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Sushi Belly Tower to pop up here Saturday

    by Michael Klein
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Short notice, yes, but it's just been announced that Sushi Belly Tower will be in Philly for one night only Saturday.

Sushi Belly what?

Michael Stember, a former Olympic middle-distance runner (he competed here in the Penn Relays 20 years ago as a kid from California), became a sashimi freak while training for the 2000 Sydney Games. This passion turned into invitation-only sushi parties, first in his Stanford dorm room and later on rooftops in L.A.

Now, he's traversing the pop-up-restaurant route. Calling it Sushi Belly Tower (with previous outings in New York, D.C., and L.A.), Stember serves 40 to 100 guests in a cocktail-style interactive feast featuring a live band.

Count on up to 20 courses of ultra-premium sashimi, Wagyu beef flown in from Japan, root vegetables, herbs with multiple salts and oils, and an unlimited open bar featuring cocktails from Philly's Art in the Age.

It's $200 a head, and the location - which is in Center City - is a secret.

Info/contact is here.