It’s a crispy shell filled with an ethereal potato cloud and when my teeth sunk into the croquette and taken a look at the center, it’s coarsely chopped potato. Normally, I don’t care for croquettes but what really surprised me was how light it was. Next up was the truffled potato croquettes on a bed of mushroom puree. Mild, sweet, savory flavors with a touch of nuttiness of the lotus root.
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The chef first served us a small salad of hijiki seaweed, edamame, string beans and topped with a crispy lotus root chip. their sushi/sashimi and the large stainless steel bowls of nabe noodles for two.) To cut the long story short, we did enjoy it and curious to come back again for a few other things (e.g. Once he and a few others apologized, most of the smoldering anger within us has subsided and we hope when they start serving us food, it will make us be content enough that the wait was worth it. Who might be the maître d’ came up to us and apologized about the wait because of the aforementioned. The hostess and Executive Chef Koji picked up the fact we were ignored and told the wait staff about us. We were unfortunate to be ignored for over thirty minutes after being seated immediately and served just water. The main issue with any new restaurant that tends to be it overwhelmed with diners, especially on a very pleasant spring, Friday night and understaffed. The music was audible to keep it lively but not blasting that I had to shout to my friend. There were many six-top tables for groups around the main dining room and side rooms that were located toward the front of the restaurant. It’s a modern, spacious restaurant that is buzzing with activity ranging with people on dates (or at least pairs of people) seated and dining around the large square bar/open-kitchen.
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We went to a new (as in one-month young) Japanese restaurant ROKI Le Izakaya.