We heard about Mikaku when we went looking for old Shogun. When we asked at Japantorget, they said that Shogun was considered to be the only proper Japanese restaurant in town. Unfortunately - that closed down, but not to worry - Mikaku is their new place. And it is quite Japanese. It has a huge menu with lots of stuff you rarely find elsewhere in Norway. If you also like other Japanese food other than sushi, they serve several different types of udon, tempura, several nabe dishes like teppanyaki, sukiyaki and shabushabu to mention some.

It has a remote and kind of weird location - inside the Carlton Hotel. Far away from pretty much everything. We talked to the chef and he said that they did not get too many guest, but it is only him and his wife running it so they have enough to do. There seemed to be several coming to pick up food here, but we were alone in the restaurant for the whole lunch.

The restaurant itself is nice enough, but we saw a big potential unused in this place. It should have been a sushi bar where we could see them work, it should not have had the breakfast equipment from the hotel out and in sight; just lots of little details that could have made this place into another great Alex Sushi or Nodee. Because - the food was good! It was not spectacular and I wish they had worked a bit more on the presentation, but it felt real, authentic.

We ordered a sushi starter together with tempura, softshell crab and spicy tuna makis. We also added the Mikaku special maki which was a futo maki that had salmon, unagi, ikura, tempura and avocado in it. All of this was very good. The spicy tuna maki had some sort of chilibased sauce with the tuna, but using ruccola inside which was added quite a surprising taste to it. (Will try this at home…=)

Summary:

It was quite good, and we give credit just because it has lots of Japanese food and is run by Japanese! Worth a visit!

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Price level:	A bit expensive
Times visited:	1

General information:

Street address: Parkveien 78, 0202 Oslo (C/O Carlton Hotel)
Opening hours:
Phone number: +47 22 38 36 93
URL: www.mikaku.no
E-mail: restaurant@mikaku.no

How did you like Mikaku - Parkveien, Oslo?

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