$60 omakase dinner at Yuzu (236 Adelaide St W, Toronto) not including tax + tip.
Courses:
- 4 piece amuse-bouche in wooden boxes: oyster + raw quail egg shooter, deconstructed crab claw, haddock fried in yuzu sauce, eel stuffed with burdock.
- Soup with shrimp dumplings (contains chopped shiso), shiitaki mushroom, asparagus, and lotus root.
- Presentation of aji (horse mackerel) on a bed of fried leeks, herb, with a tiny deep-fried crab perched on a bamboo leaf, surrounded by ice pellets and pebbles.
- A selection of tempura: eggplant, unagi eel, and shiso leaf.
- Sauteed black cod marinated in a mizo sauce.
- A tiny hot pot of shrimp, enoki mushroom, chinese cabbage and green onions.
- A selection of 4 slightly seared nigiri: shrimp with raw quail egg, + 3 others (most distintive was the octopus flesh which was carved as a tiny octopus with little tentacles).
- Vanilla ice cream with home-made strawberry jam and gelatinous cubes of seaweed.