New Year day, we still had to work late! i was looking forward to the dindin and a chance to escape work at 7pm. Umami is on Webster at Unnion, all this time i've been up and down Union street and did not notice?? the menu offers Pan Asian dishes and a seperate menu for sushi. the drink menu was interesting... i couldn't remember what was in my drink but the liquor was cachacca some sort of sugarcane brazillian rum, it was interesting.
others ordered some kind of champagne with elderberry and the "faded crane"??? - some sort of cocktail with satsuma citrus. i tried all the drinks and my favorite was the champagne with elderberry. my friends all got seconds but i decided to have a pinot blanc from Alsace with my meal, buzzzzz....the meal portion was bigger than i thought.
since the menu did not indicate appetizers or entrees, i assumed that everything was tapas size. we ordered 3 appetizers to share and 3 dishes for entrees. the appetizers were yumyum! the edamame humus was good with fresh cumin leaves, much milder flavor than dried cumin powder. the popcorn rockshrimps was tasty, the rockshrimp texture has more bite with the thin/ light crunchy tempura batter and the pop of tobiko... 
all that texture was perfectly seasoned with soy aioli. i ate that with the shiso garnish, i think they should serve this dish with more shiso... and the last appertizer was the chicken gyoza or potstickers, tasty! i had the scallops for entree, it was very good but i think i always prefer snacky appetizers...
the desert was too much for me, we ordered pineapple crumb tapioca pudding with vanilla ice cream and caramel topping... delicious and alot of it!!! way to start the new year.
http://www.umamisf.com/
No comments:
Post a Comment