Food Adventures: Guu Garden

Guu Garden is one of those awesome restaurants that I go during a nice hot summer day due to their amazing patio outside, or craving for a GOOD authentic Japanese meal.

My co-workers and I come here often on a nice summer day and order a jug of their special sangria! Their lunches are delicious and at a decent price too. So it is a great place to hang out for lunch. Sometimes during happy hour too, but the only thing is they don't have a Happy Hour special. BOOP :(

The appetizer we ordered was the Deep Fried Calamari. They use a special Miso paste as the sauce. The calamari was extremely crispy and the miso paste gave a perfect saltiness to the calamari, and nice addition to the flavour. We added the lemon juice on top of it after a bite. The miso sauce was unique, but it was mixed with a good soy sauce to give it more liquid in the end.

When I usually come to Guu Garden, I order the lunch set specials. Their lunch sets change on a weekly basis so it depends what it is mostly in the week. Their formulaic set is a miso soup, a small side dish, pickled food, and a rice dish with a meat (fish, beef or pork). The time I ordered was a Seared Pork Belly, and it was extremely delicious. The strong pepper taste gave the rice a good kick! It was light and quick, as we ordered, and it was simple and delicious. 

Guu Garden is the place for a good authentic simple Japanese lunch or dinner. I will come back again this summer, and great times will be had!