Day 1: Tokyo Sumo Grand Tournament continued ...
So anyway the last matches end at around ~6pm, so it's just about right to head back to the hotel, check in, and take a shower before heading back out to dinner. For our first dinner we visited the very-well-reviewed (by gaijins) Shima Steak:
Some "OK" bread & butter.
To start: Onion Soup (very thick, lots of onions, very savoury) and off-menu crab croquette (lots of crab meat, but not the chunky kind, very little filler).
Main courses are - obviously - steak! We had one order each of the Fillet (tenderloin) and Sirloin. The tenderloin was slightly more tender, but also noticeably less juicy / fatty. Our recommendation is to go with the sirloin (if you can only choose one), because wagyu is normally so tender anyway.
Speaking of wagyu, normally we don't really dig A5 wagyu steaks so much because the fat/oil can be overwhelming after a while, but the beef served here (sourced by Oshima-san from his hometown in Kyoto) hits just the right balance between meat and fat. Sublime.
Dessert & petit fours are 'complimentary.' Strangely enough each table or dining group seemed to get a different variation of fruit, cake, and/or ice cream for their dessert.
Total damage: ¥34,000 (including 2 non-alcoholic drinks), so the dinner wasn't cheap, but it was worth it. Definitely recommended if you're in Tokyo and in the mood for some solid wagyu cooked steak-style (i.e. grilled over charcoal) instead of the more common teppanyaki style.
Service standards were ... sort of OK? Oshima-san and a couple of members of his staff do try to make small talk and be friendly, but the language barrier was clearly an issue (only Oshima-san's English was decent, the rest of his staff not so much).
This post concludes Day 1!
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