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| - I came in thinking that their online menu was a tad too standard for my liking. I enjoy trying new things. I was so happy that in the restaurant, they actually had menu specials (like special types of sashimi, etc.)
I have a small gripe with Inatei though. I ordered in two phases (we were hungry, but I wasn't done looking at the menu). During the first phase, I ordered a sashimi dinner, a lobster tempura dinner, and their Japanese wagyu (A5) skewers. During the second phase, I ordered yamakake, grilled ginkgo nuts, fresh crab chawanmushi, Hokkaido scallop skewers, and okonomiyaki. The man who took my order for phase two asked me what I wanted. I waited for him to take out something to write with, because I knew that my order was complicated. He didn't take it out. Instead, he asked me again what I wanted. I then started rattling off my order. Then he got rattled, asked me to wait while he got something to write with, and then we had to start all over again. Sigh.
Sashimi dinner - 15 pieces of sashimi (salmon, tuna, surf clam, mackerel, octopus, scallop, and what I believe was herring - the one that has the yellow fish roe at the bottom). Decent sized pieces. Quite fresh. Scallop was very sweet. Mackerel sashimi, I find, is usually quite dry. This was the juiciest piece of mackerel sashimi I've ever had. It was delicious.
Lobster tempura dinner - lobster tail tempura with assorted veggie tempura. Lobster tail was cut into chunks and battered. The shell of the tail was also battered. It is beyond me why they bothered with that, because there was no meat inside the tail. It was very misleading, because for that price point, I feel like there should have been much more lobster meat than like six small pieces of tempura lobster. Lobster meat was also tough. Liked the tempura shiitake mushroom though. Not many places do that.
Wagyu skewers - served in a small sizzling pan. 2oz for $25 ish? My first time trying Wagyu. Four wagyu pieces on skewers. The pieces were cut a tad thick for my liking, and because of the way it was cut, it didn't melt in my mouth quite the way I wanted it to. I was still recovering from my wisdom teeth extracture and I couldn't use my molars to chew, so that kinda sucked. That being said, this wagyu was incredibly juicy. Mmm.
Yamakake - chopped maguro (tuna) with Japanese yam. I didn't know how the yam was going to be served, but I took a chance. Turns out it was pureed. This had such an awkward texture. The yam looked and felt like slime. Served with wasabi and soy sauce, this had a pleasant taste, but because of the texture, I don't think I'd order this again. It was presented beautifully though.
Grilled ginkgo nuts - two skewers. I really like ginkgo nuts. Roasted, they're slightly addictive. These were slightly tough to chew on and slightly bitter. Probably my least favorite dish of the night.
Hokkaido scallop skewers - Either Hokkaido scallops are very thin, or they took two scallops, cut them in half, and threaded the four halves onto skewers. These were okay. The spice they put on the top was a tad concentrated at certain places.
Fresh crab chawanmushi - chawanmushi is steamed egg, for those who don't know. This was served in an adorable little cup. There was definitely fresh crabmeat in there, and also enoki mushrooms. This was very light tasting, but very pleasant.
Okonomiyaki - with eel. I never expected this dish to be labeled okonomiyaki. All the other okonomiyaki's I've eaten look like thick pancakes, quite on the yellow/brown side of things, and covered in okonomi sauce, Japanese mayo, seaweed powder, and bonito flakes. Inside, there's always tons of cabbage, and at least a little pickled ginger. This looked like the eel pancake you see on a number of Japanese ayce restaurant menus. It's a very flat pancake with no yellow tint. It is topped with eel sauce, eel slices, and bonito flake. The only thing that makes it resemble okonomiyaki in the least is that there were some pieces of cabbage in the pancake. Please don't get me wrong. This was delicious, and at $11 ish, I would get it again. I'm just not sure if this item is labeled correctly.
Two of our meals came with dessert. They gave us 4. Apparently, this is standard procedure for them, and I approve. Four dessert shot glasses filled with a tofu pudding with a red bean topping. I would have preferred the pudding a tad sweeter, as I had the red bean topping before the pudding and then the tofu was sort of tasteless, but all in all, a pleasant way to end this meal.
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