跟著米其林吃世界~

2008米其林一星


是間傳說中歷史最悠久的握壽司店，也相當有規模，在日本的美食排行中也都是榜上有名，可見在日本人心目中，久兵衛是間很不錯的店，但米其林卻只給了他們一顆星，久兵衛是我們唯一一間一次就訂到的餐廳，當晚一去到那裡，先是感覺，嗯，人還滿多的呢…再來感覺店內的氣氛還滿熱鬧的，食物當然也很不錯，特別是蒲烤半生熟的鮪魚特別特別的好吃，但最後總是覺得在久兵衛裡感覺到一種特別商業化的氣氛，雖然大家做生意本來就是商業化啦，但跟其他間比起來，實在沒辦法留下什麼太深的印象

久兵衛的Meckeral是用蒜泥來調味，味道也是很不錯，但還是覺得kanesaka的比較得我心

This sushi restaurant is much easier to locate as compare to the other two, as it has 2 shops facing not far from each other on the same street with large sign and entrance in dark gray color. Although this restaurant is only an 1 star, but its score of 27 is extremely high in the 2008 Zagat Tokyo Guide, even higher than the 3 stars like Koju (26), Jiro (24), Mizutani (25), L’Osier (26), etc. This sushi restaurant is relatively easy to make reservation due to its much larger seating capacity, though the two restaurants were packed when we arrived. 3 chefs plus 2 or 3 assistants are responsible for about 16 counter seats on our floor level. Our set dinner course was around ￥20,000 a person. I did see the old original chef came in for a brief moment checking on how things were going. The overall dinning experience and quality of seafood was very good, however, there are few points that will make us think twice on whether we should go back again. First is the portion of each sushi which my wife feels a bit too big. We are under the impression that an excellent sushi chef should first evaluate each customer’s body weight and adjust the portion of each sushi accordingly. On the contrary, we feel that Sushi Kanesaka did an excellent job. Second is that there isn’t much flavor in the sushi rice and takes a bit longer time to melt with raw fish in our mouths. Sushi Kanesaka also won our votes in these regards. Whether the previous voters on Zagat had different taste preferences, or never had visited other higher class sushi restaurants such as Sushi Kanesaka is unknown. It still remains as a mystery in my mind on why this restaurant had received such high ratings from general Japanese publics. This is also evident on 2 of the special sushi guide books that I had browsed through, in which they all mentioned that Kyubey is a very high regard sushi restaurant with history (founded in 1935). One of the possible explanations is that our chef was not the old original chef or higer ranked chef, but it still doesn’t explain the sushi rice. Incidentally, it received 1 star from Michelin.