Omakase at Nishino

Mere hours after landing in Seattle on Friday we were sitting down to a truly amazing meal at Nishino.

Brandon had arranged for our foursome - Brandon, Leslie, Rachel and myself, to have the shorter of the two Omakase ("Let the chef decide") dinners offered by Nishino. This was a fabulous idea. Even the short dinner was an amazing amount of food. And it was amazing food. I was just blown away.

The dinner went down like this (as far as I can remember): It started off with three rolls - a little roe was involved but so little that Rachel was not put off -- and enough to add a nice texture. This was followed by a salad with ginger sauce and fried lotus root. Fried lotus root is a good idea. Next up a small round of sashimi followed by mushroom broth served in little teapots. Smokey and delicious. Then was a course of halibut cheek, mmmmmm! Penultimately we had sushi - a nice selection of damned good sushi. We finished with mochi ice cream - mango and strawberry.

We also finished very full, and very very happy. This is what dinner should be like every night :)

If you want to get an even better idea of what this was like Tasting Menu has a beautifully illustrated ebook describing one Omakase dinner from Nishino -- and an autumn one at that. Autumn Omakase. You can also check out some of their Nishino Reviews

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