they are still the cheapest out of all their competitors right now and probably still have the highest food costs. If they got 2 stars I wouldn’t be surprised if they charged $300 like everyone else
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who are their competitors besides hayato at $300?
hayato is 350
I love Kato, its one of my favorite restaurants, but there is a significant gap between Kato and Hayato. Ok, maybe Hayato is really a 3*
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Quick non-exhaustive search:
Providence and Manzke are both $295.
Knife Pleat (in OC) is $295.
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corridor 109 - 250
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I don’t know why, but I feel QPR is much better at places like Providence and Kaneyoshi than it is at Kato, although I know the food is very different. I left Kato both times still able to put down a pizza at Bianco.
… adding to the list, as this might become a resource for LA sushi/Japanese cuisine. All prices are per person for highest end omakase in the house, and to the best of my less-than-perfect recollection (caveat emptor):
Uka - $300
Sushi Yamamoto - $390
Sushi Takeda - $280
Sushi Gozen (Omakase by Tomo) - $150
Kogane - $300
Sushi Zo DTLA - $325
Sushi Inaba - $280
Shin Sushi - $240
Yamakase - $320
Mori Sushi - $350
Go’s Mart - $225+?
Sushi Tanaka - $150?
Sushi Tama - $180
Yasu Beverly Hills - $195
Shunji Japanese Cuisine - $280
Matsumoto - $250
Sushi Note - $140
Nozawa Bar - $225
Sushi | Bar by Scratch - $165?
Asanebo - $160
Matsuhisa - $180+
Nobu Malibu - $195
Sushi Miyagi - $270+
Ozawa - $75
Sushi Kisen - $80 minimum, prices vary
Masamitsu - $150+
Sushi Enya - $300
Masakazu - $130
The Brothers Sushi - $250
bar.sawa - $185
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Melisse is now $399
IMHO Providence, though excellent as it always is, feels like the same menu every time. Whereas at Kato, I am excited to see the next course appear before me at every turn. I’m willing to pay more for that sense of new-ness or innovation when I dine out.
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Jeez, really? the new one on sawtelle?
and are all/most of these prices not including gratuity?
My takeaway from all this is that if somebody could make a tasting range work in like the 175 range they might kill it. There’s a massive gap between the Taco Marias of the world and the Katos.
Kali has it at $165 and $210
real talk, if a mid-high end sushi omakase served a single uni course and used nice santa barbara uni instead of baller tier hokkaido uni and charged $150 instead of $200 would you think less of it? wholesale cost of seafood used at high-end sushiya is legit wiiiiild right now.
Base price of the omakase
Yep. Every location of the Enya chain is $300 for omakase, I believe.
Give me Hokkaido uni over SB uni every single time, but I’d frequent a $150pp omakase considerably more often than a $200pp omakase.
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Neither uni is superior over the other, as they each have their unique value in their different taste profiles. In Japan, the SB murasaki uni is often more prized by chefs over their own native Hokkaido bafun uni.
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