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| - The menu here is very pricey, and some things are complete hits, and others are total misses, thus I give it a 3.5-star rating. We started with the crab and corn chowder (creamy, spicy and delicious - $8), chilean sea bass satay (large cubes of cod, cooked rare, tender, with a sweet, tasty sauce - $12). I had the shiitake dumplings ($9 - 5 or 6 in an order, fried, pretty good but nothing stupendous). We got the double salmon roll, which had a lot of mayonnaise on it for my taste, especially since this was not listed as an ingredient on the menu. I probably wouldn't have ordered it if I'd known. The fish was delicious ($14). We also got the hamachi sashimi, a favorite of my dinner partner's. He said the fish was great, but the fennel, apple and avocado sauce added to the dish were a total miss and detracted from the great fish underneath ($14). We both wished the hamachi had been combined with flavors that made more sense for its delicate flavors. Finally, we shared the red curry and rice, which neither of us particularly cared for. It is an all vegetable dish, with tofu, broccolini, butternut squash, and a fried egg I never found in the dish ($17). We opted to skip the entrees, which run from $22-34, and we were glad we did, as this amount of food more than filled us up, with enough for at least one meal of leftovers, despite coming very hungry. We finished our meal with the cashew terrine ($9), which was essentially a trio of pureed cashew and coconut milk bars served with chocolate sauce, candied cashews, and raspberry/passionfruit sauce. Finally, we had the port trio, all of which were wonderful and a relatively good deal ($14 for 3 small glasses).
At a previous event, we also tried soba's food, and got the chance to taste the crispy tofu (bland, but inoffensive, $9), roasted chicken ramen (delicious, $22, enough for leftovers), and pad thai (good, but way overpriced with too many noodles and costing $19, for something I could get at my neighborhood thai joint for $12-14).
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