Kubo Asiatic Cuisine in North Palm Beach: Daring and Delicious Dishes

As for carnivores, start sharpening your manly incisors. You have nothing to lose but your hunger. The fact that Villacrusis uses only Wag­yu beef for his meaty ménage à trois dubbed Gyu San ($27) should be enough to raise a woody. But the dish's precise cooking and thoughtful composition — Korean bulgoki (massively flavorful seared-raw short rib with kimchee), Japanese teriyaki (tender skirt steak with daikon makisushi called oshinko), and Philippine inihaw (marinated top loin and pickled vegetables) — makes for meat you just can't beat.

You can't beat Beef Nam Tok ($15) either, though you can wrap the tender slices of sirloin redolent of their citrusy marinade into whole romaine leaves, top them with a tangle of somen noodles, and dip the resulting sweet-tart-savory package in salty-spicy nuoc nam. You could, however, beat Kubo's lobster beignets ($10), preferably with a two-by-four. Despite their striking presentation, the beignets themselves were heavy and sodden and lacking any lobster flavor. That they hid chunks of tough, chewy octopus in their hollowed-out centers deserves an additional whack.

Candace West

Panko fried shrimp, grilled pineapple, arugula, avocado, and coconut curry sauce.

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Kubo Asiatic Cuisine

1201 US Highway 1, Ste. 38
North Palm Beach, FL 33408

Category: Restaurant >

Region: Palm Beach Gardens

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Kubo Asiatic Cuisine, 1201 U.S. Highway 1, Ste. 38, North Palm Beach. Call 561-776-7248.

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• Roy Villacrusis
• Mark Militello
• Asia (Band)
• Sushi
• Meat

Ah, but then there's dessert. House-made sorbets and ice creams — the shiso-cantaloupe sorbet ($6) is real­ly quite lovely — and chocolate won tons and tropical fruit sushi and fried cheesecake.

Fried cheesecake? Ohyesohyesohyes.

Villacrusis' "fried cheesecake" ($8) is what churros want to be when they grow up and get a PhD in deliciousness. Imagine cheesecake spring rolls — long, slender cigars of phyllo with a creamy-dreamy cheesecake filling, fried to bronzed, irresistible crispness. They're presented three to an order with a small glass of dusky caramelized banana sauce so wickedly indulgent that when you're done, you can't decide whether to slurp up what's left or smear it all over your body and invite your most significant other to lick every sticky-gooey-maddeningly luscious drop of it off.

Which, come to think of it, would be a pretty big wow too.