Aye, Aye, Capitano! An Aquatic Asian Special

If you prefer your seafood to come with a bit of an Asian twist, you can’t go wrong with a visit to Smoking Lobster, where Head Chef GC Giancovich injects elements of his Far Eastern ancestry into his standout menu of vibrant and inventive plates. A new addition to the freshly printed summer menus is the tuna tataki — a Japanese-inspired dish featuring finely sliced tuna steaks lightly seared on the outside whilst still pink in the middle (a method, legend has it, first invented by a 19th-century samurai warrior). Alongside the tuna, GC serves an orange tosazu (a type of rice vinegar) with kohlrabi, hot wasabi, warming ginger, and some mineral-rich Japanese hijiki seaweed. Just don’t forget to say ‘itadakimasu’ before you tuck in.

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