October 14, 2004

Kikuchi

Kikuchi Japanese Restaurant in Fitzrovia, London
Brian, Masa and I ate at Kikuchi, a Japanese restaurant just off Oxford Street. Brian and I have been there several times before. It used to be that they charged a minimum of 20 pounds per person but I'm not certain if that rule still applies. We had no problem accumulating such a bill though.

Kikuchi is an Izakaya, a restaurant mainly for drinking that serves a wide variety of dishes. The portions are typically small, the prices reasonable and the atmosphere informal.

Masa was impressed. We had a few different kinds of maki sushi and he commented several times that it was some of the best sushi rice he's ever tasted. He ordered some Tengu-no-mai sake for Brian. It was cold sake and came with a small wooden box to drink from. To my surprise, Brian loved it. I had a couple sips and it was quite smooth. I stuck to my pints of Asahi super dry. They go so well with edamame.