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| - Was looking for a place to take my wife for sushi (rolls) for our anniversary, and found Shimogamo highly reviewed on Yelp. I read that they often get packed during prime hours, so when I saw they take OpenTable reservations I booked it right away.
We arrived, and were greeted by name at the door and seated right away. They weren't completely full, but still at about 75% capacity of their smaller restaurant. It was also happy hour, so we got the full menus, happy hour menus, and a nice order sheet for the sushi so we could just mark what we wanted on that. Waitress was at our table immediately to take our drink order. She was super polite, and extremely efficient.
We ordered 3 rolls and the gyoza appetizer. The Spicy Yellowtail roll showed up within minutes, followed shortly by the gyoza. Both were amazing. I'm usually not a dumpling fan, but these were lightly fried and crispy on a bed of sauce. The yellowtail roll was extremely flavorful compared to other places we've eaten. We barely finished those before our Shimogamo and Las Vegas rolls arrived. Nice presentation, and we were both amazed at how you could taste all the distinct flavors separately in the rolls. The touch of lemon in the Shimogamo roll was just perfect, and seemed to only come through at the end.
I'm no food critic, but eating here made me want to try to describe the food like one. The happy hour prices were awesome, and they're so efficient we were in and out in 35 minutes. And no pictures because we were hungry when we started and didn't want to stop until we were done!
We're going to be regulars now I think. Fantastic.
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