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Open Kitchen
Outdoor Seating
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12:30 PM - 11:30 PM
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In the Japanese pursuit of perfection, good food and a serene environment are important criteria, and in fulfilling all these requisites Shiro seems to have set a high bar. And I mean really high because this place is full of ambient surprises, courteous staff, good drink and Oriental food...Read more from the expert review below... |
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4/9/2009 1:29:44 PM
Reviewed By:andromeda
"The sheerness of Shiro"
If there’s going to be a new restaurant in town, I say make it Japanese. The sooner Japanese food is more affordable, the sooner I can make it my staple diet. Because this cuisine is both an art and a science in which everything about the food – colour, ingredients, texture, method, nutrition, flavour – has a meaning and an intention to sate the umami craving...which it does.
Moreover, in the Japanese pursuit of perfection, a serene environment is an important criterion, and in fulfilling all these requisites Shiro seems to have set a high bar. And I mean really high because this place is full of ambient surprises from towering stone walls leading upto a fantastically lofty bamboo ceiling to giant sculptures of oriental figures adorned with curtains of enormous teardrops that had me hypnotized like magpie.
“Shiro (said shee-ro) means ‘Castle’ or ‘Fortress’,” says one of the staff. “And the sculpture is of a Cambodian queen.”
The staff is courteous and ever-smiling though not in a condescending way; and as if to emphasise the calm of this already peaceful, cool, stone edifice tastefully adorned with Buddhist statuettes and wall-sculptures, there’s the sound of flowing water and ornamental pools. Yet all this old-world charm becomes relevant to contemporary patrons with the chic furnishings and mostly appropriate lounge/world music; an outdoor terrace with a big bar and live Teppanyaki counters.
Most importantly, the menu is interesting (albeit high-priced) – a mix of Japanese, Korean, Thai cuisines – and if done well, how can anyone go wrong with that? I suspect I created a pool of my own drooling over each page...but I was here with the sole intent of diving into some sushi, so somehow getting past the dim sums, prawns, avocados, Peking ducks, yakitori, Edamame (beans), laksa, lobsters and the rest, and although I’m more keen on Makizushi (with nori) but have had it before, and since I’m not as keen on Sashimi, the only thing left was Sushi Nigiri of which I ordered an assorted platter.
Waiting is the hardest, but there’s so much to absorb at Shiro that I didn’t mind and when the sushi arrived soon enough, it was all worth it. The platter looked small when compared with my appetite, but the balls of vinegared rice with toppings like salmon and red snapper were as excellent as expected, not forgetting the Shoyu (soy sauce), Wasabi and Gari (the delicate sweet pickled ginger). Of course, I ate very expertly with chopsticks (there should be no other way), and I was Umami alive.
Meanwhile, the credit card-machines suddenly stopped functioning, so optimistic-me walking around with inadequate paper money, eventually found myself sitting in wait on comfy cane chairs at the terrace sipping a bartender’s special mocktail. The Teppanyaki menu I noticed (which includes a few set courses for ~Rs. 1000) looked so very attractive that I wished I’d had that in the first place. But chances are I’ll be back at Shiro soon enough, waxing eloquent about how Japanese culture is good remedy for fat, corporate Indians.
Avg. (non-drink) meal for two: Rs. 1500
Avg. cocktail: Rs. 350
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