Izumi

[zeffer81]

Just got back from Izumi. A little worn out from wine and sake but quick report includes fresh fish, reasonable prices and attentive service (he said thank you when he poured us water--there was nothing to thank us for!)

They have a few sushi and sashimi platter options. We opted for the $25 sushi/sashimi mix which included (approximately) four types of sushi, four types of sashimi and an added bonus of spicy tuna maki. We then moved onto their o-toro which was, well, o-toro. You can't really go wrong with toro and we were given an extra slice by the chef because was happy we had ordered it (if we understood the waiter correctly, we were the first people who had ordered it all night...or we were the first people to sit at the bar all night--one of the two granted us access to a third slice of toro on the house!) Toro is toro and it lived up to its name by promptly melting in our mouths.

We closed the meal with two maki rolls--shrimp tempura and the paradiso roll (all I remember is that it included lobster tempura.) The latter was fine, although not nearly as amazing as I anticipated. The former, however, found the perfect balance between the warm crunch of the tempura and the sharp, vingary bite of the rice. Simple yet DELICIOUS!

We would definitely go back for either a full meal or just a few maki rolls with a bottle of wine to share. There were a few non-sushi dishes on the menu, but not many. Off the top of my head I remember miso soup, shitake(?) consomme, your proverbial chicken teriyaki, seared scallop with a strange combo--I know it included buffalo mozz and I think cashews? There were some other non-sushi items, but this is the place to go if you want fish.