Restaurant: 鮨やまもと / Sushi Yamamoto
Location: N Rodeo Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Date: December 14, 2023
Cuisine: Japanese Sushi
Rating: One of the best meals of the year
And so we come to the Foodie Club’s epic End of Year Blowout!
At one of LA’s most elite sushi spots, up stairs on Rodeo in the old Ginza Sushiko spot.
The sushi bar
Our special menu.
Ginger. I had about 10 of these.
Kichiji-rock fish in dashi. Mild and delicious. Super soft and tender.
Astrea caviar of course.
Kyoto fresh bean curd with caviar. Very grassy soy flavor. Texture like very fresh burrata.
Kinmedai-goldeneye snapper sashimi. The peppery yuzu-kosho was awesome.
Tri of tunas.
Taka’s chu-toro.
Taka’s o-otoro.
Taka’s maguro in a tiny handroll.
Benny’s shrimp.
Buri (wild yellow tail).
Saba (mackerel).
Hokkigai (surf clam)
Sekogani (female snow crab) with crab sauce. Super succulent with that deep crab flavor and lots of roe. The soft silky sauce really took it up a level too.
Hokkaido uni (sea urchin).
Astrea Caviar Toro roll.
House-made buckwheat soba noodles.
Shrimp soba (hot). Perfect soba with that awesome slightly soggy perfect tempura shrimp.
Cold soba with caviar. Also great, but I preferred the hot.
Unagi (fresh water eel). Super soft.
Tamago (sweet egg).
A tro of birthday cakes!
Satsuma Tangerine Ice Cream. Very mild.
A tro of Sweet Milk Gelato (Choco-mole, Orange Old Fashioned, and Bakewell Tart).
Basque Cheesecake with Caviar and Stawberry Cake.
Tea.
Uh. Wow! Pretty incredible evening, although I got home at 1am!
