Spectacular in presentation, with bafun uni AND murasaki uni, ebi, yellowtail, and steamed awabi, and a generous amount of tuna, hikarimono, ikura, and really nice rice, this chirashi-don is worth the $45 price tag. It comes with a refreshing bowl of seaweed dashi broth, AND included is a nice piece of kasutera-style tamagoyaki to finish lunch off right. Gochisosama deshita!
Our lunch omakase at Tsujita this summer was really good–oddly enough I didn’t fully appreciate it until we ate not too soon after at Sushi Sushi and Sasabune BH (the former much better than the latter). Both meals threw into relief the much higher quality at Tsujita in every element of the meal and made me realize how limited/limiting my habit of counting the number of pieces served to compare sushi meals is.
That being said, this chirashi looks like a very good value too.
thanks for the tip – enjoyed this with my friends today. I really enjoyed how there were also more finely diced up cubes of octopus and other neta for textural and flavor contrast underneath the bigger pieces above the rice…the clams were also remarkable in their texture, almost like shitake. saw several other guests all enjoying the same dish. mellow scene there and no crowd or wait. i guess a $45 lunch will do that…but it was a damn nice treat and my first trip to tsujita sushi. It’s not cheating on shunji-san if i just get the chirashi!