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CUISINE: Sushi, Thai, Asian-fusion
ADDRESS: 106 North 6th Street, Brooklyn NY 11211
PHONE: 718.218.8666
HOURS: Tues-Thurs: 5pm-12am; Fri: 5pm-1am; Sat-Sun: noon-1am
CARDS: All major
BOOZE: BYOB (for now)
AVERAGE ENTREE: $13
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SUBWAY: L Train to Bedford
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DELIVERY: Free Delivery
WEBSITE: www.sensebrooklyn.com
Brooklyn Record SAYS: There's isn't much that will keep me away from a new restaurant, and the half-off promotional menu in the window of Sense (Williamsburg's latest) has been calling my name for the last three weeks. Featuring some stellar décor and a few new twists on “Asian-fusion” (who knew there could be more variations?), Sense offers up a hefty sushi menu featuring over 50 sushi/sashimi appetizers and rolls as well as Korean, Chinese and Thai starters and entrees. We sampled as much as possible from both the discounted promo and the regular menu, and most of it was off the hizz-ook.
The Kushinobo (lightly fried skewers with a tangy dipping sauce) were great appetizers—you can't go wrong with either the bacon-wrapped asparagus, shitake mushroom with shrimp, or rib-eye beef with shishito. Also good to whet the palette were the seaweed salad, sugar snap peas with XO sauce (my personal fave) or the simple and sweet kimchee and pickles. The clam miso was a little on the salty side, but hey it's clam, so what do you expect? One of the star dishes and a total steal at $13 on the temporary promo menu is the Chili Alaskan crab, but those afraid of the spicy: beware of this one. The $21 sushi Icininmae for one was more than enough to feed two with eel, mackerel, tuna, salmon, yellowtail and clam sashimi and as well as six spicy tuna rolls, and the blue crab pho was both refreshing and filling in only the way really good pho can satisfy. Fresh fruit bubble teas, yuza puffs and lightly tempura'd bananas perfectly ended a dinner that left me full and satisfied without that popping-out-of-my-jeans bloat. For now it's B.Y.O.B. but totally worth it to pick up a bottle of wine or sake and enjoy the half-off menu that will be around for the next three weeks or so, or until the liquor license is awarded. In about 9 months the party will expand when the upstairs space opens for events and functions. Nestled between American Apparel and the boutique Sleep on N 6th (between Berry & Wythe) this place has the potential to become another great eatery on one of the hippest of the hip blocks in hipsterville.
