After our so-so first visit, we came back to try out different items off the menu and our experience was so much better this time around.
We ordered sashimi platter (excellent quality, including good uni this time), some negi toros (super yum) and tuna tataki (just ok) which were both on the daily special board. We opted for some Asahi and Sapporo to accompany our meal on a steaming hot day and it was just perfect.
We also tried the hirame with house made yuzu/soy sauce and their house special salad with 3 kinds of seaweed. The hirame was good but I didn't particularly enjoy the change in texture from the yuzu citrus. The seaweed salad, however, was the scene stealer with what was possibly the best sesame dressing I've had the privilege to experience; perfectly creamy and savoury. This salad will be a permanent fixture in my future visits to Aoyama for sure. I just hope they don't take it off the menu.
Although we were pretty full after our initial order, we wanted to try some more a la carte sushi and ordered hamachi belly, kanpachi and mackerel. All the sushi were just excellent with the mackerel being the stand out.
Aoyama offers a great value and experience for sushi lovers like me and my husband who are still hungry after eating at joints like Yasu but don't want to go to other Japanese restaurants with less varieties and inferior quality of fish.
Oh and what we absolutely adore about Aoyama is that they're so quick with their food that it doesn't take long to start eating right after you place your order which is a big plus especially when you arrive hungry.
Will be back....probably too soon. :)