- 整體 5
- 食物 5
- 服務 5
- 氛圍 5
This was the best dining experience of my life. The setting is very snug and intimate, but you make fast friend in the 'not-a-waiting-room' and seated at the tight twelve person U-Shaped table. The servers, chefs, and sommelier weave between one another mastering their own confinement in the interior of the U. They take turns in a symphony of explanations. 'Junmai' means 'pure rice' sake. "This crunchy rice and pork dumpling roll is best eaten with the purple lettuce leaf like a taco.' If I had a complaint it would be that the meal went by too fast and I wouldn't have minded more lingering in the explanations, but I understood completely given the time constraints. Serving thirty-two separate dishes, each no bigger than a few bites, prepared right in front of you, interspersed with drink service and explanations all squeezed impossibly in two hours of culinary joy.
About half of the dishes would have qualified as the most interesting thing I had ever eaten. I had anticipated more of a sushi focus, and there were a few sushi dishes to be fair, but the meal wandered merrily from tapioca dumplings, to mole chicken, to caviar-topped tuna not one of which failed to surprise and delight. The sommelier was patient and enthusiastic, the paired sake course kept pace with the dizzying meal, and he had notes and information for each bottle of sake and wine. My wife and I's particular favorite was an alcohol added sake made by one of the few non-Japanese sake brewers in Japan, which we are now pursuing to the ends of internet.
The meal and drinks were expensive, so I hope it is considered high praise in saying it was worth every penny. If you have the time and the means go to Ukiyo Omakase.