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| - My favorite meal for this Vegas trip was Morimoto. I'm a big fan of Chef Morimoto and this restaurant didn't disappoint me at all.
We had a helpful waiter who I forgot his name(maybe Brad?) I don't recall. We came in as a party of 8 but he allowed us to have half the table order their take on chefs recommendation set(or what he thought were the most popular items in the restaurants) and allowed the other half to order entrees of our own. Usually when you get chefs recommendation style, the whole table would be forced to all get it but we were glad that we were able to get a bit of everything to try.
We ordered the braised black cod, surf and turf, seafood topan yaki and two side orders of duck fried rice. The chef recommendation that our waiter have got for us consisted of sticky ribs, beef capraccio, yellowtail tacos, Rock Shrimp Tempura, a sushi platter that consist of rolls and raw, the ribeye, and two desserts.
I will start off with the bads. I dont particularly recommend the duck fried rice. It's aite but personally its not really worth to get it at its price. A bit too dried as well. The other thing that was surprisingly not great was their sushi platter. I thought Morimoto would thrive at their sushi and such but it was really mediocre. With that said, the winner of it all goes to their Rock Shrimp Tempura. Their rock shrimp tempura that are in two styles( wasabi aioli and spicy kochujian sauce) with a side of celery(think of eating wings) + blue cheese sauce was pretty horrendous. It was like their take on the chinese style mayo walnut shrimp but worse. This dish just didn't come together for me and the flavors didn't make much sense. It was the memorable dish that I wanted to forget.
Goods: everything else was pretty damn good. I would say the one that stand out to me the most was actually their ribeye. First of all, I didn't know they offered steaks but it was overwhelmingly delicious. It was actually one of the better steaks I've had that might be able to compete with Craft and that is some high praising cause Craft Steakhouse(which is next door)is the best. Not only was it seasoned well, it was almost melt in your mouth good and you can tell high quality it was. Some other dish that were memorable was the yellowtail/hamachi tacos. It was really refreshing and delicious. The surf and turf, I thought the turf part was forgettable but I forgot the sashimi style yellowtail(almost like a capraccio) was pretty delicious but I prob wouldn't order this again just to eat 50% of the dish. Beef carpraccio, which I thought was pretty delicious, Had a nice sauce and it comes with a fair amount. Another surprise was their sticky ribs. For a japanese restaurant, I wouldn't think of coming here to get their ribs but damn it was fall off the bone good which allowed me to just fork the sticky ribs off and eat it instead of having to dirty myself using my hands. The seafood topan yaki was okay. I thought they were generous with the amount of seafood they had. You can think of almost any kind of seafood and it'll be there consisting from clams-mussels-scallop-crab-lobster. I thought the desserts were fairly nice as well. The donuts were really soft and fluffy. Just the right amount of sugar around it and you can squeeze the amount of custard you want in it. The chocolate dish was a nice show to watch and I thought it was pretty delicious as well.
The chefs recommendation cost $396 for 4 people. Personally given the amount of food they gave us, I thought it was a reasonable price for how good it tasted. I just really recommend that you substitute the rock shrimp tempura for something else.
I would definitely come back.
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