Sushi Nazi's

[masraum]

Interesting article, sounds like my kind of sushi. I'd love to eat at a couple of these places.

http://www.collegejournal.com/article/SB122480233710964683.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

Trust Them

The ultimate dining experience for sushi lovers is "omakase" (loosely translated, "trust the chef"), in which the chef serves diners a meal of his choosing, based on what is freshest that day. We asked 10 great sushi restaurants around the world for the average price of their omakase. Our meals at a few of them showed us that while omakase doesn't come cheap, it is a great way to taste the best the restaurant has to offer.

-- Katy McLaughlin and Juliet Chung
Los Angeles
urasawa
Urasawa Average omakase: $300. One of four L.A. restaurants awarded two stars by the 2009 Michelin guide, this 10-seat restaurant on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills serves a three-hour omakase. Chef Hiro Urusawa instructs diners to eat sushi within 10 seconds of receiving it for optimal freshness and flavor. 218 N. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, 310-247-8939.
Matsuhisa
Matsuhisa Average omakase: $120. The restaurant that launched 20 Nobu and Matsuhisa restaurants around the world. Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, a Tokyo-trained sushi chef who had previously worked in Lima, Peru; Buenos Aires and Anchorage, Alaska, opened this storefront sushi restaurant in 1987. One of his biggest contributions was adapting flavors from South America and other regions in his sushi. 129 N. La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Hills, 310-659-9639.
Sushi Nozawa
Sushi Nozawa Average omakase: $50 and up. This small restaurant with the ambience of a downscale diner has been among the top-ranked restaurants in the Los Angeles Zagat guides since it opened in 1987. Kazunori Nozawa isn't always friendly to customers -- he wants diners to eat and leave fast. But his fresh fish, warm rice and delicate hand with sauces have a fanatical following. 11288 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, 818-508-7017.
New York
Sushi Yasuda
Sushi Yasuda Average omakase: $125. This small, minimalist sushi restaurant regularly offers seven or eight different types of tuna that vary in degree of fattiness. The restaurant is a haven for sushi purists; California and spicy tuna rolls are verboten. 204 E. 43rd St., 212-972-1001.
Masa
Masa Average omakase: $450. One of four restaurants in Manhattan to get a three-star ranking from Michelin. Those who sit at the sushi bar are handed individual pieces of sushi by chef Masa Takayama or one of the other chefs, and are encouraged to use their hands to eat the sushi. 10 Columbus Circle, 212-823-9800.
Japan
Daiwa Sushi
Daiwa Sushi Average omakase: About $35. The line usually starts forming around 5 a.m. at this stand in Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market, the largest wholesale seafood market in the world and the central nervous system of the global sushi economy. Expect to eat fresh, affordable sushi in cramped quarters. Tsukiji Market part 6, 5-2-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, 03-3547-6807.
Sukiyabashi Jiro
Sukiyabashi Jiro Average omakase: About $300. One of two sushi restaurants in Tokyo to get three stars from Michelin. The unassuming restaurant--it's located in the basement of an office building--is run by the octogenarian Jiro Ono, who has been recognized as a "modern master" by the Japanese government for his contributions to Japanese cuisine. Tsukamoto Motoyama Building, fl. B1, 4-2-15 Ginza, Chuo-ku, 03-3535-3600.
Canada
Tojo's
Tojo's Average omakase: $65-$89. Chef Hidekazu Tojo is known for his high-energy, celebrity-courting style. Last year, the restaurant moved into a luxe, 5,000-square-foot space with a sake lounge. The nontraditional sushi relies on local ingredients like Pacific salmon, giant clam and albacore tuna -- nothing is flown in. 1133 West Broadway, Vancouver, 604-872-8050
Boston
Oishii
Oishii Average omakase: $100. At this cramped, 14-seat restaurant in Boston's Chestnut Hill suburb, Japanese-Chinese Ting San, whose father was a sushi chef in Korea, isn't bound by tradition: rose syrup, truffle butter and whole-grain mustard are among the ingredients he uses. 612 Hammond St., Chestnut Hill; 617-277-7888.
San Francisco
Ino
Ino Average omakase: $40 and up. This tiny restaurant, run by a husband-and-wife team who speak mostly Japanese, is famous for its monkfish liver and fresh sea urchin, among other delicacies. Chef Noboru Inoue is widely considered San Francisco's principal "sushi bully" for instructing diners on proper etiquette -- he finds it highly offensive when a diner dismantles a piece of sushi. "In Japan, they'd ask you to leave," though he doesn't go quite that far, he says. 22 Peace Plaza, #510, 415-922-3121

[masraum]

Several of these places are in LA or San Fran, have any of you sushi lovers been?

[fritzgator]

Nozawa in studio city is great. Low key atmosphere. Near the Sportsmans lodge, a well known "roadie"hotel. Went to the old Tojo's in BC a few years ago, for our end of tour party with Supertramp. The best sushi i've ever experienced, Japan included.