[MrMetropolitan]

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Morimoto Philadelphia.

$120 omakase with $85 drink pairings.

This came with some sort of sharp/crisp white wine. I kinda suck at drinking wine so don't pay attention to my comments on the drinks.

Toro tartare. Good. Nothing incredible. The tartare had some scallion tempura on top which added a very next textural contrast.

3 kumamoto oysters

Fish sauce + jalapeno

Not very good.

Something salsa

Good and refreshing

Cilantro ceviche

Good, my friend's favorite. I liked it equal to the salsa.

Came with a morimoto martini, not bad. A lot less strong than I expected. Morimoto sake + vodka, with some cucumber slices.


2003 savignon blanc from new zealand

New style sashimi. Ginger and garlic scallops "seared" by pouring hot oil over it and finishing with yuzu soy sauce (isn't that just ponzu?). Super super super delicious. Chris says check mark for wine pairing. I have no clue. One of the two stand out dishes.

1993 Chardonnay France.

Sashimi salad. Skipjack sashimi with carrot sauce and yuzu. Micro greens and a shaved and cured piece of bonito. Almost like a jerky.

The fish is good and very fresh, and the sauce is pretty good. I think it needs a little more seasoning, but good. The jerky is pretty unpleasent in taste and texture.

The wine is too strong for me, but Chris loves it. He says its his favorite.

Black vinegar cream soda intermizzo. Its like cream soda. It's in a little shooter glass, but comes with a straw. Sipping it it wasn't very good, but I took the last 3/4 of it as a shot and it was pretty good and refreshing. I wish they didn't put the little straws in this.

2004 something riesling? Germany

Espice lobster. Pan roasted half lobster with 8 spices and yuzu creme friache. The sweetness of the wine cools the spiciness of the lobster. Pretty good. Like the small kumamoto oysters with fancy sauces, which I like less than new england oysters with some cocktail sauce; I prefer my lobster simple with a little melted butter. But it's lobster and is well cooked.

Our first red wine. A pinot noir form South Africa.

Flash seared kobe beef with soy reduction and basil oil and some abalone mushrooms. Quite good and goes well with the wine, although I don't like reds very much. The soy reduction was just perfect and the kobe beef was great. This and the scallop dish were the best.

Sake. Very strong. Chris liked it better than the martini that was sake + vodka + cucmber; I much preferred the martini. Like I said earlier, I am bad at drinking alcohol.

Sushi. The o-toro is good, but I don't like o-toro as much as most. Chris liked it very much. Kanpachi is good, I skipped (lol?) the skipjack and enjoyed the red snapper and giant clam. Nothing extraordinary though. Chris didn't like the clam. I get some really good sushi at a small local (Providence, RI) place so sushi courses always seem like a bit of a waste at a place like Nobu/Shintaro/Morimoto for me.

5 year mediara something?

Sweet potato cake with sweet japanese red bean whipped cream, with some of the beans, and a sweet potato chip.

The sweet potato cake is ok and so are the beans. The bean whipped cream is excellent though, and so is the sweet potato chip. The wine thing is good too. By the end of this dish the sweet potato cake has grown on me and is nice and moist, sweet but not overbearlingly. This was a good dessert. I finished the whole thing, and I'm not a very big eater.

Cliff Notes:

I like Nobu better. 2 very good dishes, 1 good dish, and all the rest were ok. There was no dish that was bad.

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Wow I am surprised you did not like the Omakase at Morimotos. I had the one in NY about a month ago. We are not big drinkers to obviously we left off the wine. It also seems like our dishes were different than yours with the exception of the lobster. We were given uni over foie gras over a large oyster for the fourth course which was amazing, did you get that as well?