I've always wanted to order the Omakaze at Japanese restaurants so we all decided to try it. Omakaze is where the sushi chef selects your WHOLE meal, from appetizers to main course to dessert. Sorry for the small dark pictures but the restaurant lighting is a "no go" for delicious pictures.
Started off with a house salad: lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, red cabbage, Japanese dressing.
Appetizer 1: Tuna tartare with goat cheese and a wasabi sauce. Very flavorful! The punch of the tuna and it's spicy seasonings blended with the rich almost sour taste of the goat cheese. The wasabi sauce added another dimension in spicy but milky taste!
Appetizer 2: Tempura vegetables. Bleh. Tasted like fried vegetables which is always delicious. I got my sweet potato fix and Glenn got his broccoli.
Appetizer 3: Seafood ceviche. Shrimp, crabmeat, salmon, and cucumber in a miso sauce. The seafood tasted great but when you got to the cucumber, the miso sauce was TOO powerful and tasted too sweet and too sour!! Glenn said it tasted like "Marshall's Department Store". Great presentation though.
Appetizer 4: Fried salmon skin rolls. Fried with cream cheese and too fishy for my taste. Blah! Did NOT taste fresh.
Main Course: Sushi with eel, red snapper, white tuna, salmon, tuna. Fish was okay. Big chunks and was definitely fresh, but nothing special.
We all though this was main course 1 and was expecting a variety of rolls and sashimi to follow. But sadly, this was the only main course.
Dessert: Some sort of sweet bean custard with honey drizzled on top and whip cream. I enjoyed it for it's slightly sweet taste. A very Asian dessert due to it's underwhelming sugary flavor.
Now, we still like Beluga but we just wouldn't go there for the Omakaze again. The appetizers were great but what we really wanted was FISH FISH FISH. We were disappointed at the main entree and lack of rolls and would rather pick what we want next time. I guess we all are control freaks in the end.
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