Megu

I love restaurant week in NYC. It allows me to taste morsels of heaven from restaurants that I'll never be able to afford to eat at... like Megu.

Megu Midtown is the latest location of the famous Japanese restaurants, and it's located in the UN Plaza. It's your typical overpriced, underportioned, pretention on a place sort of venue. However, they convince you it's worth it because they serve their food on geometric plates with pieces of fruit cut like flowers and strategically placed colorful drips of sauce.


B took me to Megu yesterday and it was deeeliiicious!

Would I ever go again? Probably not on my dollar, but if you're a sugar daddy looking to feed a sugar baby.. I'm your girl!

We started out with some simple appetizers...

I had Crispy Shrimp with Kanzori Cream Sauce and B had Okaki Crispy Asparagus:



The presentation of everything here was just awesome. I had to really control myself to not ogle at everyone else's food that came out to the tables around us. And yes, it does taste better for it. 

I wish I had a picture of the fried shrimp, but I guess there was nothing really special about how it looked. Just some flash friend shrimp dumpling looking things with a cream sauce, some green onion shavings and little spoon of some spicy chili/cayenne pepper combination that I was a little overzealous with... *cough cough* Spicyyyy!!!! but it was quite possibly the best fried shrimp dumplings I had ever had.

For the main course, we both ordered the signature 'Super Premium Kobe Beef Steak Kagero Yaki Stone Grill with Hennessey Flambee". It wasn't just Premium. It was Super Premium... lol, what ever that means...

And those are thinly sliced garlic chips on top... oohh yeahhh...  no kisses for youuu...

Dessert was simple. New York Cheesecake for him and Green Tea Crepes for me... but what I really wanted was about 17 more orders of the Kobe Beef Steak.. It was soooo good! ...and soooo tiny....

For a restaurant week option, $35 wasn't too bad for the venue. If I was a server there, I'd have scoffed at us common folk trying to eat at a restaurant meant for Japanese Investors, Arab princes and Angelina Jolie.. with a Umami prix fix menu of $195 (plus an extra $70 if you want the sake pairing), I can safely say that I'll probably never get the chance to eat there again... nor should I... 

I mean, just look at this:

... *drool*.... and this...

That's sake fed, hand massaged, slices of the luckiest asian cows on earth... IN AN IGLOO!!!

When you place this kind of food in front of me, I'm compelled to order and eat it without second thought to cost or calories... I'm just missing any kind of self-discipline in that matter. But when an appetizer costs up to $48... well... let's just say I may be a little behind on rent next month, so it's probably best if I just don't go there at all.

But if I do... I'm gonna have the 'Tajima Kobe Beef Chateaubriand'. A 9oz portion of Buddha's devine fuckin creature for only $230. Curiousity just gets the better of me... I can't imagine what could be so amazing it's worth $300 with tax and tip... but I want to find out.

I hear I get 3 wishes for that price too...