A quiet Saturday and I’m not sure what to have for lunch… I’ve walked by Eat Tokyo a million times, and to say that it looks like a hole in the wall is being nice… it really isn’t very inviting. But at some point, I ended up looking it up online and saw some very good reviews… so decided to give it a try!
I started with some green tea…
And a few pieces of nigiri sushi. They had a few specials, the pink prawn as they called it (very sweet and fresh) and the seared otoro (fatty tuna). Both delicious. Along with these, I had a piece of the ikura, the salmon roe, which was nice and fresh (when it isn’t, the roe tends to be a bit harder, and once you pop them in your mouth, fishier tasting… these were still soft, plump, and fresh tasting). And finally, a piece of yellowtail, hamachi. This was okay at best.
I also ordered the Tokyo Kingfisher roll, fried tempura prawn and was topped with unagi, teriyaki-glazed eel. And it was MASSIVE when it showed up, look at it!
I liked the touch of providing the prawn head…
The roll was very good, and quite a generous serving of eel (check out the end piece, with all that eel!) I didn’t love that they put mayonnaise and teriyaki sauce across the whole roll, but luckily is was put under the roll, not above, so I could scrape it off…
So, would I come back? Definitely. Eat Tokyo describes itself as a Japanese diner, and given the size of the menu (at least 30 pages), I could come back many times and eat different types of Japanese food (sushi, ramen, tofu with rice, name your dish!) before getting bored!
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