Katsuya Restaurant

I Tried:

💝 Rice with Japanese Mushrooms and Special Soy Sauce: from the presentation to the serving till the eating, lovely and delicious. Probably one of its kind. Prepared in a hot pot mixed together with special soy sauce all in front of you. Good for sharing. You might consider that Japanese mushrooms are hard to digest.
💝 Crispy Chicken Salad: Very tasty. I usually prefer bigger slices of chicken. Good for sharing.
💝 Corn Crunch Roll : Shrimp Sushi with Avocados and Crispy Corn. The corns are crunchy with little spices on them. Dip in soy sauce from more deliciousness. Good for sharing.
💝 Double Chocolate Lava Cake: indescribably delicious. Sharing might be a mess.
❤️ Edamame: cooked very well and taste really good. The spices are really balanced. I think the edamame they offer is probably fresh. Good for sharing.
🧡 Creamy Rock Shrimp: not close to my beloved PF Chang’s dynamite shrimps, but still it tastes good . Good for sharing but not enough.
🧡 Crab Salad: good but not memorable.
💔 Strawberry Virgin Mojito: I’m not a big fan of mojitos, tried it out to see if I will ever change my opinion and unfortunately it tastes like all other mojito…a flavored syrup with carbonated lemon drink.

The restaurant located in the amazing Al Naseem Hotel, Jumeirah, Dubai. It is well organized. The interior design is probably a modern Japanese style . The furniture was a little unbalanced.
“Irasshaimase” (いらっしゃいませ) is the first thing you will hear when you enter the restaurant, which is basically a welcoming phrase used in Japanese restaurants to pay a respect for costumers.The staff are amazingly helpful and know how to describe the menu. I would suggest you countering back the “Irasshaimase” with “Arigato Gozaimas” (ありがとうございます).
Usually you will find people form different nationalities and cultures. Which is what I usually prefer.
I prefer visiting the restaurant on the afternoons because the restaurant looks fresh and bright with opened windows. At night the restaurant is a little bit dark for me and usually crowded (depends on the season).

❤️ Almost all of food that I tried was light on stomach, but the Japanese mushrooms were hard to digest. With all amazing spices and soy sauce from there to there you should expect a little bit smelly mouth; totally understandable and deserve it!