“I would do dinner at the Hinoki counter, because at lunch it looks like they now offer a truncated experience which seems to leave off all of the great composed dished that I love Masa for.”
H3
5.1/10
AI-generated summary
The whole conversation here is price. The counter runs around $950 a person, and people who have gone say the is very good without being better than places charging a quarter of that. The appetizers get the most praise, especially the tartare with . Some call it the best meal of their life and still say it felt like a ripoff.
“I would do dinner at the Hinoki counter, because at lunch it looks like they now offer a truncated experience which seems to leave off all of the great composed dished that I love Masa for.”
H3
“Had someone I know go to Masa and their entire party got food poisoning. Masa staff dismissed them and said it was a palate issue. Big yikes”
H3
“Had an absolutely amazing experience that easily puts Masa in my top three US three stars. Each course was perfectly prepared and absolutely delicious. Literally not a bad bite.”
H3
“I went for a lunch meal and it was sadly mid. Too much wasabi made it hard to enjoy some of the pieces. The cocktails weren’t great.”
H3
“Honestly it doesn’t surprise me. The appetizers are truly incredible, but the nigiri was just as good as Yoshino, Shion, etc. Which is to say very very good”
H2
“We did a standard table at Masa, which is $750 per person before tax and tip. The price makes no sense.”
H2
“Masa was one of the worst cost to performance ratio restaurants I’ve ever been to. For 950 usd to sit at the counter, the food was inferior to many high end sushiyas in Japan charging 1/4 of the price.”
H2
“Masa deserves every single one of their 3 Michelin stars. They quite simply are the best sushi restaurant in America.”
H2
“Even if the quality stayed the same the baseline bar got higjer and higher - hard to justify it getting three stars when there are 1s and 2s that are essentially just as good.”
H2
“Very good sushi, but for what they charge it had better be extraordinary and it wasn’t.”
H2
“But it’s even more wildly expensive so I tried Masa and I enjoyed it.”
H2
“So be careful charging the same price for an understudy, good as they may be (looking at you, Sushi Noz and Masa).”
H2