Sushi dinner and club night

(Katherine) The first thing we tried to do on our major outing for Friday was to find a sushi place that Robert had read about called Osaka in Palermo. We are HUGE sushi fans in SF, and this is supposed to be one of the best in BA. We arrived around 10:10, and were told we would have a 20 minute wait, so we walked around Palermo to kill time. Upon our 20 minute return, we were seated quite promptly, but once we opened the menu we began to panic.
Our guidebook had only indicated $$$ for this restaurant, but it should have been more like $$$$+. Robert was REALLY hungry, and there is no way we could have ordered enough sushi for the two of us without spending several hundred pesos (again, we're stretching our budget over 9 months. As embarrassing as it was, we pretended that we had to be somewhere & pointed at our wristwatches and left the restaurant. In summary, it was lovely décor and probably delicious, but it was crowded, and the extremely slow service allowed us to escape.
During our earlier trip around Palermo to kill time, we noticed another sushi placed called Itamae Sushi, and once we left Osaka with our poor heads dipped in shame, we returned to this restaurant. The host who greeted us was incredibly kind and also spoke English. He was fascinated with our story of our honeymoon, and completely befriended us while we were there. Our waitress was also super cool, and the sushi was great quality. Although the nigiri was rather thinly sliced, the rolls were very generous. We would definitely like to go back!
We had done our research about a huge chain of a nightclubs called Crobar, and determined the location and approximate time we should arrive. I had been to the Crobar clubs in NY, Chicago and Miami years ago and I remembered them being fun, but I was in my 20's and my musical style was a bit different out of college.
We arrived around 1:40, knowing we were early, but figured we would just see an opening DJ. We were greeted with a request for $100 pesos (more than we have ever paid anywhere else) and upon entry, we found that there was a band playing very random American music in a funk style. They were very good, we will credit them that, but it was extremely similar to watching a wedding band. Again, not a mad musical experience, but nothing like the international DJ experience we were expecting. Finally, the band wrapped and the DJ came on the decks - but his playlist only included Top 40 American music with a bit of a remix. The music + the super young, "Jersey Shore" crowd was enough to make us get back in a cab and run.

Succeed:  We ended up returning to The Basement in our neighborhood, just under the Shamrock Bar, and we were SO happy with that decision.  Once again, the music was amazing – an extremely well blended mix of house music on a great sound system. We thought we had just made it in time for the second act, but being the "late-night" nation that this is, it was only the first, and we barely made it through most of the second act. We left around maybe 5:30-6:00am and the headliner still wasn't on yet – ugh, we still do not know how these people do it! We are determined to make sunrise ONE day on our journey, but probably no more!