XOXO Sushi Bar Celebrates Mother’s Day with Lavish Eight-Course Menu
When:
Sunday, May 12, 2024 12:00p -
10:00p
Sunday, May 12, 2024 12:00p -
10:00p
Where:
XOXO Sushi Bar
1154 Boylston Street
Brookline, MA 02467
Admission:
$200
Categories:
Drinks, Food, Good for Groups, Kid Friendly
Event website:
https://www.xoxosushi.com/
Opening early at 12pm, XOXO Sushi Bar is celebrating its first Mother’s Day in Chestnut Hill by dazzling matriarchs with a lavish eight-course prix fixe menu ($200 per guest). Chef Kegan Stritchko’s much anticipated 16-course omakase experience will make its debut later this spring but since moms deserve to be spoiled on this (and every) day, this special feature menu serves as a taste of what’s to come.
For the first course, there is a duo of Island Creek oysters topped with rhubarb granita, Thai chili vinegar and micro mint. The next two courses celebrate treasures from the sea with the Sakura masu sashimi (cherry blossom trout smoked with cherrywood, served with pickled cherry blossoms and cherry blossom crème fraiche) as well as lobster dashi (lobster tail grilled over Binchōtan charcoal with saffron dashi foam, caviar and brown butter) before a robatayaki specialty makes an appearance in the fourth course, a pork belly bao bun (braised pork belly fried on a Taiwanese steamed bun with sweet chili miso, yuzu koshō and micro cilantro). After delighting in five-pieces of chef’s choice nigiri, there is crusted cod (consommé, mushrooms, tempura crisp and onion puree) followed by A5 Wagyu toast on homemade milk bread with soy-cured egg yolk, Wagyu carpaccio, caviar and chive topped with a quail egg yolk. The finale – “doki doki,” Japanese for “I’m excited” – is chocolate meringue with sake-braised strawberries, vanilla-blood orange cream, prickly pear and hibiscus ganache.
On the liquid side, there are two specialty cocktails: Toda Mariko – named after the strong matriarch in the television series, Shōgun – with citrus vodka, Aperol, fresh squeezed lemon juice and yuzu served straight up with a lemon-strawberry garnish ($18) in addition to the three-layered E(i)mpress Your Mother with rose simple syrup at the bottom, lychee, lemon juice and yuzu omoi sake in the center, topped with a float of Empress gin with a flower rim ($20).
Reservations are recommended via Resy or by calling (617) 505-3378.
