OK, I did it. The platinum version of their Saturday chirashi (around $90):
The cute bottle on the left is their house soy. What’s everything else? Briefly (all numbers below are “o’clock”):
1: Salmon roe
2: Uni (“East coast”)
4:30: Salmon loin
6:00: pickled veg and herbs
7:30: Truffle slice on top of toro
9:15: Japanese mackerel
10:30: Scallop
10:45: Firefly squid
The uni (sweet and clean, among the best I’ve had), the scallop (tender and sweet) and the firefly squid (spectacular) were the three knockouts. Everything else was either very good or very, very good.
There was also, according to the rather faded printout of the accompanying fish list, scorpion fish, salmon belly, yellowfin tuna loin, blackfin sea bass, and kingfish, but it was hard to identify everything.
The presentation was crowded on the small tray and the list, printed on pink on a computer losing ink, while important, wasn’t all that useful in identifying which fish was which. The obvious ones were obvious, and the non- remained so despite the list.
I’ll do it again, because I want to try their sushi, but I can’t urge anybody else – unless flush with extra cash – to rush to do so.
Except that firefly squid – so, so wonderful … I’d go back just for that, with a slice of scallop as a chaser.
