Our Love of Novelty Restaurants Continues

Before getting pregnant my wife enjoyed fancy food served on fancy cloth covered tables.  She used Yelp to select restaurants and OpenTable to get reservations weeks in advance.  She would bitch if her amuse wasn’t bouchee enough and she would talk about tannins and pairings like they were her mouth's only friends.

Now she goes where her heart desires and last night, for her birthday, her heart desired this: 

Jose Ramirez was our chef / performer / Japanese culture guide for the evening.  The shrimp doesn’t land in his hat, Jose yells, “Japanese Mistake!”  His onion volcano starts blowing steam as he drags it across the grill on top of a zucchini, “Japanese Train!”  It all felt very racist but Rachel was too busy enjoying her fried rice and ice cream to notice or care.  She was content.