memoirs of a palate

BONUS




Holiday bonuses were dished out today, so we decided not to cook and went to Hedeh, a little Japanese spot we'd been walking past for months. Basically, the place is pristine. It's a really, really clean looking place with bottles all over the wall and this giant open kitchen. Except for a few odds and ends, it's more or less your standard (good) sushi spot. I mean ... that's not totally fair. A lot of the entrees sounded really nice. I just didn't order very adventurously. I stuck to a sushi special, so I can't really be very critical of the menu in its entirety.

We started with:
- tuna guacamole

Meena had:
- seaweed salad
- spicy tuna roll
- shrimp tempura roll

Alec had:
- miso soup
- sushi nami

We finished with:
- green tea ice cream

We got things started with the tuna guacamole special only because it sounded really odd. It was basically guacamole with bits of the sashimi tuna mixed in. They served it with these little fried lotus chips and when they were all mixed together, it was really wonderful.

Meena didn't like the seaweed salad that much, so she dealt it to me for my miso. It was really pretty good. Meena was hoping for the standard seaweed salad, but this wasn't the average stuff. It was actually four different types of seaweed and to my novice palate - seemingly very fresh.

The rolls were rolls. They weren't the most amazing I've ever had, but they weren't bad by any means. Solid.

The green-tea ice cream came with a little smattering of red beans that were really nice.

We left totally full and set out to find a copy of The Devil Wears Prada.