Mumbai food: SoBo grill offers authentic Japanese delicacies

Japani
Food: Good
Service: Quick
Ambience: Average

Prawn Tempura with creamy, sharp mayo

In a forlorn bylane behind a Radio Club in Colaba, a signboard that reads Japani in part-English, part-Devanagri script, held a attention. Piqued, we entered a three-month-old restaurant. The atmospheric interiors weren’t really Japanese in interest though we speckled a normal wooden list with low seating. This contemporary chronicle of a list had space to postpone one’s feet subsequent instead of carrying to lay with them folded.

Mochi Ice Cream

When we had checked a grill out on an online portal progressing in a evening, a photographs showed a wall embellished with a musty picture of a lady dressed in a normal kimono and red sunglasses. We couldn’t mark it in a restaurant, maybe since one territory was blocked for a private party. The ambience spelt difficulty as a DJ spun Bollywood marks from a Rs 90s while we browsed by a menu that listed a accumulation of sushi, along with Japanese and Korean curries.

Japanese Katsu Curry

While we speckled informed mentions like a Maki hurl and Carpaccio, there were a whole lot of outlandish appetisers, mains and prohibited pots that enclosed live cooking during a table. We started with a normal sushi. The Sake Maki Salmon Roll (Rs 500) with gummy rice wrapped in seaweed was ideally done. The restaurant’s imagination in sushi lifted a hopes. Next, we attempted a Prawn Tempura (Rs 650) with creamy, sharp mayo. The smashed and deep-fried prawns could also be attempted with a tawny wasabi salsa though we stranded to a spiced mayo. The cloaking was wafery-thin, and a prawn was crunchy.

The Sake Maki Salmon Roll

This was followed by a Japanese Katsu Curry (Rs 590). The image had cubes/diced portions of pig boiled with bread gram baked in Donbury (soya-based) salsa that was served with roasted potatoes, steamed carrots and thick, gummy rice. It was mild, flavorful and delicious. While we savoured this for a initial time, a associate foodies common that it reminded them of a curry that they had tasted on a famous Bullet sight in Japan.

Keen to try a Japanese dessert, we opted for a Mochi Ice Cream (Rs 350). Our image featured battered gummy rice with a immature tea ice cream filling. You can try a same with a vanilla filling. We found a multiple engaging and opposite though we are utterly certain we’ll collect something else on a subsequent visit.

While a engaging menu deserves an encore, and a prompt use gets a special mention, a owners competence wish to relook during a ambience by introducing a few informative elements from Japan, including piped song that’s in sync with a Oriental leanings, to make a knowledge memorable.

Time: 12 noon to 3 pm, 7 pm to 12.30 am
At: 41/42, Minoo Desai Marg, behind Radio Club, Colaba.
Call: 33126804
Japani didn’t know we were there. a beam reviews anonymously and pays for a meals.

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