Yamato, the Japanese restaurant on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, is celebrating its 10th anniversary and they’ve introduced a new menu and a nice new decor.

Its  current location on Seventh Avenue near 1st Street used to be a “doomed restaurant spot. Too many short lived restaurants, too numerous to even remember their names were there in rapid succession. Yamato broke the spell and has been serving delicious food there for 10 years.

I’m a longtime fan of the  mostly sushi restaurant. But now they’ve turned a slightly more Pan-Asian direction and their new menus offers dim sum assortment, including pan-fried lobster and spinach dumplings and steamed sea bass and carrot dumplings.

New entrees include: mango chicken and pan-roasted miso Chilean sea bass, complement the modern, elegant ambience — and provide a seasonal touch as the restaurant reopens its waterfall garden.

“We’ve updated in a way that keeps what customers have loved for a decade while adding a new dimension in modern Asian cuisine,” Yamato spokesman Peter Wiegand said in a recent press release.  ”

Wiegand called the redesign “romantic chic,” with a nod toward comfortable. I’m glad to report that their food is as good as ever and the restaurant is a much more comfortable place to be. The new sculptural light fixtures are very lovely.