Trying to grab dinner with a friend on Thursday evening. Deciding between Fish & Bird and Ippuku, open to others if there are any better options that I missed in my search. Pretty much only care about food quality; not likely to be drinking and don’t especially care about price differences here. (Not actually sure I can get a reservation at Ippuku; they only take them by phone and I haven’t tried yet given that I’m undecided where to go. But )
Appreciate anyone’s thoughts, especially if you’ve been to both
(I am tempted by Fish & Bird’s hojicha ice cream, if it’s anything like Shunji’s, because that one was incredible and a round 2 would be pretty motivating.)
Ippuku has finally made it possible to reserve on Tock! And I had a couple friends visiting from out of town this weekend, so I stopped by tonight. No pictures, sorry.
Everything was very good, but particular highlights were the gyoza (easily the best I’ve ever had), the tail, the mochi, and the beef tongue. At 8 pm they were out of quite a lot, including the thigh oysters, skin (which is why we got the chicharrónes instead), and wings.
Bill barely scratched $50/head all-in, and that was with a drink and dessert.