Bizen Sushi Bar & Japanese Restaurant
Great Barrington, MA 01230-1577
Phone: (413) 528-4343
- Price:
- $$$
- Cross Street:
- Highway 7
- Hours:
- Mon-Thu 12pm-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm, Fri 12pm-2:30pm, 5pm-10:30pm, Sat-Sun 12pm-3pm, 5pm-10:30pm
Editorial Review for Bizen Sushi Bar & Japanese Restaurant – by Jennifer Howze
In Short
Bizen Sushi serves premium sushi and traditional Japanese food in a relaxed yet fashionable setting. Three tatami rooms, furnished with mats and shoji screens, create a calming ambiance. A robata bar, which serves tapas-like small plates, satisfies nibblers. Locals and visitors alike rave about the quality of the sushi--couriered in by Nobu's distributor--while sake lovers rejoice in the impressive selection of small-batch offerings. Desserts hold up their end of the bargain admirably.
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User Reviews for Bizen Sushi Bar & Japanese Restaurant
08/01/2007 Posted by bingobingo
My wife and I enjoyed this place very much. We were born and brought up in Japan, so I believe we know what authentic Japanese food should look like, taste like, as well as how Japanese restaurant should look like. It is as if people born in U.S. appreciate the truly authentic hamburgers, and all those nice American foods. Having said that, we found this place was probably the first restaurant where we truly enjoyed Kaiseki (Japanese course dishes) and sushi all together. Important trick is, you probably have to make an appointment with the head chef, though I believe all other chefs must have high skills under his management. Later on, we found he got his culinary discipline in one of the most prestigious and most strict restaurant and apprenticed in the top-ranked clans. No wonder he makes such fantastic dishes.
Pros: Nice atomosphere, great food truly worthy of your money
Cons: Far away. The head chef may be busy and may not always available
04/01/2007 Posted by boombox10002
The sushi here is forgettably average, and for all the lip service about bring Japan to the Berkshires, the experience is so unlike a Japanese sushi restaurant. It's noisy and the service can be slow without any hint of concern. We have sat at the sushi bar twice and I don't believe the chef ever even made eye contact with us. Instead he was having an across-the-room conversations with a friends sitting at the tables. Sorry, Jack, that's not why I sit at the bar. They should call it The Sushi Depot or something.
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