Sushi Ao (鎨 ăă)
đŁ Sushi / đ Aoyama
đ Visits: 1
Another quick review here. Omakase is JPY 27,500 + tax and the 19-piece nigiri-only, lunch-only course is JPY 23,000 + tax. The chef worked at Sukiyabashi Jiro before opening here. The room is quite spacious for a sushi restaurant and features natural lighting and an unusual darkwood counter. No English is spoken but the chef engages with the customers.
At 23K for nigiri-only lunch you'd hope you'd be getting something special but I've been eating a lot of sushi recently and the Tabelog ratings aren't particularly high so I went expecting to be underwhelmed and that's exactly what happened.
You get a good few more pieces in the set than Ryujiro or Sushi Shota, a very generous portion of uni and unlike in Ryujiro the maguro is fat. The rice is good and the katsuo and kuruma ebi were outstanding. On the downside the aji was so overpowered with ginger I could hardly taste the fish. Also, chef seasoned the awabi with shoyu when most other chefs use salt, which is more to my liking. The ikura was particularly unremarkable compared with the ikura I ate at Ryujiro a few weeks ago.
So unfortunately another new sushi restaurant I can't recommend. Much better value elsewhere.
đ https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1306/A130602/13246982/
đą Booking: đ§ Omakase only: https://omakase.in/en/r/ut138135. Slots fill up very quickly.
đ Location:
2F FPG links OMOTESANDO B building, 3-10-13 Kita-Aoyama. 1 min from Omotesando station Exit B2 (stairs only) or a few minutes from Exit B5. Not the easiest place to find. Behind the Ao Building on Aoyama Dori. Building B is at the back of the development on the left. If you find yourself in a lift that won't take you to 2F you're in the wrong building, A, which is not connected. The signage only has the restaurant's logo. To add to the fun there's an FPG links OMOTESANDO II building around the corner.
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đ Visit: October 2020
Hirame, Shin ika, Shima aji, Akami zuke, Chutoro, Otoro, Kohada, Hamaguri, Aji, Awabi, Kuruma ebi, Katsuo, Kobashira, Iwashi, Uni, Anago, Ikura, Tekka maki, Tamago, Melon (dessert)
đ´ Damage: 26k incl. water
⏱️ Time taken: 1h15m
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