(identity 'myron)

Wed, 31 Aug 2005

Sen Zushi [/personal]

Been a bit of a dry spell for topics to write about, so what better topic to break it than food?

There's always been a little sushi restaurant on Fort street in Victoria, except it was under renovations for a while and I never got to try it out. By accident, I wound up there last night after another restaurant we were planning to eat at failed to open. It was a stroke of good luck, though, as it turned out Sen Zushi is easily one of the best sushi restaurants in Victoria.

It starts with their funky decor. Not traditional, more like a modern take on Japanese decor, which made it feel a bit like restaurants I'd been to in Japan. And even more Japanese was the attention to detail in the utensils used, the table setting and even right down to the little box for shichimi and the accompanying miniature spoon.

The food, of course, was top notch. Especially noticeable was the excellently selected cuts of fresh fish they used for their nigiri. After all the cheap sushi places that have popped up around town here in Vancouver, it's really easy to taste the difference in quality. It was so good, in fact, that I noticed my friend and I started using the soy sauce sparingly so that it wouldn't drown out the taste of the fish.

Bit of a splurge, but it's definitely money well spent. We didn't leave hungry, so it was a succces.

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