Restaurant: Shin Sushi
Location: 16573 Ventura Blvd, Encino, CA 91436. (818) 616-4148
Date: December 6, 2023
Cuisine: Japanese Sushi
Rating: Very solid high end sushi
I’ve been wanting to try Shin for some time.
Here is our extremely enthusiastic host!
Appetizer plate of river crab, seasonal mushrooms, house-made tofu, monkfish liver, conche etc.
Little snapper and adult snapper of the same fish breed.
Black snapper.
Hokkaido scallop with yuzu.
Blue fin tuna from Spain with 100 year soy sauce.
Torched Japanese Ocean Trout — one of my favorites.
Menagi baby chive sushi. really great actually.
Fish bone miso. Very rich and lovely.
Japanese sardine with Salt and vinegar.
Japanese seasonal whitefish in the snapper family (he likes snapper!)
Santa Barbara sweet shrimp.
Buri (yellowtail).
Otoro slightly seared with binchochan charcoal.
Hokkaido uni.
Tamago.
Ice cream with sweet sauce.
Coffee jelly and cream.
Got crabs? This was a really fun dinner with lots of great champ and whites (particularly my Lafon). The chef is very nice and extremely enthusiastic. He’s definately a highly skilled sushi chef and the food reflected that. My only issue is that the rice was very lightly vinegared and I like an assertive vinegar on my sushi rice as I’m an acid fiend.
