A University friend and I came here for lunch at the end of May. We got reservations since Yelp strongly advised us on getting reservations otherwise the restaurant would turn you away. The restaurant is fairly small however my friend and I got a table in the back by the sushi bar. My friend has been here before while this was my first time. I decided to get the Chyo-chin bento ($24.95) while my friend got the Unatama lunch special ($21.95).
Unatama lunch special
chocolate sake mousse cake
The Unatama lunch special includes a choice of green tea or coffee, your choice of a slice of cake, a garden salad, miso soup, and barbecued eel with green onions in simmered egg on rice. My friend chose green tea and chocolate sake mousse cake. My friend enjoyed her meal. The chocolate sake mousse cake was quite delicious from the small bite I had.
garden salad
this is how the bento arrived
Chyo-Chin Bento
green tea cake
The Chyo-chin Bento includes a choice of green tea or coffee, your choice of a slice of cake, a garden salad, Karaage, sashimi and unajyu on sushi rice. I chose green tea and the green tea cake. Karaage is deep fried chicken. It was quite delicious. It wasn’t too oily although the sauce is slightly sweet. They deep fried it perfectly in that it had a bit of a crunch to it without being too hard. Unajyu is eel and the dish also came with seaweed, egg and lettuce. The dish was scrumptious and all the ingredients perfectly compliment each other. The eel was quite soft and tasty. The salad and sashimi were alright. The sashimi were thick slices which is really nice and very fresh. There isn’t much variety for the sashimi however. The green tea cake was delicious. It wasn’t sweet and I could taste the matcha. The particular slice I had was abit skimpy on the red bean paste however I liked it since the focus was on the green tea rather than the red bean.
The service was quite friendly and prompt. My only disappointment is that there wasn’t a teapot at the table, instead I had to ask the servers multiple times for green tea refills. Tea refills aside, Cafe Michi can be slightly pricey since cake slices are between $5-7 and sashimi/sushi sets are between $20-40. Although the place is slightly pricey compared to other Japanese restaurants that are strictly a la carte, I would definitely come back to try their chirashi sushi, tofu cheesecake, green tea creme brulee and other dessert and cake offerings.
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