I have no idea who or what Morimoto is, but Pauline wanted to go (it’s a restaurant btw) and so we went. Morimoto is a restaurant opened by Masaharo Morimoto, one of the chefs from Iron Chef and Iron Chef America.

You can quite easily miss Morimoto because it looks like a begger’s hideout. It is in fact quite trendy being part of Chelsea Market (think of it as a hipper and more expensive version of St Lawrence Market). We showed up for lunch a little past 1, and it was pretty deserted.

With Masaharu being Japanese, this was a Japanese restaurant. I tried their Chirasi Don and it was pretty good. They cut up the fish in to smaller pieces, and distributed it around the bowl. They also had the larger sized salmon roe which I haven’t had outside of Japan. Although it was good, I don’t think it was really worth it since that cost > $40 CDN and then tax and tip on top of that.

They were also offering a prix fixe lunch menu, and Pauline got the black cod version. Compared to my Chirasi, I found the fish had too much flavour.

The meal came with a dessert, which was wagashi, which I had never had before.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: food, japan, nyc09