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🤢 2/5 - Recommended: Pastrami Sando, Mazemen, Challah,
By 👻 @Glenn C., 03/18/2024 3:00 am
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Recommended: Pastrami Sando, Mazemen, Challah, Okonomiyaki I went to this unique restaurant twice. As per the name, they combine Jewish food (and more specifically Ashkenazi/European Jewish food) with Japanese food. Some combinations work but most definitely did not. The staff here is nice and the atmosphere is pretty casual with good lighting. The first time I was here, I ordered the Sweet and Sawa for $18 to drink. This had Toki Japanese whiskey, shochu, honey, yuzu, and egg white. It was a pretty solid cocktail with a good whiskey base and a good mix of sweetness and sourness as per the name. I would recommend it. From the smaller plates, I've tried a few. The best of the cheaper options and likely what you should start with is the $7 Sake Kasu Challah which comes with golden raisin butter. I am a stickler for good challah and while the texture isn't really comparable to a more traditional challah such as from Zadie's, the flavor was nice with a subtle sweetness and there are some black sesame seeds on top which is a unique spin. The golden raisin butter on the side is delicious and makes this worth it even for one challah. If you're in a group, I would also recommend heavily the Okonomiyaki for $19 with wagyu pastrami, sauerkraut, and bonito flakes. This is a very fun spin on this traditional dish with the pickled cabbage adding good saltiness and the bonito adding a slight fishiness. While there isn't much pastrami in there, the bit of it is quite tasty and the portion size is great. I'd honestly order this or the mazemen as your main. Pretty good but overpriced is the Roasted Scallops for $23 with miso panko butter, celery root, parsnip purée, and maitake. While I don't see the influence here from either culture, the scallops are plump and the butter had a good richness and sweetness with some umami. The weakest easily and the worst dish I've had here by far is the Lion's Mane Karaage for $18 with Japanese fried mushrooms and pickled chilies. Karaage is associated with the good crispiness and crunch and these mushrooms lack that entirely having an unappetizing texture. The lack of mayo or any sauce didn't help either. For larger courses, I have tried a bunch but most of them have been not that good. The best of the bunch is easily the Sesame Temomi Mazemen which is $19 with shiitake mushrooms, shishito, cucumbers, and shiso. There is a great nuttiness to the whole dish and the noodles had a good pleasant chew. It's a lot better than the other more famous ramen here and it's probably the only main I liked here along with the sando. Solid is the Wagyu Pastrami Sando for $23 with house pastrami, gulden's mustard, and dill pickle on on shokupan (i.e. Japanese milk bread.) This was a fun spin on the usual Jewish deli sandwich with the pastrami being pretty tender though not as salty as I would expect for pastrami. This was easily the other best main dish and I would recommend this. We also had a Tonkatsu which I don't see listed on the current menu so perhaps it was a special or it used to be on the menu. I think it was something around $35 or so and it was alright. The breading was a bit thick and the pork could have been more tender. The Lox Bowl at $27 sounds nice in concept with rice, ikura, Japanese pickles, avocado, fried capers, and chili mayo being almost a fun Jewish spin on a poke bowl but there is way too much rice and not enough of everything else. The flavors are fine with there perhaps being a bit too much saltiness but it just isn't that worth it. I've also solely had the Matzah Ball Ramen which for $19 comes with only chicken broth, scallion, mandels (i.e. the little bread pieces in there,) and nori. The soy marinated egg is an extra $3 and the foie gras dumpling is an extra $4 so they already overpriced ramen gets up to $26 including both of these or $29 if you want to add an extra matzah ball. This is absurd both for quality and for price. The chicken broth was way too light for it being a ramen reminding me more of a chicken/matzah ball noodle soup. The noodles were fine but not cooked as well as the mazemen. The matzah ball quality was good while the dumpling had a good fatty filling though it didn't exactly remind me of foie gras. The egg was perfectly fine but not worth $3 being worse than many ramen spots which charge less or similar. I wouldn't recommend it at all. The only dessert I've had here is the Japanese Sweet Potato Cheesecake for $12 with black sesame crust and creme fraiche. The black sesame and cheese flavor overpowers the lighter sweet potato and overall it just tastes like an okay cheesecake with an okay texture. A drink special which had either tequila and chocolate tasted so much of alcohol for someone else that they requested some extra chocolate or something to dilute it. I love the concept of this restaurant both as being Jewish and as someone who likes Japanese food a lot but the execution didn't pan out. Too many misses for the high prices. 2.4.
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