Restaurant review

My list of restaurants that I can dine at is currently quite small. I can always go in someplace and see if anything they serve is gluten free or possibly safe for me to eat, sure, but I always eat feeling nervous about if gluten has gotten into my food one way or another.

None of the Thai  places around here use gluten free soy sauce, so I haven't had Thai in a while. I stopped eating sushi after I found out if they use imitation crab I could be ingesting gluten. I have 3 sushi places within reasonable driving distance of my neighborhood, two of which I was not impressed with, the ingredients were poor and I left feeling gross, even avoiding rolls with crab (And I don't ever dip my sushi in sauce). But last  night Mr.beam wanted to treat me. I had been stuck in the house far to long and needed the outing.

We were going to try the third sushi place,  Mio Sushi had  been around for months in the corner of a building we had to drive by to go to  Mr. Beams mothers, I was always curious to try it as the last 4 business's to rent that corner quickly went out of business and this place seemed to thrive. Unlike the other sushi place's this one was not dominated by a sushi bar, It had a bright and clean feeling, we were seated and given our menus, two menus each. One was a  tri-fold menu of all there items (from sushi to soup and salad to bento) while the other one was two sided with pictures and laminated. We were given a wet erase marker for the laminated menu, which featured there sushi selection, a description of what was in it and price, along with a blank box for you to write the quantity you wanted. I got very excited when I saw that they specifically put that they used REAL crab (and the prices reflected it as well, I don't mind paying for quality as long as I get what I pay for) and they stated that ALL there sauces were made with gluten free soy sauce (with 3 exceptions, which came with gluten noodles or tempura anyway!)

 Ordering was prompt, friendly, and respectful, answering all of our questions. The prices are very reasonable (the more seafood you have in the roll the more expensive it is) We stuck with what we knew and usually like, we shared an order of Ichi (crab, cucumber, shrimp, & sweet chili sauce, topped with peanuts) rolls, I got an Alaska (crab, cream cheese, cucumber, & sesame seeds) roll and Mr. Beam got a double crunch  (spicy tuna, shrimp tempura, crab, avocado, &sweet sauce) roll. Everything was delicious and I felt so satisfied afterwards. It has defiantly earned its spot on my approved dining out list :)

http://www.miosushi.com/