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| - This place is more of a Japanese restaurant than an izakaya place since their menu is extensive, wide range of menu options from sashimi/sushi to cooked food. Pricing is more on the expensive side, but they do have a lot of creative and interesting items on their menu.
Black Diamond Roll ($16)
This comes with 5 pieces. Crab meat and cucumber avocado sushi roll topped with a piece of eel, topped with foie gras, and edible golden flakes as garnish on top. I loved this. Surprisingly the foie gras were decent sizes on each roll piece, all equivalent in size. The eel and foie gras added great flavor and texture to the roll itself. I would never think to have eel and foie gras going together, but turned out really tasty. The foie gras was nicely seared, and melted well with the eel and sushi roll all in one bite. Definitely a must try!
BBQ Eel Pancake ($6)
Essentially this was a japanese style pancake topped with pieces of bbq eel. I liked how it was not thick and doughy, and with it being thin made it nice and crispy. I do think it could have more pieces or bigger pieces of eel on each pancake slice, but can't complain as it's portion was decent for 6. It did lack a bit of flavor, could use more sauce.
Flaming Negi chu-toro on rice ($14)
At first when this dish arrived I was thinking, please don't tell me this bowl is just seared chu-toro on top of rice! Surprisingly under the seared chu-toro were chunks of negi chu-toro mixed in the rice. Really tasty!
Seared chu-toro with Yuzu pepper ($13)
Sashimi was fresh, nicely seared on the ends. It tasted good and refreshing, the yuzu pepper flavor wasn't that strong though.
Baked Oyster with Cheese & Spinach ($6.50)
This was nothing special. I was kinda hoping the oyster to be slightly bigger. I didn't like how the spinach was minced and mixed with the cheese.
Saba ($6)
This was one of their daily specials. Marinated mackerel and slightly seared. I was surprised it was served in quite big thick pieces. I really liked this, but would have preferred it be slightly more seared.
I love the atmosphere of this place, a nice chill place for a group of friends. Definitely coming back to try their other food items!
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