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Si por un casual estás cerca de Public Square, podrías venir a conocer Kintaro.
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Tower City
7325 Northcliff Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, Estados Unidos
Horario
| LunesLun | 11:00-15:00 16:00-22:00 |
| MartesMar | 11:00-15:00 16:00-22:00 |
| MiércolesMié | 11:00-15:00 16:00-22:00 |
| JuevesJue | 11:00-15:00 16:00-22:00 |
| ViernesVie | 11:00-23:00 |
| SábadoSáb | 11:00-23:00 |
| DomingoDom | 11:00-15:00 16:00-22:00 |
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Adding to the exceptional value of the place are several other factors. First, the selection of hotpot items is unusually high. You start with one of four or five soup bases, placed inside a deep kettle. These typically include a tomato base, a chicken base, a chicken base with some Chinese spices, etc. then you select one of five noodles to go in the base, such as udon, ramen, and rice noodle. To these, you can select any number of roughly 40 or more meat, vegetable, and fungi options, including several kinds of mushrooms, fish balls and tofu. It's all you can eat, so the temptation is to order a lot of possibilities. Just kind of mind, anything you choose usually arrives in considerably quantity--so those dense homemade fish balls that fill you come in groups of four, while even slices of pork, chicken, or beef arrive in groups of seven or eight.
To top it off, Kintaro provides a sauce-mixing station. This is similar again to those supplied at Mongolian grills, though Kintaro's has about 25 ingredients to mix, many of them arguably more "authentic," such as seafood, standard and oyster soy sauces, and multiple brands of rice wine vinegars. You can take as many sauces back to your table as you wish, adding further to the flavor customization of your meal.
It's under $20 for lunch, which extends from 11 to 3. (Hour restrictions per person which were true in the past no longer apply.) That's a fantastic buy in our book, even though some of the items necessarily come to the table pre-frozen rather than fresh. Dinner is 4-10, though the add-ons to the all-you-can-eat hotpot menu don't seem to us to add significant value for the additional $10 cost.
There's a flip side to the hotpot menu at Kintaro, and that's its all-you-can-eat sushi. This is a bit deceptive, but not in a bad way. While you do get a nice selection of nigri, classic and special rolls, there are also several soups, attractive appetizers (such as the shumai), teriyaki (watery and bland), tempura (very greasy but flavorful), and hibachi (great sauce) to select from. The only caveat is that if you leave any sushi rice, you'll be charged extra for it by the pound. Rice left over from other dishes, such as the hibachi, don't count towards this. The sushi itself is all fresh and quite good, if not up to the level of some of the best sushi parlors we've tried in the Boston area (Minado's, especially), Chicago, etc.
Kintaro promotes sharing among participants. (No sharing with those who aren't ordering their own portions, obviously.) This really comes into its own among multiple sushi lovers, where each gets a group of 6 classic or 8-10 special rolls that differ, and all spread the joy around the table. Hotpots can be communal, since a few tables have very large center cooking elements, or individual in front of each seat, for those who prefer a different cooking base, as well as protein and carbohydrate sources. It's not unusual to see parties of 6 or more people moving around a table, chattering away and grabbing different bits of makizushi, etc. And of course, there's the sauce mixing station for the sushi, as well.
Be warned that Kintaro is very well-liked, and that less than half the tables have hotpot elements. This means that you're fairly likely to find a table for a party of sushi addicts right away at any time of day, but if even one of you wants to go the way of the hotpot, the wait can be considerable. We've seen occupancy swell from roughly 20%, 15 minutes after opening at 11, to nearly full half an hour later.
Still, the food is excellent, the service swift, and the options varied enough to draw you back time and again. Kintaro's is well worth seeking out.