Shikku Izakaya

In a tweet: Some people say it's the third best Japanese restaurant in Madrid. Very elegant; expensive. Can be good for business meetings or celebrations. It has a bar downstairs to have cocktails. They have more restaurants in Madrid.

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	7.9.
Price per Person	50 €. With one bottle of Albariño (white wine from Rias Baixas, Galicia: "Mar de Frades", 22€) and no desserts. We had 2 cocktails later in the bar, for another 10€each.
Food Type	Japanese
Address	Doctor Fleming 32. 28036-Madrid
Web	http://www.shikku.es/shikku-izakaya
Recommended for:	Business. Special ocassions
Date visited	09/05/2014
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Dishes Scores

Name	Score	Comment
Shasimi nuestro estilo - Pez Mantequilla (literally:"our style shashimi - butter fish" )	7.8	14€, 9 thin slices.Butter fish" may be Atlantic Halibut or black Cod.. it's a soft -like butter-fish, very trendy nowadays. If good.. it's really good. In this case, it had a "citric and soya souce", that hides a little bit its original flavor. Soya alone is like salt, gives more taste, but the citric.. was not too much, it sticks well, and it's an original mix; but I personally would have prefered to try it without (it was not in the menu)
Gunkan de buey de "Wagyu" con trufa (Truffled Wagyu Sushi)	9.2	7.5€, 2 pieces. The best dish we tried. AMAZING. GREAT mix of Wagyu beef tartar with truffle. a MUST
Uramaki de pato crujiente y foie grass (Crispy duck and foie Uramaki)	6.9	15€, 6 pieces. Original mix, but such a suggestive name, and such good ingredients should result in something better. It was a bit tasteless; maybe bland. I tried only the last piece with soya and it improved A LOT (had I tried it with soya from the beginning, it could have a higher score).
Sashimi: Salmon y Lubina (Salmon and Seabass Shashimi)	7	There are different options for having sashimi 2 pieces minimum). We tried Salmon (very good, soft and tasty) and Seabass ("weaker"), both 3&euro the 2 pieces.
Lomo de atún rojo con salsa Teriyaki (Red Tuna with Teriyaki sauce)	7.7	27€.As we couldn't decide between the many starters, sushis, sashimis, etc., we ordered this main dish. It was a recommendation of the waiter. We didn't realize it was with Teriyaki sauce, which I like a lot, but I prefer a tuna with no sauce, raw (Sashimi). Despite our disappointment for the choice, I liked it's taste, and missed bread to dip ;)

Other Scores

Concept	Score	Comment
Service	9	In the beginning, they looked a bit "smug", but it improved during the dinner. Helpful, solicitous (not as much to be annoying), polite, kind, friendly
Ambience	10	Modern lights, but comfortable. Cozy. Not noisy, tables well separated
Quality	10	Everything was perfect; maybe we didn't choose perfectly, but we could feel the quality.
Presentation	8.9	Some of the dishes were nicely presented (the "normal" sashimi), but some other quite simply (the "Shikku style" sashimi were the slices laid in a plate; nothing more)
Menu variety	8.5	Lot of choices.. Too many choices in fact. Besides, it's a modern japanese with some fusion, and that's original, but it makes it harder to choose