this post is filed under Cuisine - Fusion, Location - East Longmeadow
Dave's parents recently opened a restaurant... Fusion Cafe in East Longmeadow, which is a bit over an hour from here. They bill themselves as fusion food served tapas style. Dave brought me, Ahrie, and Mike for a HUGE meal the other night. I'm gonna post twice on it probably.
max roll (california with unagi on top), philly roll (for dave), spicy tuna roll
spicy tuna roll, passion roll (hamachi with avocado/cucumber), tuna nigiri
shrimp cocktail
boston rose - tuna, crab, lobster, asparagus, chives, wrapped in seaweed and tempura'd
blackened scallops over smoked chili risotto
lobster rolls with happy face sauce
There's the first round - I'll do more later. Everything was really good. The best part is that I guess our waitress knew Dave was coming, so the first thing she brought was a PITCHER of Coke for Dave because apparently last time he got like 10 glasses. Dave managed to finish the pitcher himself with ease. Anyway, the food... The sushi was pretty solid. I still think "Philly Roll" is blasphemous but Dave loves it. The max roll was pretty good. They didn't have toro on the menu though. The shrimp cocktail were absolutely HUGE. The lobster rolls were like glorified crab rangoons, but not bad. I like crab rangoons. :) The scallops were alright, but I've had better. The "Boston Rose" was pretty interesting. It looked like sushi, deep fried, without rice (does that make any sense)? Tasted like the big mix of seafood it was. Very nice. More from this meal to come later... I'm also cooking tonight for V-Day so that will come up in the near future.
wow! Did u have to pay for the meal or was it free? Looks great.
posted by reader on February 15, 2004 02:06 AM
You're cooking for V-Day? No kidding. A proper meal I presume and look forward to the posting on that.
BTW Sushi implies the use of rice, so it doesn't make too much sense to call the Boston Rose a sushi. But it does look very interesting. Perhaps Dave can take me there next time.
posted by Raphael Che on February 15, 2004 02:56 PM
I was just saying it looks like a roll. Which it does in that picture doesn't it? But what looks like rice in the picture is really lobster meat.
And yeah, we did eat for free... just left a huge tip.
posted by Arthur on February 15, 2004 04:10 PM