Nosmo King: Restaurant: Uchi

904 Westheimer Rd
Houston Texas 77006

It was St. Patrick's weekend. I put on a green dress and big poppa and i set out to meet gau and queenie for a long overdue dinner. When i heard that uchi had opened, i knew there was no one else that i wanted to go eat there with than mister gau. We kept having to cancel and change the date for a whole month until this day finally happened. And it was well worth it! Prolly the most raw fish i'd ever eaten in my life in one setting. After making reservations and then having to cancel, we decided we would simply take our chances and go as walk-ins. Luckily, uchi's policy is to keep half of their restaurant open for walk-ins and allowing reservations for the other half. We only had to wait about thirty minutes until we were seated at a table. Not bad! We decided to order an omakase as well as some other dishes. All of their dishes are small and are meant to share. Like japanese dim sum tapas but priced as if it were regular larger entrees. So expensive! We supplemented the omakase so that all of us could have a piece/bite of whatever it would be. So much money! Gau ended up knowing one of the sushi chefs so we got a smidgeon of a discount but was given several extra dishes. The bill. So big. But we didn't pay cos gau did a little sneak attack and paid for the bill without any of us knowing. I had two glasses of pinot noir and big poppa went through about 3-4 beers. There's no way either of us were on our toes about anything. The food was all really really good. But would i go there just for fun/ Probably not. It's expensive and not the type of food i naturally gravitate towards. But it mos def was a good experience. I wish these types of restos would just give all their patrons paper menus at the end of the meal. How is it possible to remember the five minute description of the food in front of us. Seriously. And half the time i'm already struggling to hear them use names of fish that are not recognizable. I'll briefly try to describe some of the stuff that i took pics of.

complimentary onion rings bar bites

hydroponic baby romaine, edemame, jalapeno

thinly sliced flounder sashimi, candied quinoa, olive oil

red snapper nigiri

diverscallop, green tomato, cucumber, shishito

mejino, chinu

smoked baby yellowtail, yucca crisp, marcona almond, marcona almond, asian pear, garlic brittle

golden tile fish, shrimp coconut milk, basil, candied onion

tempura shrimp spring roll, nuoc mam, grapes

salmon and salmon belly sashimi. best salmon evar. truly buttery. we ordered three more orders of this.

kusshi oyster, lychee granite. west coast oysters. i totally spit this out. everyone told me not to eat it cos it was really fishy and not good. i went for it anyway and was gagging for five minutes. bleh. skip this.