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About this place
At lunch, choose sushi or a rice bowl; in the evening, start with sashimi or a small dish and finish with sushi. Nihonkai Meguro offers a menu that makes it easy to shape a meal around your appetite.
The lunch sushi options include an omakase set of 10 pieces and a larger set of 14 pieces. They offer a useful guide whether you want to decide by the number of pieces or settle in for a more substantial sushi meal. There are also a daily set meal and rice bowls such as the bakudan don and the staff-meal bowl, so sushi is not the only choice. One diner who ordered the staff-meal bowl at lunch remarked on the variety of fish and generous portion of rice. The nakaochi three-colour bowl combines tuna, salmon and seared engawa, and comes with a small side dish. Whether you savour sushi piece by piece or enjoy the toppings together in a bowl, lunch takes on a different character.
In the evening, you might begin with sashimi or a small dish before moving on to sushi. A repeat visitor described ordering bonito and white-fish sashimi, fried octopus and chasoba to suit the meal that day. Another diner praised the horse mackerel and pen shell sushi. You can also make the meal more about small dishes rather than limiting yourself to sushi.
For seasonal fare or something warm, the menu includes mochi-katsuo bonito served as sashimi, tataki, carpaccio or sushi, as well as hot pots available in individual portions. Options such as oyster hot pot, yellowtail shabu-shabu hot pot and Hinoppe motsu hot pot made with domestic offal show that the restaurant offers more than seafood and sushi. Drinks include beer, wine and highballs to pair with the meal.
From a rice bowl at lunch to an individual hot pot in the evening, the main dish can vary with the group size and appetite. Menus are available for both lunch and dinner, and the restaurant accepts bookings for dining in.
