Alex in Adultland

It’s taking me to long to post my review of my friday night dinner, which was at Aburiya Kinnosuke in midtown.  No joke - one of the best restaurants I’ve ever been to.  I sat out the counter - where you can watch them grill and chop everything.  Well, most people at the counter can, I was seated in front of an enormous, pink piece of Himalayan salt.  Also, I think I was the only non-Japanese person in the whole restaurant.  One couple sitting next to me told me they come all the time and to get the chicken rice bowl and sho-chu (Japanese vodka drink.) 

Since I was still on my detox and only up to cooked vegetables, brown rice, nuts, seeds and beans, I pretty much stuck to vegetable dishes.  FIrst though, they brought me out a tasting of a dried fish fin, which was totally worth cheating on my detox for.  Next I ordered lily root and grilled edamame.  The smokiness of the edamame was so not something I would have thought would work with it, but, in fact, was the best way to experience edamame I’ve yet to experience.  The lily root was even more insane.  If you’ve ever had yucca fries, it kind of tasted similar to that, except lighter, and this dish came speckled with salted seaweed.  It sounds like a hippie dish, but it really wasn’t. 

Finally, my main course was the grilled avocado, which was the first truly filling food I’ve eaten in forever.  Grilled and then served in an oily cream sauce, it’s insanitude peaks overs the wasabi sauce they put on it.  I literally count the days until I can go back there.  Next time, I’m trying the skewer of dried fish. 

God, I’m eating dried fish now.  I’m so urban.