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| - I give Ginko a 4 star overall, the sushi itself should be 5 but the overall experience is 4. I love the décor and the sushi bar. It transfer you to a real sushi place in one of the Asia city. Warning: the place is really small, beside the sushi bar, there are only two booths and each could fit 4-5 peoples.
We have 5 peoples and we are celebrated someone's birthday; we reserve the booth and want to try their Shabu Shabu which only available in the booth. Since we have 5 peoples and we order everything and share. We try a lot of dishes: the six courses tasting menu, otsukur omaskase (chef selection sushi), ginko nigiri (9 pc sushi set dinner), shabu shabu, extra sushi, and appetizers.
The shabu shabu is the biggest disappointment of the night, luck we only order the angus beef for $25. There is thin slices beef with some vegetable. No big deal, there is no noodle with it and the broth is just water, not much taste. However, the sauces for dipping are very good.
The appetizers to recommend are the Oyster 3 ways and the Unagi/Foie Gras sushi. The Oyster 3 ways come with 3 different sauces. Their Unagi (BBQ Eel) cook perfectly and top with Foie Gras are a nice touch.
The sushi is to die, very fresh fishes and the sushi rice is excellent. They have a large selection of fishes and roes, the sea urchin is especially fresh so did the sweet shrimps. The nice touch is they deep fried the shrimp head as real Japanese sushi bar will do. The sushi rice is very tasteful, it is not too sweet or sour, and you can taste the individual grain.
At the end we share the dessert: Harumaki (fried banana); very good chocolate sauces for the crispy fried banana.
Next time we will try their sushi bar, and order their Omakase sushi (Chef Selection). For Cleveland area, we are lucky to have such high quality sushi bar
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