March 28, 2007: Ume Nomiya

once or twice my vegetarian reservations nigh the average Japanese eating topographic point menu, together with and so I didn't answer alongside much enthusiasm... until I tasted Umi Nomiya's shiitake mushroom balls at the Flour Festival concluding weekend. They were an incredibly tasty alter from the tempura veges I ever rely on when everyone else is gobbling downward sashimi. Michael revealed that this was the eating topographic point on his wishlist together with I was forthwith much to a greater extent than amenable to a see - together with so amenable that I made a moisture umbrella-less walk to come across Michael in that location less than a calendar week later, equally the early on dinner halt on a black out.

Ume is actually to a greater extent than bar than eating topographic point - high stools along the bar, which offers a dozen kinds of sake, in all likelihood render a 3rd of the seating. It's small, dimly lit together with sparsely but elegantly furnished inward an urban-Oriental style. At half-dozen o'clock on a Midweek in that location were few punters, together with the daughter behind the bar provided us alongside casual but really helpful tabular array service. The carte is divided into sushi plates (all fishy: pass), bar snacks (two thirds vegetarian), together with mains (1 out of half-dozen is vego). The vegetarian items are clearly marked together with exclude fish, which makes skimming the options much simpler for V-kids similar us! We picked out 3 of the bar snacks to part together with settled inward alongside a beer each.

flour festival post. This turned upward several hours AFTER I wrote this review together with so nosotros didn't score the costless drink, nor has it influenced the content!