Comments | celaeno: NJ Trip Report: 12-13-09 and dinner at Morimoto

celaeno

NJ Trip Report: 12-13-09 and dinner at Morimoto

Dec 30, 2009 22:37

This is going to be another "skip this post if you're hungry" Morimoto photo posts. You've been warned.

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Comments 17

littlebluedog December 31 2009, 06:43:29 UTC

WOW. I am speechless. That looks, and sounds, incredible.

idunn December 31 2009, 07:57:43 UTC

celaeno December 31 2009, 17:41:49 UTC

The reactions at the rest of the table when that came out were awesome - went from "Oooh, what did they get!?!" to ".... oh."

tristam December 31 2009, 13:34:20 UTC

I envy you with the burning appetite of a thousand suns!

I am going to make it back there one of these years. This I swear.

celaeno December 31 2009, 17:42:21 UTC

You need to - it's been too many years since you guys were around to go with us!

tristam January 1 2010, 00:20:40 UTC

I want to know at what level of omakase they fly Morimoto in personally to cook your food. I'd save up for that.

celaeno January 1 2010, 07:43:58 UTC

So do we! We actually wondered if 2 people getting a $300 omakase would be enough. Apparently it was enough to fly in crabs, but not enough to get Morimoto to bring them out to us.

misti_k December 31 2009, 17:37:13 UTC

I...I don't even know what to say to this. Except that I have found a life-altering reason to go to Philadelphia, and I've never had that before.

celaeno December 31 2009, 17:46:26 UTC

*laughs* Yeah, this is an atypical entry as an introduction to my journal :) The Morimoto trips started off years ago as "Hey, the Iron Chef has a restaurant in Philadelphia!" and has since progressed to food as an art form & seeing what the chefs there are able to do, which is feasible only because there's a good year and a half to two years between every visit, so we can save up for it & pretend to be rich for a night!

miintikwa December 31 2009, 20:44:08 UTC

C and I have resolved that we shall go there someday. :)

Have you ever actually met Morimoto?

celaeno January 1 2010, 07:57:50 UTC

Sadly no. Well, erinmuse did at a book signing a few years ago, but we've never seen him at the restaurant at all. I've never been to the NYC Morimoto restaurant, but a few people in our group had been to that one and I don't think they'd seen him there either.

If you go, take pics! :)

miintikwa January 1 2010, 18:11:02 UTC

We'll definitely take pictures! We're hoping for a North-Easterly trip sometime within the next two to three years. 2011 is our 10 year anniversary, so... :)

anne_jumps December 31 2009, 22:26:45 UTC

Good God!