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REVIEW: Soto Japanese Restaurant, Atlanta GA
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| *~*Angelblue*~* |
Scott and I went to this place before Seb this past Saturday night August 20, 2005, Make sure to make reservations and have 3 hours of your time to spare.
Okay here's is how i'm going to do this: First post will be the menu, second my review, third Scott's review. I suggest if you happen to have the money to do this sometime I would so do it in a heartbeat!!
Soto Japanese Restaurant
3330 Piedmont Road Northeast
Atlanta, Georgia 30305-1726
ph: 404.233.2005
It was a 16 course dinner, please ask in pm or in person for price of dinner. *some of you already know how much*
1. Dobin Muchi Soup
Clear Soup of bonito and kelp broth, Ginko nuts, Shrimp, Flounder, Shiitake, Shimeji mushroom and aroma of Yuzu citrus and Mitsuba leaf.
2. Hasson Dish
Braised Duck Breast, Steamed Anago, Smoked Uni with Uni Mousse, Cured Salmon Sushi with Salmon roe, Asparagus with Black and White Sesame Paste, Karasumi cured Mullet roe, Dashi marinated Herring fish roe laid on kelp
(Accompany with glass of “Masumi” Dry Sake)
3. Sashimi
Salmon Yakijime, Flounder, Seard Red Snapper, Tuna
4. Agedashi
Fried Tofu and Flounder Tempura with shiso leaf, served in Agedashi broth
5. Uni Chawan mushi
Cold chawan mushi egg custard soup with fresh Uni and fresh Wasabi
6. Minute Steam
Japanese Sea bream and Maine Live Sea scallop with Canton style flash scallion oil
7. Shima Aji carpaccio
Thinly sliced of Japanese Shima aji jack fish with ginger soy sauce and truffle oil
8. Beef Tataki Salad
Seared Kobe grade Rib eye with Ponzu Sauce and Mizuna Salad
9. Toro tar tare
Finely chopped Fatty part of Tuna and puree of Avocado with Chive and Caviar, in Seasame Ponzu sauce
10. Lobster Sashimi cocktail
Live Maine Lobster Sashimi with Ginger, Grape fruit and tomato jus on Cucumber coulis.
11. Calamalone
Broiled Squid and Portabella mushroom under spicy Mayonnaise sauce.
12. Refreshment
Fresh Lychee Sorbet with frozen Plum wine
13. Anago and Foie gras
Steamed seal eel with Lotus cake and Foie gras, Opo squash and Shimeji Mushroom, garnished with peppercrest, Soy broth
14. Soto’s Popular item (Choose one)
a. Salmon sashimi style ceviche with Cilantro and scallion under citrus sauce
b. Chilean sea bass Yuwan Yaki Broiled Citrus soy marinated Chilean seabass
c. Uni Sugomori Fresh Sea urchin wrapped in thinly sliced of squid, served with Nori seaweeds and quail egg.
d. Uni Ika Kelp Fresh Sea Urchin in wrapped in white kelp
e. Steamed Sea eel with Lotus roots and Micro Greens
f. Broiled Langstine with Shiitake sauce
g. Broiled Maine Live Lobster with mango and portabella mushroom under Panko
15. Sushi (choose three kind sushi)
salmon, tuna, zuke marinated tuna, flounder, fresh water eel. Anago sea eel, salmon roe, sweet shrimp with ginger, Hokki clam, Uni- Sea urchin, Japanese mackerel, Shima Aji Japanese Jack fish
16. Ice Cream (choose one)
Macchya green tea, Ginger, Lychee, Mango, Plum wine, Asuki Red Bean |
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| *~*Angelblue*~* |
Hands down this has to be the best meal I have ever had in my whole life. I recommend this place highly. I am very honored to have ate food from Chef Sotohiro Kosugi. He has won many awards and from what our sushi chef at Splash says is that he is one of the mostly highly seeked out Sushi chefˇ¦s in America. Even the MGM Grand in Las Vegas would love for him to come be a chef there. I urge you to go eat a meal at this place! I have choose to go in the number of the menu I posted above. If you have any questions feel free to ask away.
1. The soup was EXCELLENT, I cannot express how much I loved the soup. They came out with a clay tea pot and a small cup, you had to pour the broth into the cup and drink it, you opened the top to the tea pot to get all the "goodies" in the pot. I have been dying to have this soup again. I NEED THIS SOUP!!!
2. The Duck was excellent, the eel was even good, the asparagus was really good with the sesame paste, the karasumi roe was okay I didnˇ¦t like the crunchyness, the dashi I thought was yuckie, but everything else was great! I did not eat the other roe that was with this dish, I'm not really big about fish eggs to be honest. The Uni and Uni mousse was so good (again I didn't know I was eating Sea Urchin)
3. OMG! I have never seen tuna as red as it was with this and it was so good, as well as the other pieces that came out, has to hands down be the freshest fish I have ever put in my mouth!
4. The flounder was very tasty, the tofu was even good and I'm not a tofu eater.
5. This wasn't one of my favorite dishes, it was rather rich, but the Uni was really good. Little did I know I was eating Sea Urchin again hehe
6. This was really good, it reminded me a lot of the steamed fish dish that Scott makes. I really like the way it was prepared
7. The jack fish was so good, it was almost simlar to the dish before this one, but it had lots of ginger and I love ginger.
8. The Kobe beef was so good it was perfect rare and full of flavor, it was good on top of the salad it came with. The sauce was really good as well
9. The only complaint I have about this dish was the avocado made it a bit rich, but the tuna was excellent!!
10. By this dish I was getting a bit full and needed a small break, I did try some of the lobster and it was very good, the cucumber coulis tasted very sweet but very good, I wish I would have been so almost full for this dish.
11. I did not like this one at all, possibly because of the mayonnaise and most people know I do not like mayonnaise at all, I did try it but no I didn't like it.
12. This was very good, you mixed the two together and it was just perfect. I ended up drinking what was left (what melted in the dish)
13. I didn't eat much of this either, I ate all of the eel though, since the eel Soto made was excellent. I didn't eat the foie gras because I remember some "Iron Chef" episode with it in there, plus I was waiting for the next dish :)
14. I picked the Chilean sea bass (surprise, surprise hahah) it came out semi grilled and the side were really crispy, I gave half of mine to Scott though since he wasnˇ¦t too keen about his dish. It was very good. Itˇ¦s no wonder why I love Chilean sea bass so much.
15. I choose the Zuke Marinated Tuna, Flounder, Shima Aji Japanese Jackfish, all of it just melted in my mouth. It was like candy I tell you the freshest fish ever!
16. heheh ice cream time!! I picked the Lychee ice cream, it was the best. It had pieces of Lychee in the ice cream. (Scott picked ginger and that was very good as well) |
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| nchs09 |
| review for a restaurant? |
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| *~*Angelblue*~* |
| a few people wanted to know how we felt about this place and scott and i promised to write a review |
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| aka "O" |
yikes....long ass review. Anyway I didnt read everything but if you had that much to write it must be good.
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