… yet, anyway.
But we did have our second-best sushi dinner on the trip last night, at a not-expensive, omakase restaurant called Sushi Yuu.
Two sushi chefs alternated in preparing, and serving, 15+ courses of sensational seameats….
One of the highlights of dinner was a black throat sea perch, glazed with a tongue-clacking umami sauce, wrapped in nori (seaweed)…
This single, sublime, sushi morsel screamed “all aboard — next stop, umami town!”
Sushi Yuu broke my 45-year belief that you cannot have a good dinner in a windowless, basement.
I have reviewed restaurants professionally for 45 years and shudder whenever I dine in a basement restaurant. This always presages a bad meal. I’ve never had a great meal in a basement. Not ever.
And then, last night, the spell was broken!
I had one of my best-ever sushi dinners in a windowless basement!
The omakase dinner with 15+ courses — and an unlimited amount of wine, beer, sake, or whisky highballs — runs $135 per person. A bargain for the quantity and quality.
Put this on your “eat-inerary” if you visit Tokyo.
Sushi Yuu (there are other restaurants with this name, so be sure THIS is the one you book…
4-5-11 Roppiongi Minatao-ku, Tokyo. Tel: +81-03-3404-1134
But Wait, There’s More….!
Earlier in the day we had the best pizza on our Japanese jaunt.
We stopped at Pizza PST. They have two locations in Tokyo, each offering 20 different pizzas fired in a wood-fueled oven.
Most of the pies run $16 and are, hands down, better than anything you have tasted in your home town.
Tokyo pizzaiolos now make some of the best pizzas in the world.
My favorite of the three pizzas we ordered was the most unusual — Butter Chicken Curry Pizza! (below)
Made with fresh Mozzarella, homemade chicken sausage, a stunning butter chicken curry sauce, a dusting of Pecorino and a few leaves of fresh basil — this pie vaulted me into a state of Nirvana. (Or maybe it was the carb load of three pizzas and two beers before noon…?)
There are several Pizza PST locations in Tokyo. Be sure you visit THIS one.
1 Chome-24-6 Higashiazabu, Minato City, Tokyo 106-0044
Tel: +81-03-6277-8064.
After dinner at Sushi Yuu, we walked back to our hotel in the dark.
Unlike most American cities, it is perfectly safe to walk late in the night on even poorly lit back streets here.
The other thing that is strange is the scale of Tokyo — the architecture is not only original but EXCITING and HUGE, with buildings leaping 50 stories all around you.
A couple of shots from our walk… note the gorgeous cherry blossoms, lit up all over the city.
More tomorrow when it happens….
J.
Lit cherry blossoms!! Does it get any better than that??!! Shelley