This morning we listed our Top 5 Spring Mountain Road Japanese restaurants on Channel 3. As usual, you’ll have to advance to the 35:08 minute mark to see how everybody’s turning Japanese these days — by eating some of the tastiest, prettiest, healthiest and most reasonably-priced food in town.
Here are the featured five, and a big domo arigato to chef/owners Kiichi Okabe (Cafe de Japon) and Kengo Nakamura (Nakamura-Ya) for supplying us with the gorgeous and tasty props for our segement. Kanpai!
ELV is a sucker for curried anything, but he has a special affinity for the delicacy of Japanese ones. These lightly fried, curried oysters at Cafe de Japon — .sitting in a light, cucumber sauce (reminiscent of an airy green goddess dressing) — were so good they brought tears to our eyes.:
[imagebrowser id=1575]
[nggallery id=1560]
Über-chef Laurent Tourondel was in town this week, checking up on his tasty burgers at BLT Burger in the Mirage, and we finally might have had a breakthrough with notre ami. Yes, after years of begging and pleading, we may have finally convinced him to put a malt on the menu to go along with his superior milkshakes.
Why malt, you say?
Because a milkshake without malt is like:
– foie without gras