Haiku by Hatsune 新的寿司革命
Chaoyang Park West Road No 8, Chaoyang Gongyuan Xi Men 8 Hao (pinyin),
Chaoyang Park
朝阳西路8号
6508-8585
www.block8.cn
lum.kristen@gmail.com
Open 6pm-1am
Price Y200-Y299 per couple
Accepts International Credit Cards
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With a knack for culinary perfection coupled with award winning service, Haiku's critically acclaimed menus offer what food lovers describe as Japanese fusion at its best. Inspired by travel, experimentation and tradition, the menu offers timeless favorites as well as new creations, including innovative roles and an extensive yakitori menu.
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The hottest thing to happen to Japanese fare since Wasabi. Haiku, the trendy spin-off of Beijng’s famed Hatsune has the same stylish decor and friendly service as the original. Inspired by travel, experimentation and tradition, Haiku has a menu consisting of timeless Hatsune favourites as well as new creations such as innovative rolls and an extensive YAKITORI menu. With only the freshest ingredients and expert sushi chefs, Haiku’s menu entices even the most hard to please critics.
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Great ambiance/design, wifi, excellent service, and the best rolls in town (and possibly the world? :), the Hatsune rolles.
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While I am generally not a fan of rolls as they have too many good ingredients to turn into something really bad, I agree that these rolls are tops, and it goes to show that Alan Wong and his team have an ongoing dedication to quality and style.
The management here deserves extra props as even small complaints are met with extraordinary care and taken care of immediately. If they keep it up this place will definitely be a top-dining spot for years to come.
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The service here is attentive without being intrusive and food tastes really fresh compared to many Japanese places I've been to.
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Simply my favourite restaurant in Beijing! You must try the wasabi chicken salad and their torched salmon with avocado sushi.
On the + side: great Japanese-fusion food, fresh and tasty ingredients, new items on the menu added frequently, great design in the restaurant and... in the plates, very appreciated complementary small starter and dessert.
On the - side: no non-smoking area even though it would be extremely easy to arrange, sometimes slow service and the waitresses could be a bit more pro-active.
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Amazing food.Best in Beijing.Great Location. Mustard Salad and everything is delicious.
Perfect!!
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My Favorite restaurant in Beijing. Nice decoration,food quality,service and ambiance. Everything is perfect. The mustard salad is amazing.
If you are Beijing you have to try it,and you will love it.
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Haiku's innovative rolls are such an amazing treat for this Californian who misses fusion rolls! The Moto-rollah (a house specialty roll) was simply amazing and the Leviathon (a roll with guacamole) was surprisingly delicious. They have some wonderful sake, including a milky sweet one that is exclusive to the restaurant. The service was extremely friendly and attentive - they brought us a wrong roll on accident and even after letting us keep it free of charge, the wait staff still apologized profusely.
On a different note, I love the fact that you can order drinks and desserts from Med and I-Ultra as well!!! Great collaboration!
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I am a big fun of Hatsune myself so I rushed in when Haiku opened. They have a quite different menu. Haiku is definitly more trendy, not only the decor, I guess the whole concept of Block 8 is quite refreshing. I love the special rolls they have especially the cruncho roll. It is so good that I finished the whole thing by myself. And although I didn't try I like the idea of all the interesting name of the rolls, check out the i'm on a roll, its so funny!
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Very good food is here. Find me better, I say liar. Simply amazing.
My haiku, about Haiku.
No complaints. Only praize.
Love it.
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Perfect and interesting food that really makes you melt. The environment is chic in a minimalistic and modern way, the service is almost perfect and a couple gets well filled for 300 yuan.
Between dishes we even had some free hand-crafted dishes, and the chef is talkative and nice.
We got a place on the fly along the chef's table (the fun place to be)on a Saturday, but I highly recommend to reserve seats as I beleive we had a strike of luck that day.
There is only one verdict for this kind of place, and that is a clear full score!
