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From the Clash T-shirt on the wall to the surf videos playing on the television in the corner, it's obvious that the Fish Joint is not your average sushi bar. "I'm thinking of throwing in some old Jackie Chan flicks, just to throw in something goofball," said chef and co-owner Davin Waite. "It's always a funny thing to have going on behind a sushi bar."
Funny things are going on in the menu as well. The Ginger house roll, for example, is not named after the spice, but Ginger as in "Ginger and Mary Anne" from "Gilligan's Island."
Waite, 25, was recruited to run the Oceanside restaurant by the owner of a cafe where he hung out after surfing. He hired his younger brother, Loren, to head the kitchen and his wife, Kim, as a waitress. He decorated the restaurant himself and chose a surfboard as a dominant art piece.
While the Fish Joint might seem like a lark on the surface, it is attracting crowds any sushi bar would envy, and it's not the surf videos that are drawing them in.
"I've been making sushi about eight years," Waite said. "Maybe more. I just started making sushi right out of high school."
Waite moved to Santa Barbara and worked there for a couple of years after high school, but had worked for the past six years at Cafe Japengo in La Jolla.
