Ginza Japanese Restaurant
by Cynthia Antoji
GINZA JAPANESE RESTAURANT
1002 Beacon St. Brookline, MA 02446
(617) 566-9688
16 Hudson St. Boston, MA, 02111
(617) 338-2261
Ginza is known for arranging food on a plate in a painstaking fashion that makes it too pretty to eat. But after the first bite, you can’t help but unwrapping this sweet gift of sushi. Ginza offers a sushi bar, with its legendary “spider,” which is soft-shell crab, cucumber, avocado, flying fish roe and spicy mayo. It also boasts a saki bar serving 22 varieties of hot and cold saki. The sushi and sashimi have been called some of the best in the Boston area. It should be with three sushi chefs simultaneously preparing these exquisite dishes. The Hudson Street restaurant is the flagship location. It was the first Japanese restaurant in the Chinatown section of the city. It’s open daily til 4 am and it’s always busy and the sushi is fresh and tasty. You’ll also be served by a Japanese waitress dressed in a kimono with Japanese music playing in the background. You’ll think you have been transported right over to Japan. Other good choices are salmon tataki and the amaebi (sweet shrimp sushi).