Here’s the last of three short restaurant reviews from my recent New York trip.
On my last day I needed a quick but filling lunch. Looking around the neighborhood near my hotel in Queens, I found the well-rated Kanki Sushi. This Japanese kitchen offers fresh sushi as well as various other dishes, including shrimp or chicken tempura.
I opted for their lunch special of a bento box packed with more food than I could eat. The box included several hefty chunks of fried chicken tempura, a substantial portion of rice with vegetables, and six slices of incredibly tasty California rolls filled with crab meat, avocado, cucumber and tobiko. All of this food came after a piping hot bowl of Soy bean paste soup with tofu, seaweed and scallion. Great value for under $15.
The service was fast and friendly, and I can’t fault a single thing about this lunch. Along with great dinners at my old favorite Balthazar and new discovery Cafe Henri this was a pretty successful dining trip — even if I didn’t meet any strangers.