| Rating |
Date Attended |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? [v] |
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Best Sushi We Ever Tasted
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| Thu, Sep 27, 07 5:00 PM |
AZekraus |
Female |
20-29 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| My friend and I really enjoyed this event. We learned a lot about sushi and Japanese tapas. The food was amazing and very different. The only thing that I would suggest is making the event later. To get there at 5pm on a weekday was very difficult. |
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Educational and Tasty
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| Thu, Sep 20, 07 5:00 PM |
lolipop280 |
Female |
20-29 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| As a teacher, I loved all of the info I learned about both Japanese food, as well as the culture and traditional behind it. As for the food itself, it included more traditional items that I had had before as well as lots of new foods as well. A wonderful experience, I would definitely recommend this to others! And the sake was phenomenal too :) |
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Very informative and fun!
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| Sat, Oct 17 6:00 PM |
pgoodall |
Female |
40-49 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| I have been on 3 of the Foods of NY tours and have enjoyed all of them. I had much anticipation for the Japanese tasting event as our guide had talked about it on the last tour we had gone on, before the Japanese event was available.
We were not disappointed! The food was excellent. We took my parents who had been to Japan and they learned a lot. This event has the same casual, fun-loving, welcoming feel as the tours. We eat sushi weekly and were thrilled to try all different types of food as well as to learn how to eat sushi "properly".
This is an event not to be missed...I hope they create others like this! |
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Delicious, Fun and Interesting
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| Sat, Apr 25 6:00 PM |
CarolAsaro |
Female |
60-69 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| My husband and I found the tour to be great fun. We really enjoyed the food and the tour guide's explanation of Japanese tradition was very informative. We would definitely recommend the tour to others. |
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Fantastic, a "must do" for sure.
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| Sat, Apr 11 6:00 PM |
rringgenberg |
Male |
60-69 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| We have never had good sushi until our visit here. It was fantastic. Not only was the food tremendous, the narrative added to the appreciation of the presentation, Kind of made it taste even better. Like performance (loud) exhaust on a Porsche. The sake was super good. Again we have never tasted such good sake and we have been all over the world, including Japan. You just have to do this. Plenty of food, but you do not go away feeling bloated . the beer selection is good and the sake is not so alcoholic that you feel compromised.The green tea is good too. The location is excellent, just two blocks from Union Square, 14th Street subway with a large book store near by for early arrivals. The seating is conducive to meeting new friends, always interesting. The group was small enough including several New Yorkers that contributed ideas concerning "The City". Too often you go to a highly rated restaurant and drink and eat too much and go away feeling like you had sex without the foreplay. Not here, you savor every morsel and every moment. And it is affordable and a bargain. Our next trip to New York will definitely include this event. One other thing, you gain a knowledge of Japanese food that will make visits to sushi bars in other places more rewarding.
Many thanks to the organizers of this event. |
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Fantastic Sushi Experience!!!
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| Sat, Feb 7 6:00 PM |
joebarlok |
Male |
50-59 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| From start to finish our Sushi Experience was excellant. The presentation of the sushi and the description and history provided were just right. Our host was knowledgable and gave many "real life' examples. There was pleanty of food. I'm a 220 pound guy and it satisfied my needs.
One question on your web site --- Information provided during the dinner taught us that sushi (typical fish on rice) was meant to be eaten with your fingers, however, the picture on the Foods of New York web site shows chop sticks. Probably just to please the Western culture????? |
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Fascinating, educational, delicious
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| Sat, Jan 24 6:00 PM |
Leedom |
Male |
60-69 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| Date of event: Saturday, 24 Jan 09
I'm sure I'll only retain a tiny fraction of what we learned as we ate our way through several courses of Japanese fare. The host, Raheem, was a wealth of knowledge about preparation, customs, tastes, history, and trends in this cuisine, all delivered with a high level of enthusiasm and delight to be sharing with us.
The only negative aspect of our experience was the unfortunate attendance by a woman and her two adult daughters, all of whom chattered away like magpies, rudely ignoring the host and making it hard for the rest of us to hear what he was saying. Amazingly, he maintained his good humor throughout, never once speaking harshly to them (I wouldn't have been able to restrain myself), but instead directing his voice more toward the rest of us who were listening.
A unique tour/dinner...highly recommended. |
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One of the highlights of our trip to NY
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| Sat, Dec 6, 08 6:30 PM |
aoborne |
Female |
30-39 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| We were visiting from Portland, OR. Loved the "tapas", thought the docent was very well informed and able to share wonderful insight, and the quality of the food overall was top-rate. |
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Top Notch
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| Thu, Sep 11, 08 6:30 PM |
TheRhythm |
Male |
30-39 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| It could not have been better. Japanese food never tasted as good, and Rahim knew his stuff cold. |
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Ex ellent food, experience, and "guide"
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| Thu, Aug 7, 08 6:30 PM |
stevenewman |
Female |
60-69 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| This activity was both delicious and worthwhile for me, and my family. It allowed us to taste a wide variety of types of sushi, sashimi, and other Japanese dishes, as well as beer and sakes, that we would not otherwise have been adventurous enough to order, since it is such an intimidating experience to order a meal comprising components with which you are totally unfamiliar. I have frequently found that the fish other than tuna, and even tuna on fairly frequent occassions, at Japanese restaurants tastes"fishy". Having a meal of such high quality fish presented to me, so that there was not fishiness whatsoever (except in several pieces of the squid) was wonderfully empowering. I will, in the future, feel comfortable complaining about the quality of what I am being served, and will also be comfortable ordering a wider variety of species of fish, knowing that they should not taste fishy. In addition, the price, although higher than an average meal in a Japanese restaurant, was affordable enough that it is very likely that I/we will repeat the tour. One more plus was that we were taught about the history and the properties of the foods we were eating by a very charming "guide" who shepherded us through the 2+ hour meal. |
