Tag: Japanese
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Uchi
Last night’s omakase dinner with Trisha. My favorite dish was the negitoro roll, the fried tofu dish, and the eggplant.
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Robin
This week’s dinner was at Robin. I hadn’t eaten here since before the pandemic, but Andrea had eaten here with Trisha since then. Back then, I really enjoyed the modern take on sushi and enjoyed the rap music playing as background music. So I was really looking forward to coming here again, but wondered if
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Hand Roll Project
We’re looking for an impromptu dinner with sushi. This was a place I was curious about based on all of the hype it received in the press V V, probably because one of founders was Geoffrey Lee from restaurant Juni (one Michelin star) and they were expanding on the handroll concept. This restaurant currently doesn’t
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Yuji
We eat out a lot so always in something new and unique. This week I had us booked at Yuji, a kappo-style Japanese restaurant with a scant 8 seats in the heart of Japantown that just opened up a couple weeks ago. You can’t book them on OpenTable, Resy, or Tock (or even Seven rooms)
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Wako
I’ve been wanting to come back here…we last ate here pre-pandemic, although we did do take out during that time and as good as that was, it’s not nearly the same. Last time we ate here, we weren’t seated at the counter, but this time I made sure we were and that makes a big
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Sato Omakase
This is a new multi concept restaurant that just just added their 10-seat omakase counter a few weeks ago. Seating is not socially distanced like The Shota was, so was a little tight if you are concerned about that. Of course we went to the first seating since I’m old and like to go to
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The Shota
Back to our regular Thursday evening dining routine. This was the last Michelin starred restaurant in SF at which we had not yet dined and was one added during the most recent guide. The restaurant only had 11 diners seated while we were there (pre-Covid, they sat up to 18). Decor was Japanese minimalist and
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Nisei
Trying another new restaurant that sounded interesting…like the word Nisei, the food was a very modern Japanese-Californian cuisine with some very creative ingredient combinations and flavors (no surprise since the chef also had worked at wd-50 at one point). The wine pairings worked well (I personally would have been stumped on how to pair with
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Izakaya Rintaro
Impromptu dinner since we were at Rainbow Grocery and this place was around the corner and looked interesting. We sat outside since we were walk ins and that was all that was available. It worked out since our was a lot quieter outside than in.
