Have you ever been to one of the sushi restaurants that arrive to you via conveyor belt or in little sushi boats that meander slowly by, hoping to catch your eye?
I've been to a couple in San Francisco, and the concept is quite quaint.
Now if you have never been to one, you can come to Rose to check out what I'm talking about. This very cute idea only works if the sushi found on the boats look appealing to eat. In fact, in the other restaurants I've been to that have this concept, the dishes are priced per color. For example, the gold plate is the uni sushi, the red plate is the ikura, so on and so forth. So at the end of the evening the server simply counts how many of each color you ate and adds it all up.
Rose's interiors are very simple: everyone sits around a big table where the boats pass by. This makes it difficult to talk to your friends across the way.
The problem with Rose is none of the sushi on the boats looked appetizing. The owner said they replace the sushi every 20 minutes but since no one ate the sushi off the boats, they kept circling around. Instead, I ordered off the menu: uni sashimi. It was very tasty.
I love edamame (soybeans to you folks!) and they had one on their menu with dynamite sauce. I decided to try it and got this:
The sauce was quite spicy and left a residue on my fingers after eating it - definitely not first date food! To wash down these interesting appetizers, we ordered some watermelon sake, which was pretty yummy.
The truth is, the menu wasn't very interesting to me. My friends who had gotten there before me had already ordered some dishes and I did enjoy the salmon dish with ikura on it but since I had salmon for lunch that day I didn't feel like having a whole salmon to myself. So I ordered the tuna tataki with their Rose sauce.
I did not enjoy the Rose sauce very much - it was spicy when it should have not been. I expected something more exciting, such as a ponzu something or other. Alas, I was left disappointed.
So finally, I ended this ordinary meal with dessert- salted caramel ice cream, which turned out to be extremely delicious.
If you want to see little boat meander along which happen to have so-so sushi on it, then you can try Rose. Otherwise, come for some sushi off the menu and the watermelon sake.
Rose
The Grand Hamptons Tower
31st Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues
Bonifacio Global City
Tel +0917.597.2573
Was super excited about this place but unfortunately had the same experience you did. The miso soup and the ice cream were awesome- but the sushis were quite boring, as were some of the other dishes. Salmon was good. We ordered the Rose beef, which we found to tough for our liking as well.
ReplyDeleteAdam, the owner, was especially attentive to us, which was really nice and he let us try ALL the ice cream flavors- I LOVED the salted caramel. I think what this place needs is a Japanese Chef-no? :)
Otherwise cool concept and nice interiors- I'd come back in a few more months to see how it evolves :)