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Momotaro is huge, lively, and makes for a fun (albeit not so cheap) night. It has three floors, including the main dining room, a more casual basement izakaya, and a private area upstairs. But today’s review focuses on the main dining room – we’ll tackle the izakaya another day.
As big as Momotaro is, the menu is even bigger. There seems to be an endless amount of pages and section headers—cold, hot, “from the coals", robata yaki, sushi, and more. And because of the size of the menu, Momotaro as a whole reminds us of Field Day in elementary school. Field Day was the best – grammar and math were replaced with ball tosses, potato sack races, teachers in dunk tanks, and popsicles. But while Field Day activities were better than actual educational learning, some things were still better than others – dunk tanks > potato sack races.
The same is true with Momotaro. Even though it’s an incredible restaurant, it’s important to focus your order so you don’t end up with an above-average yet overly expensive meal. Our advice is to sample a little bit of everything with a focus on the following sections – cold, hot, from the coals, and sushi, the last of which should be whatever you prefer between rolls, nigiri, or sashimi. But even after aggressively attacking the menu on multiple trips, it feels like we’ll never get to it all. Which is fine by us, because it's fun to try.
Food Rundown
photo credit: Christina Slaton
Momomaki
Maguro
Tsukune Dango
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Nigiri and Sashimi
photo credit: Christina Slaton