Kazu

Kazu: Located on Saint- Catherine Street near St. Marc, this small authentic Japanese restaurant is a definite place to check out for foodies. For the entree we had the tofu salad along with the chicken skewers. The tofu was delicious, had the perfect texture and the sauce was slightly tangy but went really well with the overall salad. For the main course, we had the shrimp okonomiyaki, a housefavorite, which is a Japanese style shrimp pancake with cabbage and onions. it was very different, a little strange at first taste because the pancake was half cooked which made it a bit too chewy, but after a few bites it starts to grow on you and the generous portion of shirmps keep the meal interesting. Along with that dish, we also ordered the BBQ beef over rice with vegetables. 

This dish was less original than the previous but the meat was full of flavor, very thinly sliced and what added most to the taste was the fact that it was still attached to the bone. For desert we had the sake ice cream, which comes in a small bowl filled with a shot of saki. The idea is to take a scoop a small spoon of the vanilla ice cream and then dip it into the saki before going for the kill ! All overall fantastic experience and but the only draw back is the 30 - 40 minute line up in front of the restaurant before getting a seat since there are no reservations - kind of reminiscent to a few lower east side restaurants in NYC