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Seasonal Omakase at Zuma @ The Cosmopolitan Vegas

June 24, 2023 / Comments Off on Seasonal Omakase at Zuma @ The Cosmopolitan Vegas

Another Vegas trip complete! We stayed at the Cosmopolitan this time around and that was really neat. Best bathrooms, and there’s so much space there. Amazing. I’d definitely want to stay there again. While we were at the Cosmo, we tried several restaurants there, and one of them is Zuma!

All Out

Zuma’s menu is rather interesting. You can order whatever a la carte or you can opt in for one of their omakase options. There’s the standard, the premium, and the seasonal Omakases. The ingredients they use increase within the level, so while we’re there, we decided to go all out and try their seasonal omakase. Guaranteed fatty tuna and Wagyu there. 

We started with a burning history (suntory toki whisky, honey, ginger, yuzu, scotch, egg whites barrel stave smoke), green yoga (matcha green tea, passion fruit, lemon), and a yamatochi cooler (patron silver, elderflower, mint, lychee, ginger)

Time for the Seasonal Omakase Courses!

$250 a person. Photo heavy below, descriptions in the captions. Not your traditional omakase as stuff comes out at once and we all share within the plate.

Truffle salted edamame. Looks simple, but it was one of the best edamame we’ve had, especially with the truffle and the salt. Amazing seasoning here.
Oysters with ponzu. Wow, what a kick in flavor! Tartness, pretty great oysters.
Alaskan king crab legs. Gotta get all of that sauce to add in the flavor. Pretty good crab!
Tomato eggplant salad. A lot of tomatoes, and they were pretty good. Refreshing course.
Pork belly skewers. Nice seasoning on there, but the skewers themselves were a bit on the dry end. I like mine fatty!
Wagyu gyoza with truffle. These sound better than they actually taste. Kind of a waste of Wagyu as the filling was a bit mushy. The outside was oily. Not the best gyoza, but not bad either. Expected better when Wagyu and truffle are named.
Lobster tempura. All the tempura here is lobster with exception of the shiso leaf. Great tempura as the lobster wasn’t all rubbery. Well seasoned especially with the sauces.

Part 2 – the Sushi Stuff!

Above was part 1. Pretty good stuff, but we like the raw stuff more so we’re really looking forward to the sushi aspects of this omakase!

The sushi presentation!
Crab rolls with ikura and rolled in cucumber. Very refreshing piece here.
Fatty tuna and yellowtail sashimi. Delicious! Not the best we’ve had, but pretty good nonetheless. The cuts were rather small.
Wagyu caviar roll, some Wagyu uni nigiri and salmon belly nigiri. So good, one of the best parts of this sushi section. YUM!

The Main Course

We were a bit disappointed that only one display was the sushi stuff. Our fave!! Anyways, the “main course” items are next!

Chilean sea bass. Pretty good for what it is, but we weren’t impressed by it. Cooked fish? Eh… was alright.
Roasted potato. They had the potato split and some flavored butter on the side and then mixed it all up. Solid potato and flavors here though it seems simple.
6oz of Wagyu! Medium rare. So 2 oz a person. They normally charge 40/oz here, so this dish itself was practically the price of one omakase meal. Really delicious, but we wished it was closer to the start of our meal as some of us were getting full and probably didn’t as enjoy it as much as it was toward the end of the meal. More for me!

Dessert Time!

That Wagyu was pretty tasty! Time for dessert.

We ordered an espresso martini. Was alright. Nothing too special about this one other than their logo or something.
The dessert! So much variety - lava cake, banana cake, ice cream, sorbet, fresh fruits, mousse, etc.

Overall Thoughts

Pretty good spread, but definitely not your traditional omakase. You don’t get your own portion here and the timing spacing wasn’t in exististant at Zuma. It’s more of a family style tasting menu. We enjoyed some aspects more than others, but overall thought it was a pretty good meal. Expensive, but we weren’t disappointed. 

The damage

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