Originally Posted by
Pickles
Well, if what you were offered is something even inferior to their usual set menus (which I've reviewed on the Japanese website), it must have been something pretty miserable, because their regular "non-foreigner" offerings look distinctly pedestrian.
Their offerings are strictly Edomae, so neta selections are not the most varied, but they use traditional Edo prep techniques that are becoming very hard to find. For example ni-ika (squid simmered in a soy-flavored stock) or akami zuke where the whole block of maguro is marinated in soy for an extended period of time as compared to the much more common modern zuke prep which involves marinating individual slices of neta for just a few minutes.