


A free shuttle is available from JR Katata Train Station, which is a 10-minute drive away.Air-conditioned rooms feature a flat-screen TV, a fridge and an electric kettle with green tea bags. Guests can unwind at the large public baths and saunas after spending the day exercising. There is an interesting story behind many of the recipes at Angkor Restaurant.Located right beside Lake Biwa, Hotel Laforet Biwako features a complimentary use of an indoor swimming pool, a large gymnasium and tennis courts. Theoretically, there could be terrific kosher Chinese restaurants. Review: Taam China Glatt Kosher Chinese Cuisine.Once upon a time, Rhode Islanders would have been enormously grateful to have a Mexican restaurant like El Tapatio in our midst: good burritos, enchiladas, and fajitas You read that right.Īt most of Boston’s dim-sum palaces, my strategy has always been to sit near the kitchen door, to get the little plates off the cart when they’re hottest. Sunday’s daily special at Spirito’s, an all-you-can-eat roasted chicken deal that borrows from the Blackstone Valley tradition, includes pasta, as well as French fries and salad - for $9.95. Since the open kitchen at Scales and Shells is behind the hostess station, you are pulled into the restaurant by the aroma of wood smoke and garlic as you open the door. Tamarind Bay in Harvard Square set a new standard for Indian restaurants in Boston, and perhaps in the whole country. Yet another way to enjoy the soup/fondue shabu-shabu: quickly cook the meats and eat them with dips and condiments. Gran Gusto is an Italian delight located as close to the middle of nowhere as it gets in North Cambridge. We also suffer from a dearth of good street food: what we’d give for one decent LA-style taco truck!Īt 18 years, Caffé Itri is one of the longest-running places on Cranston’s “restaurant row”, and for very good reason, as we re-learned on a recent visit. Call 78.ĭining options for night owls are limited to a handful of Chinatown eateries and a few dubious diners. Sushi Yasu, located at 617 Main Street in Waltham, is open Mon–Thurs, from 11:30 am–3 pm and 5–10 pm Friday and Saturday, from 11:30 am–3 pm and 5–10:30 pm and Sun, from 4:30–10 pm. Order Korean for your best chance of leaving the casual, value-priced, 60-seat Sushi Yasu feeling satisfied - and if you eat enough chili-accented dishes, floating on a cloud of endorphins. And with several good Thai restaurants nearby, skip the sprinkling of Thai curries and noodle dishes ($9.95–$12.95), too. Among the Japanese options, I prefer the lightly battered, deep-fried katsu of chicken or pork ($13.95) with rice: save your sushi dollars for a Japanese place. It's the kind of place that offers an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet ($27.95) on Wednesday and Thursday nights sushi fanatics will find it adequate at best. Given its name and how many patrons do feast on Japanese offerings, I must note that Sushi Yasu has few sashimi options ($9.95), but a decent range of nigiri ($3.95–$6.50), maki ($3.95–$5.95), and temaki ($4.95–$14.95).
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Lunch bento boxes ($8.95–$9.95) are a good deal, featuring: miso soup, iceberg-lettuce salad, rice, and California rolls, plus protein options like boolgogi (marinated thin-sliced ribeye), fine spicy pork, and teriyaki salmon. Kimchi jigae ($12.95), arriving boiling in a hot stone bowl, boasts fierce kimchi, tofu cubes, scallions, onions, and shredded pork I can think of few dishes more heartwarming on freezing nights. Duk man du ($13.95) is another substantial beef-broth soup that features small vegetable-filled dumplings, thin slices of beef, scallions, and chewy rice-cake slices. Yook gae jang ($13.95) is an enormous bowl of thinly shredded beef brisket, mung-bean sprouts, cellophane noodles, and scallions in a clear broth with plenty of chili fire. The very pleasant servers here may try to talk you out of the hotter dishes if you have any kind of chili tolerance, don't let them.Įntrûes come with miso soup, excellent steamed short-grain rice, and a half-dozen banchan: small cold side dishes (typically including kimchi, sesame-marinated bean sprouts, spinach salad, seaweed salad, sliced fish cake, and pickled daikon) these add up to an ample dinner. A prime example is kimchi jayook bokum ($15.95), a five-alarm stir-fry of pork loin, onion, kimchi, and slices of firm tofu. Many dishes are streaked carmine by the abundant use of capsicum peppers, either in the form of gochujang (fermented-chili hot sauce) or kimchi, the essential chili-laden Korean condiment/side dish/cooking staple of fermented, pickled napa cabbage. Despite its Japanese name, Waltham's four-year-old Sushi Yasu serves fiercely aromatic stews and stir-fries that showcase the joys of Korean cuisine: trenchant flavors of garlic, ginger, soy sauce, dark sesame oil, and fermented bean paste.
