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1A ILA CAMM'TEIi Sampling miso magic at new Kayuga Japanese Restaurant Kayuga Japanese Restaurant WHERE: 416 Efcfy Coiiegetowrt. HOURS: Lunch- 1t a.m.-2 p.m.; Dinner: 5-tl pra; (Closed Mondays). MENU: Traditions innovative Japanese cuisine. Sushi served fresh daily, PRICES: From $1,00 for a bawl of nce-to $14.00 for the most expensive entree. Credit Cards acceded.

TELEPHONE: 277-7967. PARKING: On street municipal parking garage (Japanese mustard) and pickled ginger. By the way, there is a small sushi bar in the middle of the restaurant. If you haven't sat at a sushi bar, at least try it once. It is fun to watch Hoshi prepare the platters.

After the sushi came the chicken teriyaki and vegetable tempura. We started to slow down at this poijit, but after a while we consumed it all. The teriyaki was served with white rice and the sauce was even better than ketchup. Tempura can tend to be greasy, but this wasn't. Carrots, broccoli, peppers, and other vegetables appeared on the table delicately fried in a tempura batter and served with a dipping sauce.

Are you stuffed yet? We were well on our way. One of the many nice things about Japanese food is it tends to be light. It produces a different sort of full feeling, unlike the result of too much steak and potatos. Last, and definitely least, came the flaming fried ice cream for dessert. None of us cared for it, but it was rather festive.

Skip it. I highly recommend the Kayuga. I have been there several times and each time I have had a great meal. The restaurant is small with seating at tables or the sushi bar. Reservations are not accepted.

If you don't like lines try to go early, by 6:30 p.m., or late, say after 8 p.m.. By the way, you don't have to eat sushi at Kayuga. There is an extensive menu with items suited to almost anyone's palate. But they don't have ketchup. By ROBYN WISHNA Journal Staff There is yet another new eatery on Eddy Street.

But unlike many that have come and gone in the past, the Kayuga Japanese restaurant seems as if it will stay. Lynn and Hidemitsu Hoshino, owners, are refugees from New York City. Hidemitsu, better known as Hoshi, was managing a Japanese restaurant and both he and Lynn were becoming disenchanted with the city. Lynn said that some Cornell students suggested they come up to Ithaca and open a Japanese restaurant here. After hearing the suggestion more than once, the Hoshino's looked into it and the rest is history.

"It's just the kind of community that we wanted to live in. It's sophisticated, intellectual, and has such natural we love it," Lynn said. The Kayuga Japanese restaurant serves up some great food at reasonable prices. The service is good but during peak dinner hours it's a little slow, 'r probably due to the fact that most of the food is made to order. But once the food comes, it is some of the prettiest, and best displayed food around.

If you thought, like I did, that the uwneis were just tryingto berate with the name, it actually means something in Japanese. Ka means flower, yu and ga mean grace and elegant beauty. My guests and I shared a variety of Japanese favorites. As it was a frigid Ithaca night, we started with miso soup which was served in a beautiful bowl with chunks of tofu and sliced scallions. Other appetizers that we shared were Shumai, delicious steamed dumplings with a crab and fish stuffing, and Yaki Udon, wide flat noodles with sauteed vegetables.

I thought the Yaki Udon was tasteless but my friends felt that it had a delicate flavor and my palate was unsophisticated. (I suggested that some ketchup might help it out.) Along with the appetizers we had tea and sake, a rice wine served either hot or cold. Next came the sushi. We shared sake rolls, made with smoked salmon, and California rolls, filled with avocado, crab, and cucumbers. I also sampled some pieces of unagi, a smoked eel sushi.

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