Aka Sushi

Straight from the airport, quick change on Sunday night for my birthday meal at Aka Sushi on Bold Street with my second family. Our flight was delayed and landed 1 hr 40 minutes later than scheduled but we were lucky to come back as if we were on the flight back yesterday we would have been stuck in Athens. Not complaining as I'd love to have had more time there as 2 days weren't enough and a free holiday but that's another post when I get round to it!

We ordered a few different bits and just shared it all

102 Set B (20 pcs) - 3 salmon sashimi, 3 tuna sashimi, 3 salmon nigiri, 3 tuna nigiri, 4 salmon rolls, 4 tuna rolls, seaweed salad and edamame - £21.99

The first time I tried here it was called Naked Noodle for my birthday with Jo in 2020 when they did the help out to eat out and food was half price. We got the Set C 28 pcs and was really good. This was just as good and was enough. It was fresh and just what I needed as I hadn't eaten since 8:30am in the morning as the flight was in the afternoon so I didn't have any lunch.

66 Rainbow Roll - salmon, tuna, seabass, crabstick, avocado and cucumber - £12.99

2 Salt and Pepper Chicken - £7.50

I think every time I've been here I've got the rainbow roll as it has both salmon and tuna.

I wasn't fussed over the salt and pepper chicken but Rich wanted it.

1 Chicken Gyoza (6 pcs) - £6.99

18 Tonkatsu Crispy Pork (Deep fried pork cutlet) - £7

The gyoza wasn't as good as I've had in the past. The pastry seemed different.

The pork was good but was a bit dry could have done with some sauce to go with it.

105 Salmon Bento Box - Salmon filet, rice, deep fried chicken pieces, salmon sashimi, seaweed salad, mixed leaf salad - £11.99

Jacob got the bento box and I tried the salmon which wasn't what I was expecting. The salmon was in like a crispy tofu skin with teriyaki sauce. It was nice but I was expecting just pieces of salmon which I would have preferred if I got this box.

The not so surprise birthday cake as I seen them carry it in. There were going to get there before me with the cake and balloons but they ended up picking me up so that ruined the surprise but I still got my birthday balloons.

Still milking this 30th with more posts to come...

Thanks for dinner Jo and Rich!

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Carlisi Allerton Road - Dinner

 

Went to Carlisi last night for dinner with Kelly and Danielle for the start of my birthday celebrations. Most definitely going to be dragging it out and milking it.

I went to Carlisi with Danielle nearly 3 weeks ago for lunch and really enjoyed it and the dinner menu looked good so thought we would come back. I'd booked a table for 7pm and good job I did because all the tables were full, it was so busy and we were sat upstairs.

We couldn't decide what to get so we got a few different things and just shared it between the 3 of us.

Busiate Carlisi - Traditional Sicilian pasta with garlic, king prawns, white wine, home-made pistachio sauce, topped with burrata cheese & pistachio crumb - Small £9

I think this was my favourite one of the pasta dishes - the sauce was really nice.

Orecchiette Veggie - Fresh Orecchiette pasta with sautéed broccoli, garlic, chilli, cherry tomato, pecorino & parmesan sauce - Small £8 

This had  A LOT of garlic in and couldn't taste the chilli. Forgot it actually had chilli in it. This was Kelly and Danielle's favourite.

Ravioli Pomodoro - Classic home-made ravioli langoustine, prawns, mussels, filled with calamari with a white wine sauce - £15

The ravioli is different and you have to ask what they have in. At first they told us they had a lobster one and the other was ricotta and spinach but he came back and said it was langoustine seafood rather than lobster. We opted for the seafood option but weird that the veggie one is the same price as that's definitely a lot cheaper filling.

This was nice I enjoyed it and was a decent sized portion for ravioli. Was expecting it to come in a thicker creamy white wine sort of sauce but it didn't but it was alright and didn't feel dry.

Focaccia Pistacchiosa - Fresh pistachio pesto from Sicily, pistachio Mortadella ham, grilled aubergines, burrata cheese & pistachio sauce - £8

When me and Danielle went for lunch we did order this but they didn't have any focaccia so they did it with sourdough instead but didn't realise it was going to come as a sandwich. We though it would be a flatbread style focaccia as it was a bit weird having a sandwich as part of dinner and too filling.

I love the pistachio sauce that's drizzled on top. I could eat that with everything and anything!

Bruschetta Carlisi - Toasted local sourdough bread with mushrooms, four slices of belly pork, burrata cheese & pistachio nuts - £7.95

We really didn't need to order this as it was just too much food. I didn't think anything of this and forgot the meat was belly pork just thought it was ham when it came.

Cannoli - Our authentic Sicilian cannolo are tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet and creamy ricotta cheese, finished with pistachio nuts and a cherry! - £3.50

Pistachio sauce - + £1.50

Hazelnut sauce - +£1.50

The cannoli took ages to come so we thought it would come out warm as the pastry was going to be freshly fried but nope it was cold. I was disappointed with them considering that they say this is what they're famous for. I didn't like the ricotta filling and thought the filling tasted different in each one even though they're suppose to be the same. I did prefer the pistachio sauce over the hazelnut.

We were SO full as we ordered too much food. We should have just had the pasta and not the bread bits as I didn't really enjoy them but the pasta was good. We go the small portions and they were well enough couldn't have eaten the large!

I got a Fantastic Berry Mocktail - Fresh mix of cranberry, orange and pineapple juice blended with passionfruit, grenadine, and lime juice - £4.95 

Service was slow - took ages for the dessert to come out and when we asked for the bill they just didn't come back to us to let us pay. They had enough staff to cover just weren't that attentive. Food took a while to come out but we said for it all to come out together, should really have just said for it to come when it was ready.

I would come back again as there are other pastas on the menu that I want to try. 

Thanks for dinner Kelly!

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