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| - Super authentic casual Japanese restaurant. Its accessible bento boxes and katsu dishes earn it plaudits, but the more rarefied fish (both grilled and rare) are what attract me.
The staff is Japanese and the walls are covered in Japanese baseball regalia near the sushi bar. They take some time to warm up, but the servers and sushi chefs will eventually crack a smile. The crowd is fairly brutal ordering a motley assortment of spicy rolls and fried dishes, but I suppose that's unsurprising.
Musashi is very casual, and so one needs to excuse the floppy menus, powdered wasabi and pink ginger. Where they spend their money is carrying an assortment of fish. Here's a rundown on what I had:
- Sashimi platter - I ordered a la cart a large sampling, but you can do one piece each so everything's very small portion wise. As I said...authentic!
- Anago - delicious, buttery
- ika - squid was a highlight, very light and with a touch of crunch
- surf clam - also delicious, I was feeling their bivalves. They cater to the Japanese palette
- tako - fresh and delicately flavorful. I chomped on it with some shiso leaf and lemon which added zest
- ebi - slightly more flavorful than usual
- saba - marinated and tasty
- hamachi, sake, hirame, maguro - fairly standard although the salmon was better than expected
- ikura - I got this sushi style and was delighted by the freshness and the sushi rice is great here. A good touch of mirin and served slightly above room temperature.
I thought the knife work could have been prettier with the sashimi, however, the selection and relative freshness were both very good. They didn't have any special fish such as toro - they said that specials come in during the weekends. They were out of uni too but sea urchin is not in season apparently.
- hamachi Kama - very fresh, not previously frozen, cooked with some interesting spices
- mackerel - grilled and salted to perfection. Inside secret they get very good mackerel and cook it perfectly so fatty, juicy interior with a crisp skin
- sanma - a little bit of a pain to eat, since I don't do the guts, however, some lemon brings to life and a simply flavorful light fish
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