How does this restaurant not have any reviews on Urbanspoon yet?? Well it looks really nice inside so maybe it’s new. Anyway, Sake Café rules!!! I ate there last Tuesday AND Wednesday, lol. It’s near VGH on Broadway.

So they have a special where you can order three items from a list for $8.95, and it also comes with miso soup and a salad. It says that is a lunch special on their menu but currently you can get the deal at any time of day. There are about 40 different things you can choose from including appetizer items, nigiri sushi, simple rolls and even some special rolls.

Lots of places have deals like this but the difference here is that they do not skimp on anything! Everything was really nicely made, large, and decent quality. They also have great service and the food arrives VERY quickly. Perfect!!

TUESDAY

The free salad and miso. The salad is just iceberg lettuce, but the carrot ginger dressing is really tasty. The miso soup soothed my sore throat after a day of yelling talking loudly at the hospital.

On Tuesday I chose 1) yam tempura, 2) salmon roll, and 3) spicy tuna roll. I was very satisfied with the spicy tuna roll! And the yam tempura was nicely crispy and light.

The whole feast. Not bad for $9!! My food arrived in like 5 minutes as well, which is awesome.

WEDNESDAY

I raved about it so much Scott and Brett wanted to come try it the next afternoon.

This time I ordered 1) salmon sushi, 2) spicy tuna roll, and 3) spider roll. It came with the soup and salad again too. And it was all great.

Between Brett and Scott we also tried the spicy salmon roll, california roll, avocado roll, and the variety tempura. Everything was as good as we hoped.

Happy sushi brothers. Heehee.

I only heard about La Mezcaleria a week or two ago but ever since I heard BOWL OF MELTED CHEESE I couldn’t stop thinking about it!

Lauren was in town and we went to check it out on Friday. We had to wait a while for a table (well, Lauren had to wait, as I was very late… oops) so I would suggest making a reservation if you go. Our table ended up being at the bar, which was crowded, but okay.

I had a margarita (I LOVE LIME!) and Lauren had a Chico, which has tequila, blackberry liqueur, grenadine, lime and soda. They were both delicious.

Bring on the bowl of cheese!! We started with the queso fundido with chorizo and loved it.

It comes out in a super hot rock bowl, still bubbling, with corn tortillas and salsas on the side. The edges of the cheese continue to cook as you eat and get nice and crispy. We used forks to twirl blobs of cheese and chorizo and then used corn tortillas to pull it off the fork and eat it.

It was oily but not overwhelming so. Both of us thought it was very delicious and I would 100% eat it again.

We also ordered a set of tacos. Lauren had a chicken one and a pork and pineapple one. She liked the addition of the sweet pineapple with the savoury taco. I got a fish taco and a beef cheek taco and they were both good. I added lots of salsas to my beef taco. I don’t usually like corn tortillas that much but theirs were great.

Service was good and there are still tons of things on the menu that I’m sure are delicious. I hope to return sometime soon!

I didn’t have anything to bring for lunch the other day so I decided to check out Shizen Ya on Broadway for a quick lunch. It’s super close to my work and the reviews were good.

I ordered the Sushi & Udon lunch combo, that comes with chicken udon noodle soup, 3 pieces each of dynamite roll and salmon roll, and salad.

The salad was good. It had a lot of different ingredients. I liked the dressing.

The sushi is made with brown rice. The rolls tasted very good and fresh.

The udon noodle soup was good too, once I added in a lot of that yellow and red seasoning. I have no idea what that is, but it enhanced the flavours. I liked the shitake mushroom.

Good service, good quality food, decent prices. I enjoyed my lunch and would return for sure.