Q

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"#43 To sit at the counter at Q, a small, sedate omakase restaurant in downtown L.A., is to receive an education in edomae sushi, a mode of sushi-making that involves lightly treating the fish with some type of cooking or curing element. Chef Hiroyuki Naruke is a master of the genre. At dinner, he guides you through 20 or so pristine bites, the fish manipulated just far enough to amplify its essential tones and flavor. There might be clean-tasting, delicate fluke, marinated with kombu and sliced so thin it’s nearly translucent; oysters punched up with a bright, extra-tart ponzu sauce; or silvery mackerel, treated with red vinegar to amplify its rich, pronounced flavor. The pageant of meticulously treated fish usually ends with Naruke’s tamago, not the sweet egg cubes of workaday sushi joints but a compact bite packed with chopped shrimp. The flavors at Q are thrilling in their precision, and memorable most of all for their fleeting, ephemeral quality. Beer, wine and sake. Valet parking after 6:30 p.m. Credit cards accepted."

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