Lilli Stein
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We were catching a concert at MGM on a very busy Friday and were lucky to find Nagomi Izakaya. We easily got a seat at 6pm and were placed at a beautiful table for two in a serene setting. My partner is operations manager at Brooklyn Kura sake brewery, so when my dad spotted their “Blue Door” on the menu among some other fine selections (BK’s partner brewery Hakkaisan, Dasai), I was very pleased. We of course shared a bottle. My dad is an uni freak and fortunately Nagomi has a whole uni rice bowl on the menu. It did not disappoint. He is still talking about it. He got a whole box of fresh Japanese uni atop a bed of perfectly seasoned rice. In New York that would have run him at least $100 and here it was less than half that. I got the unavoidable Nagomi special don which was another rice bowl that had all the best things about planet earth atop. Truffle, caviar, ikura, toro, uni, fresh sashimi… I was in heaven. And again, with something that in NYC I wouldn’t have batted an eye if I’d been charged $100 for it (I live there now, originally from NH, and I always knew Boston sushi was better…). I was full off my glorified chirashi bowl, but my dad was like a kid in a candy shop after the uni bowl and kept ordering his particular favorites that he can’t get in NH - hamachi hand roll, futo maki, ika sushi … and of course ice cream. He’d never had mochi before, so we ordered two mochi ice cream plates which came with three flavors. He’s a convert now. And he’s already trying to bring my mom back to this splendid find of a restaurant, tucked away just enough, but not too far at all from the other Fenway hullabaloo. Come for the sushi, obviously, but also come for the other Japanese specialties on the menu.