This place in never open. You try for dinner: closed. You try for Sunday lunch and plan your whole day around it: closed. But the elusive Sushirrito, just opened in Palo Alto after popping up in San Francisco, can afford to be this hard (read: impossible) to get because it is, admittedly, that good.

Back home where I come from in Illinois, we don’t have particularly stellar sushi or burritos. Sure, we have a Chipotle, but the food in the Midwest is a few shades blander than the innovative Cali cuisine I’ve found myself privy to since arriving to the Bay. When I heard about Sushiritto, I rolled my eyes a bit. I was not that tempted by the option of an oversized slab of raw tuna claiming to be Mexican food.

But my first bites of Sushiritto in San Francisco last winter intrigued me. Fresh flecks of ginger, wasabi dust, and avocado rolled into sticky rice with hearty (and surprisingly not overwhelming) chunks of salmon satisfy. The flavor combos are delicate, and each bite feels balanced with its fusion of flavors. Especially notable were the “lava nachos”— rice chips covered in tuna picante, pepper jack cheese, avocado, onions. The more I ate, the more I found myself reluctantly “becoming obsessed,” as they say.

To be honest, I hate the way that every storefront on University Avenue sells a different, very specific food: fro-yo, ice cream sandwiches, macarons, expensive little cups of tea. I am not the kind of person who treads in this bastion of capitalist profligacy lightly. So I wouldn’t send you send you to this place without some serious forethought. But Sushiritto is both unusual and delicious enough to make it worth the foray into the thick of PA. Just be sure to go between the hours of 11 and 3 between the days of Monday and Saturday to squeeze into their elusive schedule.