Fusion restaurants combine elements from different cuisines to create a fun and exciting menu. Chesapeake is home to many new and interesting fusion restaurants that make original dishes with influences from around the world. If you’re looking to try a fusion restaurant, check out a few of these top options.
1. Lemongrass Grille
Lemongrass Grille is an Asian fusion restaurant that serves organic, vegan, and vegetarian options. The restaurant uses responsibly raised, farmed, and prepared meats and fresh, local ingredients. Stop by for lunch or dinner and put together your own healthy meal. Start with a base of noodles, rice, or a wrap. Next, choose beef, chicken, pork, or tofu for your protein. After that, you pick up to three vegetables and a sauce. Finally, finish off your meal with your choice of garnish.
2. Nouvelle Restaurant
Nouvelle Restaurant combines French and American classics for a fresh take on casual dining. If you stop by for dinner, you can start your meal with seared sea scallops or a roasted beet salad from the appetizer menu. Popular main course options include beef marinated in burgundy wine with root vegetables, mushrooms, and herbs and free-range chicken marinated in a garlic and buttermilk sauce before being fried and served with garlic mash and farm greens. If you save room for dessert, be sure to try the seasonal bread pudding or another dessert special.
3. Yumi Yumi
Yumi Yumi serves fresh Chinese and American fusion meals for lunch and dinner. Appetizers include chicken nuggets, fried cheese wonton, shrimp egg roll, and boneless ribs. Yumi Yumi also has fried rice, chow mein, lo mein, chow fun, and mai fun. The main dishes include honey chicken, eggplant chicken with garlic sauce, pork with mushrooms, curry beef with onion, beef with asparagus, kung po shrimp, sesame shrimp, and more. You can order online for delivery, pickup, or dine-in.
4. Kyoto Japanese Steakhouse
Kyoto Japanese Steakhouse was the first restaurant in Chesapeake to serve hibachi and sushi together. Stop by the hibachi grill for lunch or dinner and you can order teriyaki chicken, hibachi shrimp, hibachi steak, or sukiyaki steak. There are also specialties like chicken and shrimp, steak and shrimp, and chicken and steak. Choose the sushi bar for lunch or dinner and you’ll find a la cart choices like eel, crab, shrimp, scallop, tuna, salmon, conch, and more.
5. Fusion Restaurant and Lounge
Head out to the beautiful shores of Virginia Beach and you’ll find Fusion Restaurant and Lounge in the contemporary Sheraton hotel. This is the perfect spot to watch the waves as you relax with a specialty cocktail. When you’re hungry, try one of their artisan sandwiches, like the turkey club or the fried green tomato BLT. Popular entrées include scallops with cumin and Hawaiian sea salt, lobster ravioli, and applewood smoked New York strip steak. For dessert, you can’t miss the molten chocolate cake.
When you’re looking for a unique combination of cuisines, be sure to check out these fusion restaurants in and around Chesapeake.
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