Osaka – Great Sushi in Puerto Rico – San Juan Area

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So a few months ago I was craving sushi as I often do, but while in Austin my wife was pregnant and had no desire for raw fish creations so I had to eat some out of town in Puerto Rico.

I just left the office in Puerto Rico, it was late, and I was craving Sushi. So I tweeted a message on twitter.com asking if anyone could recommend a good Sushi place on the island. With-in a minutes of the tweet @isasbread had a suggestion.

Isas, who lives in Puerto Rico, a Chef, and owner of IsasBread.com. At the time of her tweet she had a chef’s hat on on her avatar. So who int he world would not trust a Puerto Rican with a Chef hat on giving a food recommendation?

Isas recommended Osaka and the link she gave had a review with a phone number but no exact address. So I called Osaka and an Asian lady answered in Spanish..at this point I know I am in a bit of a pickle because I know very little Spanish. Spanish with an Asian accent, I am totally lost. So we go back and forth for a bit not understanding each other. Then I come up with ‘Yo Ritz Carlton..quiero ayer tu’ lol don’t laugh at me Spanish speakers, it is all I could pull out of my ass on the fly in Spanish. At that point that lady obviously was like ‘WOW This guys is nuts’(in Spanish of course).

So she finds someone who speaks English and he gives me perfect directions and tells me where to park.(Parked in Gas Station Parking Lot & told them Osaka sent me) Parking sucks in this area and it is on a one way street. Luckily if you drive by the place you will clearly see Osaka as the sign is well lit. I park and walked up and meet the kind lady who I abused with Spanish an infant speaks. She smiles and welcomes me in, clearly knowing I was the one who called.

The young sushi Chef name William from LA was awesome! He had actually worked at my other favorite Sushi place on the island Momoyama in the Intercontinental Hotel on Isle Verde. He said he liked to work at Osaka because he can express himself more in his food. Which is true, check out the pictures below.

The white flower looking decoration on the main dish is made of the bottom of a cauliflower. The green star is made from the top of a cucumber and if you look closely the circle in the cucumber star is actually carrot cut in a circle fitting perfectly. He also color coordinated the Super Crazy Rolls as each slice had a different color accent. Since I am not familiar with the art of Sushi making or the decorations which goes along with it, I asked William how long it takes to make the leaf seen in the White Tail Sashimi…he said about 5 seconds.

The meal was the best Sushi I have had in years honestly. In my opinion the quality, freshness was par with Momoyama but the presentation blew Momoyama out of the water. I started with two rolls, the House Special, Mango Roll and the Super Crazy Roll. The Osaka House Special, Mango Roll was refreshing with just enough Mango cut like a piece of Sushi on top and a crab shrimp mix(I think) in the middle along with sour cream. Tasty!

The Super Crazy Roll had my favorite Unagi(spell) or Eel and was delicious. Oh yea and Sapporo Beer. Almost finish with meal and William comes over and asked how I heard about the place and I told him through twitter. And continue to explain the turn of events. He was very interested and wrote down http://twitter.com/isasbread . He had not heard of twitter before so I game him a demo of how it works and the twitter conversation which brought me to his awesome awesome Puerto Rican Sushi restaurant.

Before my departure of Puerto Rico I visited a few more times with friends and co-workers.

Thanks Asian Spanish Speaking Lady, William, and Osaka!

Osaka
670 Ave Ponce de León
San Juan 00907, Puerto Rico
1-787-723-0020

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