by Sandi Miller
Boston Restaurant Examiner
January 25, 2011
Photo: Q restaurant
Q Restaurant, a a new hot pot and sushi place in Chinatown, is now offering 4 sushi rolls for just $4 each: featuring spicy tuna, yellowtail, salmon, and a vegetarian Eze roll. Offered all day, these rolls are all made with tempura chips, which you can have the chef not include if you have gluten sensitivity. The Eze Roll is a refreshing mix of lettuce, cucumber, tempura chips and spicy mayo. There's some quality sushi on the menu, including salmon and tuna belly.
But what repeat customers love about this place is that you can have your sushi and get your mongolian hot pot, too, perfect for these sub-zero temps. The shabu-shabu style of cooking your veggies, meat and seafood in a bubbling pot before you is pretty popular, especially among the sensitive tummy crowd who likes to know exactly what is going into their food. Each table comes with a heating element, and a bowl of soup can come with a yin-yang shaped divider for two different soup stocks.
This new addition to Chinatown is sister to the Little Q Hot Pot and Szechuan House in Arlington, and part of a chain from China.
The soups come in three steps: The broth, which you can order in a combo of basic beef, their popular spicy Mala broth, Mongolian Veggie, the hearty Black Bone Chicken, Mushroom, Herbal, Seafood, Chinese Miso, Kimchi, and Tomyum sweet and sour. Vegetarians can get true vegetarian broth; in fact, the wait staff is well-trained in keeping vegetarian food from touching meat in and out of the kitchen, and they know every ingredient in everything they make, if you need to quiz them.
Into the broth goes a choice of meat -- Angus Rib Eye, short rib boneless short rib, pork, chicken and lamb, angus sirloin; surf and turf (Scallops, Flounder fillet, Shrimp, Squid, Mussels, Beef, and Lamb), Seafood (Scallops, Salmon, Clams, Flounder fillet, Shrimp, Squid, Mussels), or vegetarian combo with mushrooms. And then you choose your noodles. For those watching calories, they recommend the veggie broth, which comes with bok choy, asparagus and watercress. Also on the menu is Chinese, Japanese, and Thai. cuisine.
There are five soup sauces, including garlic, chinese, sata (chinese bbq), and shrimp paste, which they can take off if there is an allergy.
The restaurant features a lush entrance with bubbling blue-water walls, a cozy bar to the left serving such drinks as the Q-tini, which included Domain de Canton ginger liqueur, and wasabi-vodka with pickled ginger. For the serious cocktail, a traditional Rob Roy is served ‘Q-style’ with Yamazaki 12 year Single Malt Whiskey and vermouth. "It's an Asian long island iced tea, only better," said the bartender, Kevin.
There's also coconut milk, aloe, plum juice, and smoothies made from red bean, lichee, mango and avocado.
Q Restaurant is open daily for lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. through 1 a.m.
But what repeat customers love about this place is that you can have your sushi and get your mongolian hot pot, too, perfect for these sub-zero temps. The shabu-shabu style of cooking your veggies, meat and seafood in a bubbling pot before you is pretty popular, especially among the sensitive tummy crowd who likes to know exactly what is going into their food. Each table comes with a heating element, and a bowl of soup can come with a yin-yang shaped divider for two different soup stocks.
This new addition to Chinatown is sister to the Little Q Hot Pot and Szechuan House in Arlington, and part of a chain from China.
The soups come in three steps: The broth, which you can order in a combo of basic beef, their popular spicy Mala broth, Mongolian Veggie, the hearty Black Bone Chicken, Mushroom, Herbal, Seafood, Chinese Miso, Kimchi, and Tomyum sweet and sour. Vegetarians can get true vegetarian broth; in fact, the wait staff is well-trained in keeping vegetarian food from touching meat in and out of the kitchen, and they know every ingredient in everything they make, if you need to quiz them.
Into the broth goes a choice of meat -- Angus Rib Eye, short rib boneless short rib, pork, chicken and lamb, angus sirloin; surf and turf (Scallops, Flounder fillet, Shrimp, Squid, Mussels, Beef, and Lamb), Seafood (Scallops, Salmon, Clams, Flounder fillet, Shrimp, Squid, Mussels), or vegetarian combo with mushrooms. And then you choose your noodles. For those watching calories, they recommend the veggie broth, which comes with bok choy, asparagus and watercress. Also on the menu is Chinese, Japanese, and Thai. cuisine.
There are five soup sauces, including garlic, chinese, sata (chinese bbq), and shrimp paste, which they can take off if there is an allergy.
The restaurant features a lush entrance with bubbling blue-water walls, a cozy bar to the left serving such drinks as the Q-tini, which included Domain de Canton ginger liqueur, and wasabi-vodka with pickled ginger. For the serious cocktail, a traditional Rob Roy is served ‘Q-style’ with Yamazaki 12 year Single Malt Whiskey and vermouth. "It's an Asian long island iced tea, only better," said the bartender, Kevin.
There's also coconut milk, aloe, plum juice, and smoothies made from red bean, lichee, mango and avocado.
Q Restaurant is open daily for lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. through 1 a.m.
