nishino, you never fail to blow my mind. sitting in front of mori at the sushi bar is pretty much the best way one can spend an evening. beef negimaki is on the menu for winter and is a more than respectable meal in itself. but oysters with uni, caviar, and roe are a necessity of their own.
i’m going to see if i can take advantage of my wordpress app a bit more, to post a bit more frequently, if not as prettily and comprehensively as i’d like. last night I ended up at chino’s for a friends and family soft opening. they’ve taken the amazing location that used to be oasis [...]
hearing that charles walpole, former chef of anchovies and olives, was opening a restaurant made me ecstatic. hearing it was called the blind pig reduced my excitement by about 75%. how can one keep track of all the pork-driven restaurant names these days? there are restaurants with pork names in other languages. restaurants with names [...]
get it while you can – shiro’s has fresh, local uni right now and it’s fantastic. sweet and salty and deep without any fishiness or that metallic flavor uni can sometimes have. not just that, but it’s a great excuse to get down to shiro’s, something i often forget to do. the chawanmushi is as [...]
this past week has been epic as far as new restaurants go. going places in their first month is usually disappointing and inaccurate, but sometimes it’s hard to restrain myself and opt instead to keep an open mind and give second chances. here they are: marché – not exactly new, marché is the reincarnation of [...]
sorry. i’ve been gone. both physically and out of town and also extremely distracted by other (wonderful) life happenings. my favorite week in a long time took place in nyc recently – i ate so well it’s almost disgusting (but so not). i’ll leave you with the highlights. 1. lunch at 11 madison park – [...]
may i point out – the other night i had the meal at sitka and spruce i’ve always wanted to have (since they moved and expanded, that is). every dish was summer, in flavor and in color, and felt as though it was doing the stomach a favor. raw albacore was laid flat with chanterelles [...]
there are currently a couple great opportunities for checking out new places. whether it’s too soon to do so really depends on how much tolerance you have for learning curves. i did some of the legwork for you, though. at ba bar, the new venture of monsoon’s eric banh, open now for almost two weeks, [...]
i had meant to get so much done on the train. or at least send an email and get started on a book (reading it, that is). instead, i slept. in fact, that is really how a trip to portland works. it feels a bit like being in seattle while you’re there – a baby [...]
rn74 doesn’t feel like seattle. and it’s great. there’s something big city about it, and the crowd is different than that of most trendy seattle restaurants – it’s the people who actually work downtown. no seattleite would put a sleek restaurant on one of the grimiest corners of downtown – and yet, thank god someone [...]