Made reservations to sit at the sushi bar which I highly recommend – you get dinner and a show.
We ordered two rolls, the Chef Omakase Tasting Menu and the Omakase Sushi special, way too much food for us. I had read reviews online to get an idea of what to expect, and many indicated that they left the place hungry, so I figured we’d start out with what we ordered and could always get more later. Boy were we wrong. We should have ordered half as much. I think the two rolls put it over the top. By the end of the evening, I could not see another piece of fish and jumped on the dessert they brought out, compliments of the house. So after complaining endlessly about how much we ate and how I could not have sushi again for at least six months, we concluded that it was the best sushi we’ve had in NYC so far. It was fresh, delicious and pretty to look at. The chefs were also very entertaining to watch and in very good moods, an overall great experience. We had a few drinks and besides the dessert, also got complimentary sake at the end cause they were closing shop and the staff was celebrating its good mood. The free stuff would have set us back at least $100 if we had to pay for it.
The rolls we got were good and big and probably stuffed us right at the beginning. They were followed by a sashimi platter, soup, a fancy appetizer plate, a tuna pizza piece, a shooter consisting of rice, raw scallop, fresh and cooked urchin, and endless individual sushi pieces. We also had cooked scorpion fish in between there and at the end an ice cream sandwich consisting of green tea ice cream with chocolaty cookies and intentionally burned nuts. Sounds funky but was surprisingly not sweet but yummy.I learned more about sushi and fish than I expected. I absolutely do not like mackerel, and raw shrimp, octopus or scallops. All sorts of tuna (various degrees of fattiness) are delicious as well as salmon, snapper, yellowtail, sea bass and the cooked eel and barracuda (poison omitted). And good roe does not have to taste fishy at all.
So we survived the fish extravaganza and walked away with some expensive mercury poisoning I’m sure. Well worth it though. We’ll go back and order half or a third as much.
Tuna Pizza
Starters - green pea tofu with gold pearls, salmon skin salad, marinaded tuna and spicy yellow tail in a phyllo cup
Sea Bass and Spicy Yellowtail rolls in the back, sashimi in front
Refreshing Sea Bass roll (note the drinks in the back - their plum wine sake was great)
Marinated Tuna sushi (we must have had at least 10 of these individual pieces each)
Scallop and Urchin shooter
Eel
Green Tea Ice Cream Sandwich
