Rachel L.
Yelp
My colleagues and I came for lunch and got the Lunch Omakase Tasting ($88). While the style is similar to an omakase, there aren't many interactions with the chefs and the prepared dishes are placed on the countertop for a server to bring them to you. We reserved seats at the bar counter so we could see the chefs preparing the food, but our seats were quite low with the counter acting as a wall in front of us, so you had to get up slightly from your seat to see.
To start, we were served a massive lobster miso soup. Since it was the first course, I knew I would feel full faster with the upcoming courses and wish it came as a later course. Next, we had the sashimi assortment, wagyu and uni, and soy-marinated cream cheese. The sashimi was okay, with my favourite being the toro with its rich butteriness. The soy cream cheese was interesting and tasted a bit like caramel, but also exactly how it sounds. The uni was delightful - I wish the entire roll contained just that. For the nigiri course, my favourites were the toro, salmon, and scallop which was sweet and plump. Next came the aburi set, which featured salmon, saba (mackerel), hotate (scallop), ebi (shrimp), wagyu, and a piece of JaBistro roll. The wagyu was quite thin and underwhelming, and I'm generally not a big fan of mackerel. Normally, I find ebi sushi pretty bland as it's simply cooked shrimp, but they paired it with a house-made mayo that was incredibly delicious when torched and made it one of my top 3 pieces. The other two were the hotate and JaBistro roll, which contained lots of fish (salmon, fresh snow crab, scallop, and tobiko). At this point, we were all quite stuffed but we still had dessert coming. When the panna cotta arrived, we were surprised by the size of it as it was huge, especially for a tasting menu. The smoothness of the dessert was delectable, but the syrup could have been less sweet.
For a tasting menu at $88 with fresh fish, it is definitely worth trying! I recommend coming hungry.