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| - After a very nerve-wracking interview for a position in Japan held in Downtown Phoenix on a Friday night, my family decided it might be a good idea to head over to Sens to help me relax. Seems appropriate, right? Well, we were huge fans of the old Fate restaurant before they changed it into some commercialized abomination... luckily, we had heard that Johnny Chu started a couple of other places that had been left untouched. Fans of Mr. Chu, we decided to give Sens a try, hoping that all of those great times at Fate could be revived ;)
While Sens certainly isn't the same, it was still a breath of fresh air. It is definitely unique and innovative, and definitely not traditional... but that's okay too! The prices were a bit high, but for 4 of us we were actually surprised by how "cheap" the final bill was. It wasn't really cheap, but way cheaper than we had anticipated.
We had some GREAT drinks, one of which was a very strong Japanese vodka infused with Lychee fruit. I don't think I really would order it again, but it was pretty good! Just not my type of drink... extremely strong-tasting!
For food, since they do mostly "family style" dishes where everyone at the table shares, we all ordered a few different things to try out. Pretty much everything except for the riblets was great! I don't really like pork or beef anyway, but these were especially unappealing to me. However, the Wagyu (Japanese beef) they served was very tasty, and I usually hate beef! We got our own binchotan grill, but the waiter helped us out with cooking the beef since we had never done it before.
Other than that, I can't really remember the names of what we ordered... but it was all good! (Except for those riblets...) The staff was awesome, it wasn't too busy, very small but comfortable, and the DJ was pretty awesome. He was a really nice guy, and I think he did some DJing at Fate a few years ago too. Not sure though. The music was also pretty cool!
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