Saturday, June 13, 2009

shimizu restaurant on 51st between 8th and 9th...


It's located about a block from the hotel I'm staying @ and Shimizu is actually in the Washington Jefferson Hotel.

The joint basically closes @ 10pm on a Saturday night. The last orders are taken @ 10:15pm.

Small world, Geoffrey Gilmore formerly the festival director of the Sundance Film Festival was dining @ Shimizu while I was there. Gilmore is now the Chief Creative Director of the Tribeca Film Festival.

Now let's get to the food. I had the gindara yuan yaki- grilled black cod with a special soy sauce. The dish came with an assortment of mixed grilled vegetables- broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, and zucchini. It was a good sized portion and the cod was quite tasty... $22

My Mother had the regular sushi plate which includes maguro, hamachi, katsuo, sake, tamago, ebi, and tekka maki. It was very good. If the tamago is excellent @ a sushi bar, then the sushi should be excellent... $21

I found the service to be fair @ best...

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