| Hello all... Now that I've recovered from an 
            excellent weekend in Philadelphia I figured I'd be the first to chime 
            in here to thank our host Michael Bentele for getting us together 
            for Morimoto's. John & Jessica, I'm sorry you couldn't join us. 
             Now for my mini review... WOW!!!!! As we all arrived, we were ushered 
              up to a nice little bar on the second floor of Morimoto to wait 
              for our table and enjoy the view over the restaurant. We had a nice 
              discussion with the ?manager? while we were waiting with some good 
              information about Morimoto and the restaurant. Our table was ready... 
              we were brought to a large table, closest to the sushi bar, which 
              gave us a good view of some of the preparations. There were seven 
              of us in the group with most ordering variations of the Omakase 
              and I went for the Chef's Choice Sashimi/Sushi Combo. I'll let the 
              others chime in with there reviews of the Omakase but from my point 
              of view everything I got to taste was wonderful... especially the 
              yummy Kobe Beef.  
            Probably about a third of the way through the Omakase courses my 
              Combo arrived... WOW!!! Hopefully we'll all see some of the photos 
              that were taken but to describe... two huge servings were placed 
              down in front of me. The first was the Sashimi... a large rectangular 
              almost "basket" with probably a dozen or so different 
              fish along with the freshly grated wasabi root.  
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