Toshiro Konishi, the Japanese rocker
who wants to enter the best Japanese-Peruvian cuisine restaurant (a fusion they call Nikkei ), the most peculiar and tasty sushi bar in Peru, first has to go through a recreational games center in the San Isidro neighborhood, with its neon lights and its continuous jingle of coins falling to the sound of impossible music, and try to get a table or bar at Toshiro Konishi's house , the best Nikkei chef in Peru.
Lime sushi
Toshiro is one of those curious examples of cultures, customs, races, that in Peru come together creating trend. In the kitchen, the custom is to get up early to go to the sea market to choose the most beautiful piece of the day; then, there is an appointment at the vegetable and fruit market, where the shopping basket is filled with the best of the land. Then it's time to deal with that fresh raw material and create... this is where the mastery of a cook is demonstrated . And this is how you can see the teacher ( itamae ) Toshiro at his sushi bar:
With his set of sharp knives butchering enormous fish . There is no more wonderful bite than your shrimp tempura or sole ceviche in your style or those huge and wonderful sea shells... There is a before and after, a Japanese discovery in the heart of Lima that leaves no one indifferent. No, no one who knows Toshiro will forget him. Not only for his kitchen or for seeing him in front of the bar working, but also because of how he is, Toshiro, the rocker.
Toshiro Konishi in full swing at his sushi-bar
He has been in the country for 35 years. When he arrived, he participated in the contest of the Ancon Festival , where he came in fourth place. He had a music group in his native Japan with which he released an unsuccessful album . Could this be the reason why he left the microphone for the silence of an itamae? Who knows, but what luck for the diner! In a Peruvian newspaper our Nikkei teacher has assured that when he turns 60 he will give a rock or heavy metal concert. I hope I don't miss it.
You have to go to his sushi-bar to levitate, but you also have to visit his last adventure, the restaurant ** Mesa 18 **, also in Lima but this time in a hotel, ** Miraflores Park Plaza ** . It is an alternative to the sushi-bar (so difficult to reserve) and a way to immerse yourself in the essence of the best Japanese cuisine . Don't even think about it: it is mandatory to ask for the tasting menu full of new flavors, delicious Peruvian-Japanese fusions, bites that melt in your mouth.
More photos of Nikkei restaurants in Toshiro Konishi .