Food Pr0n: Oceanic Delights At Roka Akor

Those who enjoy a salad for starters will love the micro green and sprout salad with ginger shallot vinaigrette and crispy lotus root. With the vinaigrette lightly sprinkled over the salad, the lotus root shines through with a slight spiciness.

A tasty l’amuse platter is butterfish and tuna tataki. Small and artistic in presentation, each morsel is a great start to whetting the palate.

Another small plate that is divine in flavour is the creamy foie gras torchon that is served with Nama Nori sesame toast and kumquat preserve.

The Sashimi platter offers up bluefin tuna, stripe jack, amberjack, oyster with ponzu sauce and fresh lime, shrimp, head of shrimp, salmon with truffle butter, super white tuna, yellowtail, red snapper, and Japanese seaweed salad with ponzu sauce.

The beauty of the sashimi is that they are served without any competing spices, so each flavor profile comes through in each bite.

The robata grill offering includes grilled Pacific lobster, Alaskan king crab, roasted Fanny Bay oyster, and tempura huma huma. This is a platter that should be enjoyed slowly and with a recommended glass of sake. The robata grill items are hearty, but still light enough that one may indulge everything on the platter.

One entrée that is a winner is the red snapper with sake kasu glaze and pickled salad. The red snapper is not only meaty, but seasoned such that the dish may be enjoyed with the bed of baby potatoes.

The fresh fruit platter is a superb light dessert featuring delicious watermelon, honeydew melon, raspberries, and blackberries.