This is the best Japanese restaurant in Connecticut

Miya%26#39;s of New Haven is the best Japanese restaurant in Connecticut, without a doubt. This little hole in the wall restaurant is a shrine to great original sushi inspired cooking. Keep an open mind and expect to be wowed because there is nothing on the planet like this place!

This is the best Japanese restaurant in Connecticut

But you haven%26#39;t tried the new Iron Chef in Woodbridge. Quiet, intimate, elegant with superb food. My Japanese-American husband loves this place. Give it a try you won%26#39;t regret it.

When they didn%26#39;t have the Chilean Sea Bass I ordered a sumptuous concoction of shrimp, asparagus and mango. And they deducted 10% from the bill because they didn%26#39;t have my first choice. Now that%26#39;s a first.

Ne w Haven has over 125 excellent restaurants. It%26#39;s a serious foodie town.

This is the best Japanese restaurant in Connecticut

On Friday, because the universe requires such meetings, I introduced the above-named best cousins and boy to Miya%26#39;s, the home of weird sushi in New Haven. This is a restaurant where you can order rolls made with curried tuna, goat cheese, and cranberries; or krill, mozzarella, honey, banana, and burdock; or shrimp, potato skins, and havarti cheese; and they work. Do they ever. And they are all named things like the Water Piglet Roll, the Bad-Tempered Geisha Boy Roll, the Bestu Jamesu Bondo Ever Roll . . . You get the idea. We ordered a plethora of sushi based generally on the strangeness of their components (and the occasional classical Japanese literary reference), and were not disappointed. I should have stolen a menu so I could describe precisely what we got and what went into it, but I was particularly impressed by whatever rushthatspeaks ordered that flat-out shouldn%26#39;t have worked—it was the krill, mozzarella, et cetera deal—and gaudior%26#39;s vegetarian roll with havarti cheese. This is a restaurant that has a record of Puccini%26#39;s Madama Butterfly in the ladies%26#39; room and clearly never worries about anyone stealing it. Miya%26#39;s is worth its insane expense.

I haven%26#39;t been in Miya in years so I can%26#39;t comment on it. Buit there is a new restaurant and I just finished dinner. As with all all-you-can-eat buffets I overdid it. Groan. Tokyo Japanese Seasfood Buffet, Sushi , Hibachi, etc. It%26#39;s $19.99 at dinner and $9.99 at lunch with all kinds of promotional discounts, e.g. age 60 and over is 20% off.

I don%26#39;t think I ever need to eat sushi with cream cheese again but there were some good things. The sushi seemed fresh and the raw clams were good. The raw oysters tasted like eating a sandpile. At the end of all that gluttony are 5 tubs of ice cream, eclairs, little mousse tarts and very dried out napoleons. It%26#39;s an adventure and worth trying once.

To get to this place get on Whally Ave and drive underneath the Merritt Parkway Exit 59 overpass and there it is. Enjoy.

Miya%26#39;s rocks. The owner is hilarious.. he probably could easily have a TV show if he was properly promoted.

Miya%26#39;s is good for funky rolls and the like. But if your more into traditional Sushi, Go to Kira on Clifton St. off of Quinnipiac Ave. The outdoor seating right on the river id the best place on a sunny day. And the owner is the nicest lady you will ever meet.