I have been wanting to check this place out for quite some time.  The chef, Jean Francois Meteigner, was an Iron Chef for a brief time.  Plus, his restaurant is known for taking classic French recipes and making them a bit healthier by using less fat and dairy.  ...

Scot went to a fish market and turns up with a giant Geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck).  It is a giant clam from the pacific northwest.   It takes up a whole shelf of my fridge.  We love it as Marugai at the sushi places, but I have watched the chefs prepare it and it can be quite violent. Lots of pounding and slapping it around.  Plus, I have never seen the chefs deal with the body, just the the giant protuberance.  I have heard that the Chinese associate this creature with male virility; one look at it and you easily can see why.   Kinda reminds me of a New England Steamer clam on steroids.  Pictures speak louder than words: ...

Exile Kiss on Chowhound is the person who first turned me on to this place when it was Yakitori Binchu - I have been following the updates closely to see when they would reopen. (They were closed by the fire dept for somethng having to do with the neighbors complaining about the smoke from the charcoal.  Stupid neighbors.)  ...