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| - Summary: Very good, but not amazing. Quality is excellent, flavors are very good, menu is creative and service is attentive. Value is alright, but some of the more popular items will not be very substantial. They also ran out of the popular chocolate dessert and didn't mention it early on despite a 6pm dinner reservation.
My wife and I visited Morimoto for the first time on a Monday evening for a 6pm reservation. We arrived a little early and got a couple seats at the bar to try the cocktails while we waited for our table to be ready. I ordered the Devil's Advocate and my wife got the Asian Pear, but after sipping our beverages we ended up swapping because we liked the other's drink better.
Soon our table was ready, so we closed out at the bar and were escorted over. The server walked us through the menu, highlighted the more popular items and mentioned some of the specials for the evening. Having done some reading on Yelp prior to our visit, we had a good idea what we were going to be ordering. Here is what we got:
Toro tartare - A thin layer of very soft and tender tuna accompanied by a variety of sauces and some crunchy bits for texture. They even provided a tiny spatula to scoop tuna and some sauce, then try the various flavor and texture combinations. The quality was excellent, but the quantity wasn't stellar for the price.
Morimoto sushi - Four pieces of layered fish (of different types) in cubes presented with a handful of little pipette tubes full of various sauces to pour on top and try different flavor combos. This is a nice idea, but with only four pieces of sushi and more pipettes provided a 1-to-1 trial isn't even possible. If you share the dish, you are further encumbered. That said, the sauces were pretty subtle to me, so not much additional impact from their presence. The fish was good, though.
Surf and Turf with Foie Gras - A piece of non-Japanese wagyu beef paired with a hamachi salad. We also added some foie gras to the top of the steak, which added a very nice touch to the very tender cut. This dish was very tasty and well prepared.
Spicy green beans - Classic dish well prepared with properly cooked green beans that weren't too firm or too soft, but were packed with flavor. The spice was good, though certainly nothing too intense.
All in all, the service was great and the food was excellent, but the value element was missing. We were also excited to try the flaming chocolate ball dessert, but they had run out by the time that we had ordered.
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