Hot Plates Coming Through at Nori
Passersby have been either celebrating or scratching their heads at the sign for Nori (761 Eighth St.), heralding another sushi place joining Tomo and Sushi Spot on the Arcata Plaza. But according to its owners, the soon-to-open restaurant in the downstairs spot where Salt Fish House started out before moving to I Street will have a decidedly pan-Asian menu.
While Joe Tan and Jack Wu, both among the partners at Eureka s Bayfront, are planning to offer sushi from the gleaming white counter, the bulk of the menu will be a spread of Taiwanese teppan dishes presided over by chef Yee Wen, whom diners may recognize from the teppanyaki grill at Bayfront. Wen s cooking will be behind the scenes at Nori and he ll be working with different flavors, like black pepper and mushroom sauces for the meat, seafood, tofu and noodles served on searing hot metal plates.
Posted By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill@jfumikocahill on Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 2:36 PM Passersby have been either celebrating
or scratching their heads at the sign for Nori (761 Eighth St.), heralding another
sushi place joining Tomo and Sushi Spot on the Arcata Plaza. But according to
its owners, the soon-to-open restaurant in the downstairs spot where Salt Fish
House started out before moving to I Street will have a decidedly pan-Asian
menu. click to enlarge While Joe Tan and Jack Wu,
both among the partners at Eureka’s Bayfront, are planning to offer sushi from
the gleaming white counter, the bulk of the menu will be a spread of Taiwanese
On Nov. 21, just five days ahead of Thanksgiving, for which Plaza Grill already had 300 confirmed holiday dinner orders and another 200 awaiting confirmation, owner Bill Chino picked up the phone and started calling customers to cancel. A front-of-house employee had just tested positive for COVID-19. The call list was daunting, he says, but it was the right thing and the prudent thing to do.
Plaza Grill was not alone. Within that week, five Arcata restaurants shut down temporarily due to employees possibly being exposed to or testing positive for COVID-19. It was the same week then county Health Officer Teresa Frankovich noted in a media availability that, along with travel, social gatherings beyond the three-household outdoor gatherings allowed under state guidelines including a party with some 100 people in attendance were driving a spike in positive cases that had pushed Humboldt into the purple widespread risk tier Nov. 24 and has only grown steeper in December. The clos