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A couple of weeks ago we took our daughter out for her birthday. There's a sushi place in San Diego that she turned us on to last year that was so good we went back again this year. Basically, their go-to meal is what they call omakase, which in Japanese means "I leave the details up to you." You sit at the sushi bar and watch the chef go through a pre-determined sequence of dishes. This place is pretty small, maybe six tables and room for eight or ten at the sushi bar. But it's gotten a Michelin star for the past three years. Pretty food if you like this kind of stuff. All the plates are really small but they eventually add up. You start out with a small bowl of miso soup, then the good stuff starts coming.

Menu





Halibut





Oyster, tofu skin tofu, sprat, shishito pepper





Salmon roe





Deep fried shrimp head and shell (I ate half of it before I remembered to take a picture)





Clockwise from left: sardine, toro, amberjack, scallop, center: bluefin tuna





Cod roe





Chilean seabass





Cured mackerel with white kelp





Japanese barracuda





Spot prawn





Uni (sea urchin roe)





Tuna skewer with shichimi togarashi (seven peppers spice)





King mackerel





Triggerfish with triggerfish liver





Goldeneye snapper with Himalayan pink salt, yuzu juice and yuzu skin





Soup





Dessert (some kind of custard with chocolate covered coffee bean)

I'll pass on the raw fish et. al. A nice seafood Gumbo will work for me along with a fried seafood platter.

I'm jealous. Living near the coast has its benefits.

I love sushi (raw fish, et. al.) and I've still never heard of half the stuff you ate. How did it taste?

HighPlainsGrifter wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:37 pm I'm jealous. Living near the coast has its benefits.

I love sushi (raw fish, et. al.) and I've still never heard of half the stuff you ate. How did it taste?

It all was awesome. For me sushi is mostly ahi, yellowtail, salmon, halibut and maybe scallops. This stuff was all or mostly imported imported from Japan probably on the same day.

Shit was expensive but every bite was something special.

Mikey wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:45 pm For me sushi is mostly yellowtail and halibut.

and lots of it.

Yellowtail is probably my favorite, followed by salmon. Tuna is okay but give me yellowtail 10:1 over tuna.