Sumibi To Wine

Just had our Christmas dinner here. We are international visitors and weren’t sure if things would be open on Christmas Day, so we asked a friend to reserve a restaurant for us. He selected this one for a 2 hour time slot and I’m so glad he did. Price was very reasonable, and the service and food was great. For starters we ordered the eggplant raw duck, both me and my wife’s first time eating raw duck, and it was delicious. Our meal also came with bottomless salad (yes all you can eat salad) and whatever dressing on that salad was so good, we ate 2 bowls of just that. For our mains we had the wagyu beef and bacon carbonara pasta. We actually enjoyed the pasta more - it had a raw egg on top sitting in a bed of black pepper which was just what we were craving. I liked that the wagyu had coarse sea salt you could sprinkle on yourself, and the (real) wasabi you could smear on the beef was better than the typical horseradish we get with American steaks. The atmosphere is nice (nicer than casual but not uptight and stuffy), and they even give you a blanket to put on your lap if you’re cold. My wife had a nonalcoholic cold pressed green juice with soda water that she enjoyed and I had the cold pressed red juice sour that was balanced and paired well with the meal. I’m so grateful to my friend for this holiday meal.

The atmosphere was nice, but I thought it was priced like a tourist spot. Everything is delicious, but not particularly delicious, and the price is too high. One boiled egg costs 580 yen? Even in Tokyo, it's not that expensive. The food labeled tiramisu was frozen solid and didn't taste good. Even though I didn't eat much and only had one drink and one drink, I spent 10,000 yen. I think the stylish atmosphere is great for young couples to come! The meat, which is probably the signature menu item, was delicious ^_^ However, I won't go there anymore.