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| - I really wanted this place to be awesome. I love Japanese food and have tried many that are excellent from Japan to New York. So when I heard of this restaurant, heralded by a Michelin starred chef I had high expectations.
Aside from the very small and intimate venue, he is currently only open for lunch. While small, his other parties were running behind so we had to wait an extra 30 minutes despite having/forced to have reservations. As an apology we were offered free dessert which I will address later.
For the main courses we could select from tonkotsu ramen, black curry, or omurice (omelette on rice). Seeing as how I wanted to experience what this chef could deliver I ordered the ramen and the curry.
The wok charred pork tonkotsu ramen was decent, and the charred actually translated into a burnt flavor. Decent but not as good as say monta or ippudo in Japan.
The curry was a black beef curry that actually was better than the ramen, but still you could get a better curry at a real curry joint like Zen curry. I could tell that he used high quality beef, prime if not better but in the end both dishes weren't anything outstanding and you could find better alternatives, even locally.
The dessert was some sort of green tea tiramisu, but it just failed to be a tasty dessert, we didn't even bother trying to finish it.
For now this gets a 3 star, I am hoping his dinner offering improves.
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