Restaurant: Azuma

5600 Kirby Dr
Houston, TX‎ 77005

All these years of living in Houston I never once went to Azuma. I'm probably wrong about this but I want to say that this was part of the group that were the first sorta fancy sushi places in Houston. But just recently, big poppa and I went there for a friends birthday. When it comes to sushi, it's hard for me to distinguish what's better than other places. It all just tastes the same really. I mean there are those instances when you can tell a piece of fish is super fresh as opposed to one that's a couple of days old. The food here was good, but I can't say that I liked it any more or less than oishii. There was a guy with us that knew the manager so he brought us some thinly sliced and marinated hamachi sashimi. It was really good and probably the only thing that really set this place apart. And it wasn't even on the menu. After dinner, we went to the Red Room where because our group was made up of mostly non-asians, we got in with no problem. It really was a different type of atmosphere, almost like I was in a different city. Maybe I can see why clubs are the way they are. Almost. So the bday boy lives the life of a big baller. He had bottle service, of course. There was one bottle of goose that we killed. The other five bottles he ordered were all champagne. Even with strawberries, that stuff still tastes pretty gross to me. Maybe I'm just not a classy or rich enough person to like this kind of stuff. The night ended with someone accidentally taking big poppa's jacket, big poppa being pretty smashed, and a few us grabbing some sliders at little bigs. Fun night!