for Middle Eastern fare is much larger than Japanese. I know that among my own friends there seems to be a higher % that like the former more than the latter. Just anecdotal evidence, though. If the lunch crowd feels they have $$$ to spend, then they both might do quite well.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Defender – thanks I’m glad someone took the time to read what Pat and I said. We both wished them well in their new business. I’m not sure that Fakhoury owns that building but I would wonder at LX’s response if this would have been an Arabic restaurant. Not long ago people on this site were complaining about the signs in windows and how trashy they looked from Michigan Ave.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Defender,
I really cannot figure out what you are defending, I mean you are all over the place here without a point or logic with a point.
Seriously, “If they Love Ford and Dearborn so much are they giving a discount to them?”
What the heck does that even mean? For me that’s prol speak.
You are correct about me doing as little business as possible in any of Mr. Hakim and Rami Fakhoury’s tax delinquent West End properties. I did however have had the pleasure of being requested as a guest to attend a business function luncheon that was held at Bistro 222 and I enjoyed Mr. Chamas’s establishment. Will I go to this place again in the future? Honestly, probably not for the reasons mentioned prior.
Then again, I suspect you will find duplicity in this as you suspect different pricing for ‘Ford and Dearborn’ in whatever that meant. But at least you are able to count that the Kang family has now two establishments under their belt.
Dave, I understood what you are driving at but I’d suggest that even an Arabic owned Crave is an indicator that sushi and Asian culinary is competitive in Dearborn over the endless supply of Middle Eastern fare.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Donna,
Osushi is a tenant of Newman’s. I also believe if you had taken the time to read what I wrote you would be able to comprehend that I mentioned quote,
“They [Osushi] clearly are a step in the right direction in my opinion that compliments neighboring Deliziosa and Chamas’s newly opened Bistro 222 extremely well.”
Therefore, I fail understand where you are able to wonder about “I would wonder at LX’s response if this would have been an Arabic restaurant”. Are there not two Middle Eastern decent owned establishments that I named?
I’ll stand by what I wrote in respect to what CMP wrote, whether you agreed with him after LoveDearbornUSA told CMP to get over himself. CMP’s well wishing was backhanded and uncalled for at best.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:46 am
LX, I read and comprehended everything you said.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I have reason to doubt that but if you’re happy with your response to asked question, then so am I.
January 26th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Doubt all you want but I thought you wanted us to know that you were the recipient of a free lunch at 222. Who said there was no such thing as a free lunch. I am so glad that this leaves us both happy.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Donna,
Where did I state that the luncheon that I attended that I did not pay for myself?
That is again presumptuous to assume that this is the case or is this accurate with the business function that I was involved. Freebees are and have been more and more outdated. As before, if you are happy with your response, then so am I.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Yes all the businesses in Dearborn should put up signs, make the place look like party stores and gas stations, this coming from people who want up-scale markets and retail chains.
LX, maybe your just to smart to be able to read a post and not get the point, Talking about one getting over himself.
Maybe if your mentality would change and support all the businesses occupied by Fakoury they to may be able to stay in business, and be able to move to a different location eventially.
By the way what faiked business did your family once own? Was it taken over by some Arabic person, since it seems you are always commenting on them.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Defender,
Could you please expound upon exactly what you mean with reference to “Yes all the businesses in Dearborn should put up signs, make the place look like party stores and gas stations”?
This is now twice in one day that you seem to make wildly bizarre statements.
I also do not know what you’d be referring too with me being associated with a failed business. I haven’t written of any such thing on this topic or in any other topic here or elsewhere in the past. This would be because I’ve experienced no failed history in the business world to date.
As for the rest of your rather comical posting, there really isn’t much to say other than I’ll be looking forward to your response with the question that I raised about your assertion of party stores and gas stations.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
See, there I go assuming again. Bad move on my part. When I invite someone to be my guest I do so knowing that I will pay the bill. Now I have no intention of doing this but if I said LX would you be my guest – I pay, if I said hey LX do you want to go to lunch – they we both pay. That’s just the way we do it in my part of town.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Donna,
Fine by me. That is your part of the world, but times do change.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
LX,
I do also remember you posted that your family had a business in Dearborn.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Sorry, but much to your chagrin in your inaccuracy XL, what I stated last year is that I along with my family had a family corporation in Metro Detroit.
The bottom line is that it was not nor ever was in Dearborn and moved to Oakland Co.
It was closed many years ago for reasons other than any lack of success.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Glad to see the site bloggers are back and having some healthy conversation, even if they disagree at times. I am no rich man, but myself along with many others would invite LX out to lunch to hear his thoughts on many issues and most to find out who he is. It would definitely be a more interesting meeting that some other meetings we’ve witnessed around Dearborn lately.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
what does it take to get a liquour licenese in dearborn? when will bistro 222 and kabuki have theirs?
January 31st, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Perhaps someone else can answer your question becki, cause I don’t know the answer.
This is in no way a complaint about liquor licenses, because I believe we need all the businesses we can keep and obtain in Dearborn, especially in DTWD, but I find it interesting that the city and/or state liquor commission allowed so many bars in one block between Mason and Oakwood. Usually one of the requirements of new liquor licenses is that they not be within a certain range of other businesses with liquor licences.
Does anyone know if this law has changed?
January 31st, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Michael,
In regards to Osushi’s liquor license please refer to agenda item #12-824-08 on page 25.
http://www.cityofdearborn.org/cityclerk/2008%20Council%20Minutes/12-15-08%20cmm.pdf
The resolution was adopted as follows:
Yeas: Abraham, Darany, Hubbard, Shooshanian and Tafelski (5).
Nays: None.
Absent: Sareini and Thomas (2).
This resolution was also passed with written approval and/or endorsement from Sacred Heart Church. To the best of my knowledge, the formalities be it in State and/or County would be cause in delay unless liens still apply to license.
I hope this is of help.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Thanks LX. It fully answers my questions.
February 1st, 2009 at 8:46 am
Does Bristo 222 have theirs yet? I seen the new Meet Your Council Show and I seen bottles of wine on a couple tables even the one George Darany was sitting at. Although I don’t remember seeing anyone drinking any?
June 4th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
In response to post re Bistro 222 ~ The process for a liquor license in Dearborn at this time is the fact no local licenses have been available as those supposedly available actually are not clear for purchase, therefore the business must then look outside the city for a clear title liquor license. Once found, the state must clear, then state sends it to the city which must vote then send back to the state for acceptance. The process is not easy when the licenses available are not clear cut. Bistro 222 will soon have their license ~ in the mean time I plan to support Chamas for offering the most wonderful cuisine in Dearborn. It is so important that we support these businesses while waiting for the license.
I am saddened to see the post who will not support such a wonderful restaurant in Dearborn simply because the tenants landlord is Fakoury ~ actually it’s a DAMN shame! Chamas offers the BEST food in Dearborn and had faith enough in Dearborn to attempt such an establishment. Should Dearborn not be thankful and supportive ~ I am certain there are other cities who would love and appreciate Chamas’s culinary gift and vision. I will certainly support Bistro 222 ~ my palette is always satisfied!