Originally Posted by malcolmk14
Bump! What did you end up trying, hungryhun?
I ended up at a few places on my list above: Colibri for Cinco de Mayo (the best guacamole I have ever had).
Also tried House of Nanking (Chinese) which was pretty decent.
Went to La Taqueria in Mission twice (had to go a second time on the way to the airport, they were so good). They had incredible tacos, highly recommend. They are world-famous so you won't have any problem finding them, but they're on Mission between 24th and 25th St.
Got seafood at Ferry Plaza Seafood, we shared steamed mussels in coconut milk, I had the Cioppino and the girlfriend had Sea Bass on a bed of rice with some veggies. Both dishes were pretty good but it was not a cheap meal. I imagine there are better value places in the area. We really wanted to try Sotto Mare but the only night we had free was Sunday, and they were closed.
The best meal we had, though, was at Domo Sushi on Laguna St.
Started the meal off with a Hawaiian-style tuna poke with marinated thick slices of maguro (tuna) and tako (octopus) over a seaweed salad with tobiko on top, and two small "crudos" which sounds like a Spanish word more than it does a Japanese word, I never asked, but they were two asian soup spoons, one with spicy tuna, sesame oil and avocado, and the other with a scallop with japanese cucumber and tobiko.
Next were the rolls, we got the rock n' roll which is basically unagi, avocado, tobiko, and unagi sauce. Also the Domo roll which was a california roll topped with salmon, scallops, tobiko, spicy mayo, and unagi sauce, and then baked warm in an oven. We also got the alpha roll off the specials menu, I can't really remember what exactly was on it, but it had a delicious large chunk of mango inside.
We wrapped up with some sunazuri (Hamachi belly), walu (hawaiian butterfish or escolar), two pieces of toro (i think it was big-eye tuna chu-toro), and two more crudos (another scallop one for my girlfriend and this time I had the Ankimo (monkfish liver)).
Overall I had a few nitpicks, too many sauces on their rolls, the Ankimo was a little off, I found it a bit flaky and some shiso on top would have helped balance the flavour a little more, but overall I would give the place a solid 9/10. It's a good modern take on sushi and was pretty reasonably priced for the quality (bill came to $100 including tip, no drinks for two people). I had a $200 meal (per person) at Yasuda in NYC a couple years ago and while this doesn't really stack up because it's really not the same kind of sushi, I would probably rather eat at Domo four times than Yasuda once.
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