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| - Japango has been my go to restaurant for a while now, but Yutaka has recently won me over. How? One big piece of heavenly otoro.
I went for their Chef's Sushi Lunch ($28) which includes 10 pieces of nigiri sushi and 6 pieces of maki. The maki was negitoro, which was excellent. The nigiri sushi were also excellent, especially the big, fatty piece of otoro. The sizes of the sushi pieces were also excellent.
For comparison, I ordered Japango's deluxe sushi dinner ($30) which includes 12 pieces of nigiri and 6 maki. The maki was a shrimp tempura roll, which didn't feel on par with negitoro. In addition, the nigiri fish selection weren't as great. There were 2 pieces of maguro and 2 of salmon. The rest were ok, but overall I didn't feel the "wow". Even though there were 12 pieces, the size of each piece was much smaller. Japango's sushi is still excellent though. Japango's 55 dollar sushi moriawase is an excellent set with an awesome sake clam appetizer and otoro sushi in the set, but 55 is a bit expensive and I can't order that all the time.
I think Yutaka has won me over as the go to place when I want a kick-ass sushi set with otoro. For $28 before taxes, the Chef's Sushi Lunch is a great deal. The thing that would make it even better for me is including Uni. Of course, fish selection is seasonal and can change from time to time, and it might depend on the chef, but I will go back to Yutaka to try the Chef sushi dinner to see if it will trump the lunch. if it includes Otoro and Uni, then it will be heavenly!
Quality: 9/10. Service: 8/10. Value: 8.5/10. Overall: 9/10 (Not an average).
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