I would say Honest Butcher has one of the most underrated omakase. I only found out about their omakase through word of mouth and even so, I tried to find reviews online but not many were found. If I was not looking for a good wagyu omakase, I wouldn't have found this place. But thank God I found it. We went in skeptical but left super fulfilled. Mind you, we were comparing against Yakiniku Great because that was the only other wagyu omakase we went to and that was definitely a 5/5 IMHO. Now, let's get into the food! The Honest Butcher has 3 different price range for omakase- RM388, RM588 and RM788. We went for the RM588 per pax which serves Australian and Japan wagyu.
Beforehand, I have already arranged with them that my husband doesn't eat raw food nor seafood and asked whether they could curate different dishes for him? Because I saw some reviews that they do serve sushi in between. They very kindly agreed and said no problem and said if I wanted sushi in my omakase, they could do that too- so his without and mine with. I was honestly very impressed with their service at this point and placed my booking!
Off we went all the way to Sunway Damansara. Took us 1 and a half hours okay!
You can see their trademark cow figures in front of the restaurant. It's honestly a warehouse type of restaurant among other factories so we were a bit skeptical hehehehe
Now comes the omakase course.
Appetizer was warm croissants with French butter and Truffle Butter.
Then came my huge plump oyster. So fresh, so yummy, it melted in my mouth <3
The replacement for the oyster was this cold wagyu dish for the hubs.
Sushi no.1 for me.
Torched wagyu for the hubs.
Topped with truffle.
Uni, ikura on top of sushi rice for me. Super yums!
Wagyu for the hubs.
Engawa for me =)
Beef bourguignon done with beef cheeks cooked for 13 hours with truffle mash on top. This was one of the best bourguignon I had and the beef cheeks were super soft!
Chawanmushi with foie gras...Mmmm...yums
Then came our main meat platter- a mix of Australian and Japanese wagyu.
Australian beef tongue with salt & pepper.
Beef tongue in onion sauce. Tongue is not my thing. It was quite tough.
But after that, each wagyu that come was better than the other. There were Australian Marble 8, Marble 9, then came Japanese wagyu which were the best. So, I would say, straight go for the RM788 omakase because it's purely Japanese wagyu and they were the best.
Each were seared there and then by the chef and brought to us.
Torched sauce on top.
Topped with frozen foie gras. Oh my, this made my taste buds do all kinds of dance LOL
Their torched sauces were just amazing.
The last Japanese wagyu was dipped in egg yolk sauce and it was just perfection!
And then we had claypot rice with char gyu. It's not char siu because they don't sell pork but it's made of wagyu so it's called char gyu. Seriously, it tasted exactly like char siu, the sauce and everything was so yummy! This is Chef Nick's specialty. Also, you must try their chilli sauce. Spicy and blends well with the rice.
Chef Nick, the owner has a policy. If you are not full, they will add on until you are full. They asked if we can still eat and we were like we wana try the char koay teow because we had been hearing multiple orders of this dish but felt like we can't finish because we were almost there LOL So, I asked for just one portion.
Nope, they were super generous and came with 2 portion and we ate until we were absolutely filled to the throat HAHA The pork lard was replaced with wagyu bits so there were crunchy bites in between which made it so special.
Then came out the finale meat dish. Wagyu in hot soup and mine had some clams as well.
Almost couldn't stomach dessert also hahaha but since they had this super unique chendol ice cream, we just had to give it a try. Was really good!
Chef Nick is almost our age only yet he's super talented.
I would say the dishes definitely catered to Malaysian taste buds. The sauces, the char koay teow and char gyu were very Malaysian. This is why we love our country so much. Wherever we go, we still love Malaysia and its food hehehe I love that they had some sushi in between so you wouldn't be sick of just meat dishes. But, I must applaud our chef Robert who also curated some different dishes for my husband to cater to his allergens. The chefs were all very friendly and told us many stories and kept us entertained the whole night. I would probably come back to try their RM788 omakase the next round.
Honest Butcher by Chef Nickt
28, Jalan PJU 3/47,
Sunway Damansara,
47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
012-628 6804
