Post by johnb on May 27, 2024 12:04:58 GMT -5
We ate here on Saturday. We'd been to Tokyo Dining, with mixed results, a few times. Overall, I think the new menu is more interesting and better executed than the Tokyo Dining menu.
Our waitress was delightful, very enthusiastic and very detailed in her explanation of the menu (almost to a fault as if she was trained/scripted, making sure we were following along with every page of the menu as she described it, e.g. "please turn to the appetizer page...").
One "miss" was the waitress' description of the Mt. Fuji cocktail which she described as "not too sweet." DW ordered it. It was a pineapple/sugar bomb, and BLUE!! It reminded me of something you'd see on a TGIFridays menu. DD got the Summer's End (per the menu, "Summery, refreshing sake cocktail with strawberry, sake, apple juice, and a splash of citrus juice"); it was much more balanced than the Mt. Fuji--light, a hint of sweetness and refreshing. I went with H2O as nothing on the drink menu appealed to me.
We had one app, the Takoyaki--"Fried batter filled with octopus, topped with spicy mayo and tonkatsu sauce". Excellent. Fried perfectly, just enough sauce, covered with bonito flakes. They disappeared quickly.
We shared the Hashi for 2-4. It's a sushi/sashimi combination served on a Japanese bridge (not full sized, as that would be awkward and probably too much food). It's was the right amount for the three of us to share. The rolls--tuna and cucumber; the nigiri--tuna, salmon, yellowtail, scallop, octopus; eel; the sashimi--tuna, salmon, yellowtail; a small jar of flying fish roe with a little spoon, so you could garnish your sushi as desired, was a nice touch. The quality was decent. It definitely was not Morimoto level, but on par with what we get at home. We did two pieces of bluefin otoro as an add on. It's not inexpensive. Otoro is like tuna butter. I love it. They serve it with a small topping of edible gold leaf, which I'd not seen before and was a nice touch.
Overall, we'd definitely go back. I'd put it in our "mid-level" rotation, with Trattoria al Forno, Skipper Canteen, Kona Cafe and Ale and Compass.
Our waitress was delightful, very enthusiastic and very detailed in her explanation of the menu (almost to a fault as if she was trained/scripted, making sure we were following along with every page of the menu as she described it, e.g. "please turn to the appetizer page...").
One "miss" was the waitress' description of the Mt. Fuji cocktail which she described as "not too sweet." DW ordered it. It was a pineapple/sugar bomb, and BLUE!! It reminded me of something you'd see on a TGIFridays menu. DD got the Summer's End (per the menu, "Summery, refreshing sake cocktail with strawberry, sake, apple juice, and a splash of citrus juice"); it was much more balanced than the Mt. Fuji--light, a hint of sweetness and refreshing. I went with H2O as nothing on the drink menu appealed to me.
We had one app, the Takoyaki--"Fried batter filled with octopus, topped with spicy mayo and tonkatsu sauce". Excellent. Fried perfectly, just enough sauce, covered with bonito flakes. They disappeared quickly.
We shared the Hashi for 2-4. It's a sushi/sashimi combination served on a Japanese bridge (not full sized, as that would be awkward and probably too much food). It's was the right amount for the three of us to share. The rolls--tuna and cucumber; the nigiri--tuna, salmon, yellowtail, scallop, octopus; eel; the sashimi--tuna, salmon, yellowtail; a small jar of flying fish roe with a little spoon, so you could garnish your sushi as desired, was a nice touch. The quality was decent. It definitely was not Morimoto level, but on par with what we get at home. We did two pieces of bluefin otoro as an add on. It's not inexpensive. Otoro is like tuna butter. I love it. They serve it with a small topping of edible gold leaf, which I'd not seen before and was a nice touch.
Overall, we'd definitely go back. I'd put it in our "mid-level" rotation, with Trattoria al Forno, Skipper Canteen, Kona Cafe and Ale and Compass.
