Kenji has been on my list as a must visit restaurant in Adelaide for a long time. Kenji is a modern Japanese restaurant and has consistently won the best Asian restaurant in Adelaide. Chef Kenji has pulled together an amazing menu. It is 6 pages long and has almost anything you could want in Japanese food. If you don’t feel like choosing - they also have a 5 or 6 course degustation and the famous 8 course Kaiseki menu. We decided to go a la carte tonight but our neighbors had the degustation and it looked really good. May have to go back for that one! To start we took a short cut and ordered the mixed appetizers. This was a mix of 7 different entrees and a great way to try a few different things. Surprisingly, for an Asian restaurant, desserts were also very good and the service very warm and friendly. I must say a nice simple restaurant - not the wow factor you find in some modern Japanese restaurants in Sydney but good food.

 

Zensai - mixed appetizers:
A shot of miso bisque soup.
Duck and prawn cold roll with duck egg tofu
Yuzu marinated octopus, artichokes, snow pea
Chicken egg roll stuffed with peach and caramalised onion, spicy miso soup
Persimmon, pistachio, konnyaku and mountain caviar with tofu paste, kipfer potato
Spicy tuna tartare with avocado smash, passionfruit
Rice cracker crusted snapper and mixed mushroom cake with red pepper aioli

Poached duck leg in orange and Japanese hoji tea-smoked duck breast with fragrant red rice, Asian green, pickled quandong

Wagyu sirloin steak with potato and leek gratin, sautéed enoki mushroom, mixed tomato salad, teriyaki jus

Fig and walnut warm pudding with poached quince, pure jersey cream

Banana and chocolate soufflé with pouring cream