July 18, 2007

• Masa Mia

  Last night the wife and I went out to dinner... an everyday thing in NY... but not last night... last night was beyond food.. last night was art that you could only see once you put in in your mouth, I honestly cannot recall the last time I ate in a NY restaurant and was this blown away... since the wife has been killing herself at her firm... they have a policy of giving their associates a thank you voucher for a dinner on them for billing x hours a month.. it is a ridiculous number of hours.. needless to say the wife now has a small collection of these vouchers.. so we decided to use the funny money and hit Masa.. the place is known for how expensive it is.. and prob why we have not been prior to last night because dropping that much money on one meal is truly hard to stomach, esp for a cheap ass like me... but since we had the blood, sweat and tears of my wife's efforts footing a good part of the bill we said why not... first off the space itself is very soothing and calm... lots of wood and very few seats... at first the hostess was going to seat us next to a large party in the dining room.. I asked if there was any chance of sitting at the sushi bar.. and lucky for us we were OK'ed to sit at the bar.... the actual counter itself is one huge velvety smooth piece of timber... must have come from a tree at least 100 feet tall.. so beautiful and that piece of wood is going to last for a hundred years, I will admit I was rubbing it for most of the meal, they must sand that thing every night... one of the diners in the party next to us busted out a paper and pen.. and the big man himself snapped "get a pad, don't write on my counter"... this is also the first time I have ever watched the big honcho of any restaurant actually work... watching all the guys in the kitchen is half the joy of eating there... I won't go through each dish.. but needless to say there wasn't a dud in the line up and there were a lot of items... granted I didn't leave stuffed.. but I left not hungry and very aware of how good everything was.... just to illustrate the attention to detail they give to the food there.. the three pieces of toast that comes with the caviar / toro dish is not toasted. but grilled over a wood fed fire piece by piece.. so even the toast has unreal flavor....I don't know when we will go back there.. but I will say this.. if you are a fan of super high end Japanese food.. Masa is truly worth every penny....

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