Sui Ren in Williamsburg (opened...yesterday?)
for the past few months, they've been doing construction under my apartment on a Japanese restaurant-to-be...well, it finally had its soft opening. I checked it out this evening.
Sui Ren was not busy, but did have a couple of tablesful of curious people inside. it looks great, and the menu was pretty interesting--there were a handful of things I wanted to order. I'm not really solid on my Japanese food terms, but I think it's an izakaya place with yakitori et al?
I got the grilled smelt skewers ($5) and cold bigeye tuna with soft quail egg skewers ($8). my total bill was $17 including tip.
I'm sold on the food, but it's definitely a little too expensive to be a regular place for me. when it gets its liquor license (in about a month, according to the waitress), I'd love to go again and sample things like the ground duck skewers.
more detail and terrible pictures on my blog, of course.
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Sui Ren
302 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
