sawara Archives | Sushi Guide https://sushiguide.me/reviews/tag/sawara/ your help at the sushi bar Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:48:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://i0.wp.com/sushiguide.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/sushi-guide-icon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 sawara Archives | Sushi Guide https://sushiguide.me/reviews/tag/sawara/ 32 32 129728220 Sushi Ran – Inspiring Japanese Cuisine https://sushiguide.me/reviews/sushi-ran-inspiring-japanese-cuisine/ https://sushiguide.me/reviews/sushi-ran-inspiring-japanese-cuisine/#respond Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:10:05 +0000 http://sushiguide.me/?p=507 While being in San Francisco, I usually go to Sushi Ran at least once. Again and again, the restaurant keeps delivering on the highest expectations anyone could have. As the de facto gold standard for premium traditional Japanese cuisine in California, the sushi chefs surprise me every time I go there. Moriawase Sashimi Dinner This time I opted for a ...

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]]> While being in San Francisco, I usually go to Sushi Ran at least once. Again and again, the restaurant keeps delivering on the highest expectations anyone could have. As the de facto gold standard for premium traditional Japanese cuisine in California, the sushi chefs surprise me every time I go there.

Moriawase Sashimi Dinner

This time I opted for a moriawase style dinner, starting out with an amazing sashimi plate. I came with copper river king sake (wild king salmon), hotategai (scallop), sustainable zuke chu toro (red wine cured bluefin medium fatty tuna), hamachi (yellowtail) and medai (wild red snapper). As I wasn’t able to eat much more, I just had one more nigiri piece of sawara (cherrywood smoked spanish horse mackerel), which is one of my absolute favourites at the restaurant.

copper river king sake (wild king salmon), hotategai (scallop), sustainable zuke chu toro (red wine cured bluefin fatty tuna belly), hamachi (yellowtail), madai (wild red snapper) sashimi copper river king sake (wild king salmon) sashimi hotategai (scallop) sashimi sustainable zuke chu toro (red wine cured bluefin medium fatty tuna belly) sashimi hamachi (yellowtail) sashimi hamachi (yellowtail), madai (wild red snapper) sashimi madai (wild red snapper) sashimi sawara (cherrywood smoked spanish mackerel) nigiri Sushi Ran - dinner chopstick Sushi Ran - wall sign outside

Sushi Guide Verdict

As always Sushi Ran’s unique and traditional atmosphere captivated me. Whenever you enter the restaurant, it seems like a place of piece and quiet, no matter how crowded it might be. The food menu is extensive, serving everything any sushi aficionado could desire. The fish is always fresh, of the highest quality and intense taste. The drink menu is also extensive and offers everything one might look fore in a upscale restaurant. The restaurant’s staff was friendly and forthcoming as always.

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Review date: June 1, 2014

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]]> Once again I am writing about Sushi Ran, my all time favourite sushi restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area and certainly one of the very best in the world. Highly praised for many decades, the restaurant keeps setting the de facto standard for upscale and premium Japanese cuisine on the west coast. 

Omakase Style Dinner

This time I started out with an omakase style sashimi plate. It came with hon maguro (bluefin tuna), hamachi (yellowtail), aji (horse mackerel), zuke maguro (red wine cured tuna), suzuki (sea bass), hirmae (halibut), king sake (king salmin),  kanpai (amber jack) and ika (squid). Afterwards I had an amazing nigiri plate with zuke chu toro (red wine cured bluefin medium fatty tuna), sawara (cherrywood smoked spanish horse mackerel) and kamasu (barracuda). The last order was an unagi (freshwater eel) nigri, which is always of supreme taste.

hon maguro (bluefin tuna) sashimi hamachi (yellowtail) sashimi hamachi (yellowtai), aji (horse mackerel) sashimi sushiguide.me-sushi-ran-aji-sashimi zuke maguro (red wine cured tuna) sashimi suzuki (sea bass) sashimi hirame (halibut), kanpachi (amber jack) sashimi ika (squid) sashimi king sake (king salmon), aji (horse mackerel) sashim zuke chu toro (red wine cured bluefin medium fatty tuna belly), sawara (cherrywood smoked spanish mackerel), kamasu (seared barracuda) nigiri plate zuke chu toro (red wine cured bluefin medium fatty tuna belly) nigiri sawara (cherrywood smoked spanish mackerel) nigiri sawara (cherrywood smoked spanish mackerel) nigiri kamasu (seared barracuda) nigiri unagi (freshwater eel) nigiri

Sushi Guide Verdict

The atmosphere at Sushi Ran is truly unique. It is a very cozy and quiet restaurant with an open sushi bar with an overall traditional and exquisite interior design. The sushi menu is extensive, offering both local and sustainable fish with additional special dishes available only at the sushi bar. The food is of the highest quality and the most amazing taste. The wine and sake menu is also extensive, allowing anyone to find what he might desire. Both the sushi chefs and the waiters are exceptionally friendly and forthcoming, making every visit to the restaurant an experience to be remembered.

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Review date: September 11, 2013

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]]> https://sushiguide.me/reviews/sushi-ran-supreme-japanese-cuisine/feed/ 0 504 Sushi Ran – One Of Its Kind https://sushiguide.me/reviews/sushi-ran-one-of-its-kind/ https://sushiguide.me/reviews/sushi-ran-one-of-its-kind/#respond Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:45:39 +0000 http://sushiguide.me/?p=502 Whenever I am in the San Francisco Bay Area, I go to Sushi Ran at least one time. More often than not I wish I could go there any other day. I truly believe the all time classic Japanese restaurant to be one of the very best restaurants in the world. So once again, I share some photos from one ...

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]]> Whenever I am in the San Francisco Bay Area, I go to Sushi Ran at least one time. More often than not I wish I could go there any other day. I truly believe the all time classic Japanese restaurant to be one of the very best restaurants in the world. So once again, I share some photos from one of my many visits.

Sashimi Dinner

This time, I had a light omakase sashimi dinner at the sushi bar. It came with hon maguro (bluefin tuna), suzuki (sea bass), zuke sake (white soy sauce cured fatty salmon), kanpai (amber jack), bincho maguro (white tuna), sawara(cherrywood smoked horse mackerel), hamachi (yellowtail), o toro (bluefin fatty tuna) and zuke chu toro (red wine cured bluefin medium fatty tuna). To cut it short, it truly was amazing… as always.

kanpai (amber jack), bincho maguro (white tuna) sashimi hon maguro (bluefin tuna) sashimi suzuki (sea bass), zuke sake (white soy sauce cured fatty salmon) sashimi sawara (cherrywood smoked horse mackerel), hamachi (yellowtail), o toro (bluefin fatty tuna belly) sashimi o toro (bluefin fatty tuna belly) sashimi zuke chu toro (red wine cured bluefin medium fatty tuna belly) sashimi Sushi Ran - flag

Sushi Guide Verdict

Sushi Ran offers a truly unique atmosphere both at the open sushi bar as well as at regular tables. The food menu is extensive and the restaurant also offers various sushi bar exclusives. Everything is of the highest quality and the most amazing taste. The wine and sake menu offers anything from light aperitifs to heavy red wines. As always the service was outstanding although we were staying too long, being the last guests of the night.

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Review date: September 9, 2013

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