There are lots of sushi places in New York, and Japanese food overall does seem pretty popular. There are tiny ramen joints every few blocks and all of them looked good. However, I was after something specific by deciding to try a sushiya in New York. I was hoping to try out ingredients that are abundant on this side of the world, and not to have the same things as I would in an Australian sushi restaurant. I had a few choices, and my original one was a place called Gaijin. My friend had a bit more of an extensive list though, and after browsing and doing a very small amount of research, I settled on Omakase Room because it felt more like what I wanted out of a New York sushi experience – I didn’t actually want a crazy New York experience like Sushi on Jones, and I certainly didn’t want to fork out a stupid crazy 600USD at Masa. Omakse Room seemed to be the perfect price point with the kind of atmosphere I had in mind.

This was the only restaurant that I didn’t scout out prior to the reservation itself. It has an address, I have a hipster sense, how hard could it be to find? Well, it turned out it’s only the second restaurant that I’ve been completely baffled by the entrance of (the first being Waku Ghin even though the door was 100% obvious)! I’d spent the whole time looking up for a sign, that I didn’t think to look down for a sign! And finally we went through the curtains into a wonderful, very traditional looking sushiya.

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