It’s been a while since we wanted to try Domodomo in Jersey City (although know that they do have a location in New York City). From the outside, the place looks amazing with its dark front and the dining room that can host close to 100 people is spacious with, interestingly, the sushi counter totally blocked from the kitchen view that is quite unusual as people like to sit at the counter to see the Chef preparing sushi and sashimi. They do serve an Omakase at specific hours and then, the eight seats reserved for this dining experience, can see the Chef preparing the sushi, otherwise, outside of this, they also cannot see anything. I admit that the menu is a bit confusing and not at all vegetarian friendly. For instance, unless you order a prix-fixe, they do not offer any vegetarian sushi and their hot dishes only have roasted cauliflower, roasted Brussels sprouts (we asked without Fujikake that is a dry condiment made with dried fish and they seem to have ditched the parmesan as well) or the classic edamame. No tofu? On top of that Jodi’s dishes came 20 minutes after all my dishes were served that showed a poor timing as dining together means together and they never mentioned that dishes were coming as soon as ready, without any particular order. At least the vegetables were good, although I found the broccoli a bit too sweet. But the charred cauliflower with green pea miso spread was delicious.

On my side, I got a clam miso soup that was made with clam, cuttlefish, shrimp and wakame that is a type of seaweed. Pretty good and a good change from a classic miso.

The hot dishes are small, so I decided to order two of them. The first one was the NY strip that was a 6oz dry aged strip on top of sweet soy onion (loved it) and seasonal vegetables. The steak was not as tender as I would have expected and I wish they cooked it medium rare. Still, it was good.

The second hot dish was the grilled octopus, served with Maitake mushroom, yuzu juice and cilantro. The octopus was a bit chewy but had a nice char. The sauce was too sweet and lacking the citrusy taste that I was expecting.

With my meal, I had a shot of Japanese whisky, a Kura from Hokkaido, while Jodi had a green tea.

Dessert was quite good: we shared a black sesame panna cotta that had a nice nutty taste with nice crispy pearls on top. A must have.

Overall our dinner at Domodomo was ok, the order of the dishes screwing up a bit the experience. The food we had was good but not amazing: the sushi are probably better…

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Domodomo - 200 Greene St, Jersey City, NJ 07311

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