Sense Modern Japanese Restaurant

Sense is a Modern Japanese Restaurant in the First Markham Place plaza. Food ranges from kushiyaki, pasta to ramen. I like to think of it as a fusion restaurant that includes a bit of western cooking style into Japanese cuisine.

My friends and I have ordered a few item off their dinner menu,

Wasabi Tako - $4 CAD

This is chopped octopus with wasabi and seaweed (served raw). You scope a few spoons of the wasabi tako onto the sheet of seaweed and wrap it up. The initial/top texture is a bit slimy but when you bite into the octopus it is actually crispy/crunchy. The Wasabi flavour covers any fishy taste and gives it a nice kick. - Definitely will order again, a relatively large portion for the price.

Grilled marinated pork belly skewer -$3CAD

The grill pork belly was delicious! Even thought it is pork belly it didn't feel too fatty or oily at all. I think the way they grill the pork belly melted and drained all the fat away

48 hour sous vide beef ribs - $23CAD

This is one of the signature dishes at the restaurant, it is cooked for 48hours. The texture of the beef is like Chinese braised beef brisket, but the flavour is similar to a beef jerky. This wasn't one of my favourite dish, but I don't hate it.

Truffle crusted black cod on creamy leek puree and yuzu soya sauce - $17CAD

This dish was delicious, the cod was cooked just right and the truffle crust gave it amazing flavours. The down side of this dish was that the portion was very small. If you've only ordered this for dinner, then you probably would have to look for dessert later. I felt the dish was lacking some carbs, for example a side of mash potato would be nice.

Truffle tagliatelie - $19CAD

Pasta with a truffle cream sauce. I did not try this dish it looks delicious, but seem kind of expensive.

Pork broth ramen with pork belly and pouched egg - $11CAD

This was the most disappointing. The pork belly was cooked nicely but there was nothing special about the broth or the noodles.

You can find out more about the restaurant at http://senseizakaya.com/