Last night Kevin took me out for my birthday, which was last week, which was packed busy with friends, visitors, and snow. On Friday a blizzard named Nemo came through and dumped 10 inches of snow, and the two of us were worried we wouldn't be able to make it to our seats. We did, and it was a joyous experience. I didn't take pictures until halfway through the meal, only after another girl seated at the bar brought out her iPhone.
We had small bites, the best, freshest uni ever, then moved on to sashimi pieces, then to sushi. It was really cool the way chef Ichimura kept plopping down more pieces of fish as we ate the sashimi, and the way we were instructed to eat the sushi pieces with our hands, and were presented with the little gems one at a time.
The meal started with golden crab and dungeness crab chawanmushi, and ended with a deliciously earthy green tea and a tea pudding. Kevin got for dessert a bowl of mirin ice cream and soy sauce ice cream into which the chef placed a pearl of fresh wasabi and told us in his soft spoken way, "it tastes better."
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| mirin ice cream, soy sauce ice cream, wasabi |
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| tea pudding |
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| monkfish liver and spicy ponzu jelly |
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| clam |
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| aged mackerel |
