We went to the Double Knot restaurant here in City Center a few hours ago. What. An. Amazing. Goddamn Place.
I don't eat meat, and it's a sushi restaurant, my concern was that there was nothing good for me to eat at the place. Oh boy I was proven wrong!
There's not much to say in the way of ambience besides that the serving bowls and plates were cute, crafty and I would pay big bucks to own one day. We were at an outside table in a cozy plastic-barricaded sitting thing...with a heavy air flow going on with the hvac system, it didn't disrupt our conversations as much as I feared it would. Our butts were cold, it is after all February in the Northeast and we were outside, but it was big deal eating outside so that shall be forgiven. It would have been great if we had one of them cool gas burners like a lot of places have put up -- the overhead bright warm bulb barely heated up our faces, but a warm tush is hard to come by with fair above your self anyway.
The server was nice, kind, and quite adept at reading the situation and making recommendations. The menu is limited for vegetarians, but everything is amazing, one wouldn't be faulted for ordering every vegetarian item on the menu. However, he made two 'sushi' recommendations that I particularly liked which were not on the menu... a veggie, sour sort of sushi, and then a silken tofu version, which I absolutely adored. It was nine small pieces of silken tofu for seven bucks, heaven.
The food was goddamnfuckingamazing. The silken tofu sushi, which sounded like a rebranded version of fried tofu was heavenly. I shared them with the folks I was having dinner with, it came up as one of their favorite items. Roasted Brussel sprouts, drenched in fat and yummy lemon juice and vinegar and could it have been a little bit of soy sauce as well...(?) was to die for. The Miitake mushroom -- my first Miitake ever -- tasted like a billion other things, so curious and exciting. Four tiny stalks of what may have been green onion were...heavenly. The long stalks of asparagus were perhaps on the lesser-exciting side if not just as juicy as everything else, and it was annoying to unstick bits from my teeth, but no problems there as well.
Oh and their lemongrass tea was so refreshing, it's a pity they had such small teapots, we ended up ordering five pots for the table.
We ended up paying three times as much as in the piece of shit Italian restaurant I reviewed the other day, dear gods please take the awful memory from the recesses of my mind. This was one heck of a pallette-cleanser in terms of restaurant experience and now I know the world is good and great again, good things are about to begin.
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