Kazu Sumiyaki. My favourite.

Kazu comes up with lovely presentations...



Went back for the 5th time and yes, Kazu RocCCCcKS!

This time, we went with JF, a fren of CK's, who unfortunately or rather, fortunately left it to us to decide on the choice of dinner venue. So we made a pronto reservation at Kazu.

One thing that is special about Kazu is that it's menu is extensively stocked with both regular and seasonal items. My heart always skips a beat as I prowl the menu for nice seasonal items that catch my eye (and tastebuds)

Ok here's what we ordered that day..

Appetizers:
1) Mountain Vegetable Tempura. A seasonal item on the menu, fresh as it was there was a surprising bitter aftertaste which made it kinda unpleasant.
2) Simmered Wagyu Beef in Red Wine Sauce. Definitely one of our favourite dishes.


"Star" performers for Yakitori that night among the many other sticks we ordered:
1) Mini Hamburger
2) Shishamo
3) Chicken Knee Cartilage
4) Marbled pork with apple
5) Minced chicken stuffed in lotus root
6) Pork with white leek
7) Beef with cheese
8) Quail eggs wrapped with pork belly (I didn't have this but both CK and JF tot it was excellent)
9) Pork belly with enoki mushroom
10) Foie Gras
Plus many many more.... Despite Kazu's extensive menu, we had the waitress tell us (for the second time) that we literally finished eveything off the menu!

Oh yes, and to end off the meal before dessert, we usually get a carbo "filler" which is always the Garlic Fried Rice with Miso soup. The one that day was absolutely delicious. The rice was almost 'al-dente'... fragrant with a strong charred garlicky taste. The rice grains were also expertly prepared so they did not stick together. I was like wow!

CK was tempted to order the grilled squid at the end but resisted. Someone else's order did look very good on the grill! But we'll definitely be back again so no worries.

Now time for the dessert. We ordered 3 items:
1) A Sekaiichi apple.
2) BBQ (!) Tiramisu
3) Snow drop with black sesame ice cream

I believe this is the first time Kazu's desserts fell really short of expectations. First off, the apple which was highly recommended by me was neither crunchy or sweet. Dammit! I used to promote these apples during one of my school hol jobs and have tasted practically all the Japanese varieties sold in Singapore. My conclusion was that Sekaiichi was the best. It was suppose to be super crunchy and super sweet but today here, it was neither. We really regretted not taking the Musk Melon.

On to the BBQ tiramisu. This was good with a surprising bit of mango sorbet in the middle. Quite a nice twist but alas, did not send me over the moon.

Snow drop came beautifully decorated with a golden weave of sugar placed on top of it. This version was nice but ithe version with the nice pumpkin mousse was way way better.

All in all, we had a wonderful time despite some misses in the desserts department this time. And I am already looking forward to my next visit.