Kushi for Restaurant Week, Friday, January 28, 2011

I often have the problem that I only order sushi at Japanese restaurants, because I mean, what else on the menu could I possibly love more than delicious sushi?  Sometimes I'm feeling katsudon, but that's basically it.  My one previous visit to Kushi was notable because it was the happiest I've been eating sushi in DC for quite a while, and I'm a tough sushi critic.  So, I decided I'd go to Kushi for their Restaurant Week menu and get a sampling of the rest of the menu to see if it was as delectable.

You can check out their Restaurant Week dinner menu here.  Looking at it ahead of time, I was curious how good a deal the $35.11 price was.  Cross-referencing with the regular menu, it seemed that if you got the most expensive items on the RW menu, the RW price basically added up to getting the miso and gelato for free.  Note that this means that everything on the RW menu was also on Kushi's regular menu, rather than creating some items especially for RW.

The meal started off with one small pork and scallion dumpling as an amuse bouche, which was quite tasty, and a nice beginning.  To follow, my companions and I ended up all getting the red miso and farm greens.  Red miso is typically fermented for longer than other miso, and has a more intense flavor than the white miso you typically get.  The red miso soup was warm and salty, which is exactly what I look for in a miso soup.  The farm greens were actually surprisingly good, with what tasted like a fresh ginger dressing on them, and not an iceberg leaf in sight.