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| - Monday night dinner - it was packed.
My friend had a two or three glasses of scotch. I had a glass of Malbec. They kept forgetting our drinks =(
Carte Blanche that night with the 4 drinks came to about $300
My eyes are bigger than my stomach. Even though majority of the dishes are light, we were pretty full by the time the snack portions were finished.
There were a few items that just fascinated you but it was more of the presentation and the aroma .. it wasn't the taste, and the the opposit of course.
When I was talking to another friend about it, he reminded me that the restaurant has the feel of Chateaubriand in Paris. I agreed. Just way to dim in there ... at some point i had a hard time figuring out what i was looking at. Good disguise to hide poor presentation?
It was delicious. I think I can come here 2x a year ... Kaji ... i feel once a year is enough. Or at least i can come here and order a la carte!
A la carte that evening:
Oysters - yum!
Geoduck - alright!
Beet - with goat cheese i think, okay
inari - ok
nori - yum, needed more nori to go with their paste
devil'd egg - yum
mussel - double yum
salmon - yay! and we couldn't tell where the food ended and which was just for display
lobster roll - yum but could be so much better
shishito - easy dish not that special, but shishito peppers are one of my favs anywhere
falafel - special hummus that came with it. .. okay
potato with seaweed butter? I devoured the butter
freezie - quality grape freezie yum ... if only i were a kid again
bread ... uhmmm nut bread, warm ... was okay, it wasn't one of those warm bread that you want to ask for more ...
yam - soup ///// getting into the heavy main dishes ... yummy but getting full!!
beet/hamachi - can't remember
egg - egg, egg foam, truffle ... i was getting full so i didn't devour the egg yolk when i found it
trout/cauliflower ... you had to have it with the skin because the peanut brittle only went well with that skin on the trout
Chicken/carrot - yum, but we only ate one of two pieces
parsnip ... it was a light sweet dish. It didn't taste like parsnip
pocky - i really wanted more dessert but my stomach knew this was a perfect ending, homemade pocky is all it could fit by then.
It took us 3.5hrs to finish that meal. It was one of those meals you have to have good companion who enjoys food to make it even more enjoyable.
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