Austin: Finally, Uchiko “I even ate one of those little buggers”

A confession, y’all. I’ve eaten at Uchiko twice now, and not blogged about it. I KNOW it’s the It restaurant, I know everyone wants to know how it is, but I just had a terrible, no good, very bad experience during their soft opening and I could not get over it. The food was delicious. But no one expected it not to be. The service was horrendous. And that, no one expected.

Now, recently I went to a blogger tasting, and tried an absolutely phenomenal antioxidant dish (salmon, kale, blueberries) that restored my faith. A place that could produce food THAT good could not POSSIBLY have poor service.

So I sent my parents to Uchiko.

Mama says:

“Uchiko was great, and a lot of fun too (because Marco was so good with us Novice sushi eaters, or non sushi eaters as the case may be.)

<—-This is Marco. My parents loved him. I showed this pic to my bro, and it turns out that THEY ARE FRIENDS. Hi, it’s a small world.

This is a picture of the avofry which was the best of everything to me. Marco recommended it, and it actually is a hot item and has no fish in it.

We mostly ate what Marco recommended and all was good.  My other favorite was the eggplant, but we ate it before I could take a picture of it. Dad had the crunchy tuna, and I even ate one of those little buggers.

Thanks for giving us the gift card. I had a glass of wine and Dad had a Japanese beer and the bill before tip was $100.67. Marco brought us the dessert [fried milk OMG to-die-for] on the house before we could order it.  All was wonderful, thank you!”

So there you have it. My mom who is not a sushi-eater loved it. My dad loved it.

All is well in Uchiko-land once more.