I'm not sure about the name of this restaurant. Well, I'm sure it's called Nihon Whisky Lounge, but I'm not sure if that's an appropriate name for it.
The whisky list was impressive, but the "lounge" wasn't particularly inviting, being full of cell-phone wielding bores typical of a night out in San Francisco.
It's reminiscent of The Tardis, Dr. Who's transport, in that it looks tiny on the outside, but larger inside.
But the food is what brought us here, not the whisky or the intergalactic travel possibilities. And that aspect was good.
Nihon serves Izakaya, the Japanese version of tapas, so there's less focus on rolls than you'd find in most sushi restaurants.
We had the Kaiso, a seaweed salad mixed with greens and sesame soy dessing, Kobe beef thigh wrapped in asparagus with yuzu sweet soy sauce and scallion, Hamachi ceviche yellow tail, cucumber, gobo, shiso, kaiware and yuzu ponzu, served with home made tortilla chips, and Nihon Burger: kobe beef with shitake mushrooms, cucumber and gobo, with Japanese BBQ sauce.
Definitely somewhere to savor mid-week, when the lounge might be less crushed and more comfortable for a bit of whisky-sipping.
We had the Kaiso, a seaweed salad mixed with greens and sesame soy dessing, Kobe beef thigh wrapped in asparagus with yuzu sweet soy sauce and scallion, Hamachi ceviche yellow tail, cucumber, gobo, shiso, kaiware and yuzu ponzu, served with home made tortilla chips, and Nihon Burger: kobe beef with shitake mushrooms, cucumber and gobo, with Japanese BBQ sauce.
Definitely somewhere to savor mid-week, when the lounge might be less crushed and more comfortable for a bit of whisky-sipping.
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