That’s it. I’m getting closer now. The holy grail. The perfect sushi experience. That’s what I was telling myself when I entered the lift for another 9th floor sublime meal. Cloud nine they should call it. I had that day a sushi only omakase. And it was perfect. Flawless. Almost too perfect as people say it might lack a bit of emotion. But I really believe sushi can be perfect, I mean the cutting of the fish and the cooking of the rice are not approximations, they can be 100/100. And that was the case that day. Some standouts being the uni, baby scallops, the abalone, the most tender I’ve ever eaten and the tamago. The silence was also quite mesmerizing, as I entered the room, being again the only non Japanese, it felt like entering a cathedral. You could feel Mizutani-san’s relief when he saw I knew how to eat sushi, and I also think you need to “know your sushi” in order to enjoy such meals fully. I will talk later about Sushi Saito and Sawada, which were quite different as there was sushi, of course, but sashimi as well, which in my opinion brings a bit of “life”. Sushi Mizutani has a strict no-photo policy so I did not even bother pulling my camera out as soon as I sat. I did manage to shoot the master at the end of the meal, as I was the last one there. I would totally recommend you eat there, I went for lunch and it was the “cheapest” of all my sushi meals.

The room

The master, Mizutani-san, who posed for me, readjusting his glasses before I took the pic

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