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1505 Mission St. South Pasadena CA 91030

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  • Asian, European, French, Japanese
    Sun 5:30pm-9pm, Wed-Fri 6pm-9pm, Sat 6pm-9:30pm
    $$ $$
  • MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Diners Club
    Takeout
    Dinner
  • Full bar
    Accepted
    Street
Description

Deep-fried catfish are almost as inescapable around here as personal trainers or Chevy Suburbans, but Shiro, a Japanese-French bistro unaccountably tucked into a Midwestern-looking South Pasadena streetscape, serves so much of this ponzu-steeped stuff that it might as well rename itself after the fish. Its version of the dish - imagine a whole catfish the size of the shark from Jaws, stuffed with ginger and fried to a crisp - is everything you could want from a bottom-feeder.








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Main Menu
Sample Appetizers
 
Seafood Salad
with lobster, scallops, shrimp & octopus with tarragon citrus dressing
 
Chinese Ravioli
filled with shrimp mousse served with shiitake mushroom sauce
 
Tuna Sashimi
with shaved parmesan & arugula
 
Tuna Sashimi Ravigotte
 
Alaskan King Crab
charbroiled with garlic paprika mayonnaise
 
Lobster Salad
with asparagus & white truffle oil
 
Crab Cakes
with whole grain mustard sauce
 
P.e.i. Mussels
steamed with garlic butter sauce
 
Smoked Scallops
on potato puree with red & black caviar
 
Oysters Panfried
with curry champagne sauce
 
Spring Rolls
filled with lobster, scallops & seabass with spicy yuzu sauce
 
Smoked Salmon
on potato pancakes with masago roe
 
Soft Shell Crabs Tempura
with herb butter
 
Yellowtail Carpaccio
with ginger dressing
 
Snapper Carpaccio
 
Scallop Mousse
with black truffle sauce
 
Salmon Carpaccio
with dill, pink peppercorns and olive oil
 
Anago Salad
 
Warmed Scallop Salad
with vegetable confit & watercress
 
Belgian Endive & Arugula Salad
with prosciutto & parmesan cheese
 
Goat Cheese Salad
with pine nuts & tomatoes
 
Mixture Of Baby Greens
with a vinaigrette dressing
 
Asparagus Salad
with pumpkin seed oil dressing
 
Tomato Soup
with calamari
 
Grilled Summer Vegetables
 
Beets Thinly Slice
with basque cheese
 
Sweetbreads Sauteed
with shiitake & shimeji mushrooms
 
Foie Gras
sauteed on pineapple with port wine sauce
 
Shrimp Cocktail
with horseradish sauce
 
Matsutake & Enoki Mushroom Salad
with sesame dressing
 
Shiitake Mushroom Salad
with walnut oil dressing
Sample Entrees
 
Pacific King Salmon
with dill mustard sauce
 
Wild Copper River Salmon
with ginger lime sauce
 
New Zealand Snapper Nape
with saffron sauce
 
Alaskan Halibut "tempura"
with tarragon tomato sauce
 
Australian John Dory
with chive sauce
 
Canadian Sea Scallops
with shiitake & shimeji mushrooms
 
Whitefish Steamed
with spinach
 
Tuna Seared Rare
with shiitake mushrooms
 
Shrimp
with curry champagne sauce
 
Lobster Grilled
with aioli mayonnaise
 
Seafood Platter
with fine herbes sauce
 
Chilean Sea Bass Ala Japonaise
 
Roasted Pork
with green peppercorn sauce
 
Linguine Pasta
with shrimp, scallops & mussels
 
Breast Of Chicken Char Broiled
with herbs & mustard sauce
 
Sonoma Breast Of Duck
with juniperberry sauce
 
New Zealand Lamb Chops
with mint & garlic
 
Black Angus Filet Mignon
with shallot sauce
 
Whole Sizzling Catfish
with ponzu sauce and fresh cilantro
Sample Desserts
 
Apple Tart
with vanilla ice cream & caramel sauce
 
Chocolate Mousse Cake
with coffee ice cream
 
Raspberry Creme Brulee
 
Assorted Fresh Fruit
with creme brulee sauce
 
Grand Marnier Baked Peach & Strawberries
with vanilla ice cream & caramel sauce
 
Baked Figs
with vanilla ice cream & balsamic vinegar sauce
 
Sweet Wontons
with poached pears & raspberry sauce
 
Banana Pecan Tart
 
Passion Fruit Mousse
 
Tiramisu
 
Assorted Fresh Fruit
with vanilla ice cream & raspberry sauce
 
Chocolate Torte Souffle
with coffee ice cream
 
Date Mousse Cake
 
Chestnut Mousse Cake
with chocolate sauce
 
Lemon Tart
with raspberry sauce
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