Kome

Kome is a kaiten sushi restaurant, with a “barbeque” (hibachi?) room upstairs and a for-rent party room in the basement. Kaiten is currently the most popular way of eating sushi in Japan and is gaining popularity in the rest of the world. It’s a Japanese “rolling maneuver” in martial arts, but as far as sushi goes, it’s a conveyor belt that chefs put dishes on for customers to take at their leisure.

Anyway, I was completely right. Japanese food is expensive (dare I say overpriced?) in this city. But it’s still delicious of course. My friend Jess and I had a craving, so we settled on Kome, which is relatively new and price-wise a compromise between the cheaper (yet still expensive) restaurant on my street and the even more elegant (super expensive) restaurant across the river.

Lucky for us and our friends, Kome has a lunch special that is 14.90∈ for six plates of your choice. (They have eight plates of different colors corresponding to different prices.) It was still a bit pricey, considering the sushi is either two nigiri or three maki (rolls), but the six plates separately cost about 23∈. Not all the plates are sushi. There is a selection of things like plain rice, miso soup, salad, and shrimp or vegetable tempura. There is also an option for dessert, be it green tea gelato or more Western items.

Unsurprisingly, I got miso soup, and five different sushi plates that involved avocado and/or salmon. But hey, at least I got what I wanted.

Via Dei Benci 41/R
Firenze
055.2008009
http://www.komefirenze.it