This cute little restaurant is located in J-Town, which is a plaza that houses a Japanese grocery store and many other Japanese/fusion restaurants. We've actually tried most of the restaurants in this plaza and I dare say we've enjoyed eating at all of them! Particularly, Shiso Tree serves up a number of Japanese/Italian fusion pasta dishes, which sounds odd but actually tastes really good! This is definitely one of our favourite uptown dinner spots (
read: we come here often).
At our most recent visit, we brought some friends and ended up trying some new dishes! Unnecessary snacking before dinner ruined our appetites so we decided to get something for the table to share, and split a pasta and salad between each couple. (To be clear, each order of pasta does come with a small salad.)
Smoked Salmon Hors D'Oeuvres ($8)
Smoked salmon, Japanese mayo, ikura (salmon roe), caviar & dill on toasted garlic bread
