Restaurant Scene: November 2023

Sushi Arashi is going strong at 240 Castro (former site of Kappo Nami Nami, which closed early this year). Open since spring in the low-key former Subway Sandwich location (701A W. Evelyn at Hope, opposite the transit center), Meat House is more specialized butcher than restaurant (though I haven’t learned all its offerings). The specialty: paper-thin meats (“beef, pork, and lamb,” said the proprietor) for cookat-table “hotpot” use. The meat slices are rolled and attractively packaged; offered too are hot-pot soup kits, several kinds, to prepare and cook the meats in. This cooking style, popular in China, is served at the Happy Lamb restaurant nearby on Castro St., and formerly (in a Japanese variant) at the now-closed Shabuway. “Meat House” appears to be a substantial chain; website meathouses.com may require you to use a translate option at present.

About Max Hauser

Resident with acknowledged food obsession, active in Bay Area food and wine organizations 30 years. Dining in downtown MV regularly for 20 years and occasionally for 10 years before that.
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