Evan’s World
kinki
Friday, February 16, 2007
General Info:
41 York Street, Ottawa
613-789-7559
Why we chose here: This was probably the first most expensive restaurant Steve & I had ever been to at this point. I can’t remember exactly why we chose this place. We both love Sushi and wanted to try something exciting and new. I’m sure the girl on the main webpage has had something to do with the reason on why all my guy friends want to try this place... I had to see if the food was as exciting for me as the asian fusion girl was for them.
What we ate:
Appetizer Choices: I know we ‘started out’ with a 6 piece of something.. I tend to remember it being a tiny tasting platter of sushi, and it wasn’t vegetarian.
Entrée Choices: I’m looking at their current menu now and noticing that they’ve switched everything around. I had a plate and all I can remember at this point was that it had some sort of fish and gnocchi. Steve had these impossible to eat giant shrimp coated in a crispy sweet sauce.
Choice of Dessert: Dessert was on the house!! I love when that happens, especially when it’s cheese cake. I’m looking at the menu again, and realizing I’m going to have to go back to try their creme brulee!
Kinki Asian Fusion
Nobody eats like this. It bothers me that this is what you see when you go to their website.
Sarah’s Response:
I remember leaving this place and LOVING it. I also leaving and remember being very full. This was our first ‘fine-dining’ experience and we were shocked when the bill came close to $100. Thats a lot of money to a student! Still, such a lovely place, and was worth it. Steve and I both left thinking we definitely had to refer my friend Vanessa here. I can’t remember if we did or not. She’s in Taiwan now, so it’s a little late.
Drinks: I had some sort of mixed drink, like a margarita. It was red. That’s all I remember. And it was’t bad.
Appetizers: Because Steve & I were starving we got a lot of sushi before our main meal. I remember loving this, but probably not eating it correctly (they have a chopstick etiquette up on the website that freaked me out thinking that they’d banish me from the restaurant if I used the chopsticks incorrectly). The Sushi, or Maki, was a fun thing to eat this night around.
Entree: I remember not knowing whose dish was better... in a bad way. They were both flavourful and we enjoyed them, but I remember my dish being VERY FILLING, and Steve’s dish being hard to eat! I had a lot of gnocchi (my first, and unfortunatly not my last experience).
Desserts: Cake was on the house for us, I don’t think we would have ordered dessert but right after our waitress cleared our plates she whipped out 2 slices of cake for us before the bill had a chance of arriving. Very nice touch indeed. The cake was moist, and very hot.
Top 3 Things to Rave About
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1)Filling
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2)Adventurous
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3)Friendly, kind, wait staff. This was very key, as sushi was new to me, same with the whole fine dining experience.
Dislikes: I wish at this point I could remember more about the meal.
I also would like to add that for an ‘Asian’ restaurant there really weren’t that many asian staff. I like going to a Chinese restaurant and being served by Chinese looking people in Chinese apparel. I hope the people in the kitchen were a little more Asian than the ones serving the food.
Réponse de Steve:
Comme Sarah dit, c’était notre première expérience dans un restaurant un peu plus coûteux. La raison pourquoi nous sommes allé à Kinki m’échappe encore. Nous sommes allé à Kinki, il y plus d’un ans maintenant alors je vais faire de mon mieux pour décrire se que nous avons eu.
Boissons: À ce moment, je crois que je n’avais jamais eu un verre de vin et aucune idée que parfois la sélection de la boisson est aussi importante que notre plat alors j’ai pris une Budweiser.
Entrée: Il y a une chose que je me souviens très bien, Sarah et moi était des amateur de sushi mais nos connaissance sur se sujet était très limiter, alors tout les nom comme tako, maguro, unagi, saké nous as laisser un peu confus. Nous avons demandé laide de la serveuse et elle nous as recommandé le Kinki et que plus de sushi serait surement trop avec notre plat principal. Le Kinki est 6 gros morceaux de sushi avec du thon, saumons, crevettes et grillée très rapidement dans une friture appelé tempura. Encore aujourd’hui je crois que le kinki est le meilleur sushi que j’ai manger a date, une des raison je crois est que les autres endroit ne font que saupoudrer du tempura sur leur sushi au lieux des les faire frire.
Plat Principal : Si vous vous sentez près pour un défi de taille commander mon plat ! Six crevettes tigre géantes avec du riz et légume avec une sauce Teriyaki. Le défi est d’essayer de manger les crevettes qui ont encore leur écaille avec des baguettes chinoises. Malgré le challenge, j’ai adoré tous à propos de mon plat ne manquait de rien très bonne portion avec asse de crevette et la sauce un peu sucrée était délicieuse.
Dessert: Sarah et moi avons partager un gâteau au fromage que la serveuse nous as amené pour gratuit je ne sais pas pourquoi pourtant ce n’était pas ma fête. Je crois quel as vus que notre budget n’était pas énorme.
Finalement j’ai adorer mon expérience au Kinki j’ai souvent essayer de ramener Sarah a cet endroit il on changé leur menu beaucoup depuis la fois que nous y somme aller alors je crois que je vais être obliger d’y retourner bientôt!
3 Choses que j’aimer
1) Le sushi
2) Le défi des baguettes chinoise
3) La fille sur le site web
Aime-pas: Les crevettes tigre géantes ne sont plus la…
