When Dave and I joined up with Angie and John for this wonderful new partnership, we were thrilled to find out that we are all as passionate about excellent food as we are about excellent music. Since our first gig together was in New York, what better place to start our food blog!
Besides enjoying meeting all of the wonderful and talented people at APAP, we managed to take some time out to sample some of the finest cuisine New York has to offer. Our first stop was
Geisha restaurant in Midtown, where we had some of the most amazing sushi.
We started with some of their incredible drinks and appetizers. I had one (OK, two) of their signature "saketinis" with passion fruit puree, and we all sampled some unfiltered sake, which was cloudy and a little sweeter than the norm, with a rice-y finish. Quite tasty!
Some of the other decadent appetizers were fried oysters in a light sesame coating, and lobster dumplings in an anise-spiced foam.
These were divine, but being the raging carnivore that I am, we had to try the Kobe beef (the most tender, flavorful beef on the planet) as well as the oh-so-pricey-but-even-better-than-Kobe Wagyu beef.
The piéce de résistance, however, was the chef's special sushi. We gave him free reign to make his favorite creations, and we were treated to a multitude of the freshest, most mouthwatering bits of yumminess I have ever encountered.
We needed a veritable mountain of wasabi and ginger to match the massive array.
No - there was nothing we didn't like.
And here we are happily posing for the waiter. What a meal!
