I tried to send this earlier from dejanews and Netscape crashed twice! Thus I do not think that this is a duplicate, but.... Four of us went to the Ginza in Brookline last night. Two had Chirashi Deluxe, one had Unaju, and the other had Salmon teriyaki. The two who had chirashi both agreed that for the $$$ there was not enough fish although the presentation was very pretty. The person eating the Unaju thought it was a little boring (she is Japanese). The person eating the Samon said it was ok but left more than 1/2 and did not want a takeout bag. The noodles on the Salmon dish were visibly dry and unedible and were left on his plate with only one bite missing. The service was good, the sushi was of acceptable quality and the night was not a disaster (except for the guy with salmon teriyaki), but given the close proximity of one of Shino's two Sushi Express places with its fresher fish and much cheaper prices, unless you need cooked food or liquor there is not much point in choosing Ginza. Charlie *********************************************************************** * Charles Richmond Integrated International Systems Corporation * * [email removed] [email removed] [email removed] * * UNIX Internals, I18N, L10N, X, Realtime Imaging, and Custom S/W * * One Longfellow Place Suite 3309 , Boston , Ma. USA 02114-2431 * * (617) 723 7695 (617) 367 3151 FAX (617) 723 6861 * ***********************************************************************
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Ginza in Brookline
After some editing, "Charles M. Richmond" writes: > Four of us went to the Ginza in Brookline last night. Two had > Chirashi Deluxe, one had Unaju, and the other had Salmon > teriyaki. The two who had chirashi both agreed that for the $$$ > there was not enough fish although the presentation was very > pretty. Interesting; I've had chirashi at Ginza two or three times, and always thought that it was a pretty good value. I remember it being $17 or so; maybe it's gone up in price. > The service was good, the sushi was of acceptable quality and > the night was not a disaster (except for the guy with salmon > teriyaki), but given the close proximity of one of Shino's two > Sushi Express places with its fresher fish and much cheaper > prices, unless you need cooked food or liquor there is not much > point in choosing Ginza. This is mostly counter to my own experiences there. My most recent visit was to the sushi bar with a friend, and though the prices were very high, I thought that the sushi was of very high quality, and the maki presentations were very inventive. I also thought that the sake was relatively cheap, given that it seemed to me (not an expert) to be very good. Ginza had a very favorable review in the Boston Globe recently, and perhaps they have been swamped with additional customers, causing a bit of a drop-off. I'd urge you to wait a few weeks and give it another shot (though the salmon teriyaki that you described sounded beyond hope).--Rob