Climbing the tuna tower at AT Sushi in Syracuse (Dining Out Review)

Syracuse, N.Y. — Exactly how does one serve the tuna tower from AT Sushi when your only utensils are chopsticks? Do you just eat from the plate communally, or do you work from the top down and take portions from each layer?

We went the cake-serving route, which proved to be effective but messy, slicing through the three-layered tower ($11.99) with a chopstick and trying to extract our serving accordingly. Though it sat on top of a foundation of sticky sushi rice, the middle layer of crab salad and top level of chopped sashimi (raw) tuna were structurally unsound, leading to almost instant collapse. We didn’t mind, as the wreckage was complexly flavored. Cool and creamy crab salad, meaty tuna, earthy avocado, and sharp scallions were paired with textural differences from the chewier squid salad and pearls of fish roe.

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