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Sushi Bar in Tokyo, Kanda | Umi

Sushi bar in Tokyo, Mawaru Osushi Umi, located in Tokyo quarter Kanda, offers good quality sushi in reasonable prices. This sushi bar serves sushi sets as well as single portions of sushi and other Japanese dishes.
Sushi bar Mawaru Osushi Umi is good place to enjoy truly Japanese lunch.

Sushi bar Mawaru Osushi Umi- outlook

Mawaru Osushi Umi is located in building made from concrete, so outlook is a bit severe. To make the look friendly there are many flags with nicely written in Japanese name of restaurant, green net as well as big sign board over entrance.

Another colourful accent is created by posters and photos of sushi.
There are also black boards with menu of the day written by hand.

Without these decorations it would be very severe, not too welcoming entrance.

Sushi bar Mawaru Osushi Umi- how to order and pay

Menus are displayed in front of the bar and on door.
When you enter to the bar and sit behind counter, you will see menus in front of you. Menus are in Japanese but there are also some pictures what helps.

In this menu,
Sushi Lunch Set for today(Regular Set):500yen
Sushi Lunch Set “Jo”(Super Set):1008yen
Sushi Lunch Set “Tokusen”(Deluxe Set):1575yen

If you want to order a sushi piece by piece, chose one from the menu below

On walls you can see lots of small wooden boards with calligraphically written names of single types of sushi you can order as well.

Problem is you must read Japanese.

From the other hand there is conveyor-belt system of distributing sushi and other dishes on small plates.

You can just pick something you want to eat and later you pay according to amount of plates you collected. Plates have different colours- different colour means different price.

Information about prices of “plates” you can see on one of walls.

To pay you must go to cash desk located from the left side of door.
Sometimes they do not give receipt.

Sushi bar Mawaru Osushi Umi- interior and atmosphere

When you enter to Mawari Osushi Umi, first thing you see is counter separating chefs from customers. Behind this counter they prepare sushi and other dishes.

Counter has square like shape and it has conveyor-belt system of distributing sushi.

On counter from chefs side stand lots of plates and there is also display stand with fresh fish, sea food and other toppings for sushi.

From customers’ side there are cups, boxes with hashi and pickled ginger, hot water distributors’ taps, small plates etc.

In one corner there is special container with cooked rice.

Kitchen is located is located outside of customers area.

Guests seat from 3 sides of counter. If bar is full, new customers can wait sitting near
door –there is kind of waiting room.

Cash desk is from left side of door. All walls are covered in menus or commercial posters.

It is very lively environment. Atmosphere is family like. Three chefs working there they check if customers enjoy their meal and make a jokes if they are free. Customers can watch TV and talk, eat and drink as well. Customer area is well illuminated.

I had feeling that atmosphere is rather familiar as there were guests who looked like regulars.

Sushi bar in Tokyo, Kanda | Mawaru Osushi Umi- food and service.

It is lots of things to do when man sit behind the counter.
Together with my friend we ordered sushi set with miso soup. There were available two types of soup and we could choose which one we want in our set. We chose different. I wanted Ara (miso soup with bony part of a sea bream)…

…and my friend chose Iwanori (soup with a kind of laver, varech in french,and with dried gluten).

We chose different sushi sets as well.

Waiting for food, we made tea for ourselves. Self service is part of this restaurant custom.

I poured a little of green tea powder from small container in cup and add hot water from tap.

Tea is for free same like pickled ginger, shoga and other spices.

I pour some soy sauce on small plate to dip sushi in before I eat it.
After few minutes of waiting, chef placed wooden tray with sushi in front of me and plate of sushi for my friend. My sushi selection was called Higawari Nigiri(Sushi Lunch Set for today, Regular set in english).

My friend’s, Jou Nigiri Sushi Set(Super Sushi Set, in English).

Food was excellent. I had small problem with fish bones in my soup but that is ok. Miso soup is very healthy dish.
Sushi rice was well seasoned and all simply delicious. I have got all types of sushi toppings I like including tuna (maguro) and squid (ika)
My friend’s was more fancy. He got ice fish and squid fish which looked like alien species and oyster. It was really exquisite.

Sushi bar Mawaru Osushi Umi- Review

What I really like about sushi bars is…sushi. So this is most important factor how it tastes. Sushi in Mawaru Osushi Umi was good. I enjoyed eating and I could come back to this place for sure. Anytime. Because it was not expensive, portion was big and I liked my soup too. And my friends set too… So I can recommend this place.

Sushi bar Mawaru Osushi Umi- additional information

• Higawari nigiri set costs 500 yen and Jo set costs 1008 yen
• portions are big enough and so prices very moderate
• smoking is prohibited
• it is place to stay short time during lunch, but it may be for long time in evening
• single customers are very welcomed same as couples and groups
• it is good place to eat for everybody
• dishes are served by chefs or there is self service
• green tea, shoga, soy sauce and spices are for free
• there are 45 seats
• restaurant is open 11am- 10pm
• as off 2009-05-06
• telephone number +81 (0)3 3293 0922

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