i used to swear by the chefs menu in jelmoli food department. My god, that used to be nice. The tuna carpaccio is still beautiful, but the chefs menu went downhill when the chef left about a year ago. oh well, things change.
i wanted to try the sala of tokyo but the room itself looked so average that we left without trying... looked like a old swiss restaurant to me. oh well, seems like i missed some nice food.
Will you eat sushi made by any other Asian?
As long as they do it right, I say.
Sausage Crust, Mochi Crust, and Cheddar Sauce Crust (Strawberry Cones, Japan)
As part of its Spring Season Campaign, Strawberry Cones brings you three kinds of exciting crusts:
Mimi Kururin: Filled with "100% pork sausage."
Mocchi-mo: Made out of balls of mochi (glutinous rice paste).
Even the Crust Is Cheddar Sauce: Has a "sticky cheddar taste."
If the crusts aren't exciting enough for you, each pizza is divided into quadrants to bring you four kinds of topping combinations:
7-Variety Veggie Pizza: asparagus, corn, paprika, parsley, eggplant, zucchini, onions, pizza sauce
5-Variety Cheese Margherita: Camembert, Samsoe, Gouda, Steppen, Parmesan, fresh tomatoes, garlic, basil, parsley, pizza sauce
Milakoreno: hamburger, bologna sausage, fresh tomatoes, broccoli, onions, mayo, parsley, pizza sauce
Fluffy Prince and ChikichikiTeri: Charcoal fire-grilled chicken, egg, parsley, mayo, teriyaki sauce
But my point was if someone is trained to cook a certain cuisine, and he/she does it well, I'd eat it, regardless of his/her nationality.
I'm sure there are a few Japanese who can't do sushi very well because they don't have good recipes, aren't well trained and/or have no talent for cuisine.
For me it's also because we are not a coastal country, so getting the freshest, finest pieces of fish are unreliable (in a country that doesn't really have fresh fish at the forefront of its culture).
I know that if I go to a sushi restaurant where the ladies are in Kimodos and noone speaks a language in common, they are eating what I am eating.
The Salmon won't smell of bleach. Tuna, which I love can be deadly if not handled correctly. etc.
If you live outside of zurich, well near Horgen to be precise there is good sushi at a place called Ninki, they do all you can eat too on thursdays, but not every thursday I dont think.
Having said that, the Migros version is pretty good. Surprisingly.
Ishi - Badenerstr, Bezirksgebaude tram stop. We were there last weekend, the sushi is good, the sashimi also very good. Good service, friendly, trendy with a price tag.
Can anyone suggest a restaurant which serves okonomiyaki?
I brought some sauce back with me from Japan last time I was there and tried to make it myself here but without success. Just one of the things I ocassionally crave.
Thanks,
Barbra.
Barbra.
Hi, Gooner. Would you have the phone number of this Samurai restaurant?
Is Wiedikon the town name where it's situated?
Sorry I'm so without clue concerning your neck of the woods.
http://www.gastroplanet.ch/d/restaur...fm?restID=2702
it's in zurich, very easy to get to from zug
For ingredients go to: Nishi's Japan shop , Schaffhauserstrasse 120 (Tram station Guggachstrasse, lines 7 and 14, or lines 9 and 10 at station Milchbuch) in Zürich. The fish however is frozen so you'd have to find another place to get (very) fresh fish.
Also check out this thread .
The Yooji's a Bellevue is pretty cool because they've got the assembly line setup.
Barbra.
I have also provided a very biased (and more or less useless) "Ratbert Sushi Rating" with three very arbitrary factors and a very complicated proprietary, non-discretionary algorithm that generates the score (the factors are cold sake selection, quality of rolls, quality of uni sushi ). Samurai is one of the finest I have come across in all my years of eating sushi. While their sushi and sashimi are generally good, their rolls (maki ) are exceptional and would compare with the best available anywhere in North America (okay, with the exception of Masa , Nobu , etc). The prices are reasonable, the service decent, they have a good selection of sake, and, yes, you have to reserve well in advance. Ratbert Sushi Rating: 3/3 Barfuesser: decent selection of sushi, service is hit and miss. I have only been here once, we ate at the bar and had a nice time but it is too much bar and not enough sushi - if I want to go to a bar and have sushi, this is the place (although Soto in Montreal would be far preferable). RSR: 1.5/3 Yooji's Josephstrasse (Delivery service): Whadda ya expect from delivery sushi? Well Yooji's might just surprise you... Okay, it's not Samurai, not even close, but it is decent quality for a reasonable price and it comes to your front door. Which is nice. Aside from making it yourself (which, IMO, is something which should be left to those of Japanese extraction) this is the best way to get sushi at home in Zueri. Of course if you go there, they have the sake bar, which is great... RSR: Delivery: 1/3 Restaurant: 2/3 Sala of Tokyo: this is a tough one, since (again, IMO) Sala is not a sushi restaurant. It is a very traditional Japanese restaurant that also serves sushi. The sushi is unexceptional. The rice, however, is possibly the best sushi rice I have ever eaten. I have been told that, given the consistent quality of fish in top restaurants, the way that chefs distinguish themselves is by their Tamago (egg sushi) and their rice. Well Sala has been here a long time and they have obviously been giving their rice some thought. That said, I have only been here once, was stuck in the back room with the stinky bbq tables and wafts of not-so-good Tempura oil coming out of the kitchen, and I will not be going back any time soon to find out if it was a fluke. As I said, it's not really for sushi anyway. RSR: 1/3 (no uni, limited sake, limited rolls)