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Can every other restaurant in town please figure out how to match the service of this place?!
I felt both welcomed when I came in and informed by the time I left. I was there with my girly girl three nights ago and we had the best date ever. The atmosphere is designed to relax a person and the food left us both satisfied. We even decided to go straight home instead of hitting up the bar scene.
Highly Recommended!
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went there last nite for the first time (at last). followed what cityweekend suggested. i ordered jellyshot mono mono something shot (i forgot what its called, just go up and check out cityweekend review), leviathan roll, moto-roll-ah! and beef teriyaki. mamma mia!!! there i will go again! for sure.
was having difficulty to get what i want to order at first coz seems like everything is delicious. but then 2 very attentive fuwuyuans came and patiently answered and explained whats on the menu. very friendly service! they chatted with us sometimes but also know when to let us do our thing. every time the food came, our fuwuyuan was there smiling waiting for our reaction. lol... its ok. its cute.
we were greeted by every fuwuyuans that we saw since entrance to our table. please note, a polite and sweet greet not shouting to ur ear like in the chinese restaurant. even the manager greeted us at our table too. made us feel so special. haha...
well anyway, definitely a 5 stars! definitely will come back again. next time will try the sushi bar and some other menu.
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Hype, hype, hype. A restaurant that is too full of itself (if a restaurant can be that. ;-)). The food is, I give it that, above average but it tries to hard to be hip and over the top. I was not impressed. Service is inexperienced, well meaning but do not know their job especially well. Young, pretty, kind but inexperienced girls. Overall a clear disappointment.
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Anticipations have been high for restaurateur Alan Wong’s latest creation, Haiku, and it was clear from the start that we were in not just for dinner, but for an experience. Waitresses wrapped in white glide through the five dining areas decorated in light oak and white, while black-clad sushi chefs buzz around behind the centerpiece sushi bar. Wong says that he created Haiku to compete with Hatsune, another one of his restaurants, and while it’s improbable that either one will vanquish the other, Haiku’s décor, cuisine, and symbiosis with i-Ultra Lounge and Med, give it a fighting chance.
Two great summer starters are the jellyfish sunomono shots (¥25) and the tai ceviche tapas (¥38). The jellyfish shots are tart and crispy, and the ceviche, based on the Mexican dish prepared by “cooking” raw fish in citrus juices for two days, is equally delightful. One must-try dish is the broiled sea conch (¥48), served sizzling in its own shell, its juices boiling as it sits atop a rock-covered flame. Conch, having one of the longest cooking times of all marine critters, can take the heat, so sip on a cocktail or a cool Asahi beer as you watch the show, before delving into the slices of savory mushroom tucked away in chewy pieces of conch.
One innovation here is the yakitori (Japanese grill). Diners should come in on a separate night to enjoy it. Unlike the overwhelming flavors that sometimes mar yakitori’s good name, the chicken tsukune (¥20) and the beef teriyaki (¥22) were very tender and in their own, subtle way force the diner to pay attention to them. For a salty crunch at the end of the meal, try the ginnan (ginko nuts, ¥15). Creative dishes are all well and good, but the real measure of a restaurant is how well it does the classics. After sampling of the o-toro (tuna), sake (salmon), amaebi (raw, sweet shrimp) and inari (sweet soybean skin) sushi (¥18-60) we came to the unanimous conclusion: very good. The fish, flown in daily, was both fresh and delicate, and the rice had just the right amount of crunch to make things interesting. While Haiku has inherited a few roll recipes from its big brother, its selection is sure to please even those who are already addicted to the classics. The seafood samba roll (¥78), the el capitano cruncho roll (¥65) or the roll-x, topped with real 14 karat gold (¥118).
Though the paint on the place wasn’t dry yet, we left totally satisfied. Not surprisingly, Alan Wong has done it again. So why only 4.5 stars? Because we can’t wait to see him top this one.