Somehow, the restaurant topic in the forums mutated into a sushi thread. Restaurant GEN, a relative latecomer at Washington and St. Marks, gets very high marks. sje says the quality, service and prices are "excellent" and overall a bit better than Geido on Flatbush. kestrel_ agrees, even though GEN doesn’t steam the edamame. However, 11238 is a "roll gal, so when the roll selection is at a minimum, I get cranky."
This inspired us to upload a Restaurant GEN menu. [Download menu_restaurant_gen.pdf]
Note they are closed Mondays. 718-398-3550. No liquor license yet; are they "OK" with "BYOS"?
Living as close as we do to Geido, and as pleased with it as we usually are, I can’t see us going out of our way to go to Restaurant Gen. But if it reduces the Friday crowds at Geido, I’ll certainly genuflect.
Too oft’ have these appetites strayed from Geido in search of a table.
I went to Gen once. Overpriced for the mediocre sinewy – and bony sushi I got. Geido is much better (and better than Tatsu as well).
When to Gen today for the first time for lunch. My husband & I had the Bento Box Lunch Special, the price was right $9 plus a spicy tuna roll. I have to be honest, is was an okay dining experience.
To start, they were out of green tea. When we expressed dismay the waiter explained their shipment was coming later but we noticed other people were getting it and then we got some with but it looked like it was made with roots, he got extra points for effort. He forgot our Miso soup with lunch and then brought it later when we asked but it was cold, he reheated it and it was fine. I had the fish & sushi & my husband had the meat and sushi bento. My salmon was excellent as was his chicken. The potato side was ok, nothing special along with a noodlely thing that was ok. There was no sushi alhough that is what the menu said, just 4 roll pieces that were okay, nothing special, 2 were tuna, 2 were white fish. Frankly it was fine but I was not all that impressed. They use that soupy wasabi that I don’t like as much and the ginger was not as tingly as it could have been.
The decor was interesting somewhat arty with a different sushi bar rasied higher then most with an design on the outside but there is not clear glass so you can not see the sushi or sushi chep working and that makes me wonder. The staff was entertaining with this whole Japanese Raggae/rasta thing happening that seemed a little displaced. I suppose I am used to the Japanese punk/rock n roll thing so this was a new perspective for Japanese adopting western culture. We enjoyed the music and atmosphere.
We read somewhere on line this was the best sushi in NYC, we don’t think so. The owners best friend must have written that review. There are other restaurants we prefer but are new to this part of Brooklyn and have only been scoping out the sushi for about 6 months. Oshiama in the Slope is our current favorite. We have yet to try Geido. We’ve been to Blue Ribbon, which is mighty fine but pricey so we only go for special occasions. Taku did not impress us. There was a place to the south of Garfield on the west side of 7th ave that we liked to but everytime we go there there is fruit flies buzzing around and the back yard was a filthy. It was a very trendy metallic decor type of place. I can not remember the name but they need to clean up their act.
We also have a child but she slept through the meal so there was no way to judge if they were child friendly or not but they did give us an extra miso soup for her for later, which was very generous.
On second hand, maybe we will go back here for lunch or for something other then sushi.
It seems as though the .pdf for the menu is missing. I’m trying to order some food and I don’t have one. Shizen
I know this posting was in 2006 but in case anyone was still searching for Gen Restaurant’s menu, the website is genrestaurant.BIZ not .com