MSP New Japanese Restaurant on Hennepin & 6th
Know anything about the new Japanese restaurant slated to open on the ground floor of the Plymouth Building @ Hennepin Ave & 6th Street? They've changed the marquee above what most recently housed an ill-fated Olive Garden, whose demise in under 12 months restored my faith in the independent mindedness of downtown Minneapolitans.
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UPDATE:
well that didn't take long. awnings are up with the name of the new establishment: zake. with an accent over the e in zake, so like zach-ey. or sake? trepidation fills me-- what if it's a japanese fusion place taking over the huge failure that was musashi?
does anybody know anything about the new establishment? allay my fears, please!
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re: soupkitten
Here's their website 4 U, strange online menu reader that lets you 'turn the page'..
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re: faith
oh i am so *not* comforted after seeing the menu. i fear the $4 late night martini happy hour, plus proximity to "lite (sic) rail" will turn that train into the vomit comet after 1 am. . . and it seems clear they're playing to the tourists (seriously, do we have any?) and/or the suburbanite population, rather than the locals.
anybody want to be the first to have a taste and post about it?
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re: Danny
MSPD
Jul 6, 2009 11:18 AM
Nope. Sorry. I will never, ever, under any circumstances go to this place.
I've done Enjoy! and Yum! and Yummy! and Pop!. Right away, I hate the name of the place. Zake'? Stupid. I'm shocked it isn't Zake!.
And "Miso Hungry"? Stupid the first time, stupid the 1,356,212th time. Do they serve it with a Me Love You Mai Tai?
No. No. No!
I've had it with stupid restaurant names with stupid catchy little menu items. I'm through giving every restaurant a fair shake. Chowhound ethos be damned.
Line drawn.
No.
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re: MSPD
The Dairy Queen
Jul 6, 2009 11:23 AM
On which side of the line that you've drawn does The Strip Club stand?
~TDQ
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re: kevin47
Went for the all you can eat a few weeks ago and it was just ok. Not terrible by the AYCE criteria but my wife agreed that there are much better options and we won't be going back. I would stick to Fuji-ya, Origami.... We recently tried the new Mt. Fuji on Hennipen and the fish was really nice. Didn't get any of the rolls. A little too busy for our tastes.
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re: soupkitten
Had to laugh when I arrived in MSP for the first time ever and (thanks to the airport shuttle driver who had only been on the job three days) got an inadvertent tour of downtown on my way to the hotel. As we turned one of many corners, there was Zake...and I felt like I knew the place, thanks to lurking on the midwest board for the last few months in anticipation of this trip! Will NOT be trying Zake as a result...but will be trying many of your other fine restaurants thanks to CH suggestions!
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re: soupkitten
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Our Musashi experience was absolutely awful. Our party of 6 arrived at 7:20 pm for a 7:30 reservation at one of their Hibachi tables. After being seated, were not even greeted to ask us for our drink order until 7:44... understandable if the place was even remotely busy, however, on a beautiful Saturday night when every other restaurant in the city was overbooked until 10 pm, we could have walked in and sat at any table in the restaurant with a group of literally any size.
Once the waitress finally came to our table, she asked us for our drink order without even presenting us with their wine/beer list, and instead offered us her abbreviated and very incomplete rendition of what was on the list.
After she came back a second time to ask us to repeat our drink order, someone in our party asked when our Hibachi chef would be joining us to make our dinner "in about 20-25 minutes." she responded -- we declined.
On our way out the door, the restaurant host offered to seat us at any other "regular" table because he suggested that the service "might be better." We decided to pass.
This restaurant has been open for some time now, and is in a prime location on 5th and Hennepin in DT Mpls. Once we walked in at 7:30 pm on a Saturday evening and saw how absolutely dead the restaurant was, we should have known what was coming. You would expect much more from a restaurant that charges 25-35 per entree.
STAY AWAY... though I doubt they'll be open long enough for most people to get burned the way we did.
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I went there with my boyfriend on the 4th, the official grand opening weekend; all the food was 25% off, which would be a great deal if the food bad been better....
I've eaten at many, many sushi places in the world, and this is the first place that only gives you ONE piece of sushi, not two, so when you factor that in, it's quite expensive.
We tried the dish that is shown in the Rake review, the tuna with mango and sweet sauce, and it was atrocious...the mango was hard, had no flavor, and the sauce was the sickenly-sweet kind you find with bad eggrolls; I also take umbrage with their use of "crab" in/on some of the rolls that is actually fake crab, actually surimi.
I must admit that the sushi was very fresh and good, especially the white tuna, but in view of the price, lousy special dishes, terrible service, I don't think I would go back.
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g rote
Aug 31, 2007 10:24 PM
Reviving this thread...I believe it's called Musashi...is it open?
This is all I found on google...
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/counc...Sidewalk seating...check
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re: g rote
The Dairy Queen
Sep 4, 2007 07:21 AM
Sounds intriguing--I think you're going to have to take one for the team and check it out for us! And report back, of course!
~TDQ
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re: Danny
David_Minh
Sep 8, 2007 08:03 AM
its supposed to open on september 16th, a sushi chef that was offered a job informed me.
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re: bob s
AnneInMpls
Nov 3, 2007 02:38 PM
The Rake's food blog has a little information about Murasaki and its plans.
http://www.rakemag.com/blogs/breaking...
Anne
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