I had heard of House of Sushi several times, but never found it. It was kind of hidden in a back street of Majorstua, Ole Vigsgate 15. The building itself was not very inviting, and when entering the shop – unfortunately were not the people working there either. We might have been unlucky with our timing or something, in that the chef just then were on a break, but it was still a weird feeling of being told that you had to wait for your food for at least thirty to fourty minutes while the guy who is supposed to make it is sitting eating right next to you. Well, it made us hungrier I guess.
Bennys is a weird restaurant. If you enter from behind Rådhuset, you seem to be entering a japanese restaurant, if you come from Klingenbergsgata - it’s italian. But from both ends of the restaurant you can order both. It feels like they couldn’t decide what they wanted to be, so they just threw a bunch of things together. Not very successfully on either side.
I had heard good things about it, and it looks quite nice. They also have other Asian food here. I have tried their Thai food and were very happy about that.
We were a small group of people so we ordered a whole lot of food. It was almost a treat. Almost.
Update December 2007 - I think this place has closed down. Last time I passed them it looked like it was either gone completely or that they were doing some remodeling. So don’t plan on getting your sushi fix from this place.
We found out about this place from the Internet. It is located on the small island next to the one with the Notre Dame. It seems to be a very popular place among the Japanese in Paris, which is always a good way of telling where to get good sushi and sashimi. They say that delicacies made with sea urchins and eels are popular here.
When we went by there the first time it was packed, when we came there the second time they were about to close and when we tried to order in advance they were not going to be open that day, so no Isami for us. I still recommend it though.
Also considered to be one of Paris’s best Japanese restaurants, this restaurant gives you access to fresh and quite good sushi and sashimi. The menu gives you an impression of it being foremost a tempura place, and those dishes made ideal choices as well. We had a bit of each. You can choose between different sizes menus to taste different specialties.
Look and feel in the restaurant is modern, but their hard wood chairs were not very comfortable after a hard day of sightseeing and shopping.
