A note on the words: washoku means Japanese cooking in the traditional sense, so the restaurant’s name reads roughly “sushi and Japanese food.” Omakase means leaving the choice to the chef; tsumami are the small savory plates you eat while drinking, and the course names here play on both words. Sakizuke is the small opening dish of a Japanese meal, ohitashi is a lightly boiled green in dashi, and ankake is a thickened savory sauce poured over a dish. Tamagoyaki is the rolled, layered omelet; agedashi tofu is tofu lightly fried and served in dashi. Among the fish: madai is red sea bream, akagai is ark shell clam, sawara is Spanish mackerel, kinme is splendid alfonsino, otoro is the fattiest belly cut of tuna, kohada is gizzard shad cured in vinegar, and anago is saltwater eel, here simmered. Gari is the pickled ginger you eat between pieces, and saikyo-yaki is fish marinated in sweet white miso and grilled. Shochu is a Japanese distilled spirit, here made from barley and served long with soda.
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Hello, this is Hangover Meshi. This time it is a meal with company at eat Sushi to Washoku, a sushi place in Azabu-juban! It keeps turning up in my searches here and there, so it had been on my mind. Sushi is presumably the main event, but they also do washoku small plates to drink with, so I am looking forward to it! The location is about halfway between Azabu-juban and Roppongi Hills. The place is hemmed in by alleys, and not knowing which side the entrance was on I duly ended up going round the back. ^^ That must happen a lot. There was a note and a map properly set out for it.
From this sign you head down to the basement.
Omakase 14800 yen
Tsumakase 9800 yen
Sushimakase 10800 yen
There is the omakase course, a course heavy on small plates, and a course heavy on sushi. You choose from the three!
This was the first stop of the night, so I picked the sushi-heavy Sushimakase.
What comes first is the sakizuke and one small plate.
The sakizuke was something like an ohitashi, if I remember right. The small plate was a vegetable dish in ankake sauce.
At sushi places I feel like the opening bite and the small plates often use fish too, but since washoku small plates are one of this restaurant’s selling points, it must mean they also serve ones built plainly around vegetables! Not bad at all.
And to go with it, barley shochu with soda! Soda-and-shochu really does settle me down.
And here are the first three of the ten pieces of sushi.
Squid, madai, akagai.
They use ordinary vinegar and red vinegar for different pieces. The madai gets the red vinegar.
The akagai is succulent and very good!
Sawara, scallop, kinme.
Lately I get the impression dishes using sawara have been increasing at every restaurant. Are they catching a lot of it, I wonder?
It used to be little more than saikyo-yaki, and now it turns up as a plain sushi topping!
And then the scallop, and the kinme with its good fat.
Otoro and kohada.
These feel like two more or less opposite tastes, or textures, so it is interesting that this is what comes at the end!
Starting with the otoro. Melting toro, properly delicious.
And then finishing with the vinegar of the kohada for a clean palate. Somehow I ended up using the kohada like gari, ha.
Ten pieces of sushi alone might not be enough, I figured, so I decided to add a few small plates.
After small plates along these lines, the last thing was simmered anago.
A bowl of soup to finish.
Since it is casual sushi, the fact that you can use it without ceremony is nice! On the other hand, unless you go for the standard course the sushi is on the small side, so it may leave you wanting a bit more. It may also be that it looks like less because it comes out in batches, ha. The ones served a piece at a time do tend to feel more satisfying. ^^ I think it is better to come in the frame of mind of drinks and small plates, with a bit of sushi in among them!
eat Sushi to Washoku (Sushi / Azabu-juban Station, Roppongi Station, Akabanebashi Station)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.4
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
