Amiens: sushi

I am very excited to share with you the very best sushi buffet I have even been to while on a budget. You may or may not have read my post all about Amiens, the small city in Picardie, which is the region in the north of France where I did my Erasmus/international study abroad program three years ago. In that post, I briefly mentioned this fantastic restaurant, but now I am going provide more detail, and maybe I'll convince you to come here if you are in the area!

Although Amiens is a small city, many people and tourists come to see the main attraction: the Notre Dame Cathetral of Amiens. Whether you are here for tourism or for studying, you might as well try this restaurant while you're in the area.

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Located in Saint-Leu, which is the city center area of Amiens, you will find Le Tokyo Restaurant on 49 Rue Vanmarcke, which is at the corner part of the building facing the river Somme and the square of all the bars. It is walking distance from everything (especially because almost everything in Amiens is close together).

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Located right at the hub of the university campus of the Law and Biology faculty, the Tokyo restaurant is always full of students. We love it here because the price is good for decent quality all-you-can-eat sushi and asian food. The waiters and staff are all Chinese and speak French, but I have no idea if they know English, so I hope you have some French skills.

The restaurant's hours are:

• Monday-Saturday 12pm-2:30pm (lunch hours).
• Sunday-Saturday 7pm-11pm (dinner hours).

The buffet prices are:

• €12. 80 for the lunch hours. I love this because it includes the weekend lunches.
• €17. 80 for the dinner hours. This is a good price, especially because the dinner menu has an even more extensive list of items to choose from than the lunch menu.
• €8 for kids under 10 years old during lunchtime hours.
• €10 for kids under 10 years old during dinner hours.
• Free for children under 4 years old.

Here is how the buffet menu works:

• Pay the fixed price.
• Order any number of items on the list.
• You can order up to five times, and usually you will be full before you get to the fifth round.

Note: If you do not want the buffet menu, you can also order other items a la carte. But of course, as a college student who loves sushi, the fixed-price unlimited menu is the preferred choice.

Temaki (the cone-shaped sushi on the bottom plate) is one of my favourite items, and usually if you order these a la carte, they cost €4. 50-€5, which is crazy because I usually like to eat 3-5 of them! If I didn't order the buffet menu, everything here would be close to €100, and probably even more.

Ok, you may think that I ate all of this by myself, but I confess that I was with another person, so I am not that crazy.

I recommend that on the first ordering round, order a lot of items that you would like to try, and remember everything that you ordered when you try the food. In the following rounds of orders, repeat the food that you liked the most from the first round. The last time I came here, which was in April, I did this and on my last round I ordered just sashimi slices.

Heaven!

I regret not ordering more, but I was afraid that I would not be able to finish everything, and it's true that I left barely being able to walk (talk about the sin of gluttony - good thing the Cathedral is just around the corner).

Keep in mind that just like at the Sumo restaurant in Madrid, the Tokyo restaurant also charges you for any uneaten food left on your plate, so be careful to not order more than you can handle. Although many times I put the extra food in napkins and took them with me in my bag.

A small detail at this restaurant which makes all the difference is that the tap water is free, and I definitely order a lot of water when I eat sushi. This is an important feature because in other sushi restaurants, such as at the Sumo in Madrid, they require that you order a drink, and they do not offer free tap water, so you are obliged to pay for bottled water which I don't even think tastes good. Here at the Tokyo, I never ordered other drinks besides the free water because I just focus on the sushi and I'm really cheap.

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