Thanks to a $250 gift card from a client who has a tendency to credit me with pulling off miracles when I have actually just done my job, a friend and I enjoyed omakase at Cafe Sushi last night. They now give you a menu with the night’s lineup which is great to help remember what you might want another piece of.
Course one: maguro with chimichurri cantaloupe mostarda and iced onion. Amazing how much flavor was packed into these small bites.
Course two: madai, kinmedai and kinki (l to r). All great but the kinki was mind-blowing.
Course three (what I always think of as the pink course): umi masu, iwana and king salmon (l to r). All fantastic.
Course four: sunomono, a lovely rice vinegary salad with cukes, wakame, little cubes of something tasty and bay scallops for my friend, barramundi for me. Really refreshing and tasty. Forgot to take a pic.
Course five: kamasu, sawara, iwashi. I love these stronger, oily fishes and last night’s were no exception. I found the iwashi particularly excellent, my friend was knocked out by the sawara. I seem to have forgotten a pic of that course too.
Course six: ishigakidae, kanpacha, shima aji. Devra First calls these the crowd-pleasers and they were.
Course seven: my friend got the pair of uni. She had never had uni, was game to try it but not a fan. I got a piece of maguro and torched fatty salmon belly with ikura on crispy nori.
My friend wanted to try my course seven, I wanted to repeat it, our fabulous waitress Kelsey wanted us to try the Maine eel and I wanted more iwashi so we each had “dessert”. If you are there and they have the Maine eel, it was spectacular, if we could possibly have shoved anything else in we would have had another round of that.
Thank goodness for grateful clients!
