This is my visit at Sushi Zai previously for its fall menu. Located at 5 minutes walk from Hirro station, Sushi Zai was Tabelog bronze award when I visited.
The chef, Takahiro Okada was trained at Sushi Yuu for many years and I fee like Sushi Zai is better than Sushi Yuu now.
There are some otsumami that I was impressed by, uni with hairy crab, deep fried seaweed with ankimo (monk fish liver), you can tell it's not just simply sashimi, grilled or steamed fish for otsumami. Chef definitely has his own idea, and the brown sugar tamago was one of the best tamago I ever had, it was cool and the texture was between pudding and cake but using brown sugar instead of regular way definitely stood out for me.
Sushi was great as well, my favorites are in the cover page, chu-toro and ika. The vibe was definitely chilling, it was dinner with both locals and tourits. Chef spoke english well enough to explain all the dishes and sushi.
Location: 5/5, again Hirro is one of my favorite neighborhood in Tokyo.
Food: 4.8/5, all are good but I wish there could be more.
Service: 5/5, chef took care of everyone, not just the regulars.
by KevinX1991