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About this place
Hot pot and small dishes join sushi on the menu at Uosa, by Tsuruhashi Station. It’s a place where you can choose between a hot-pot dinner to share and a midday meal, depending on your mood.
One diner describes ordering the meat hot-pot set for lunch: beef simmered with tofu, spring onion, shiitake mushrooms, wheat gluten and harusame noodles. The sweetish sauce made for a warming, comforting meal. It offers a useful picture of what to expect if you’re considering hot pot at a sushi restaurant. Another visitor says that hot pots can be ordered individually, making it possible to sample a little of both meat and seafood. The menu also lists small hot pots for one, with extras such as vegetables, pork, chicken, udon noodles and a rice-porridge set. That makes it easier to choose a portion and finish to suit a solo meal.
Among the hot pots, the Uosa nabe is listed as a single serving with vegetables including napa cabbage, mizuna, mushrooms, daikon and tofu, alongside scallop, squid, eel, pork, salmon, octopus, chicken and prawns. It may appeal if you’d like to try a variety of ingredients in smaller amounts. The listed price is ¥2,780.
For a sushi-focused meal, the sushi assortment costs ¥1,830, while the nigiri assortment is ¥1,990. There are sets to suit different appetites and group sizes, as well as premium and special premium nigiri assortments. These are menu options rather than a report of one diner’s order, but the choice lets you put together a meal to your taste. Alongside sushi and hot pot, the menu includes udon, soba and small dishes; one visitor also recalls the udon broth fondly. Whether you’re after a light sushi meal or want noodles or hot pot to take centre stage, you can start with what you feel like eating.
